Pier-decks are largely the resort of the old, who sit in cardigans out of the wind and watch the young passing.
When the Palestinian fighters came from Jordan in the late 1960s we had more say here, and they encouraged us to get out of the wind and rain and we made houses out of concrete blocks for the first time.
When the Bank of England dropped its base rate to 0.5%, it took the wind out of the sails of anyone looking for a decent rate of interest.
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At one unionised hotel, he recalls, the pool attendant was not allowed to take the deck chairs out of the pool when the wind blew them in.
He rode out the storm on the roof of a transport truck after the wind and flood jerked him out of his shoes.
But the judge's ruling took much of the wind out of the defense's sails.
And the finish by the Barcelona striker appeared to knock the wind out of the Honduras players at Ellis Park.
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Indeed, the announcement also says that the DGA will engage in informal discussions with the AMPTP before mid-November, which will prepare the DGA to do a deal promptly before the holiday season sucks the wind out of the town.
Many of these projects start out independently, but run out of wind (pardon the pun) in the second year, as the project becomes more complicated, and costs skyrocket, often by a factor of 10.
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But Ault, who moved to Singapore three years ago, says he "no longer feels the magic" in Gotham, which still bears the scars of a financial crisis that knocked the wind out of much of its most extravagant party culture.
The October release of the new iPad and the iPad Mini took the wind out of those sails, but with a number of releases since then, many were still expecting March to see something announced by Tim Cook.
"It was tough out there because of the wind - everybody wanted to run behind me, " said the 34-year-old after her latest triumph.
The Santa Clara-based champion of x86 architecture has seen the wind drop out of its sails (and sales).
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That said, I do think Sarah stretched a bit in the effort to take some wind out of the sails of the piece in question and missed a few key points in the process.
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Unfortunately, you know, the wind behind that - the wind that was taken out of that sale a little bit yesterday by the Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's comments, saying that basically, you know, what we need to do is help the economy now in the short-term.
Some economists now think that the ECB will cut interest rates further, to take some wind out of the euro's sails.
Earlier optimism was in line with a brief rally in GPS shares until news of another 7.4-magnitude earthquake in Japan knocked the wind out of a U.S. stock market rally.
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"It was the thing that took the wind out of our sails a little bit, because we were on the front foot, " said Calderwood, who did not think his side lacked battling qualities.
Navigant Consulting of Chicago has estimated that the end of the PTC could ultimately cost 37, 000 jobs throughout the wind power industry out of about 75, 000 presently existing.
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The good news is that many of the sensitive wafers which had been collecting particles of solar wind (charged atoms and molecules that stream out of the sun) survived the subsequent crash intact.
Over the next year or two, offshore wind power pioneers will begin rolling out a fleet of 5 to 8 megawatt wind turbines for the coming wave of offshore developments.
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Unforeseen problems could delay plans for months, taking the wind out of any new exchange's sails.
Leeds took a stranglehold on the game as the goal proved a body blow which took the wind out of Carlisle.
"That takes the wind out of my change of circumstances, " he acknowledged.
It clearly took the wind out of the Pacific islanders for the final and it was effectively over as a contest by half-time.
What happened next, however, sucked the wind out of my balloon.
Senator CARL LEVIN (Democrat, Michigan): And an effort to take the wind out of the sails of those of us who want to truly change course in Iraq.
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