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So I have this distinction between what we're making people do and the subject that's sort of mainstream and the subject that, in a sense, people might follow with their own interest and perhaps even be spiked into doing that.
Announcer: Threats, in the wake of Bin Laden's death, have spiked.
Bike volumes have spiked.
Males have a spiked, barbed penis that they literally stab into the female, and they don't stab it anywhere near her vagina.
Narrow-edged feet allowed me to climb steep rock fissures, where the human foot cannot penetrate, and spiked feet enabled me to climb vertical ice walls, without ever experiencing muscle leg fatigue.
In fact, some interesting studies have pointed to oxytocin levels, which are a kind of bonding hormone that we release when we're having sex or nursing or around someone that we care for extremely, oxytocin levels raising in both humans and dogs who care about each other or who enjoy each other's company, and beyond that, other studies show that oxytocin raised even in other pairs of animals, so, say, in goats and dogs who were friends and played with each other, their levels spiked afterwards.
Two days after that, he spiked a fever.
And the first question is very simple: Why has the movement of refugees spiked so fast in the last six months?
When you look at when anti-Muslim sentiment spiked between 2001 and 2013, it happened three times, but it wasn't around terrorist attacks.
Nigerian newspapers circulations spiked.
But if during one of those days your temperature spiked to 102 for six hours, and you took Tylenol and got better, etc., I would totally miss it.
Jeremy Bentham, the great utilitarian philosopher, once spiked this argument.
I'd say inside the uncanny Virgin of Nuremberg torture device, because there's a good risk you'll get brutally spiked to death.
And yet, the elderly lady in this film stupidly runs into her spiked coffin.
Overall, we get to see how the punk movement was a reaction to the hippies: whereas the hippies were into being natural, the punks wanted to have themselves as altered as possible, what with spiked hair and all.
I'm sure the punch at some church functions probably was spiked, but I was the one needing a drink after watching this again.
Does this movie actually exist, or was I the unwitting guinea pig of some shadowy international drugs company, sipping my coffee unaware that it had been spiked with a dangerous hallucinogen?
Memorable scenes abound -- the 3 sergeants and their 20 sepoys fighting off hundreds of Thugs; MacChesney & Cutter giving Bobby Coote the spiked punch ("save some for the elephant"); Cutter to MacChesney -- "I'm an expedition"; Din breaking Cutter out of jail, with a fork ("what do you think I'm trying to break out of?
having recently watched the Austrian horror film " in drei tagen bist du tot" (english international title "dead in three days"), which was, as far as I'm concerned, a very decent experiment, I was interested in recent developments inside the Austrian film scene towards making genre flicks; so the prospect of seeing a science fiction film made in Austria instantaneously spiked my curiosity.
If I ever saw a judge break out into a song and dance number, I'd wonder who spiked the single malt scotch.. Know what the real kicker is, we actually sold it.
Too Sweet ends up in prison again because he violently pummels a boxer to death during a boxing match after his drink was spiked with some sort of drug that made him crazy and more violent.
Spiked bracelets and adidas ruled the day.
This would be roughly the equivalent today of a police officer showing up for duty wearing purple spiked hair and a red rubber clown nose.
The two biggest jokes in "Van Wilder" consisted of the seamstress sight gag at the beginning and then the very vulgar prank where a rival fraternity gobble pastries spiked with the seminal fluids of a well-endowed bulldog.
Anyway This movie is spiked with a lot B-Actors who are actually better actors than the average but can't really match up their role.
In Argentina, gradual fiscal adjustment seemed like a plausible strategy until US interest rates spiked and the dollar surged.
Moreover, global risk aversion has spiked in response to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s announcement of plans to “taper” QE.
Time will tell, but a key difference between 2014 and 1979 is that today the Chinese cocktail is spiked with fear.
The American model failed because banks proved to be highly vulnerable to panic once it became clear that sophisticated new financial instruments had formed a haystack spiked with sharp, dangerous, and indigestible losses.
Restrictions on the transshipment of cocaine from South America to the US have made only a dent in street prices, which spiked in 2008 but have stabilized in 2009 at levels well below their historical highs in the 1990’s.
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