| Last week, our ambition to compete in the global race was airily dismissed as a race to the bottom, that it means competing with China on sweatshops and India on low wages. |
| Last time we met he was in spectacular sore head mode, grouching at a line of questioning he didn't like and being airily evasive if he felt we were getting too deep. |
| Then another youth approached, and received more 256 airily a silver token, with the same blue ribbon and songful welcome. |
| While most continental astronomers were airily dismissive of Herschel's choice, this letter shows Piazzi trying to reason with Herschel. |
| The outer layer is equipped with thousands of openings, whereas the fabric in the middle is very widely and airily interwoven. |
| Sometimes the European Council rather airily asks ministers concerned to deal with that issue and then move on to more rarefied subjects. |
