As if on cue, a tire started going flat Saturday, but a timely pit stop prevented him from losing much position. |
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This seems to be the cue for the proactive consumer to start interrogating different suppliers. |
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It might, except that the heavy right spin placed on the cue ball imparts a small amount of left spin to the object ball. |
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Once the questions mount, experts said, insurgents desperately need prominent party officials to send a cue to voters by vouching for them. |
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I simply try to make the object ball while positioning the cue ball for a reasonable second shot. |
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Shoot straight at the object ball, striking the cue ball one cue tip below center. |
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Place the cue ball between the object ball and the head rail so that the inside edge of the cue ball is lined up as shown below. |
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While down on the shot, fine tune your aim by taking a few glances from the cue ball to the object ball and back again. |
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In making a short losing hazard into the right top pocket across the head of the board, Newman just grazed his opponent's ball with his cue. |
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You can talk to someone on set from offstage or cue an actor who forgot his lines. |
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Wisely selecting the six ball for the side pocket, you carefully position the cue ball. |
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Arming himself with a snooker cue he knocked on Mr Murphy's door, headbutted him and began an attack lasting more than five minutes. |
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In Experiment 2, we found that the initial letter of the solution word was no better as a cue than either the middle or last letter. |
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Politicians, particularly brutally opportunistic politicians, take their cue from the temper of the times. |
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Usually that's a cue for a fairytale, but yesterday he was outfoxed twice in quick succession. |
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Former world champion Steve Davis chalks his cue as the UK Snooker Championships got under way today at York's Barbican Centre. |
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That misleading signal might cue the body to slow metabolism, increase fat deposition, and overstimulate appetite. |
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The blasts also triggered chaos inside the building, which a number of hostages seized upon as their cue to escape. |
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Research shows that the butterfly will cue into black swallow-wort and lay eggs, but the larvae do not survive. |
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They did the spadework for the score in a good passage of support play, Wade arriving on cue to drive over and finish off the movement. |
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As if on cue he bounded down the stairs, nearly tripping over the clunky shoes I'd bought him for Christmas. |
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If somebody ignores the signs, it's a cue for tellers to perch their pinkies on the silent-alarm buttons. |
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Works by Western filmmakers were alive to history and quite often took their cue from real life events and personages. |
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On some Tory blog's comment section this is a cue for speculating about personal hygiene of and body hair on greenies. |
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A pop star's death is normally the cue for record companies to rush out the reissues and compilations. |
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As if on cue, the glass doors of the field house opened, and the opponents strolled in. |
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Taking his cue again from Blake rather than Hegel, Prynne argues that contrariety is not the same thing as opposition. |
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However, cue games like billiards and pool exhibit that extreme sensitivity and instability highlighted by Maxwell. |
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For example, when guests play pool, the game keeps track of the balls on the table, and the guests always strike the cue ball first. |
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When Rey played possibly his best shot ever, Jimmy had bought the cue off the pool hall. |
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I did as he told me, keeping my eyes focused on the back of the target ball as I smoothly followed through with the cue. |
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The 24-year-old picks up a cue straight off the rack and proceeds to dazzle me with an array of fantastic pots and superb ball control. |
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We only played a couple more frames in that session and I won them both as John could hardly hold his cue never mind pot any balls. |
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Early spring awakens with crocus and forsythia, and this is also your cue to take care of moss in the lawn with a spring feed and moss control. |
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The forward direction of the ball is accomplished by the horizontal angle of the cue stick. |
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This is because the cue ball can pick up top spin due to friction with the cloth. |
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Shooting hard can cause the cue tip leather to loose friction with the cue ball, causing it to jump rather than spin. |
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Everyone else seems to be waiting for an offstage cue before they perform, as if unsure of what to do or say next. |
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He looked toward the door and cleared his throat obnoxiously, as if someone had missed his or her cue to enter. |
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The girl takes a cue and begins dancing, keeping almost perfect beat to the tune. |
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Alcohol may serve as a cue, making certain behaviors more accessible and likely. |
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The Mayor, not heeding his cue, began his speech early and failed to mention the conference and exhibition sponsors. |
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The digit served as a cue to make a guess in the probability-guessing task. |
