By reappointing a Fed chair chosen by someone else, a president can appear to guarantee financial markets that the Fed is not too much under his thumb.

Thumb And Pouch

Now he's going to pick up a pen with his opposed thumb and index finger.

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.

, having a hitchhiker's thumb and a straight thumb, eyes of slightly different colors, differential hair growth on opposite sides of the body, etc.

Give people rules of thumb, not product manuals.

Sarkozy can afford to thumb his nose at his party, given the total collapse of the opposition Socialists, who will almost certainly lose the 2012 election.

Actions The flexor pollicis longus is a flexor of the phalanges of the thumb when the thumb is fixed, it assists in flexing the wrist.

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

That is what I and all of Ukraine s democrats want for our country a society of opportunity, under the rule of law and not under the thumb of cronies and oligarchs, in an open Europe.

By the way, this map from 2006 is out of date because it shows Africa still under the thumb of Greenpeace, and Friends of the Earth from Europe, and they're finally getting out from under that.

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.

However, as with many rules of thumb, there are many caveats and exceptions.

OK, I want you to pinch right here with two fingers and your thumb.

These rules of thumb work (at least tolerably so) as a result of evolution.

Demonstratively hostile to the interests of both Belarus and Ukraine, the pipeline is intended to ensure that these countries are under Russia s energy thumb, regardless of who is in power in Minsk and Kiev.

Some time ago, I asked a Latin American leader what was behind his country s Iranian romance he refused to answer. After insisting, he finally rubbed his index finger and thumb together an almost universal sign for money.

He killed it and Moses took some of its blood, and put it on the tip of Aaron's right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot.

Tuscola County is a county located in the Thumb region of the U.S. state of Michigan.

And he slew it and Moses took of the blood of it, and put it upon the tip of Aaron's right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot.

A common rule of thumb is that two consecutive quarters of falling real GDP constitute a recession.

Now there are a number of diagnostic tests, akin to marketers rules of thumb, for certain conditions.

The opponens pollicis is a small, triangular muscle in the hand, which functions to oppose the thumb.

And it is biased toward universal recipes model institutional arrangements, best practices, rules of thumb, and so forth.

The abductor pollicis brevis is a muscle in the hand that functions as an abductor of the thumb.

In human anatomy, the adductor pollicis muscle is a muscle in the hand that functions to adduct the thumb.

The general rule of thumb is to ascend no more than 300 meters (1,000 ft) per day to sleep.

Historically, both state and federal attorney generals have preferred to prosecute occasional traders, who stick out like a sore thumb.

It is a common rule of thumb in business e.g., 80 of your sales come from 20 of your clients.

Researchers in conservation biology have tended to adopt the 50 500 rule of thumb initially advanced by Franklin and Soule.

The priest shall put some of the rest of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering.

Then the priest shall put some of the oil that is in his hand on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on the place of the blood of the trespass offering.

And of the rest of the oil that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the trespass offering

And the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass offering

The priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot.

If you hit your thumb with a hammer, these wires in your arm that, of course, we call nerves transmit the information into the junction box in the spinal cord where new wires, new nerves, take the information up to the brain where you become consciously aware that your thumb is now hurt.

Tom hid the book under his pillow.

Sami threw his mom under the bus.

His left hand is under my head. His right hand embraces me.

It was that enveloping, and there was only one spot that didn't hurt worse than anything I'd ever felt, and it was my instep, and he was holding the arch of my foot and rubbing the instep with his thumb.

But the historical rule of thumb is that the chances of a fast, hard landing have now surpassed 25 , and continue to climb.

Despite decades of careful data collection and mathematical and statistical research, on many large questions we have little more than rules of thumb.

And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.

While it is common to refer to pareto as 80 20 rule, under the assumption that, in all situations, 20 of causes determine 80 of problems, this ratio is merely a convenient rule of thumb and is not nor should it be considered immutable law of nature.

And the priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot