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  • a good deal of comfort in the fact as she sold 7-Cs at $22.50 a pair to behemothian damsels who possessed money in proportion to Myra's beauty. Gigolo
  • The recent diminution on the international scene of these three nations means less illustrious sides are no longer gripped with a fear factor when facing what have tended to be considered behemoths of the game.
  • Wilbur, a behemoth boar who can't stand fences - and hasn't met one that could stop him - is spared from the breakfast plate for sentimental reasons.
  • Jim Koch loves to talk about little companies that take on the Big Guys: artisanal-cheese makers who battle importers, the microdistillers who taunt liquor giants — and, most of all, the tiny microbrewer who elbows aside industry behemoths with a full-flavored beer and a well-crafted marketing pitch. Beer Baron
  • One of the ancillary reasons, Hall decided to visit Assam was because he wanted to see if he could find the fabled graveyard of elephants - the final resting place these behemoths head towards when they sense the end was near.
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  • The company's advisers, BNP Paribas and Rothschild, will earn every centime of their fees if they can deliver a successful stock market launch for this lumbering behemoth.
  • When every other industry is seeing a slowdown, cost-cutting and retrenchment, the gaming "behemoths" - Sony Ericsson, Zapak. com and Microsoft Xbox 360 have joined hands. Www.indiantelevision.com
  • Why would a union launch such a propaganda campaign against a behemoth like Bell, based on some bare-faced lie?? Bell Canada spy cams in tech trucks
  • The behemoth of Lothian Road is visibly swinging around to meet the strictures of the stock market.
  • The New York Philharmonic performed on Saturday at the recently opened National Center for the Performing Arts, an ovular-shaped behemoth near Tiananmen Square in Beijing that is the new pride of Chinese culture. New York Philharmonic in Asia: Putting the Egg to the Test - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
  • The door slowly opened and Skye found herself face to face with a behemoth of a creature.
  • Given that the DA will see his chances for re-election dwindle if he/she is perceived to be soft on a multiple felony slam-dunk conviction case against a spoiled, arrogant, crime-committing, room-temperature-IQ behemoth, I suspect the moron in question (e.g., the football player), after considerable wheeling and dealing by his zealous defense attorney -- who is just doing his job, will likely receive felony deferred adjudication from the appropriate court. No Prison for Plaxico?
  • The Hotel Volga, in Kostroma, is another Soviet-style cement behemoth — but it occupies the finest real estate in the city, and has splendid views of the river. The Travel Advisory
  • The name mammoth, which is probably of Tartar origin, Witsen appears to wish to derive from Behemoth, spoken of in the fortieth chapter of the Book of Job. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
  • Standing in the water, working like a tug, I maneuvered these hundred-foot behemoths against the banks and anchored them to the brush with yellow rope while Radish took rides on their backs.
  • Do these actions - pinpricks on the hides of huge corporate behemoths - have any broader meaning?
  • Another surprise is the favorable treatment given to trash removal behemoth Waste Management, Inc. that is portrayed as a company spending major research dollars to make landfills better. Jennifer Schwab: The Business of Water, the Business of Trash
  • This behemoth plane costs $53,000 PER HOUR to operate ... so, for him and his wife to have Valentine's Night dinner in their favorite CHICAGO night spot he spent how much of our TAX DOLLARS whisking himself, his family and STAFF to Chicago? Is Air Force One Becoming Obama's Mission Accomplished Albatross
  • Small, family owned and private companies need to be structured in a different way than huge, multi-product, multi-market, high-tech behemoths.
  • The CAVEMEN FAMILY fashion him a bat cowl from the corpses of the fallen Bat Behemoths. Bruce Wayne Returns in April | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
  • In a platoon of hard-nosed execs, few have a snout quite as strong as Irish budget carrier Ryanair's Chief Executive Michael O'Leary: a harrier of behemoth flagship airlines, a browbeater of trade unions, a bugbear of the European Union and an unhesitant user of the "f" word--and we don't mean "flying. U.K. Faces Of The Week, May 15-19, 2006
  • A behemoth called Dead Reckoning, a 70 ft long armoured truck provides cover and support for the looters.
  • It seemed as if the giant insurance behemoth had bestirred itself to face competition in a liberalised environment.
