• He seemed to nod to that and I helped him up and he ran off.

    NPR: 'Guys Read:' Encouraging Boys to Love Books

  • The concept can be traced to Japanese capsule hotels, first developed around 1980, and appeal to travellers looking to nod off or work in private without having to pay for a traditional hotel room or leave the airport.

    BBC: Sleep in a pod on the fly

  • Both have merit, but when it comes to actually breaking the impasse over nuclear waste I'd have to give the nod to Jack.

    WSJ: What Should the U.S. Do With Nuclear Waste?

  • Their label's name is supposed to be a nod to both first-growth wines and to hip-hop, a genre whose musicians refer to their ensembles as crews.

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  • The montage also featured a cameo by young singing sensation Justin Bieber, who joked that he was there to help Mr. Crystal "get you the 18 to 24 demographic, " a nod to the ceremony producers' quest to attract younger viewers.

    WSJ: 'The Artist' Wins Big as Oscar Romances Past

  • Back in the good old USA, the Republican Party, with a dramatic nod to the gold standard, adopted a platform plank calling for a monetary reform commission, with a broad nod to gold, causing a worldwide buzz.

    FORBES: Signs Of The Gold Standard Are Increasingly Emerging...Worldwide

  • In an attempt to make it harder for organised criminals to arm themselves, and in a nod to global counter-terrorist efforts, a group of ten eastern and central African countries, including Ethiopia, Rwanda and Uganda, which owe their liberation movements partly to the Kalashnikov, has agreed to harmonise gun laws.

    ECONOMIST: Guns in Africa

  • The Jacksons are expected to receive some sort of nod to the plea at sentencing.

    FORBES: Connect

  • Crew clothes are familiar and its prices are accessible to many Americans, a nod to her every-woman persona.

    WSJ: Fashion World Digests Michelle's Choices

  • Inverness were playing with more and more fluency and Doran raced away on the left to cross for Rooney to nod home.

    BBC: Sport - Football - Inverness CT 5-1 Morton

  • The foundation does not own big enough stakes in companies to influence their behaviour through shareholder activism, even if it does nod to political correctness by declining to invest in cigarette firms.

    ECONOMIST: Face value

  • Many beach-home owners like to decorate with objects or art that offer a nod to the sand and surf but there's a way to do that stylishly, so the home doesn't look like a chintzy souvenir shop, Mr. Aram believes.

    WSJ: Beach-Home D��cor, Minus the Nautical Clich��s

  • One is that it does seem to imply that the clerics might be giving a nod to the government, saying that, yes, this political process does mean something and we need to take part in it.

    NPR: Sunni Muslim Clerics: Voting a 'Religious Duty'

  • The new Shanghai stock exchange is built in the shape of a hollowed square to help trap positive energy, a nod to the ancient geomantic rituals of feng shui.

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  • It said it expects inflation to remain subdued for some time, but removed prior warnings that inflation would fall to undesirably low levels, perhaps a nod to increasing commodities prices of late, particularly oil.

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  • Broadly, it seems that Mr Thein Sein promised to push ahead with the release of political prisoners, and give the nod to political reforms that might one day allow the NLD to take power.

    ECONOMIST: Myanmar��s startling changes

  • There is good reason to be concerned that practicing the broad export of MSKCC-inspired clinical algorithms, which may sometimes appear to have been developed with only a passing nod to compelling clinical evidence and near disdain for fiscal restraint, could be a bit too much like having shopping algorithms inspired by the Kardashians.

    FORBES: Is IBM's Watson in Jeopardy? This Oncologist Thinks So!

  • Lots to nod along with and lots to push the brakes on.

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  • Robben was the architect, picking out Dante at the far post with looping cross to head the ball towards goal and allow Muller to nod the ball home.

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  • Board members have yet to vote on the fee increase but gave administrators the nod to begin, something the district can do because residents approved a tax issue last week.

    FORBES: John Kasich's Hometown School District Saves Sports -- At a Price

  • The high profile elevation of Salman Khurshid as the new foreign minister - only the third Muslim to hold the position since Independence - is a deft nod to Congress's faith in India's plurality.

    BBC: What does the India government reshuffle mean?

  • "Ask them what they want to talk about, " he said, perhaps with a nod to our own conversations.

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  • "After you've been a principal, you don't want to be an employee, " explains Rosen, in a nod to Diller's hands-on management style and a widely reported clash of egos.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Yet, when it came time to vote for the second time that night, Robb gave her nod to the project.

    CNN: Mark Milian,

  • Trapattoni's side lost the first leg in Dublin 1-0 but were leading 1-0 in Paris before Henry handled the ball and squared for Gallas to nod in a goal that sent France to the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa and left the Republic heartbroken.

    BBC: Fifa turns down Irish replay plea

  • He declines to say how much he had invested and says the lower price is a nod to the market.

    WSJ: Palm Beach Mansion Asks $74 Million | Private Properties

  • Slide the padlock icon to the right and it unlocks the handset, slide it to the left and you're dropped into the camera app (a clear nod to HTC's Sense 3.0 UI).

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  • Right at the start of the match, Wigan keeper Chris Kirkland very nearly made a disastrous error when he spilled Ledley King's header but he was able to recover and punch the ball away from Michael Dawson, who was poised to nod home.

    BBC: Wigan 1-0 Tottenham

  • Despite their numerical inferiority, Arsenal continued to press forward as the effervescent Emmanuel Eboue curled a fine cross for Andrei Arshavin to nod over.

    BBC: Arsenal 2-0 West Ham

  • Critics point to the fact that, despite Bush officials' widely-publicised hostility to bail-outs, they gave the nod last year to rescue packages both for Argentina and for Turkey.

    ECONOMIST: America to the rescue? | The

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