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  • This seems more honest to me than jettisoning the stuff far out to space where who knows what damage it might do in the faroff reaches of the sky.
  • The crew jettisoned excess fuel and made an emergency landing.
  • A television camera aboard Discovery's giant external fuel tank provided never-before-seen images of the shuttle jettisoning the tank and moving away.
  • Jettison the jetpack and fold up the flying car. Times, Sunday Times
  • Opponents then charged that the east coast institution was jettisoning part of the city's cultural legacy.
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  • Those who want to simply jettison him go too far.
  • No philosopher would jettison Plato just because it's old fashioned, nor would anyone mock the old fogy Whitman.
  • The antenna and its filament mesh stretched nearly one hundred yards and could be jettisoned by verbal command. DALE BROWN'S DREAMLAND (5) STRIKE ZONE
  • I entered autorotation, jettisoned the external load and landed the aircraft.
  • Vomiting and stomach eversion also jettison parasites and excess mucus. The Scientist
  • On Christmas day, Cassini will jettison the Huygens probe, severing the electronic umbilical link.
  • He's aware that his next film is about to jettison him into previously uncharted territory: global stardom. Times, Sunday Times
  • It jettisons the Femme Fatale, and recasts the role as a vulnerable, damaged, perpetually on-edge woman who is never in control.
  • Most urgently Carver asked Lish to “jettison” the story now called “Mr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit” because it had already been in TriQuarterly and was already slated for the next O. Raymond Carver
  • The chute is deployed when a mechanism in the plane's aft bulkhead door jettisons the plane's tailcone. Report: Secret Service off hook in 2008 Obama plane mishaps
  • His wilful jettisoning of anything approaching drama in the last act, though, scuppers the whole production.
  • Once empty the external tank is jettisoned and will bum up in the atmosphere.
  • I think how you do that is this: jettison the idea of meaning. Times, Sunday Times
  • One thing I regret: the jettisoning of the original signature tune.
  • The first-stage vehicle is used to launch the rocket and is then jettisoned in the upper atmosphere.
  • I'm not expecting my corner bodeguero to jettison the Haagen Dazs and HoHos, but if more people can afford to pay him for some tomatoes, avocadoes and greens -- and actually cook real food from what he offers -- it stands to reason I've got a better chance of seeing it. Tracie McMillan: If You Give the Poor Fresh Vegetables, Will They Eat Them?
  • After completing their rendezvous, Stafford and Cernan discovered that the ATDA’s shroud had not jettisoned. First Man
  • Often the vital highest or lowest frequencies are jettisoned too. Times, Sunday Times
  • Machinery of power makes inherent vice confess mistakes once etherized upon the gurneys, when jettisoned by their attorneys and ridiculed by them, and spurned despite the money they have earned, as money-driven as the clients, with whom they'd had their vice alliance. Gershon Hepner: inherent Vice
  • Joining the Giants helped resurrect Collins' career, but Wheatley's didn't take off until the Giants jettisoned him.
  • This is the sort of bravado often uttered by managerial sidekicks, usually only to be jettisoned the moment they graduate to being their own men.
  • Most urgently Carver asked Lish to “jettison” the story now called “Mr. Coffee and Mr. Fixit” because it had already been in TriQuarterly and was already slated for the next O. Raymond Carver
  • The interminable jazz improvisations have been jettisoned.
  • He jettisoned his parachute but died after his reserve chute failed to open in time.
  • One is you can jettison the fuel if the airplane has a jettison system.
  • Need we forfeit "jettison" just because we have "throw overboard"? Exploring language (6th edn)
  • On the safety concern I believe nowadays the outer skin can be made of materials able to withstand the impact of birds etc without being too heavy, compartimentalisation helps too, to keep toying with ideas I reckon one of the nacelles could be jettisonable and have a big fat parachute. Wired Top Stories
  • I then jettisoned the weight belt and removed my tank.
  • The time has come fort this nonsense to be jettisoned completely.
  • Beginning just after the aeroshell is jettisoned at an altitude of about 5 miles, MARDI will acquire a series of wide-angle, color images of the landing site all the way down to the surface. NASA Watch: July 2007 Archives
  • Each one of us, myself included, began to jettison unnecessary baggage.
  • The party has now jettisoned its traditional ideological baggage.
  • Kehl was a special teamer before being jettisoned early in 2010. Grading Drafts of Years Past
  • These small torpedoes were, of course, neither waterlogged double coronas jettisoned by a listing Cuban freighter nor a species of blind Amazon trout but, rather, a sampling of the ocherous projectiles fired into the river night and day from the fundaments of Pucallpa. Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
  • His lyrics became more obscure; coherent narrative was jettisoned in favour of a procession of bizarre and cryptic happenings.