  • A harrier of behemoth flagship airlines, a browbeater of trade unions, a bugbear of the European Union and an unhesitant user of the "f" word--and we don't mean "flying. Ryanair's O'Leary Offers England's Soccer Enemy A Bone
  • The breathing space lasted barely a breath: now another soulless behemoth of a hotel is being assembled, consuming the space, chewing out the sky. The absence of architecture « Squares of Wheat
  • The same goes for protection of the individual's right to clean environment, which is being constantly polluted by the ever-expanding industrial behemoths.
  • They shook, and Simms sat back and looked past Latovsky at the behemoth of a house about five acres away. DOLL'S EYES
  • And if he wins, he allows the free market to energize and renew a huge creaky behemoth.
  • When Ting returns to the fight club, he's obliged to defend the honour of Thai womanhood from a shaggy Australian behemoth.
  • The monstrous behemoth of white had come out of nowhere as well, throwing Josh off track.
  • While the off-grid market is small relative to the on-grid energy behemoth, it is of sufficient size and depth to justify strong competition, private investment and product development—without subsidy. Let the Market Pay for Renewable Energy
  • Well, both Leviathan and Behemoth, the mythic and legendary giant creatures of the sea and the land respectively, are kosher.
  • The entertainment behemoth has said it would wait until shareholders in both companies approve the acquisition at separate meetings Thursday.
  • The only animals I've been interacting with lately are behemoths who tackle each other over pigskin.
  • Just the addition of this no-nonsense straightaway runner, should ignite the running game behind an improved behemoth offensive line.
  • Today's and tomorrow's business behemoths succeed not because they are strategy experts, but because they inspire, empathise and, most importantly, can adapt skills we are unlikely to have learnt in the classroom.
  • Small, independent broadcasters cannot possibly compete with media behemoths controlling 40 percent or more of the market share in any given city.
  • Any book on any subject risks irrelevance or smallness compared to this behemoth.
  • Though Acey has done some writing for the comic strip, most of his work involves either products or publishing, since Garfield has become a merchandising behemoth.
  • Any winged aircraft, from the smallest Cessna prop puppy to the biggest Boeing behemoth, was a romantic artifact, a swoozy sculpture, a sailing thing of irresistible appeal; but a helicopter ... a helicopter was like a funky old shoetree that a witch had caused to levitate. Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
  • I am afraid of becoming crushed, but the giant behemoths recognize my presence and leave a place for me to wheel through to get to the disappearing form of my lady.
  • This, he thinks, can be done by boosting whale-watching tours in the Lower St. Lawrence, which, if done properly, is both a good cash source for the region and a respectful way of looking at marine behemoths in their natural habitat.
  • The restaurant's polish and flair are reflected in "Eleven Madison Park: The Cookbook," a sleek white behemoth with a silver-gray typeface and luscious photographs by Francesco Tonelli. Modernism on a Fork
  • The potential for delivering music via the Web is huge, so it's no wonder these two behemoths would scrap over it.
  • It was a huge tanker, and lying still in the dark harbor, it resembled a giant behemoth ready to pounce. A KNIFE BETWEEN THE RIBS
  • Many people know about my distaste for “creative” sushi – an overly muscular behemoth of rice bristling with decidedly non-Japanese sushi ingredients like steak, cream cheese, tomatoes, and jalapenos with names like Crunchy Cowboy, Godzilla, and Firecracker Fantasy that sound more appropriate for an aquarian battle of American Gladiators than a sushi menu. Asian Fusion is So Last Decade - Christina's Potato Salad
  • On their barrels the crews have nicknamed their armoured behemoths.
  • In the land of the giants, only the biggest behemoths rule.
  • Poland has a healthy collection of death metal bands, including Vader and Behemoth.
  • As the opening bells of "Barry Horowitz" rang, the 320-pound, ginger-bearded behemoth patted himself on the back before launching off the proverbial turnbuckle onto wack emcees. Jerell Tongson: Grand Opening, Grand Closing: Action Bronson and Mr. M-fin' eXquire Shut Down Southpaw
  • The entertainment behemoth has said it would wait until shareholders in both companies approve the acquisition at separate meetings Thursday.
  • Or a town vacated as some stomping behemoth appeared on the horizon? THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
  • You mean the huge corporate behemoths have been lying to us?
  • There are huge economies of scale in building and maintaining these behemoths.
  • Her beauty was now marred by an expression of anger and disgust with which she regarded a behemothian man who was propped up in the middle of her bed. Madeleine: An Autobiography
  • The mountains themselves appeared the spiny backbones or monstrous prehistoric behemoths that were buried in thousands of layers of earth, and trying in vain to free themselves.
  • In early illustrations, dinosaurs were often portrayed as lumbering, upright, tail-dragging behemoths.
  • The behemoth's neck was too stout and muscle-bound, though, for his choke-hold to be effectual.
  • This hesitancy only perpetuates the problem: The longer authorities delay the process, the more engrained behemoth financial institutions become; the more engrained they become, the less extricable they are. Richard Fisher, Top Fed Official: Too Big To Fail Lives On, Only Way Out Is To Shrink Megabanks
  • Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac , America's government - backed mortgage behemoths, will fill part of that hole.
  • They shook, and Simms sat back and looked past Latovsky at the behemoth of a house about five acres away. DOLL'S EYES
  • After a string of acquisitions, for example, U.K. behemoth Vodafone Group now is in divestment mode. HEARD ON THE STREET: VimpelCom Bets Bigger Is Still Better
  • Everyone was laughing at my pale skinny bones compared to this behemoth of a man beside me who was, by now, doing one-armed press-ups whilst still singing ‘I'm too sexy for my hat!’
  • Citigroup remains too "interwoven" to fail even after the government has plowed billions into rescuing the banking titan and Congress has passed laws taking aim at financial behemoths, Citi Chairman Richard Parsons told CNBC. Richard Parsons, Citigroup Chairman: Bank Is 'Too Interwoven' To Fail
  • Filmed from above and below the water's surface, the behemoth station sits immersed like a sunken ship, shrouded in water and silence.
  • In the current debate, the big composites are being called, variously, "behemoths" or "universal" banks, depending on which side of the argument you are on. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • And in the late 1660s he wrote a history of the civil wars, Behemoth; or, The Long Parliament, which was published posthumously (Hobbes 1668a). Thomas Hobbes
  • Contrast that with Big East behemoth U-Conn, embroiled in recruiting controversies. Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories
  • In what may be the ultimate feat of subtlety and indirection, they want to control the behemoth by appealing to its conscience.
  • The main criticism is the Amazon behemoth DRM (Digital Rights Management) issue, where the formats are locked and incompatible with other devices. International Kindle: A Review From A Biblioholic Stuck In a Land of Expensive Print Books | The Creative Penn
  • Ultimate Fighting reached further, putting muscular behemoths in brutal contests, and fizzled.
  • But most of the bloated, overmighty behemoth will stay intact. The Sun
  • Whatever longevity can be wrung from a movie by releasing it to smaller, more forgiving screens is cut short by the living-room behemoths that are being pushed on us today. November 2006
  • The GE-Honeywell deal would result in an aerospace behemoth that offers airline customers jet engines, avionics, and financing in one bundle.
  • While the sporangia produces spores that are highly resistant to heat and can grow into whole new organisms, Buffett has equally displayed near invincibility to the heat of market forces and Wall Street opinions, and for almost four decades cultivated his investment vehicle Berkshire Hathaway into a behemoth of multi-billion dollar holdings. Investors Flock To Hear Buffett At Annual Meeting
  • Shelby also doesn't reveal that many of the cars those manufacturers make in Alabama, without unions, are precisely the kind of behemoths critics attack Detroit for making -- only these have foreign nameplates: M-Class SUV, GL-Class SUV (a new model), Pilot SUV, Santa Fe SUV, plus engines for Tacoma and Tundra pick-ups and Sequoia SUVs. Hullabaloo
  • She can't stay with my Mom because my Mom has this behemoth of a cat that doesn't cotton to other felines in the vicinity.
  • The entertainment behemoth has said it would wait until shareholders in both companies approve the acquisition at separate meetings Thursday.
  • Some of this was routinised homage to the wounded global behemoth, or fantasised identification with a life not being led by oneself, but some of it was not.
  • Remember that the American carmaker responded to the threat of smaller, cheaper, better, more economical foreign cars in the 1970s by taking a long, hard look at its fleet of behemoths, nodding sagely, and then adding spiffier "landau roofs. Gene and the Machine: The shocking truth about the electric Volt
  • The Stratek tower rises a full hundred and twelve storeys above this city, a glass behemoth with a broad base that gradually steepens towards the top.
  • The buildings are massive socialist behemoths hard to heat and in disrepair.
  • The driver guns it and launches the behemoth into the air like a flying elephant, whereupon it crashes back down on the wrecked cars.
