You're kind of thumbing your nose with the American economy here, it seems like.
With all this thumbing, something's got to give and in Yuzawa's case it's reading.
The west is noticing instead of thumbing their noses at them as nothing but oil havens.
Despite his proclivity for thumbing his nose at authority, Sachs is, in fact, a taskmaster in the studio.
Everyone alone at a table at Ritual was either typing on a laptop or thumbing a smart phone.
But Lowe clearly hopes to continue thumbing his nose at his former bosses.
And if the debate were that simple, we could brush it aside as a quirky nose-thumbing match between professionals.
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But a single tap of a finger is a lot easier than thumbing a Web address into a tiny browser.
U.S. journalist and hitchhiker Tony Horwitz's account of thumbing his way around Western Australia and the rest of the sunburned continent.
Album cover art is displayed and users can personalize their stations by thumbing-up favorite songs or artists to refine their stations.
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Critics gripe that Kindles don't allow for displaying ads and are poor substitutes for the look and feel of thumbing through pages.
He had been nervously thumbing through a folder of documents, and he began to pull out copies of the original police reports, each underlined and annotated.
Unfortunately, the little pieces of paper often fell out, forcing Mr. Fry to spend the service frantically thumbing through the book, looking for the right page.
Donning baggy ones and then hoisting them up to change their look after school hours is a simple and effective way of thumbing your nose at the system.
As I was thumbing through the Financial Times recently, I came across a letter to the editor by Marc Chandler of Brown Brothers Harriman and Jim Glassman of JPMorgan Chase.
In the middle of a crowded bar in East London, Joel was thumbing through a little white pamphlet to figure out which booth he should push his way towards next.
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Thus even 2, 500 years ago, cats had convinced some humans to carry them around, while thumbing their little noses at other humans who dared not raise a hand to them.
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But when I was thumbing through it I saw how he was trying to become friends with other artists and how he was trying to organize exhibitions of other artists.
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Thumbing through slides the gist seems as follows.
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Consider this a nose-thumbing in the direction of Brazil.
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True enough, when we're using our smartphones we're much less likely to be thumbing through a tiny browser than to be engaging with people and information through individual apps like Yelp or Instagram.
As I was thumbing through the Financial Times this morning over my oatmeal and coffee, I came across this letter by Marc Chandler of Brown Brothers Harriman and Jim Glassman of JPMorgan Chase.
Open Harbor, in San Carlos, California, wants to be global trade's equivalent of a radar detector, replacing with a fast Web service the practice of thumbing through thick tomes of trade rules and restrictions.
They're everywhere: on subways, in lecture halls, in bars and restaurants, thumbing away on the tiny keyboards of their mobile phones, displaying a remarkable ability to send messages and surf the Internet at warp speed.
Thankfully, recommendations can be culled using the new Dash's rating system -- thumbing the X button on the recommendation page allows you to pin an item, dismiss it or rate it out of five stars.
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But thumbing its nose looks increasingly costly.
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As I was thumbing through the Financial Times recently, I came across a letter to the editor by Marc Chandler of Brown Brothers Harriman and Jim Glassman of JPMorgan Chase (nyse: JPM - news - people ).
"Even if you view this as a confession, since Simpson can't be tried again, he's basically just thumbing his nose at the authorities and thumbing his nose at the Goldman family who he grew to hate during the course of the trial, " he said.
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The Mogul doesn't look quite as futuristic or elegant as the iPhone, but it has some features Apple's phone lacks, like a removable battery, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard for thumbing messages, access to a "third-generation" (3G) Internet connection for fast mobile Web access and downloadable software applications that let you turn your smart phone into a mini computer.
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