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Now, moments after this image was shot, Harwood struck Tomlinson with a baton, and he pushed him to ground, and Tomlinson died moments later.
Here the riot officer appears to strike Tomlinson's leg area with a baton.
But for my father, the emotional and artistic importance of De Sica's vision was so great that he chose to celebrate his half-century with his three teenage children and 30 of their friends, "In order," he said, "to pass the baton of concern and hope on to the next generation."
Those who carry the baton are slower, but their baton is faster.
If you say 97, after 97 meters, people will drop the baton, whether there is someone to take it or not.
So in the relay race, since passing the baton is so important, then we need somebody clearly accountable for passing the baton.
So between each runner, now we will have a new dedicated athlete, clearly dedicated to taking the baton from one runner, and passing it to the next runner.
Look, to pass the baton, you have to do it at the right time, in the right hand, at the right speed.
You have to shout early enough to the next runner when you will pass the baton, to signal that you are arriving, so that the next runner can prepare, can anticipate.
But when the next runner runs super-fast, is it because she made a super effort, or because of the way the third runner passed the baton?
And the baton will fall and slow down.
How did you pass the baton?
And after doing this for a long time, and the Media Lab passing the baton on, I thought, "Well, maybe it's time for me to do a project.
A big stick, a baton stick.
And then they talk, and then we pass the baton back and forth between each other.
You can see the baton left his hand.
As the senior officer approaches with a baton, Leymah stands up with deliberation, reaches her arms up over her head, and begins, very slowly, to untie her headdress that covers her hair.
There was to be one more original cast Trek movie before the baton was passed to the 'next generation,' and it was far better suited to the task than 'Star Trek V: The Final Frontier.'
She had already been a guest performer on other variety shows including Garry Moore, Ed Sullivan, and scored a major coup in a one-time only tandem appearance with the woman who would pass her the baton of belter extraordinary: Judy Garland.
A 100-year-old baton, which is the symbol of power I mentioned before, changes hands several times before things settle down.
The novel which earned Ms. Buck the Nobel Prize for literature comes alive under the baton of Sydney Franklin which along with an excellent script recounts the story of peasant farmer, Wang Lung, whose father obtains a bride for him, a slave girl from the kitchen of a local landlord.
Shame to the west, whose taste is ignorant to all above, unbearably fake ingredients, cheesy pathos of music - final signature of the Imamura's baton.
VV Chopra takes on the director's baton after 7 years and unleashes a treat for your senses... your visual senses in particular.
As the baton of excessive liquidity injections is passed from one central bank to another, the dangers of global asset bubbles and competitive currency devaluations intensify.
So, in four years, Cristina, may feel the same way, and pass the baton back to Néstor, who in turn will retire in four years to avoid becoming a “lame duck,” and so on.
As a result, the NTC and the cabinet that it appointed, known as the executive committee, merely want to pass the baton of authority.
Nonetheless, with the crisis now becoming systemic, the ECB must take up the fiscal-transfer baton that eurozone leaders have so unceremoniously fumbled.
Eight years later, it is time to pass the baton.
These leaders – to whom the CCP is about to pass the baton at its 18th congress, scheduled for November 8 – reportedly not only read Tocqueville’s diagnosis of social conditions on the eve of the French Revolution, but also recommended it to their friends.
The current generation, a gifted group of policymakers, will step down in or around March 2018, passing the baton to a new generation.