  • HUNTER: The latest edition of the reality behemoth "Survivor" aired Thursday in a new, postattack climate. CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2001
  • When Microsoft reached its apex in terms of public perception and industry respect, with the launch of Windows 95, the culture inside the company still largely saw themselves as upstarts against old, proprietary behemoths. Google's Microsoft Moment - Anil Dash
  • Safdie also designed the headquarters of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a fortresslike behemoth with a distinctive curving arcade, near the corner of New York and Florida avenues in Northeast. The architecture of the U.S. Institute of Peace on the mall
  • One of the new weapons is a $2.5 million behemoth: the M-1 tank.
  • The behemoth gulped the last of its meal, belched foul air and turned in search of the next. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
  • But while Gunter lacked symmetry and fullness (as most tall bodybuilders do), it's those qualities that set Alex apart from other behemoths.
  • As punk exposed the shortcomings of the behemoths of rock, so rap tore up the rulebooks of pop.
  • A huge behemoth stumped through the side of the house, carefully splashing a thin, clear watery substance from a large can onto the house.
  • And then there's the considerable amount of office politics associated with the beverage behemoth.
  • But today's ships are often such behemoth megaliners with such effective stabilizers that veteran cruisers are crestfallen to find they no longer are rocked to sleep by the gentle motion of the ocean.
  • Cynics paint such corporate behemoths as bloodsuckers, but I have seen how they can transform the lives of their employees.
  • Is it possible that such attacks were motivated by the belief that American corporate behemoths were colonizing web space initially designed for free flows of information, not business retailing?
  • Standing on opposite sides of Lafayette Square, the New Executive Office Building and the National Courts Building are overscaled brick behemoths, with elongated rectangular windows and a timid effort at ornamentation along their cornice lines. Architecture: Comparing Paul Philippe Cret and John Carl Warnecke
  • In June 2001, the International Labor Rights Fund filed a lawsuit on behalf of 11 villagers against the American oil behemoth, ExxonMobile, for "abetting" abuses in Aceh, Indonesia. The Business of Torture
  • Gravely he lifted a behemothian paw, and gravely the young man shook it. Queed
  • We are also able to attract high-quality people because we are different organisations from the behemoths.
  • David was still on the ground, but had managed to get around to the behemoth's giant tail.
  • Ultimate Fighting reached further, putting muscular behemoths in brutal contests, and fizzled.
  • But what happens to these odorous, spring-laden behemoths?
  • The soldier grinned and latched his wrists to the enormous death behemoth.
  • Inside, strips had been ripped from the cloth upholstery, exposing pitted, begrimed padding, and the dashboard sagged as if some behemoth had used it as a chair unable to support its weight completely, yet the windshield, though filthy, remained intact. Styx Freeway (A Dream)
  • After the federal government committed $85 billion to bail out the insurance behemoth, AIG, its executives headed for a weeklong retreat at a luxury resort and spa, paying nearly half a million taxpayer-supplied dollars for a week of rubdowns and daiquiris. Eric Alterman: Think Again: Wall Street Wins (and Whines)
  • It was a huge tanker, and lying still in the dark harbor, it resembled a giant behemoth ready to pounce. A KNIFE BETWEEN THE RIBS
  • These behemoths are beaching themselves and dying at a record pace around the world and the best marine specialists cannot tell us why! Godzilla Stock | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
  • Reuters If the deal had gone ahead, Sprint would have been a distant No. 3 battling two behemoths. Sprint Remains in Wireless Race
  • Mergers are leading to behemoths with ever-increasing power.
  • Some are behemoths in the truest sense of the word, massive as oil tankers, others, small knock-kneed and timorous and as prone to panic attacks as barking deer.
  • At one point, these huge behemoths were filled to the brim with foodstuffs, but now considered a safe haven for those unfortunate not to have a home to call upon.
  • Harder depicts the whale as a fearsome monster, a silent behemoth that rules the seas.
  • Most farms today, especially large meat and dairy farms, are corporate behemoths with tractors the size of luxury yachts, and with their soil and animals enhanced by genetics and bioengineering.
  • It was formed millions of years ago when India slowly crashed into Asia, giving rise to the Himalaya mountains and other rocky behemoths that form Tibet's borders on three sides.
  • For example, in a 1,000-acre potato farm, aerospace behemoth Lockheed Martin can place meteorological stations that measure 13 different weather parameters every 15 minutes and telemeter the data to a computer base station.
