Now its, like, a huge wall, like, with ropes and lamps and helicopters, you know, border patrols, you know, motorcycles and stuff like that.
Tied to the platform with long ropes, they hang from it as it spins, twirling to mimic the motions of flight and gradually lowering themselves to the ground.
Tethered to a large helium-filled balloon, the 23-pound Sword, as it's known, was able to climb up and down the long cable while workers kept the balloon steady with guide ropes.
Cameramen threw elbows for more space and local TV reporters leaned out over the ropes with their microphones, waiting for the first iPhone customers.
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"I'm really grateful to Peter Sauber for his confidence in me and my ability, " said Gutierrez, who has begun learning the ropes with access to the team's garage, pit radio and technical briefings.
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Their half-century stand came at a rate of a run per ball as Pietersen thumped a slower ball from Rampaul straight down the ground for six and Bopara also clearing the ropes with a pull off local boy Darren Sammy.
If you slam the ropes down with enough force, it will produce a wavelike effect that will travel down the ropes and then back up again.
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The trail begins with two hours of a light track until you reach the Carrasqueira, a steep wall of stone crossed with the use of ropes and helmets.
Exeter then went close as Jason Shoemark, off the bench on his debut, was hauled down yards short before Richard Baxter knocked on with Leeds on the ropes.
With India on the ropes at 345-7, Australia failed to land the fatal blow and the tourists, guided by Tendulkar and inspired by Harbhajan Singh's 63 from 92 deliveries, recovered.
Dundee Sheriff Court heard that prosecutors allege he rigged up a "man-made assembly in his house suspended from the ceiling by thin ropes, with a car battery and cans of petrol nearby".
He told FORBES earlier this year that the bet on Netflix, made last fall when the stock was on the ropes, originated with his son, Brett, and his investment partner, David Schechter.
Either way, the incident did nothing to stop the champion's dominance and he finished the fight with Mosley up against the ropes, hanging on for the final bell against a fighter he admitted was the best he had faced.
With HTC and RIM on the ropes, the other contender of note could have been Amazon.
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Then he came off the ropes and squashed me with one flyswatter jab.
Markets are still rattled with the possibility of contagion, with Bahrain and Oman against the ropes, politicians and consumers better hope Saudi Arabia gets by this one unscathed.
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He seemed keen to go for an early knockout, and the strategy almost backfired as Tarver scored points by trapping Jones on the ropes and landing punches with both hands.
John Travolta, with a bunch of old gray ropes where his hair should be, plays the Psychlo chief of security, who hates his job and has to contend with a band of rebellious earthlings.
Instead it was Flintoff who applied the coup de grace with a solid thump straight back down the ground over the ropes off Harris, to give England heart going into the one-day matches that begin with a Twenty20 international on 20 August.
He scaled 10 ladders inside the structure to the "weather door" before climbing the final 12m with the help of two steeplejacks, ropes and metal rungs.
Ali would lean back on the ring ropes, cover his face with his forearms and let his opponent wear himself out in a flurry of punches.
The crumpled Gomez was subjected to a series of hits on the ropes, leaving the referee with no option but to call a halt to proceedings.
The sport started in the 1970s, with a small group attaching tow-ropes to the bridge that crosses the Eisbach near the southern edge of the Englischer Garten park.
He came within inches of reaching his fifty with a lofted straight six - the hit off Kumble landing just inside the ropes and going for four - but calmly recorded it next ball with a single.
With the News Corp. chairman on the ropes, his rivals are feeling emboldened, and some of them are even feeling some nice financial tailwinds.
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India were certainly cautious after lunch, as Virender Sehwag bowled on a leg-side line at Hayden with up to four men on the boundary ropes on that side of the wicket.
Working with two at a time, I twisted the ropes of dough together and tucked them into baking tins.
He took a seat on the second strand of ropes, where his head was level with mine, and beckoned me in with a brisk wave of gloves.
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