• The way key people repeatedly walked out on Wings also implied tensions which McCartney simply shrugged aside.

    BBC: Tarred feathers

  • Pull it out and its wings, about a foot long, snap into place.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • It was sleek and impressive, with a hundred-and-three-foot wingspan and four engines jutting out from the wings, rather than the usual two.

    NEWYORKER: The Checklist

  • The litany of alleged abuse brought no corroborators out of the wings, even though the bullied big shots--HP's Carleton Fiorina, Compaq's Capellas and Gateway's Theodore Waitt--have little to lose from snitching.

    FORBES

  • Mr Clarke's opposition to the Iraq war kept his name in the headlines and then he made another bid for the top job in 2005, only to be defeated by David Cameron, who has now brought him out of the wings and back under the spotlight.

    BBC: Profile: Kenneth Clarke

  • It would be like a giant stealth bomber, with the whole fuselage integrated with the wings, rather than a tube with wings sticking out.

    ECONOMIST: Boeing v Airbus

  • He was undermined by a stubbornly left-wing finance minister, Oskar Lafontaine, who has continued to snipe from the wings since flouncing out of government last March.

    ECONOMIST: Are Germany and its leader bouncing back?

  • So go out there and get your wings!

    FORBES: CEOs Who Fly Planes Do Better at the Job

  • All three were looking to "spread their wings" by moving out of their parents' homes.

    BBC: Key to buying a home with friends

  • And he took me out into the hallway off the wings of the theatre and went up to my parents and said, can she do my show next week?

    NPR: Patti Austin, Singing Gershwin's Praises

  • Just this morning I turned on my car in the driveway (the car I lent to a 17-year-old African-born youth last night so he could drive with other African-born youths to a Korean take-out chicken place called Mo Betta Wings) and an X-rated hip-hop song blasted with such explosive force from the radio that, for a second, I thought I'd been in an accident.

    CNN: I see America's diverse future--in my house

  • If Turkey does clip Mr Denktash's wings, it will be out of fear that the country's timetable for starting EU accession talks could be derailed if the Cyprus issue remains unresolved.

    ECONOMIST: Island of troubles | The

  • With Lang waiting in the wings, Isaac Stern went out onstage and announced that Watts was ill but that no one would be disappointed by the Chinese teen-ager who was about to play.

    NEWYORKER: The Olympian

  • Out comes the adult, which unfurls its wings and flies around looking for a mate.

    NPR: Roar of the Cicada

  • Other Conservatives from different wings of the party have been setting out their views.

    BBC: Vince Cable urges PM to avoid 'dangerous EU gamble'

  • Coming later this year to select Sony and Toshiba models, the interactive software that's already in eight million homes gains two new features destined to either creep you out, or snag you a twofer on those wings -- broadcast interactivity, and device control.

    ENGADGET: Yahoo! Connected TV watches with you, delivers a more personal ad experience

  • Using the harvesters on the wings, the researchers were able to draw out over 45 micro-watts of electricity per insect.

    FORBES: Powering a Cyborg Beetle Without Batteries

  • After an engineering degree from General Motors Institute, Burns spread his wings in the mid-1970s and set out for Berkeley, Calif. in a customized van, backpacking, skiing and getting a Ph.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • More broadly, stock prices have been buoyed by a steady stream of buyers waiting in the wings, as money has flowed into stock funds out of cash.

    WSJ: Stocks Notch Another Record

  • On at least one occasion, an octopus flew out of the stands when the team was playing the Detroit Red Wings.

    WSJ: Ralph Gardner Jr.: The Sport of Zamboni

  • Girls in the postwar era had grown up reading books such as Julie with Wings, in which beautiful and spunky young women beat out the massive competition to become flight attendants.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'When Everything Changed'

  • He flounced out of the government in March, but goes on glowering from the wings.

    ECONOMIST: Schr?der��s struggle

  • And it has spread its wings in 22 countries, from Spain, where it puts out the leading daily paper, , to Argentina, where it publishes books.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Tofias showed up at the Antigua Classic with White Wings and Wild Horses, identical 76-foot yachts built out of modern materials but with the classic lines-and wet ride-of a 1930s racer.

    FORBES: Two Sheets to the Wind

  • But when the match eventually got under way it was Aberdeen who came out of the blocks sharper, with Fraser Fyvie and Peter Pawlett troubling United on the wings.

    BBC: Aberdeen's Davide Grassi and Charlie Mulgrew

  • Meanwhile, Clearwire waits patiently in the wings to learn what Sprint plans to do in its new iteration and build-out.

    FORBES: LightSquared's Amazing June 15th Shocker: We Need More Time!

  • Finally, we get to the high yield bond market which stalled out this past quarter on fears of decelerating GDP momentum, even a double dip recession in the wings.

    FORBES: Savvy Investors Survive Fed's Remorseless Abuse

  • But if we can get our wings into the defensive mode and get some turnovers and get some stops, and get out on the break and get easy buckets, that will alleviate the need for a big-time shooter.

    WSJ: Rutgers coach Eddie Jordan is a man on the run

  • Why has the White House seemed to be so reluctant to speak out more forcefully about what Europe should be doing about Greece and with Portugal and Spain and Ireland waiting in the wings?

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

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