• The cacophonous reception provided by the partisan Australian crowd seemed to unsettle him, the pressure plus his own adrenaline forcing him to overhit his groundstrokes.

    BBC: Ivanisevic snatches Wimbledon thriller

  • So while in India, our protagonist scrambles up a ladder of fantasy and make-believe to take on his tormentors as a slumdog millionaire, in America, our protagonist ascends a ladder given to him by his own society and its people--given to him as reward for a mutiny that was thought to ennoble not merely the protagonist and His Kind, but all of America.

    FORBES

  • England desperately needed a score and it came when Roby kicked ahead for St Helens team-mate James Graham, but the ball took a lucky defection off the goal post to rebound into his own path for him to touch down.

    BBC: New Zealand 24-10 England

  • And if you take out the loans that Mitt Romney has made to his own campaign - he's a millionaire, he can do this - if you take out those loans, Romney's cash on hand would be only three and a quarter million, which puts him down near McCain territory without his own money to help him.

    NPR: Presidential Candidates Show the Money

  • The IPCC said further opportunities to reassess Atherton were missed when he applied for a firearms licence in 2008, which allowed him to own more powerful weapons.

    BBC: Horden shootings: IPCC highlights Durham Police failings

  • His strong presentational style and his ability to laugh at his own mistakes helped endure him to the British public.

    BBC: Harry Carpenter

  • But he spent three years reverse engineering the flight navigation software that receives ACARS signals to find bugs that allowed him to send his own commands to the systems, either from a software-defined radio that can be tuned to use ACARS or from a compromised airline system.

    FORBES: Researcher Says He's Found Hackable Flaws In Airplanes' Navigation Systems (Update: The FAA Disagrees)

  • And he has devoted his time and energies to talking about what his own experiences have meant to him and what he has learned -- to encourage each and every one of us that the way to make the most of our talents is to make a difference in the lives of others.

    WHITEHOUSE: My Fellow Americans

  • Perhaps to give him their own send off, perhaps to stop word getting out that he was dead and they were weakened.

    BBC: Heriberto Lazcano: The fall of a Mexican drug lord

  • "I kind of want to bring him his own Santa Claus and just have like a toy store in the house, " she says.

    CNN: Music stars' favorite holiday traditions

  • I've never quite managed to hold my own with him.

    CNN: Flirting and freak outs of reporting Mandela

  • To flatter him, flag-waving schoolchildren lined the streets, Egyptian bedouins with links to Mr Qaddafi's own tribe cheered him on, and the state-controlled media offered blanket coverage of his forays to the Egyptian Museum and the tomb of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Egyptian president whom Mr Qaddafi still idolises as a hero of Arab nationalism.

    ECONOMIST: Libya and the bombed airliners | The

  • Sokol was eager to make more money, and so he is taking his shame with him to build his own fortune and to become a philanthropist.

    FORBES: Berkshire's Sokol Should Have Sold Lubrizol Before Pushing Deal With Buffett

  • At the age of 29 he embarked on an expedition to the South Pole that was unsupported -- a trek that required him to pull his own sleigh and that lacked medical support crews.

    CNN: The polar explorer searching for green warriors

  • But he has already made his own valve radio and is convinced there will be enough British-made component parts for him to make his own mobile phone.

    BBC: Can a family survive for a year on British-made goods?

  • The election victory is Mr. Najib's first, giving him his own mandate and positioning him better to push his agenda.

    WSJ: Malaysian Prime Minister Wins Election

  • The first, which contains plenty of pessimistic liberals, predicts that Mr Bush's debt to conservative voters, together with his own inclinations, will lead him to appoint strongly conservative judges who would clamp down on abortion, gay rights, affirmative action and so on.

    ECONOMIST: The Supreme Court: The coming firestorm | The

  • Mr. Wieser, meanwhile, has a "telephone-based link with his part-time boss in The Hague, who, to make matters worse, has his own staff and his own parliament which expects him to report to it on his euro-area activities, as well as his conduct of Dutch policy, " Mr. Ludlow writes in an evaluation of the Cyprus agreement published this week.

    WSJ: Cyprus Deal Hurts Credibility All Around

  • The messages from his transition team have been mixed, thanks partly to the diversity of its members, partly to Mr Fox's own tendency to change tack when it suits him, and partly to a disorganised press team.

    ECONOMIST: Mexico

  • "The commission of this opera ... was to inspire and invite him (composer Him Sophy) to bring his own voice of the ancient Khmer sound into his own score that married his traditions with western pop and rock tradition, " Burt said.

    CNN: Cambodia's first rock opera hopes its stage will be a bridge

  • When Srebrenica fell in July, Mladic brought in his own video crew to film him reassuring Muslim civilians.

    CNN: Survivor: Mladic directed mass killing

  • Four decades later, he has his own chorus boys to back him up.

    WSJ: Telling Tales in Tune Town

  • Yet when a public figure emerges in a new setting, the unfortunate tendency is to imprison him in our own set positions.

    FORBES: Chen Guangcheng and the Abortion Issue

  • His music also caught the ear of Isaac Brock, the frontman of Modest Mouse, who promptly signed him to his own record label.

    NPR: Keb Mo and Mason Jennings in Concert

  • We spoke to him about his own fashion choices ("comfortable"), favorite endurance sports (reading Proust) and darkest secrets (well, it's a chair fetish, and currently under control).

    WSJ: 20 Odd Questions for Architect Stephan Jaklitsch

  • Unlike batsman Sanath Jayasuriya, still playing at 41, Muralitharan does not want to force the selectors to drop him, preferring to bow out under his own terms.

    BBC: Muttiah Muralitharan to retire from Test cricket

  • Minor consolation for Woods will see him stay at the top of the rankings for the 267th consecutive week as his arch-rival Phil Mickelson missed the chance to dethrone him with his own disappointing display at St.

    CNN: Level-par finish leaves frustrated Tiger off the pace

  • Rigoletto is a nasty, Don Rickles-style comedian, the Duke's lapdog, alternately encouraged and kicked, whose mockery of Monterone (here, a sheik), whose daughter has been raped by the Duke, comes back to haunt him when his own daughter, Gilda, is taken and destroyed.

    WSJ: School for Scandal

  • But others see the treatment being meted out to him as unfair and an attempt by some in the judiciary to give him a taste of his own medicine, he adds.

    BBC: Asia

  • But Hank Greenberg had ruled AIG so absolutely and was so accustomed to getting his way that he couldn't fathom his own board's sacrificing him to rescue his company.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

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