Day after day billions were lost and in disgust employees threw up their hands and gave up.
And while a little bit of fear can help motivate people to act, too much fear can really cause people to throw up their hands and give up.
If you become extra hands somewhere, it may free up other hands that want to go help somewhere else.
You can throw up your hands and have a mutual fund do the picking for you.
And some of you may just put up your hands and say, politics is too tough.
With the passive approach you throw up your hands and simply aim to minimize costs.
Sabriel held up her hands in mock defeat, and gestured back to the gates.
In August Garvey threw up his hands and announced the sale of the high-grade bar business.
All those in favour of her call were told to put up their hands.
The panelists could throw up their hands and acquit Avandia on the basis of reasonable doubt.
"If they had held up their hands, there would not be all this activity, " he says.
And about 60%--up from 50% in the early 1990s--have been throwing up their hands and paying a pro.
Some just smile and hold up their hands in a gesture of surrender.
Mr. Marzovilla looked horrified by the idea and practically threw up his hands.
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For the revolutionary technologies, the solution is not to throw up your hands, as Andreas suggests, but do some basic research.
Does that mean the Mahdi Army lays down its arms and, you know, lays their guns and puts up their hands?
We can't accept that either, because we know that just throwing up our hands is bad for students and for teachers.
In the face of such uncertainty, of course, many people are just throwing up their hands, not bothering to run comparative figures.
In the past, the engineers would have thrown up their hands in horror and insisted on designing each new vehicle from scratch.
The students are from Egypt, Puerto Rico, Cuba and Spain and eagerly put up their hands when teacher Julia Puentes asks them a question.
Were Thomas Jefferson to come back alive and see the same slide, he would spike a football and throw up his hands in triumph!
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We throw up our hands and ask whether political action committees have more influence on elections than democratic ideals or the interests of most Americans.
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Conservationists no longer throw up their hands in horror at the very idea of wildlife being exploited (for anything other than tourism, which was always all right).
In July the CDO's trustee, a Bank of America unit, threw up its hands and filed suit in Manhattan federal court against XL Capital, BNP Paribas and Ambac.
This theory says that all stocks are rationally priced at all times, so you might as well throw up your hands and employ monkeys to manage your portfolio.
When he scored against Arsenal, where he spent eight seasons, his first move was to hold up his hands, even as Wayne Rooney threw himself onto his shoulders.
So instead of throwing up your hands that Web-based e-mail and online data transfers can never be secure, seek out and use the security tools that already exist.
At that Justice Sonia Sotomayor figuratively threw up her hands.
Instead of labeling schools a failure one day and then throwing up our hands and walking away from them, we need to refocus on the schools that need the most help.
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