"The sheer pent-up demand ... is about to take hold, " President Charles Evans of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago was quoted as saying in a speech Tuesday.
He looked like he was keeping his head up by sheer force of will, and had no energy left for shaving or other trivialities.
But it's the little white plastic dongle that's the star of this show, through the power of sheer ubiquity, popping up in coffee shops and taxicabs everywhere.
What Pinot Gris lacks in marquee value, it makes up for in sheer agreeableness.
Then there was the sheer creative fun of coming up with the designs and words for the cover.
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But once the Vanquish is rolling and the road opens up, the sheer, horsey power of the thing is a joy.
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While we are getting fed up with the sheer numbers of foxes going through our bins and even biting sleeping infants, most Londoners have no wish to see them made into coats.
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We are all poor until someone steps up and, with sheer will, decides to break the cycle of poverty.
The sheer variety of companies that spring up in Silicon Valley gives the place a better chance of survival.
The sheer number of new start-up venture capitalists, micro-credit operations, SME boosting private equity funds, and other "financial supermarkets" exploding in Nigeria is inspiring.
Security camera footage from the aquarium shows the seal making several unsuccessful attempts to scale the barrier fencing, hampered by her sheer size and physical make-up.
Companies are still betting on the strength of sheer revenue, so many are ramping up their sales efforts.
Ministers, business leaders and economists have been forced to own up to error by the sheer scale of the economic crash and the undeniable inexcusability of certain expense claims.
But it also demanded the very best of our people -- the highest level of creativity, dedication, teamwork, analysis, and just sheer, dogged determination to never give up when the trail went cold.
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The impact on these firms is much bigger than in the Big 4 where a sanction or loss of one partner, even for a large ugly fraud is diluted by the sheer numbers of partners who can step up in his or her place.
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If you equate "greatness" with sheer originality, Poulenc is bound to come up short and he knew it.
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First, the sheer numbers at the top: women make up less than 20 percent of executive officers and board directors in the industry and less than a quarter of senior officers.
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The jeeps travel on rudimentary dirt tracks (built to access Tahiti's network of hydroelectric stations) and skirt sheer drops overlooking vast river valleys while going up hills so steep you feel like gravity is no longer on your side.
This reviewer, who saw both disasters up close, was struck by the sheer determination of the displaced to return.
The first domestic prize of the season is up for grabs, although given the sheer fervour of some supporters you would think they were fighting for life itself.
His first feature, the 1983 erotic vampire mood piece "The Hunger, " ended up a relative anomaly (except in sheer style) to such high-octane thrill machines as "Top Gun" (1986), "Revenge" (1990), "The Last Boy Scout" (1991), "True Romance" (1993), "Crimson Tide" (1995), "Enemy of the State" (1998), "Man on Fire" (2004), "Domino" (2005), "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" (2009) and "Unstoppable" (2010).
Cuban-Americans used to be the largest Hispanic group in Florida but have over the last decade become overshadowed in sheer numbers by non-Cuban Latinos, and now make up just 31 percent of the Hispanic population there.
They made up their lack of inspiring and empowering leadership by their sheer individual brilliance.
At Big Sur, it climbs up the rough volcanic ranges, carving around cliffs with sheer drops to the thrashing ocean below, and leads on to the silver-grey foreshores of San Simeon, where elephant seals parp and loll, wriggling to inch themselves up the sand as the frothing tide approaches.
For sheer size, the Bronx public housing project where Justice Sonia Sotomayor grew up tops the list.
"Individual emergencies like this, across not only Rhondda Cynon Taf but its neighbouring boroughs, combine to show the sheer scale of what the council, partner agencies and the community were up against, with no warning, " he said.
However wrapped up in sonorous stuff about synergy, plenty of mergers begin with sheer executive boredom.
"Money, just sheer cash, " said Geoffrey Beaumont, who is in charge of setting up the state border service.
If a stable column of mud has been set up in the well, keeping the oil at bay through its sheer weight, the next step would be to set cement in the well and seal it off permanently.
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Weighing in at almost 1, 000 pages, but taking its subject only up to the age of 36, the book shows by its sheer length how much incident, complexity and controversy are crowded into the first half of his long life.
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