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Despite this, he remains committed to the ideal symbolised by the well-thumbed paperback in his pocket.
This is not the first time Scott Walker has thumbed his nose at a court order.
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Hun Sen, it seemed, had thumbed his nose at the international community yet again.
That design will make it a well-thumbed resource in the upcoming tax reform debate.
It is, the Speaker of the House of Commons said this morning, "a much-thumbed tome in the Bercow household".
" As she thumbed through the 2010 yearbook, Ms. Conklin-Spillane recalled Ms. Rebello as "a happy-go-lucky, great all-around teenage girl.
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The irony of displaying the antismoking notice is another measure of how Buckeridge has thumbed his nose at the advice of others.
In the same week in September that he fired Anwar, Mahathir thumbed his nose at the global economy by instituting restrictive exchange controls on the Malaysian currency.
The CBOE, the last major U.S. exchange to go public, thumbed its nose at concerns over its rich price compared with the offering prices of its peers.
Mr Milosevic further thumbed his nose at the world by refusing to let a prosecutor from the international war-crimes tribunal at The Hague, Louise Arbour, enter Kosovo.
Meanwhile, it's back to those well thumbed photos of Sabrata.
It doesn't sound like the right place to archive messages thumbed on a cell phone or dashed off in the Web page text box of a Web site.
Yet the document likely to be most thumbed through for clues about the world's nuclear future will be the American Defence Department's next nuclear-posture review, due in early 2009.
It's worth noting at this point that the navigation buttons are a little light under your finger, and the fatter-thumbed can find themselves choosing the wrong option, like a last-second golf putting twitch.
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Their coupling isn't unique -- after all, Dashiell Hammett wrote about the married Nick and Nora Charles more than 70 years ago -- but it's still unusual enough to bring a few new angles to the well-thumbed P.
Tellingly, it begins with the image of a sickly, tubercular child, rasping for breath in the night, and then the flare of a light as his older brother reaches for a dime-store paperback, a well-thumbed cowboy yarn he means to read before sleep.
"Shorty is the Pablo Escobar of Mexico, " said security consultant Scott Stewart, invoking the memory of the colorful Medellin cartel leader who also landed on the Forbes list and thumbed his nose at Colombian authorities until he died in a shower of police bullets in December 1993.
We thumbed our phones trying to getting a signal, exchanged texts and surfed Twitter for storm updates, both for our location in lower Westchester County in New York, and for the traditional summer stomping grounds of Beach Haven, New Jersey, a spot of barrier island off the pine barrens where my toes have met sand and salt since the 1960s.
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