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The primary care physician's emotional response to a patient can serve as an early cue to pursue a somatization diagnosis. |
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This was my cue to begin a slow approach with the camera, all the time being eyed warily by the triggerfish. |
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If that sounds painfully scary, you could just say you'll e-mail him later, which is an obvious cue for him to offer up his address. |
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This was the cue for a hold up which lasted around five minutes as players, mentors and fans pleaded with the referee to reverse his decision. |
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And in this smart pub, where a Glaswegian salad is the order of the day, that's the cue for another round of reminiscing. |
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In fact, in some cases corroborative evidence serves as the retrieval cue for the repressed memory. |
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The context acts as a cue to retrieve the memory of events that occurred in its presence. |
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This not only identifies what is considered high in fiber but provides a cue to aid in recall. |
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The boxes were removed from sight because previous research has shown that location acts as a cue to memory. |
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He admitted defeat and asked the usher if she'd seen Cecelia, offering the turquoise turban as a cue to memory. |
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But didn't go any further until he had taken some cue from her that it was okay. |
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A group of teenagers have taken it upon themselves to cue a new snooker hall for the people of the town. |
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Some lines in his movies sound as if they were written to cue his reactions, and they are the more memorable for that. |
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But when he goes down to the valley, it's the same two sentences in Spanish, and then they cue the mariachis. |
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Streaming-music sites cue up an amazing playlist of songs, a variety of features and plenty of customer stickiness for advertisers. |
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Press the same button again to put the camera shot back on, and then you would press a button next to it to cue up the next graphic. |
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He takes his cue from what they are doing, and I stand in awe of how often he is correct in forecasting what they will do. |
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When the cue hits the object ball it will bend the tangent line back away from the corner. |
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Bend forward into a shooting position and see if you feel you can sight straight down your cue. |
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Other items include a snooker cue signed by top stars, an England under 21s signed match ball and Bath rugby shirts and balls signed by players. |
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Perhaps his vanity had caused him to only use a snooker cue chalk once and then throw it away. |
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Every time I screw my cue together, my goal is to be a better player when I unscrew it. |
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One man suffered penknife stab wounds to his back and another was hit around the head with a snooker cue. |
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The objective is to pocket the object ball using only a center ball hit on the cue ball. |
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Then he said that he could shoot the cue ball down the table and hit the top ball before touching the other two. |
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If you you nearly scratch in the lower left pocket, you are not putting enough left spin on the cue ball. |
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I guess it refers to the instant that the tip comes into contact with the cue ball. |
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This means that the player must be extremely precise is shooting the object ball and placing the cue ball. |
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I drew the cue back, striking the cue ball with force, rocketing it into the formation of colored balls. |
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Each side has five red balls or five white balls, one of each color being a marked cue ball. |
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When you impart any spin on the cue ball, that spin is transferred to the object ball. |
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Stroke through the cue ball with just enough speed to send the object ball one length of the table. |
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Now after you break the balls, your cue ball may or may not be in the center of the table. |
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Shoot center ball and send the cue ball all the way down the rail into the top corner pocket. |
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I stood up as the cue ball hit the 8 ball, successfully sending it into the corner pocket, making me the first to win against my brother. |
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It all comes down to the ability to deliver a crisp clear hit on the cue ball. |
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They never told me how to aim or what to expect of the cue ball after shooting. |
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If you are not a master of the fundamentals, you will never strike the cue ball the same way. |
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If you address the cue ball wrong and miss the shot, don't blame the cue ball, or the stick. |
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The point is, my hit pattern on the cue ball will indicate a lot of bottom hits. |
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In disturbed auctions, however, a cue bid at the first opportunity is always artificial. |
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There have been many questions about cue bids, and many advancing players find them confusing since they are so context-sensitive. |
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This is a cue bid of the opponent's suit after your partner has opened the bidding. |
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The characters have so many pauses and flubs in their lines that they sound like they are reading off cue cards they just got that afternoon. |
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He thought it was beneath anybody's notice, and that was when he started using the cue cards and reading off cue cards. |
