Each effort was like a stone added to a wall that looked increasingly impossible to breach.
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The Kursk had suffered two on-board explosions, and sunk to the bottom like a stone.
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Soon after that "fix" Fenelon went to lower his window and it fell like a stone into the door.
The Icelandic krona sunk like a stone, and foreign exchange still remains limited.
Nokia is doing all it can to please customers and investors, yet its shares have sunk like a stone.
Reuters reports that the population of Japan is falling like a stone.
His descriptions of dropping like a stone over dirt, gravel and bare rocks, round blind turns and switchbacks, are a joy to read.
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With the format war finally behind us, and 1080p HDTV prices sinking like a stone, this week's Ask Engadget HD question was bound to surface.
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The pressure on Mr Agius and Mr Diamond intensified when Barclays' shares dropped like a stone earlier today: at one point it was 18% lower.
It was interesting a few months ago when Burberry lowered expectations for 2012 on the back of a slowdown in China and the shares dropped like a stone.
If the homes all around you are headed to foreclosure and prices are falling like a stone, lenders will be eager to cut their losses and agree to a short sale.
Two explosions on board the submarine had been monitored, making it clear that the bow of the Kursk had been ripped open, and the vessel had sunk to the bottom like a stone.
He was a bit chagrined because the day before he had given the same lecture to a group of financial analysts, and the moment the meeting let out, nVidia stock dropped like a stone.
When the Army Times published a report six months ago on the increased number of waivers granted to otherwise ineligible people to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery, the story sank like a stone.
Down the road, those will be the traits that will help you succeed, as well -- the traits that will lead you to invent a device that makes an iPad look like a stone tablet.
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Most Super Bowl ads go for broad humor, but that kind of sophomoric humor can be highly polarizing: it might be a huge hit, but more often than not, it sinks like a stone in water.
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The bottom line here is that our standard of living is sinking like a stone and the income gap from top to bottom is at a all time high and the percentage of rate vs. actual dollars in revenues paid is far in favor of the higher income brackets than the average wage earner.
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Captain Tony Stone (Woody Harrelson), an Army lifer with a shaved head and a jaw like a stone jetty, and Staff Sergeant Will Montgomery (Ben Foster), a coiled, secretive Iraqi war hero, work together at what is surely the worst job in the armed forces: telling parents and spouses that a loved one has been killed in Iraq.
Of course, it's no secret that HDTV prices in general have been sinking like a stone over the past half year or so, and while the boutiques are banking on customers finally coughing up the extra dough for "knowledge staff" and better all-around service, we're betting that price still remains king in the land of HDTV.
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Hey, maybe they could do a duet together, a mash-up of Like a Rolling Stone and Like a Virgin?
Perched atop craggy cliffs over the deep blue waters of Rincon Bay, I arrived at what looked like a manmade stone wall surrounding a cluster of huts.
The speedboat from the Kuala Besut ferry pier rides high on the waves, skipping along the water like a flat stone flung by a petulant giant.
Like a cherry with a stone inside, if you press it too hard, the stone will fly out.
Making each picture was like throwing a stone without knowing where it would land, how close to the unknowable and unreachable.
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Like water over a stone, they can slowly but steadily wear away some of the mistrust and acrimony.
Weinberger's new chip acts like a wireless Rosetta stone, able to imitate any other chip--and thereby mimic any of today's cell phones.
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