But from a lofted ball his poor touch took him away from the target as Jaaskelainen bore down on him and when Fowler laid the ball off to Villanueva the Chilean slipped at the vital moment.
In the 23rd over Strauss got a superb ball from Hilfenhaus, bowled from around the wicket, which swung in and seamed away a touch, flicking off stump.
Luke Fitzgerald's sloppy pass near the halfway line was gathered on the bounce by Short, who had the pace to scamper away and touch down by the posts.
Beyond the expense associated with adding a touch screen, and beyond the corporate decision to delay their inclusion, there are a number of reasons why the touch transition is years away from completion.
After being paged, he adds, the problem "is trying to get in touch with the person right away" in a city where public phones often are unavailable.
Unfortunately, the story fuels the perception of out-of-touch athletes living for the moment, out of touch with reality and frittering away money they will need later on in life.
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With a built-in fold-away antenna, touch sensitive TV controls, superior battery life of up to 3.5 hours, it doubles as a LED digital picture frame and provides the ultimate portable TV experience to enjoy TV on the go.
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Shortly after, Eduardo was inches away from getting a touch on Traore's superb cross as Arsenal started to raise their game.
She was glad to be alone in the metro again, in the splendor of its vaulted ceilings and mosaics, away from the sickly touch of misfortune.
Is it possible that it's the older workers who will ultimately have to adjust, forced to do away with the personal touch in favor of pure speed and efficiency?
Those languid creative geniuses, sensitive playmakers who seemed to walk on the pitch but, suddenly, with two magical strokes they brushed aside their rivals and sent the striker away with one last touch.
"I hate the idea, " says William Sanchez, who keeps in touch with his Californian colleagues 2000 miles away from his New York office via Yahoo Messenger.
In one touch, he controlled it and turned away from a defender before hitting the most incredible strike with his left foot into the top corner.
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The display is oriented very close to my face and the keyboard is tucked away so that I could comfortably touch the display.
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The album is filled with family photos, mementos and small notes that Drew can touch and see while his father is far away in Iraq.
Odds are, these consultants will have slipped off to their parked car, so they can call a client while glancing occasionally at the far-away playing field to stay in touch.
Flintoff was soon given the ball and picked up two wickets in his initial burst, firstly Ramnaresh Sarwan, whose fluent 23 ended when he backed away to one that bounced just that touch more and got a thin edge through to keeper Prior.
Despite a year away from the club, Ince never lost touch and tracked their progress closely.
But Nik reckons the pen takes away from the whole point of having a touch-sensitive screen.
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Benjani soon wasted a glorious opportunity to extend City's lead, spinning away from his marker with a sublime first touch before blazing over with his second from six yards out.
Simply repeating the claims of a few in the industry, who fear that we are moving away from the disastrous era of light-touch regulation, falls short of the independent analysis that your readers have a right to expect.
None of this voice and machine vision means that direct touch on touchpads and displays, keyboard and mouse will go away any time soon.
We live in a time where a sneeze in one corner of the world can touch off a pandemic that infects people many thousands of miles away.
With the game stretched, Villa surged forward and Ashley Young's cross needed only a touch to produce a goal but Carew and Albrighton were both inches away.
When the striker's low cross came in the big defender applied a marvellously delicate touch which set up fellow Scot McAllister to coolly tuck the chance away for his 10th goal of the season.
But Shane Watson, who was deceptively hostile, utilised reverse swing to trap Murali Vijay and nipped one away to take the edge of the out-of-touch Rahul Dravid.
Moments later, Anelka's fellow Frenchman Florent Malouda broke on the right before adding a touch of swerve on his 20-yard shot which Howard did well to push away for a corner.
The touch paper had well and truly been lit and, after Hyypia had penalty appeals waved away following a Drogba challenge, Babel reduced the arrears with a speculative effort from 35 yards that Cech should have done better with.
Damien Traille fed the fly-half, whose burst of speed took him away from the chasing New Zealand players before he off-loaded to Jauzion to touch down.
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