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I gave up trying to think of anything to say that didn't sound like I was reading it off a cue card. |
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There, on a large cue card, was one word written with the same black, felt-tip marker. |
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And I kid you not, she could not even read her lines from the cue card she was obviously looking at off camera! |
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Today's congressman composes tightly worded sound bites and reads them from a cue card when reporters call. |
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Don't ask me how that last one happened, because I couldn't tell you even if you had me read the actual answer off a cue card. |
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And in case you missed that talking point, three cabinet members repeated it, one of them literally reading it from a cue card. |
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He does a bit more, introducing some of the testimony segments, but he seems to be reading off a cue card. |
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Once I have written this, it's enter soundtrack, cue vacuum, then it's curtains for this shambles. |
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The design takes its cue from redundant gasometer and gantry structures adjoining the site. |
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Suddenly, as if on cue, he straightened his shoulders and walked downstage to greet his public. |
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The cheers came on cue, even though the applause must have struck quite a few of the Democratic graybeards in the audience as a tad ironic. |
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Objects, including a snooker cue, and a dumb-bell were thrown from a window, and the pistol was pointed at officers. |
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Taking his cue from these greats he developed to become perhaps the busiest pianist on the London jazz scene for the past 40 years. |
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The cue stick slipped between his fingers, the tip of it barely scratching the eight ball. |
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English is used to dramatically increase or decrease the cue ball deflection angle. |
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She took his cue, and continued the conversation as if he hadn't said anything epithetical. |
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According to Goodman, we formulate rules of deductive logic by taking our cue from intuitively valid deductive inferences. |
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Violet jabbed her stick at the cue and sunk the 8 in the middle of another, longer yawn. |
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Unlike, say, a tennis racket or cricket bat, a snooker cue is thought irreplaceable by its owner. |
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Ground IR and radar sensors are used to cue the aerostat imaging sensor to identify targets. |
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Hamilton looked in control of the next frame until a bad contact on the cue ball resulted in him missing a simple red. |
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Whistler, taking his cue from the English Pre-Raphaelites, experimented with reeded moldings and with various shades of gold leaf. |
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As if on cue the heavens opened, a heavy rainstorm hit us, and visibility dropped to no more than one or two cars ahead and behind. |
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Day length is a stable seasonal cue and controls biological changes in a host of species. |
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Finally, the qualitative data provide additional support for the notion of cue reactivity. |
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Higher yet, and the cue stick will ride over the ball, probably causing it to go nowhere. |
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Ecologists, taking their cue from nature, think in terms of cycles, while economists are more likely to think linearly. |
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It's pretty hard to hear where a cue is going when you have Brontosaurs roaring left right and centre. |
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The only cinematic cue to promote tension is the following shot of a darkening sky as storm clouds roll in. |
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The brown long-haired mutt won Best in Show and Best Trick, for howling on cue with his owner. |
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The sound effect cue for that scene change is a series of camera clicks, as if many photographers are taking photos. |
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They ate in silence, and they appeared to finish their food together, as if on cue. |
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All these years later it is nice to see that he has not only mastered cue ball control himself but has the ability to pass it on to his pupil. |
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After a few minutes, however, he was ready to work and even let a member of the audience cue him to dunk basketballs and bow. |
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At Union Square Cafe, we've always taken our cue from the Mediterranean diet. |
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Norville State School student Lauren Thrupp waits for her cue to play the bazooka during the combined schools performance in the CBD on Thursday. |
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As a symbol of Stein's greatness and a cue for the home fans to go mental, nothing beats the sight of that big silver pot. |
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A foul has occurred if the cue ball or an object ball comes in contact on the table's bed. |
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This FA Cup third round tie is cue, presumably, for a typical Fulham gag-fest, a joke or two about keeping the score in single figures. |
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There was also a cue forming behind the idiot driver and this spilled out onto the nearby junction, which made the drivers toot their horns. |
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Each new smell cue would simply add to the miasma of conflicting odours, and people were often seen fleeing the theatre, holding their noses. |
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They were in their early twenties the night that Sullivan bellowed out the cue that began the most agonizing five minutes of their lives. |
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A pool shark can hit a ball with a cue and predict with relative certainty where a whole bunch of balls will go on the table. |
