But on that fateful Friday, when the North American plate slid over the Pacific plate along a subduction zone running 130km (80 miles) off the Pacific coast of northern Japan, the shock leapt from the first segment to a second and on to a third, extending the fault zone some 400km and increasing its intensity more than 30-fold.
"I made a couple mistakes over the plate that ended up costing us runs, " Wainwright said.
"Give the batter three strikes and tell the pitcher he's got to throw the ball over the plate, " Coleman said.
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Wood said the 2-2 pitch was a changeup that he tried to get down, but instead left up over the plate.
Over a plate of Argentine beef cooked on a tabletop grill at a fashionable Sao Paolo restaurant, he proudly shows his card authorizing him to drive a high-performance car on an amateur track.
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He complemented his fastball with a knee-buckling slider that left-handed hitters were sure was going to put them in the hospital ward before it curved away from their heads and darted over the plate.
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In the wonkocracy, your human being is little more than a wisp of poetry, something that might be nice to whisper about tipsily over a plate of sea urchin foam, but something no professional would try to make room for in their work on policy.
Malala, 15, had surgery on Saturday at a Birmingham hospital to fit a titanium plate over her damaged skull.
As Clarisse cleared the table, she passed over the unused plate, as she always did, without any change in expression.
He might have a dumb habit, like bouncing curves in the dirt with runners on third, or reaching over across the plate and into the other batter's box for sliders.
Just back from a motor show in Yokohama, he says the Japanese are at least a year ahead of us - even experimenting with "inductive charging" where cars can be refuelled without a cable connection but by parking over a special plate.
Atoms of elements with boiling points below the temperature of a particular plate pass over it, just as water runs over a warm river-bed.
The egg pitch looks like something that's right over the middle of the plate.
"It wasn't over the middle of the plate, it just wasn't a great sequence for me, " Pettitte said.
The egg pitch looks like something over the middle of the plate.
The former River Plate player has taken over Sheffield United's Speed as favourite to succeed Martinez.
His pitches either kept missing the plate or sailed right over the middle.
Cano went 0 for 4 and struck out looking in the seventh, arguing with plate umpire Mark Wegner over the third strike.
He wasn't ready to bat and plate umpire Dan Iassogna went over to the dugout to get him.
Choose the large plate at the buffet table over the small one and bump up calories another 25 percent.
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The typical American meal contains, on average, ingredients that traveled over 1, 500 miles from production to plate.
They did this over and over to make sure the external carbon fiber plate allowed a natural motion with the foot.
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Navarro hit three home runs for the first time in his career, connecting from both sides of the plate Wednesday and leading the Chicago Cubs over the White Sox 9-3.
Carson, who took over for Niese, walked in his first big league plate appearance and set up RBI singles by Daniel Murphy and David Wright.
Then he swung over a 96 mph fastball on the outer part of the plate and grounded it right to Brendan Ryan.
Over in Dublin, Ireland really need to step up to the plate and deliver what they are capable of against the All Blacks at Croke Park.
Pilloried in the press and picked on by politicians, Goldman Sachs stepped up to the plate this morning to report first quarter results and belted one over the fence.
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Taking a break from difficult negotiations over a troubled state budget, the governor presented Sullenberger with a jacket with the state seal, a California state flag that had flown over the state Capitol, a proclamation and a "California Hero" license plate.
The first is that my plate generally isn't just full -- it's spilling over.
It's either because RBS was delaying too long, particularly over the separation of IT systems, or because Santander has enough worries on its plate back at its Spanish base, and needed to bail out.
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