• He thumped Tim Bresnan's opening delivery in cavalier fashion through the covers for four, but in attempting to punch the next ball into a similar area was fortunate that a thick edge flew between Paul Collingwood's fingers at second slip through sheer speed and force.

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  • The M48 Severn Bridge is open in both directions but with a 40mph speed limit in force.

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  • About two thirds of the 304 speed cameras in the police force's area have already been turned off.

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  • They also agree that social media is an unstoppable force that adds speed and efficiency to just about everything.

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  • Emotions are quite often out of our control and speed through us with great force, consuming vast amounts of our finite mental resources.

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  • It transmits the "percussion speed, " "force" and "suction" of a user's kiss placed on the KissPhone's artificial mouth to another KissPhone via a cellular network, says the phone's French inventor, Georges Koussouros.

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  • Armstrong spent seven years at NACA's high-speed flight station at Edwards Air Force Base in California, becoming one of the world's best test pilots.

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  • After returning and graduating from Purdue, Neil applied to become a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics High-Speed Flight Station at Edwards Air Force Base.

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  • Then plan for your product to be used in technology at that date: Be careful not to get there too early or try to force the market to speed up, because your company will die.

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  • It has called on the West African regional bloc, the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas), to speed up the planned deployment of a force of more than 3, 000.

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  • It requires continuous, high-speed communication among all elements of a fighting force so that information can be shared instantaneously.

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  • Young workers and their strong affinity for go-anywhere technology are changing the shape of the enterprise as they force businesses to adapt to the speed at which they work.

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  • The tremors continued in a steady crescendo for the next two months, until June 15th, when the mountain exploded with enough force to expel molten lava at the speed of six hundred miles an hour.

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  • The first of a series of 20mph speed zones in residential areas of Bath have come into force.

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  • He left Washington in 1998 and became chairman of North Carolina's Rural Prosperity Task Force, which pushed to bring high-speed Internet access to the state.

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  • "An F1 car is like a fighter jet the technology, the G-force, the quickness, " said Scott Speed, the last American driver to compete in F1 (2007), who has since competed in Nascar.

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  • Martin Surl wants to reduce alcohol-related crime, increase community speed watch schemes and address areas of low satisfaction with the police force.

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  • It is described by the United States Air Force as the modern backbone of America's long-range bomber force, built for low-level, high-speed missions.

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  • His work concluded that the technology had an accuracy rate of 80.5% when it came to force and 86.5% when it came to speed.

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  • Supt Ian Smith, from Avon and Somerset's road policing unit, said the force had found a new education provider and re-established the speed reinforcement programme.

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  • But he was famous for the number of times he miscalculated the distance, or his speed, or mistimed things, thereby meeting the asphalt with more than enough force to kill himself.

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  • President Barack Obama is expected to outline the speed of this drawdown, and the size of a residual U.S. force that may stay in Afghanistan after 2014, as soon as Tuesday's State of the Union address.

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  • His wife immediately put in a call to the Collier County Task Force Initiative, with whom she had worked in the past to enforce speed limits in her subdivision and to establish random sobriety tests at crucial intersections.

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  • The keyboard more or less requires "faith" in the word auto-correction, an Apple rep likened it to using The Force, and while all three reviewers were able to get up to speed sooner or later, it's most certainly agreed that this is no BlackBerry-killer.

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  • If Ellison wins, he can force Bertarelli into a match against his DoGZilla, which has an anticipated top speed of more than 40mph, compared with about 20mph for single-hulled Cup boats.

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  • It is difficult to truly understand the massive amount of action and force occurring on each play. 22 massive bodies moving laterally and vertically at breathtaking speed.

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  • Seat belts could, in the 100 milliseconds of a crash, avoid breaking an old lady's ribs by calibrating how much force to apply to a body after gathering sensor data on the car's speed and deceleration and the weight and position of the occupant.

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  • In June 2010, a new system came into force in which the number of judges required to make important decisions was reduced in an effort to speed up the court's work.

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  • Quenneville's system demands that his forwards chase down the puck-carrier to disrupt an opponent's offensive thrust, and the Blackhawks' superior stickhandling skills have helped them create 249 takeaways this season, by far the most in the NHL. Once the Blackhawks do force a turnover, their forwards slingshot themselves back up the ice to attack an opposing defense at full speed.

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