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On cue, the creature began running towards her, sword drawn and red eyes frighteningly wild. |
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He looked over at the position of the eight and adjusted his cueing action, putting backspin on the cue ball. |
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Nineteenth century bagatelle floor standing tables required cue sticks to propel ivory balls. |
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If this was Sheffield, where The Full Monty came from, a wig war would have been the cue for slapper jokes and baldy scams, but not here. |
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The cue ball is played from any point on or behind the baulk line by the breaking player. |
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When not bedevilled by his personal demons his mind is razor-sharp and positive and he uses his cue as if it was a magician's wand. |
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Other trendsetters took a cue from Africa's most revered politician, and ditched their suits. |
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Several studies have used shopping lists to cue students as to which item to purchase. |
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Barely had he collapsed when two others rushed to his aid, sweeping him into an ambulance that sped forward on cue from a side street. |
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And then, almost as if on cue, the doorbell rang, and hastily placed her bookmark in the book and jumped up to answer the door. |
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Taking her cue from nature, Beverly designed the landscape to be casual and unpretentious. |
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The cue ball bounced off three cushions and rolled back up the table to nudge the red into the pocket. |
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Lay the bridge on the table with the notch of desired height behind the cue ball. |
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In a number of bird studies, carotenoid pigmentation has been more or less conclusively shown to be a cue for female choice of males. |
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Hendry is hoping he has finally silenced the doubts over his new cue after beating Dale. |
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You should take a cue from her husband and see your stepdaughter as a child, too. |
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At that very moment as if on cue, somewhere in the distance a wolf let out a menacing howl. |
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As if on cue, a door on the far side of the room opened, and a voice called. |
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On cue, Ashby entered with a cart possessing several trays from which delicious aromas rose. |
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As if right on cue, the door to the parlor opened just then and another servant, a young man, entered. |
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The pages turn right on cue and the pictures are evocative enough that the story tells itself just by listening. |
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Like laugh tracks, they cue our emotional responses, but they also disguise their coerciveness by making us feel included. |
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He just grabbed his cue and began lining up his shot, looking incredibly sullen. |
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In other media, this might be the cue for you to go and get some popcorn, or a course of trepanation. |
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The Meadowlands doesn't follow a cue from any current trend, and after a quick listen can sound misdated. |
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But in professional carom, unlike in billiards, the cue ball has to hit three cushions during the shot. |
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Using a psychoacoustic technique called binaural cue coding, MP3 Surround captures the spatial image information of multi-channel sound. |
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This is the cue for scores of stragglers who slowly trickle into the ground in small groups and squat on the bare ground. |
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But the next level of integration is bionics, in which the body talks to the machine, actually giving the artificial part its cue to function. |
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A ferrule should be attached to the end of the cue, which the tip attaches to. |
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Not as conscientious as the hirsute man in front of me, I took this as my cue to step out of line. |
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It was rather overdone, and I just stopped the quirk of my eyebrows that would cue him in to the mistake. |
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The eight ball fell into the pocket, followed a second later by the cue ball. |
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She likes large gestures, preferably telegraphed in advance to cue the laugh lines. |
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I gradually slowed my voice as I spoke to subliminally cue her breathing to slow down. |
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This is not your cue to go off on how the Democrats aren't being sufficiently oppositional. |
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The situational, contextual and extrinsic product factors cue the extrinsic experiences in product evaluation. |
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And cue the most incomprehensible stream of gibberish ever to pour forth from a human being's mouth. |
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Her savior of the previous night had missed his cue in the dance, and the story was retold in a different version. |
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He crouched down and took to the table, changing his fingering so that the cue rested between his thumb and first finger. |
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On cue they lifted the gray box and stepped forward as one, sliding the casket into the hearse. |
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Then, as instructed, two beats cue the stomping 60-second Toadies-via-Pixies rip-off. |
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He put a lot of left hand side on the cue ball, sending it round the table. |
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A grid entered into the navigation system can be used to cue and slew aircraft sensors, weapons, and even the helmet-mounted sight. |
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So cue up your mix tape and find the 15 to 20 minutes of material that will goose your party into another gear for the rest of the year. |
