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Watch the fingers grab. The thumb comes up. Wrist.

Unlike humans and most Old World monkeys, their thumbs are not opposable (except for some Cebids).

Hundreds of millions of Chinese have been lifted out of poverty.

Blah is how big human beings torture little human beings. If you are a little human being you must report them to the United Nations which has fists bigger than your father's. Television really tortures little humans.

Indian MPs still thump their desks, rather than clap their hands, in approbation.

The international inch is 1.7 millionths of an inch longer than the old imperial inch, and 2 millionths of an inch shorter than the US inch.

the poorest nations can grow out of poverty through trade

Every swastika, every raised fist, served as a warning and an assault on democracy.

Then it was American troops and arms that liberated Western Europe from Nazism.

His administration is trapped more and more in the paralyzing grip of special interest groups.

Under Khrushchev, however, Solzhenitsyn s work was used to liberate the country from the grip of Stalinism.

Since the majority of animals lack opposable thumbs, the fine motor skills required for use in most gaming is unavailable to these animals.

Modi is of course well aware that the past retains a powerful hold over India s present.

To modernize Russia, one must break the stranglehold of corruption, establish accountability, and free the media.

By the time the English Civil War broke out in November 1642, the Tower of London was already in Parliament's control.

Noting with concern that many alleged perpetrators of genocide continue to elude justice,

The teacher was about to finish the useless discussion when his face was hit by a blow from a pupil's fist.

Should Mousavi persuade Khamenei to reconsider his position, the Supreme Leader s hold on power will be shaken.

Part of the promise we see in the Arab Spring is the liberation of the media from the dictator s grasp.

Pakistani liberals may be right that their country is invulnerable to an Islamist power grab.

With the fall of Calais to the French, in 1558, the staple moved again to Bruges.

First, using fossil fuels remains the only way out of poverty for developing countries.

Indeed, such structural changes would weaken the elite s grip on political and economic power.

This is in response to the need for an overview of the situation to improve the authorities' grip on the problem of prostitution.

OK, now, cross your hands over, so your right hand goes over, interlace your fingers like this, then make sure your right thumb is outside your left thumb that's very important.

Cyrenaica is Qaddafi free, Tripolitania is not, and Fezzan did not fully join the revolution.

The Saudi led (and US backed) coalition is trying to break the rebels' hold on Sanaa and restore the exiled Yemeni president, whom the rebels displaced.

Many blame the NDP monopoly and firm grasp of the political system for losing the people's confidence in any real change.

Medical kits the size of a thumbnail can measure a million different biological factors on an individual with an infinitesimal amount of blood.

Africa is ready to break out of poverty if the US and other rich countries help.

So, what he found is that in all cases of thumb mutations, instead of having a thumb, you would either get another opposable thumb, or you would get four fingers.

Yet migration is the original strategyfor people seeking to escape poverty, mitigate risk, and build a better life.

Countries that have fallen into the grip of autocratic leaders for example, Argentina and Turkey are also increasingly at a disadvantage.

So I turned to the teeming small creatures that can be held between the thumb and forefinger the little things that compose the foundation of our ecosystems, the little things, as I like to say, who run the world.

That one I followed by default, by not getting in a fight with a man whose wife was standing nearby, looking like she had a strong grip.

Until China is released from the grip of religious politics, Liu s ideals are unlikely to take root.

History has shown that government action is required to help the poorest farmers escape the low yield poverty trap.

Obama s one significant foreign policy breakthrough has been to release the US from the grip of the global war on terror.

A former member of Iran s parliament, Javad Ettaat, argues that the government is contravening the principles of Islam by using an iron fist against protesters.

Like many residents of the rebel held capital city, Yara blames Saudi Arabia for dragging out the war that has destroyed hospitals, markets and schools.

Germany held 2.5 million prisoners Russia held 2.2 2.9 million while Britain and France held about 720,000.

For example, if a bird comes up in conversation, people typically picture an animal that is fist sized, sings, and flies.

If you take your thumb and your index finger and look right where they meet go ahead and do that now and relax your hand, you'll see a crinkle, and then a wrinkle within the crinkle, and a crinkle within the wrinkle. Right?

Expansion of exports of labor intensive manufactures has nonetheless lifted many Chinese out of poverty.