Her eyes well with tears, but she doesn't allow them to fall, quickly wiping them away and biting her thumb like the vulnerable child she is.
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The plastic bezel on the front provides a nice spot on which to deposit one's thumb and, like the Simple Touch, provides for a design that stands apart from the army of lookalike tablets that dominate the market.
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The thumb grip's pair of programmable rockers similarly won our favor because of their ridges up top -- like the thumb keys on Logitech's G700, we could press these just by slightly shifting the base of our thumb, leaving our thumbtip free to hold the red sniper button -- a feature we'll talk about later.
Pop it out and the device, which is shaped like a thumb drive, plugs into an HDMI port and requires no external power.
The only difference between the two types of cyclooxygenase is a small pocket that protrudes, like the thumb of a glove, from the main binding site.
If there was a stranger in the neighborhood they stuck out like a sore thumb.
It appears to be normal banking, whereas it would stick out like a sore thumb for non-financial companies.
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Put volume in excess of 18, 000 contracts sticks out like a sore thumb against open interest in the sparsely populated November contract.
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One of the star performers has been Qatar, a tiny rich emirate that sticks out of Saudi Arabia like a sore thumb.
The one store which stood out like a sore thumb, at least here in my part of Connecticut, was JC Penney (JCP).
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Many finance folks are familiar with the rule-of-thumb that utilities tend to trade like bonds.
It always seems like the rule of thumb is the earlier you are, the faster you get through security.
It looks like one of those thumb suckers that's done periodically.
On Tuesday, Sun announced a new focus on using flash memory--the type of chips found in devices like iPods, USB thumb drives and some laptops--to store information in corporate data centers.
On Tuesday, Sun (nasdaq: JAVA - news - people ) announced a new focus on using flash memory--the type of chips found in devices like iPods, USB thumb drives and some laptops--to store information in corporate data centers.
That happens to be annoying when holding the device with one hand since you can't just use a thumb, or with two hands (for weaklings like us) because you have to drop one hand to do scrolling, or use a janky dual thumb method.
It sounds like a simple rule of thumb, but it was knowingly never complied with.
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.
On the Yankees, Robinson Cano and Derek Jeter also use small braces to protect the thumb, and several other teams' speedsters, like Rafael Furcal and Toronto's Rajai Davis, also wear protective guards.
As a rule of thumb, I prefer a juicy red wine, something like a Barbera from Piemonte, whose low tannins, high acidity and power cut through the pizza.
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Other base stealers who use gloves either wear small guards or professionally manufactured gloves that have a thumb hole, and also extend over the wrist, like Davis's glove, giving it a similar oven-mitt appearance to Gardner's newest device.
Or else they pushed a thumb on to the opened ink pad, and left a purple thumbprint like a flower on the bottom of the page.
Just like recipes in cooking, these are heuristics, rules of thumb, and not laws, which I think is very apropos to the nature of randomness and serendipity.
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The surgeon makes your stomach the size of a thumb, as opposed to the size of a normal stomach, which is like a 2-liter soda bottle.
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.
The newer, thinner Kindle seems more interested in wowing customers with its iPod-like exterior than in comfortably filling the space between an index finger and a thumb.
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