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It is certainly telling that Wall Street on Friday was continuing to take its cue from more upbeat news. |
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Well look, discipline is certainly part of the process, and perhaps that's a cue for me to take a move from the news desk over to the lectern. |
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When all of the red balls have cleared from the table, the remaining colored balls are pocketed in ascending order from where the cue and object balls lie. |
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On cue, Patrick Ewing and Larry Johnson sealed the Heat's star off like gates at a railroad crossing. |
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A quick nudge of the cue and the 4 ball was in, center pocket. |
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When the Spanish speakers pick up the pace and the volume, it's an auditory cue to stop reading your newspaper, balancing your checking account or writing your article. |
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Some reviewers gave her flak for relying a bit too heavily on her cue cards in this one, but at least she rocked the bandanna. |
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Every time she talked it sounded like she had to keep looking down at her cue card every five seconds so she'd know what to say, and sometimes it was painful to listen to. |
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Ethanol vapor emanating from palatable fruit may act as an odor cue, guiding bats and other frugivores to the fruit, and aiding them to assess its quality. |
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The prop book was in French because the prop people presumed Calvert would be reading off cue cards. |
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If another ball is touched during the opening shot, the sportsman's cue ball will be penalised and he will lose his turn. |
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Before you decide to take a shot, think about where you want the cue ball for your next shot. |
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Nonetheless, when text is read, the absence of a vowel is a cue to retrieve the semantic context so as to disambiguate opaque words that are ambiguous. |
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How does that retrieval cue come in contact with the target information and redintegrate the target episode, and what information may be lost in recovery? |
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Until the pageant's host, Steve Harvey, realized he had misread the cue card. |
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You lose glasses and keys either because your brain never encoded an event or piece of information or because a cue devised to trigger your memory failed. |
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If you are a doctor or the field interests you, these files seem to me like very useful cue cards. |
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Programs can be set up at a Scancommander and transferred to the Extension via the cue card. |
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The date of inserting a new battery should be noted on the cue card in order to replaced it after 1 year. |
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The five macro buttons A to E right beside the cue card slot offer the possibility to sample different key strokes to one single button. |
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The binding of a chemical cue to an odorant receptor activates G proteins initiating a signal transduction cascade that results in a behavioral response. |
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When he read his cue cards, I wanted to smack him with a brick. |
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In the earlier days, I wanted the music to cue you almost like a curtain. |
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A brief thank-you and a hint of a blush flushes her cheeks, she takes a sip of cold fruity Pimms and listens in for a cue in the conversation she can jump in on. |
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The blast was a stupefying white flash followed by a body-shaking howl, and it was the cue for a maelstrom of metallic shrieks. |
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He missed a fine cut on a red into the yellow pocket, but the cue ball bounced off three cushions and rolled back up the table to nudge the red into the pocket. |
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As the game shifts in tone from the humorous to the dark and back again, this production feels compelled to cue the audience with an almost comic earnestness. |
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Taking our cue from our clients, we eliminate elements that are not germane to the issue, since this could drive up costs. |
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If responder does not have a five card suit nor stoppers in opponent's preempt, he is forced to cue bid spades and your defensive contract becomes uncomfortably high. |
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The ancillary action of the cue ball, when using side spin to compensate for throw, is an entirely different subject that can not be covered here. |
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The Akai sampler works nicely for that kind of cue sequence because it has multiple outputs that are connected to a Crest console that feeds the various zones. |
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Players may use their hands to throw the stone or an extender cue that can be attached to the handle of the stone to push it along the ice. |
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That is, it seems that the event of the cue ball's striking the nine ball, and the fact that the cue ball struck the nine ball, must have comparable effects. |
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He then potted blue in the middle pocket but the cue ball rolled back off the baulk cushion into the opposite middle pocket for a five-point foul. |
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Do we just pretend it's some Aunt Sally of bureaucratic existence, there to be scorned on cue? |
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At his cue, Jeremy sprang onto the stage, ready to recite his lines. |
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If, for example, the driver changes lanes without using the turn signal, a visual cue is displayed and a haptic device in the driver's seat is activated. |
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Every now and then a graceful movement of his left arm through the air preceded his entry into the music, as though he were offering a cue to an imaginary force. |
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Get ready to be impressed by Floriade's flower beds, which depend on a million-plus flowers blooming on cue. |
