"It throws some sand into the gears, " said Robert Albertson, chief strategist at Sandler O'Neill in New York.
The sultans would've loved Tom Perkins and he would've felt right at home with them, at least until he decided to kick some sand in their faces when they didn't appreciate his sense of humor.
Two days earlier, it had scooped some sand from a drift, sieved it to a fineness of less than a hundred and fifty microns, and dropped a portion half the size of a baby aspirin into a funnel on its back.
Some say Sand put more of her imagination into her life than her writing, says Ms Chandernagor.
Well, after scooping up some loose sand, Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) suite and the Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) instruments found a menagerie of chemicals, including sulfur, chlorine, and traces of carbon-based materials.
Fracking involves injecting water, sand and some chemicals deep into the earth to crack shale rock, which frees oil and gas.
At the rate of 20 manuscript pages a day, Sand wrote some 80 novels, 25 plays, and countless articles and short stories.
And, along with the rest of us, they're watching health care, waiting to see him start to draw some lines in the sand.
We know that he's cool and patient, but maybe his drooping recent poll numbers will cause him to start drawing some lines in the sand.
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In fracking, a mixture of water, sand and some chemicals is pumped into a well under high pressure to force the gas from the rock.
By his own account, he is trying to strike a more positive profile this go-round, obviously seeking to sand away some of the rough edges left over from his time in the national spotlight in the 1990s.
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The cassiterite makes up some fraction of the standard sand and river silt there.
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The right front portion of the vehicle's frame was now on the ground, so I set my right foot out into the sand to get some footing, in order to pull myself and my left leg free.
The fairways are bracketed with heather, and then with gorse, so that at the right time of year when everything is blooming, the course becomes a sea of green, purple and yellow that is compounded by the sea, the sand, and some of the most incredible sunsets anyplace.
But the ingredients really are beach sand, energy and some know how and not a great deal else.
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We also dig out some 110 mcm of gravel, sand, aggregates and clay.
As the sand was pumped on to an Oceanside beach, however, the navy was embarrassed: it found two 81mm mortar rounds and some machinegun bullets in the dredged sand.
She did not tell anyone that she spent much of her time looking out at the Pacific from empty beaches, some of them narrow with coarse sand, though farther north many of the beaches were rocky, desolate in the falling dusk, when seagulls circled hungrily and waves deposited dead seaweed.
We gobbled some food, tossed our sleeping bags on the sand and passed out to the roar of waves.
But Paller said he also fears that some CIOs may still have their heads in the sand, unwilling to acknowledge they have a real problem.
But he had got over it, practising his moves first on boulders from which he could fall five feet onto sand, gradually working higher, until some hundred feet up he could confidently climb with his palms open and relaxed, as calmly as if he was walking to the store.
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Some companies that have chosen to draw lines in the sand have reported extremely positive bottom-line impact as well as a long-term deterrent to frivolous lawsuits.
Some federal officials have cautioned that dredging and spraying the sand could permanently alter the water flow along the coast and endanger animals that live on the beaches.
About 5, 500 years ago, some Phoenicians cooking dinner in the desert found that heat turned sand into glass.
But among all the memories I have of our years in the Hamptons, some of my strongest don't have to do with sand, surf or even food.
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Whether from natural catastrophes, economic collapse or the slow encroachments of sand or water, it seems likely that at least some of today's cities will meet the same fate as Ozymandias, the king of kings who built a monument to himself.
To some it seemed like the Justice Department had drawn a line in the sand against online poker and set a two-year time frame to go after industry players.
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This beach is also Tahiti's widest stretch of sand and if you tire of surfing, settle in for some sun worship and meet friendly picnicking Tahitian families or groups of young people drinking beer.
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