  • The Senate primary had not yet heated up when Crist turned to his former chief of staff and campaign manager to finish the Senate term jettisoned by Mel Martinez, who resigned in September to spend more time with his family. StAugustine.com
  • When set in motion, it effectively jettisons its unbelted riders - a family of padded dummies - out its windows.
  • She will have to fire teachers, jettison principals, displease parents. DeMorning DeBonis: Jan. 21, 2011
  • The second step was to jettison arguments that rested on shaky evidence.
  • The aircraft can carry two jettisonable fuel tanks each with a capacity of 1,136 liters on the underwing pylons.
  • I wonder if Barack Obama has a backup plan - a "jettison" option, if you will - on any references he may make to "global warming" during his inaugural speech - just in case wind chills are hovering around zero on January 20th. Latest Articles
  • We need to jettison our rose-tinted spectacles and realise that a nation of housewives were often bored, repressed and chronically depressed. Times, Sunday Times
  • He has jettisoned hyperrealism in favor of a distinctly blurred image.
  • The careful historian soon learns that juicy stories often have to be jettisoned when sources prove unreliable. Times, Sunday Times
  • Water bottles are jettisoned on to the bank, rigger nuts squeezed to check they won't rattle (I have a small spanner in case there's a problem).
  • 'unseen hand' was at work to 'jettison' the truth in the sensational case. Latest News Online - Express Indian
  • The actinopterygians quickly jettisoned their ganoid scales and thus dispensed with the need for most endochondral bone.
  • The crew jettisoned excess fuel and made an emergency landing.
  • He thought of Shackleton who, when forced to lighten his load on the ice floes, would not jettison his banjo.
  • Two orange, glowing objects were jettisoned out of the Echo and sailed toward the ship's engine.
  • Even though I have pretty much jettisoned many of Black's conclusions, his call for what he refers to as the ludic lifestyle remains refreshing. The One-Book Meme
  • Ackroyd may have jettisoned traditional Catholicism, but in his work humans are spiritual beings with souls that survive death and time.
  • Yet Isiah jettisoned him out of New York to Phoenix, which has placed him back on the injured list after three unimpressive games.
  • It was not examined seriously at West Point or the Army War College, and the U.S. military jettisoned just about anything to do with counterinsurgency—all those counterguerrilla, “little-war” tactics and doctrines so romantically invoked during the Kennedy years. Magic and Mayhem
  • Shortly afterwards the boyfriend was jettisoned. Times, Sunday Times
  • He boldly advanced the truth that believers should live by the Word of God and jettison popish superstitions.
  • The scheme was jettisoned when the government found it too costly.
  • FROM MTV. COM: Well before a rebooted "Spider-Man" hits theaters in 2012, we'll get a chance to meet a brand-new Peter Parker †some lucky actor plucked to replace Tobey Maguire now that the 34-year-old and director Sam Raimi have been jettisoned from the franchise. Vintage ‘Spider-Man’ Interviews With Tobey Maguire And Kirsten Dunst » MTV Movies Blog
  • For some unexplained reason the pilot jettisoned all his fuel shortly after take-off.
  • The modernist belief that modern art should repudiate the past has been jettisoned.
  • The first-stage vehicle is used to launch the rocket and is then jettisoned in the upper atmosphere.
  • The crew jettisoned excess fuel and made an emergency landing.
  • The crew considered jettisoning the fuel bladders to regain control of the aircraft.
  • Inbound to Amberley the external drop tanks were jettisoned to reduce the overall weight for what became an uneventful landing.
  • The post-war years were optimistic and innovative times, a time to jettison received ideas. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
  • At various points in my life I have amassed and then jettisoned quantities of antique egg beaters, old buttons and - here's the embarrassing one - pictures of unicorns.
  • When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, a new leadership hastily jettisoned the Party's name, and soon began to repudiate most of its past.
  • This is always an issue for the scrupulous scholar - what to enlarge upon, what to jettison - but this is the only equivocation about this impressive book, written with both passion and clarity.
  • When the time came to jettison the launch escape tower and the boost cover the charges would fire, breaking the bolts.
  • The station has jettisoned educational broadcasts.
  • The United States says it has catalogued more than 15,000 items such as jettisoned rockets, shuttle detritus, and bits of destroyed satellites floating in space. FOXNews.com
  • You jettison dead-end ideas to make room for smarter, less conventional ones. The Sun
  • The upper stage is jettisoned after the translunar injection burn, leaving the Soyuz and logistics module to complete the six-day round-trip mission.
  • The return of Andy Reid, who delighted the Trent End during dark days under Joe Kinnear, gives McClaren an old-fashioned playmaker with a sublime range of passing but sadly Forest jettisoned the ideal striker to exploit Reid's creative gifts, Norwich's prolific Grant Holt, in a wanton act of miserliness three years ago. Championship: McClaren and Eriksson lead the upwardly mobile set | Rob Bagchi
  • The furniture and fittings were built in the basement, and they jettisoned fripperies. Times, Sunday Times
  • The first-stage vehicle is used to launch the rocket and is then jettisoned in the upper atmosphere.
