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So take a look here, and see how Bruce Lee takes his one inch punch and much more....
It's hard to believe Roberta Findlay would make a movie without nudity, but there was not an inch of skin on the Rhino DVD, though there were scenes where I would have expected skin.
I have found an unnatural ability to quote every inch of this saga.
An okay shoot, the story fails early on urging the thumb to inch toward the fast-forward button.
They are determined to kill the Graf Spee, even though they only have 6-inch and 8- inch guns.
This lame movie is strictly Hollywood formula, and tries to ride on SE7ENs success, but without coming within an inch of that movies style and sophistication.
The movie will put the viewers at the last inch of their seat.
All of this after a totally unbelievable scene where she is rescued by him after he comes out of nowhere to overpower an armed and dangerous killer who was about to blow her away...I didn't believe it any more than I believed her manhandling several 6 foot 2 inch 200 lb thugs throwing them against the car and handcuffing them like they were match sticks.
Cinema- well it's actually a black room with 11 seats, 2 speakers and a 60 inch screen, and a small café outside of it.
As a junior officer accompanying him to commercial events, I was often privy to his comments about some of his Washington interlocutors: “a mile wide and an inch deep,” was how he described a very senior member of the Carter administration at the time.
During his country’s accession negotiations with the World Trade Organization in December 2001, a former Chinese commerce minister (who is now in prison for corruption) used to tell me and other negotiators that, “If you respect us by an inch, we’ll respect you by a mile.”
But judging by reports from the US and European business leaders, the opposite seems to be true: we have given China a mile, and gotten an inch in return.
According to Central Military Commission member Sun Sijing, Zheng used the ancient Silk Road without seizing “one inch of land" or seeking “maritime hegemony" (though history attests to his use of military force – for example, executing local rulers – to control maritime chokepoints).
Throughout the long years of this bloody tragedy, we have tried to inch our way to a settlement through confidence-building measures or, in the case of the long dead “Road Map,” through pushing both parties to take parallel steps towards an agreement.
Mostly, I remember the hundreds of black and white mug shots of prisoners and victims that covered every inch of the walls – a ghastly montage of human suffering that haunts me to this day.
Not an inch.
The mapping movement’s growing momentum promises to result in the accurate and comprehensive representation of almost every inch of the world, including road data, photos, and business listings.
Sea levels will rise about one millimeter (one-twentieth of an inch) less.
Only a few years ago, Iran’s government seemed sufficiently in awe of the US to inch toward an agreement on its nuclear program that would have interrupted, and perhaps even halted, its enrichment activities.
According to the best-known climate-economic model, this vast undertaking would likely wind up reducing global temperatures by just one-tenth of one degree centigrade (one-fifth of one degree Fahrenheit), while holding back sea-level rises by only one centimeter (less than half an inch).
Recognizing that there is no mechanism to enforce the PCA’s ruling, China does not intend to give even an inch on its claims to everything that falls within its unilaterally drawn “nine-dash line.”
Bridging the Infrastructure GapSAINT PETERSBURG, RUSSIA – Every day, millions of people across the developed and developing world inch through gridlock or squeeze into packed subway cars to get to and from work.
President Bashar al-Assad, with his narrow Alawite base, has overseen a brutal dictatorship for years – one that has never given an inch to those demanding democratic reform, nor made any room in the country’s polity for those motivated by a less sectarian conception of government.
Since 1992, we have had satellites measuring the rise in global sea levels, and they have shown a stable increase of 3.2 millimeters per year (1/8 of an inch) – spot on compared to the IPCC projection.
(Over the same period, the average height of Americans increased by only one inch, or 2.5 centimeters.)
Today, not a single inch of Latin American borders is seriously disputed.
On the other hand, the platform repeats Hamas’s refusal to relinquish even an inch of historic Palestine.
The same New York Times that had been in high dudgeon about the president from the moment he came to power now devoted almost every column inch to the steadfastness of the commander-in-chief, who had acted to teach the world (meaning China, Russia, and North Korea) a fine lesson.
One news article reported the study and FDA alert with this headline, “Are children dying for an inch or two?” – language guaranteed to terrify the tens of thousands of patients (and the innumerable body-builders and athletes who use the drug off-label) who have taken the hormone over the past 26 years.
This time France stood firm, with Prime Minister Manuel Valls saying that to retreat one inch would be to hand victory to the militants.
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