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He chalks the tip of his cue with methodical twists of the wrist. |
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The Chop Cup fits into a burgundy velveteen bag and there's a second bag to protect the little pool cue. |
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When Tony Womack escaped a full count by singling to center with two outs, I figured Jim Tracy would cue Gagne, but he let Lima press onward against the dangerous Walker. |
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The other two took the cue and adopted similar uncooperative positions. |
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Substitute Gary McSwegan thundered a 20-yard drive off the post before arriving seconds later right on cue in the six-yard box turning a low centre past McKenzie. |
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The end of the half-inning was the cue for my guests to skidoo. |
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She took that as a cue to glide down the stairs and introduce herself. |
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The large, vertical, fibre optic and LED taillights are a distinctive styling cue. |
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Use the mouse to aim your cue, and left-click and hold to choose the power of your shot. |
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But the male regulars at the Met bar in Sale may have to eat their words after coming face to face with woman wielding the fastest cue in Britain. |
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Taking our cue from Boyracer's lengthy discography, we can expect frenetically paced, fuzzed-out pop songs that even your punk rock friend will like. |
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She loved nothing better than to bottom the house after a row with dad, who would take the appearance of mop and duster as his cue to slope off down the pub. |
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The format has a longitudinal control track and a longitudinal audio cue track. |
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Instead of having to cue up a tape and set up the mix I could just listen. |
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If you wish, you may strike spinning shots by selecting the point on the cue ball at which you aim the cue. |
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No matter how contrived the circumstances involved, he alone gets to change, while those around him must settle for dying nobly on cue as Gatling guns chew them to bits. |
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Use the mouse to choose where to aim your cue. Left-click and hold, and drag away from the cue ball to select the power of your shot. |
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Everyone else in the cast takes their cue from and builds off this edge. |
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I took a cue from her and began serving the customers' breakfast. |
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Meanwhile, on the field, Stacy waited for her cue to begin singing. |
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Using too much left English will cause the cue ball to squirt right. |
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In the 1960s and 70s we took our cue from what was happening worldwide. |
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Local TV news can be a vestigial thing, bulwarked by a bewildering assortment of weather forecasters reading from cue cards. |
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The conductor of the symphony orchestra does not control the activity of the players, but they do follow the score and take their cue from the conductor's directions. |
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Dimensions haven't changed much over the years, although most players now favour a three-quarter length cue with a quick release button to allow for the screw-in extension. |
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I can only stop the cue ball and take a chance on the bank shot. |
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This sound cue, which lasts for one-tenth to one-fifth of a second, marks the transition from a consonant sound to a speech segment beginning with a vowel. |
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We already had had disasters with actors losing their cue when their partner skipped a line, or having black outs with no one on stage able to cut in. |
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Production assistants are crossing things off cue cards, and TelePrompTer copy is constantly changing. |
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A player makes a cannon by hitting the object balls with the cue ball. |
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As if this was the cue to begin, all four started to transform. |
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Ben looked down at his cue card and back up at the two guys. |
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As if on cue, the sounds of an ambulance siren pierced the air. |
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The ball is lifted from the ground by means of a cue furnished with an iron ring at one end, and propelled or thrown forward by a simple movement of the arm. |
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The act of the secondary observer writing down an observation when the primary observer has not indicated a detection can serve as a cue to the primary observer. |
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The trend snowballed with many industries taking the cue and entering this market as they found it difficult to revive their industries due to various reasons. |
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That was a cue to get to the bottle-o and buy him a six pack. |
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A handwritten tick appears above the word death, but the report has no number inserted in it, in spite of the obvious cue to enter a number in the specified space. |
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It is routine administrative traffic full of alphanumeric designators that mean little without a cue sheet, a recitation of mileages, case numbers and criminal histories. |
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Introduction of the head-up display marked the first step toward allowing pilots to cue their missiles or guns with an out-of-the-cockpit aiming device. |
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It slides onto your cue, eliminating the need for a separate bridge. |
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She's terrible here, reciting her lines as if she's reading off cue cards and coming across as cold and vacant even when her character's trying to be nice. |
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That was the cue for Paul, who has been criticised at times this season, to take centre stage, and he answered those critics in no uncertain terms. |
