While growth declined steadily with each passing quarter, China did not land with a thud as many predicted.
The floor has haptic sensors that shudder with a thud when I land.
Opel is an old German brand that could have possibly been a good fit for ManUnited but would have landed with a thud in America, which remains the No. 1 car market in the world.
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It was revelations about Iran's hidden nuclear programme, and the interception of a shipment of nuclear parts bound for Libya (which hastened Libya's decision to tell all about its dealings with the Khan network), that brought Mr Khan down with a thud.
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Many alcohol-related health troubles are more immediate--and are delivered with a crash, a thud or a bang.
Part of the reason for the enthusiasm is that WAP has so far hit Asia with a muffled thud.
But it's clear they're putting more stock in it than the ill-fated BlackBerry Storm, which hit an iPhone-dominated smartphone market with a resounding thud in 2008.
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On its own, Obamacare points to a most expansive set of new regulations waiting to be dropped on every doorstep of every business with a loud thud.
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Not that Bryan Singer has a particularly light touch, and indeed the script's narrative bookends land with a dull thud, but at least the "X-Men" director hasn't succumbed to the self-important bloat that mars Peter Jackson's work these days.
But months later, after the letter arrived and I traced its arc and came to land with a soft thud in an enchanted forest, and after I had listened to all the stories contained in this book and written them down for you, that one story came back to me.
In the course of his inquiry, which leads him to visit the small town where his maternal grandparents were arrested in 1944 (a horrific event that Gitai dramatizes heavy-handedly), he uncovers bitter family secrets, the revelation of which, after ninety minutes of generic Euro-cinema, complete with sentimental manipulation and intellectual veneer, drops with a dull thud.
The jury heard that Booth and her partner were awoken by a loud thud at about 12.40 GMT to find Aaron lying down with a brown mouth and lips.
Her questions ended not in an inquisitorial lilt but with a descending, matter-of-fact thud.
With the Maybach there's no leather to smell or door to make a thud--no car, in fact, at least for now.
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