  • Down the street came a girl and a dog, rather a small girl and quite a behemothian dog. Queed
  • The behemoth gulped the last of its meal, belched foul air and turned in search of the next. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
  • We stayed well to the right of the channel, but still, whenever one of these behemoths plowed past, two minutes later a three-foot wave would hurl us sideways.
  • Most big cities have one or two old monsters, but New York still has dozens, and the scale of these behemoths is all the more impressive when you consider that they were built nearly one hundred years ago.
  • I’m now having trouble setting up a GAfYD email address as an alternative email on my PayPal account – whether it’s PayPal or Google that’s at fault I’m not sure as trying to get an answer out of either of these behemoths is not the easiest thing in the world (unlike the Zoho folks who are most helpful and approachable). Google Docs ties with your domain « Squash
  • Even from this distance and locked into the shipyard and tethered by an umbilical power cable the ship was magnificent, a behemoth that looked like it could take on a fleet and in fact it could take on a small fleet.
  • They are inefficient, gas-guzzling, polluting behemoths.
  • An enormous energy-spewing behemoth from below emerged from the caverns, and ran amok into the midst of the battle.
  • Even the biggest unions lack the resources for tackling such behemoths or for organizing whole industries on the scale needed for very fast growth.
  • Needless to say Mandrake's deferential, diplomatic I-say-old-chap twittering completely fails to sway Ripper or stop the megadeath-dealing behemoth he has set in motion. Tony Hendra: That Special Blair Bush Relationship; Shades of Doctor Strangelove.
  • He landed on the back of the behemoth as a monster of equal size.
  • It is important to remember that the Toronto International Film Festival started out as a very small event in 1976, and only over the years has it grown to become the hoity-toity film industry behemoth that it is.
  • Then, with a thunderous roar that spread across the entire mountain, the rocky behemoth tore apart.
  • Horses are huge, haunch heavy behemoths, built for speed and damn near poetry in motion.
  • As I did in Part One, I will continue using the Behemoth Retail Company, a fictional organization for which we're developing a data warehouse via true-to-life scenarios.
  • And the behemoths contain tremendous amounts of oil and baleen, once commercially lucrative products.
  • Do not get me wrong: I long for the day when a free and independent Britain shrugs off the thrall of the 1950s Socialist Behemoth that the EU represents and resumes control of its own destiny once more. Fight Upon The Best Ground
  • In an almost-literal sense, they anti-trust American consumers to turn down bland crap from entitled behemoths, and instead create marvelous, idiosyncratic workarounds to industry mediocrity and idiotic government restrictions. Reason Magazine
  • Seigi's first blow bounced off the monster's big jawbone, doing nothing to phase the behemoth.
  • In the middle of it all stood a giant fighting with three other only slightly smaller behemoths.
  • Or a town vacated as some stomping behemoth appeared on the horizon? THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
  • The Hotel Sliven was a Communist-era behemoth that I wouldn't recommend to anyone expecting top-shelf service and quality.
  • But shoppers are now more loyal to their local shops than to faceless behemoths like Philip Morris.
  • If multimillion dollar companies like Rubbermaid and Vlasic can be brought to their knees by the retail behemoth, how should we expect small farmers to fare? Anthony Flaccavento: Walmart and the End of the Local Food Movement
  • After that the behemoths roam farther and farther from the mountains, and the people come out to hunt.
  • a shade more behemothian, the thing would have approached a parody on one's settled idea of a girl and a dog. Queed
  • A memorable part of his retinue is a fast-talking black cat called Behemoth, named after one of the Old Testament monsters. The 10 best devils
  • It's interesting just to list the predecessor organizations included in a few European-owned behemoths.
  • Sir Stuart Wheeler is well-known as a doughty fighter against the great behemoth that is the EU and, in particular, the continued membership of the UK of that deeply corrupt entity. Promises, Promises
  • A huge rock behemoth, large grey boulders formed its head and feet.
  • There are some good pictures there, and they vary in scale between small A4 sized prints to huge behemoths that only just fit on the wall.
  • It is also a good way to obscure a behemoth like the Colossus that overlooks your patio from your neighbor's yard.
  • A top Federal Reserve official blasted the Senate's financial reform bill Thursday night, arguing that it does little to end the perception that megabanks are too big to fail while lambasting the regulators and policymakers who "tiptoe" around financial behemoths and who have fostered the growth of "indestructible" large banks. Richard Fisher, Top Fed Official: Too Big To Fail Lives On, Only Way Out Is To Shrink Megabanks

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