So when the atmosphere cools down one part of the globe, it is a good rule of thumb that it is warming some other part.
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Hold one of your hands up, palm out, and cross your thumb over it.
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"With a spinal injury, the rule of thumb is it takes about two years to have some idea how the fullness of the recovery is, " Levine said.
The Note II's S Pen is slightly fatter on the button side, which -- when pressing your thumb against it -- contributes to more of a true pencil feel.
It sounds like a simple rule of thumb, but it was knowingly never complied with.
It eliminates thumb-typing entirely, and it dramatically reduces the number of page downloads.
In other words: as a rule of thumb we know it can lead to this kind of outcome.
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By making defence planners worry about fighting two nearly-simultaneous wars like that against Iraq in 1991, this rule-of-thumb has made it harder to prepare for the much broader range of threats which lie ahead.
"Until you start drilling you can't say for sure how much oil there is, " says Donald Boham, Shell's spokesman in Lagos, licking his thumb and holding it up to an imaginary gust of wind to make his point.
Joe Macca's "Two-Man Show" at Marylhurst University's "Art Gym, " on the other hand, is an example of a less felicitous side of Portland's art scene, common to mid-size art worlds: a schizophrenia in which participants want to both play the art game as it's contested in New York or Miami and thumb their noses at it at the same time.
To prove it, the company introduced a virtual lightsaber to a subject, tracking his swordsmanship perfectly and using his thumb extension to turn it on and off.
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When people look at an unborn baby sucking its thumb, they see it as a human being, says Josephine Quintavalle, of Alive and Kicking, a pro-life campaign group.
They call this thing ChatPerf, and it's a thumb-drive-sized atomizer that plugs into your mobile device so it can be triggered to release specific odors on command.
Last year, Gardner used a small fiberglass thumb guard, but felt it didn't offer enough protection.
The crucial difference is that Mr Kohl was already a long-serving chairman of his party, and had it under his thumb, when he became chancellor.
The previous version required a farmer to develop a water application map on a computer, upload that map to a thumb drive, and transfer it to the irrigation controller.
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The traditional technique of taking out contacts involves moving the lens to the outer, lower corner of the eye and then using the thumb and forefinger to pinch it out.
It has four fingers and a thumb made from various metals and plastics, and even has polycarbonate fingernails to help it prise things apart.
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It is a good rule of thumb that if the roof sweeps and tapers out like a dainty swallow's tail, the family who built it was wealthy.
Smith confessed there had been a noise, but said he thought it had hit his thumb on the handle.
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He scrutinizes it, holding it between forefinger and thumb.
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In reality, however, Jack says the hack is actually somewhat easier: all it takes is a USB thumb drive or an Internet connection.
It's navigated by thumb, through separate apps, and in shorthand.
We didn't have to change our usual or "traditional" finger positioning, meaning we were able to keep our right thumb in the bottom left corner of the pad and use our index finger to navigate. (Even if our thumb moved slightly up on the pad it still worked.) Best of all, while using that finger positioning we rarely zoomed in on something by mistake.
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It looks like one of those thumb suckers that's done periodically.
For tax-conscious investors, it's a good rule of thumb to sell losers while holding onto winners.
Holding it away from his body between his thumb and third finger, he walked over to the prisoner.
It appears to be normal banking, whereas it would stick out like a sore thumb for non-financial companies.
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It always seems like the rule of thumb is the earlier you are, the faster you get through security.
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