Philippe Dufour stands high up in the watchmaking pantheon, not as a brand, but an independent master watchmaker--just himself, an assistant or two, and a few machine and hand tools that would be instantly recognizable to a watchmaker 200 years ago.
Refusing medical treatment, he proceeded to destroy two machine gun nests with hand grenades and his own machine gun fire.
Sometimes, after an intense bout with the nebulizing machine, his hand shook so much that he could not even write his name.
He was baffled by the wad of Croatian kuna a bank machine spit into his hand.
In some parts of the US it is easy to set up in business as a fee-charging ATM provider, all you need is a few hundred dollars for a second-hand cash machine and an electronic link to the cash machine network.
Or the fact that you hold in your hand a little machine that can connect you with almost anyone else in the world, instantly.
On the other hand, the machine's left edge crams in a decent selection of connectors -- two USB 3.0 sockets, a multicard reader, outputs for HDMI, VGA and DisplayPort, Ethernet, and a spot for the AC adapter all crawl up the edge.
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The Vscan is not science fiction but a hand-held ultrasound machine with a scanning wand attached, which has been approved for use in Europe and North America.
Nintendo sank into a loss the previous fiscal year largely because of price cuts for its hand-held 3DS game machine, which shows three-dimensional imagery without special glasses.
And even if it's made by machine, those machines were made ultimately by hand, so it doesn't have quite the same neutral feel as a piece of electronic circuitry.
Washing by hand uses a lot more energy than washing by machine.
Neither man created a machine to register new voters and support new candidates, let alone hand out patronage jobs.
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No voting machine in the world, being mechanical that is operated by the human hand, can achieve the accuracy we are demanding of it in this election.
On the other hand, Mr Bush is undoubtedly right that revamping the government machine makes more sense than either trying to close it down or letting it run on its own momentum.
He said that he could do it with a machine, but he felt that if he did it with his own hand the person eating the salad would be able to taste what he put into it.
Place your hand over the keypad when entering the PIN number at any ATM machine.
The board cited a ruling by Harris' office that hand recounts may only be conducted if there is evidence of voting machine failure.
The machine is out of order, so he carefully writes in the date by hand, gets on board, and is fined by the conductor for not having a valid ticket.
If, on the other hand, you've never set eyes or hands on such a machine, here's the deal.
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The product range now includes some machine-made items, although Bissell insists that every Fabindia product is still touched by hand.
"It could be from dispensing with a hand that wasn't clean or using wet rags to wipe down the machine, " Godard said.
He is sedated and on a breathing machine but opened his eyes, moved his hands and feet and squeezed his wife's hand Sunday.
Then you wait in a third line to hand somebody the handwritten ID form and have your paper ballot optically scanned by a scanning machine.
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