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But those of a literary bent were quick to realise the identity of the mystery guest, thoughtfully chalking his cue as he sought to get out of a snooker. |
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You know what I mean, those blue cubes that you use to chalk up your cue when you're playing snooker or pool in an attempt to make it look like you know what you're doing. |
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Pool is supposed to be an easy starting point for cue sports. |
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The ecstatic crowds are groundlings, mere extras, reacting on cue. |
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Right on cue, fish began to show, and the water suddenly came alive. |
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Feeling this error, the rider may use his or her legs to cue the horse to round out his back and slow his pace, but the horse assumes the rider still wants to go faster. |
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They don't even get the intro drum cue right, for Chrissakes! |
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If a player does not strike the cue ball within this time limit, he is considered to have lost. |
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At one stage he went out armed with a snooker cue, but went back inside. |
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Instead, it was the cue for England's forwards to take charge. |
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The usual effects can be heard such as the cue hitting the ball and such. |
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Some players have taken it as the cue to large it, with pegged and draped trousers, full-roll collars and duotoned patent-leather pimptastic shoes. |
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This was the cue for the home team to get their act together and they did. |
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This served as the cue for sections of the media north of the border to lament the fact that a similar progressive outlook did not exist in this country. |
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Just when things bog down, she arrives on cue to perk it up. |
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And then cue the 501 nonprofits, which are also unaccountable and almost totally opaque, as conduits for secret giving. |
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While defeat to the bottom team is a bitter blow, and a cruel disappointment at the end of a four game winning sequence, it is not a cue for despair. |
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Although she looks uncomfortable reading the cue cards, the fact that she emphasizes a balanced diet rather than fads more than excuses her inexperience. |
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It got worse when, attempting to summon a waiter for more wine, I mistakenly outbid everyone in the raffle for a snooker cue signed by innumerable world champions. |
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There are cue makers, and other experts in cue stick behavior, that have very strong opinions about the pros and cons of various cue stick shafts, ferrules and tips. |
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Males in the cavity-nesting house wren frequently add arthropod cocoons to their nests during building, possibly as an ornamental cue for female choice. |
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He then suffered through close to a hundred films on VHS and DVD, using the fast-forward and cue controls as often as possible, to locate said sequences. |
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She delivers her lines like she's reading them off cue cards. |
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And first, Sir Thomas Wroth had his cue to go high, and feel the pulse of the House. |
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The star used cue cards to highlight the lyrics of the song and started a new era in promotional film clips. |
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This would have provided an additional cue to the flight crew that the helicopter was approaching the ground too soon during the descent into the helipad. |
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This was the cue for some corny reminisce. |
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Another helpful use of the cue is to link it to a building's alarm system. |
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The vividness, clarity, and intensity with which a product cue is presented to the consumer determine the likelihood of consumer noticing a particular cue. |
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The key words are written down on cue cards prepared for this purpose. |
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While Waters sang his opening verse, in darkness, Gilmour waited for his cue on top of the wall. |
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I'd cue Peter and he'd do all the radio personalities and chuck in a few voices of his own invention as well. |
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Once the spotting session has been completed and the precise timings of each cue determined, the composer will then work on writing the score. |
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After a transitional period where only the better players would use cues, the cue came to be the first choice of equipment. |
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In Russian pyramid there are sixteen balls, as in pool, but fifteen are white and numbered, and the cue ball is usually red. |
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A cue is usually either a one piece tapered stick or a two piece stick divided in the middle by a joint of metal or phenolic resin. |
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The tip, in conjunction with chalk, can be used to impart spin to the cue ball when it is not hit in its center. |
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A quality cue can be expensive and may be made of exotic woods and other expensive materials which are artfully inlaid in decorative patterns. |
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It consists of a stick with a grooved metal or plastic head which the cue slides on. |
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In Italy a longer, thicker cue is typically available for this kind of tricky shot. |
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In all, players shoot a cue ball so that it makes contact with the opponent's cue ball as well as the object ball. |
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In straight rail, a player scores a point and may continue shooting each time his cue ball makes contact with both other balls. |
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