  • The repertoire of piano quartets and quintets is not a huge one, so good ones should not be jettisoned.
  • He's already been in cell 118 for five hours and I decide, no matter what, I'm going to not have the same look on my face when I'm jettisoned.
  • SM protected by jettisonable spacecraft adapter & staging conditions optimized. Shuttle Shutdown Coming - NASA Watch
  • There's a thesis to be written about why this pro-celeb contest has come to be known only as "Strictly", with the "Come Dancing" element jettisoned. The Guardian World News
  • Knowing as we do how lucrative being an MP can be, even if it means having to jettison any personal honour one may have, it is unsurprising that ‘LibDem’ MPs with wafer thin majorities should be having a fit of the vapours at the thought of being confronted by something truly democratic (Let the People Have Their Say!) as opposed to their ersatz version of democracy (‘Do as you are told!’). Lib 'Dems' Squirm On The Hook
  • The antenna and its filament mesh stretched nearly one hundred yards and could be jettisoned by verbal command. DALE BROWN'S DREAMLAND (5) STRIKE ZONE
  • The Government seems to have jettisoned the plan.
  • They include a spacecraft lander, a U.S. flag, the lunar laser ranging retroflector, space boots and other items that were jettisoned to lighten Apollo's load for its return trip to Earth. Philadelphia Business News - Local Philadelphia News | The Philadelphia Business Journal
  • The first-stage vehicle is used to launch the rocket and is then jettisoned in the upper atmosphere.
  • Obama's dramatic cowardice on health care tells me a lot about his intentions. signing statement restraint is just one more piece of ballast he's jettisoning off the hope boat. still, I'd choose him over McCain't. Another Obama letdown (Jack Bog's Blog)
  • You jettison dead-end ideas to make room for smarter, less conventional ones. The Sun
  • This sentiment is all but jettisoned, alas, by the time Snyder recasts the pathetic victories of sexually-reawakened schlub Night Owl (Patrick Wilson) and paramour Silk Spectre (a severely overmatched Malin Akerman) as triumphant victories. Saturday Night’s All Right for Blogging « Gerry Canavan
  • He destroys the wonderful peripeteia of the original story, jettisons the power of the over-the-top surreal insanity by bestowing it on a minor character, and replaces it all with a fatalistic conclusion to a psycho-drama. Dread
  • External fuel tanks can be carried on the pylons under the wings and jettisoned if necessary.
  • This put all systems and space not necessary for re-entry and recovery outside of the re-entry vehicle, into a separate jettisonable 'mission module', joined to the re-entry vehicle by a hatch. Archive 2006-05-01
  • He in fact wanted to jettison anyone who would stand up to his dictatorial tendencies.
  • The careful historian soon learns that juicy stories often have to be jettisoned when sources prove unreliable. Times, Sunday Times
  • The fob watch was jettisoned in the 1930s. Times, Sunday Times
  • This belief makes each of the parties put up the masquerade up to the very end in the hope that once the prize is won, they would be able to jettison the other parties.
  • Let's look at some other " customs " we've jettisoned in favor of progress and universal human dignity.
  • Nor will other fringe players be jettisoned. Times, Sunday Times
  • Among the things they jettisoned was the graphic novel's postcolonial bias. The Times Literary Supplement
  • In most cases, data collected with the meteorograph is recovered only when the instrument is jettisoned from the balloon or airplane carrying it.
  • Then came furious seas, and the terrors of a lee shore; the frapping of the ship and the casting overboard of tackle, the jettisoning of freight -- The Wind Bloweth
  • The station has jettisoned educational broadcasts.
  • Luckily it had jettisoned its bomb load and the crew baled out to safety and captivity.
  • It just might be that a healthy respect for the nation’s constitutional past – or, better yet, a jettisoning of the Constitution and a return to the Articles of Confederation or something like them – will emerge as the realization sinks in that Soviet-style centralization is untenable. House Judiciary Panel Hearings on ‘Imperial Presidency’ « Antiwar.com Blog
  • Reality planet Saturn helps you jettison old ideas and focus on the ones that can work. The Sun
  • If the committee issued a negative report, Barroso would feel obliged to jettison him, or at least give him a less significant portfolio.
  • This argument was presumably specious since the integrated system has since been jettisoned in favor of subcontracting.
  • Michael Keaton has jettisoned all memory of those saggy Birdman grundies by slipping into this absolutely killer Ralph Lauren number.
  • AT1 Perry jettisoned the external load, and the instantaneous release caused the cargo hook to snap back, hitting and lacerating his arm.
  • When the airplane was in a position to jettison the load, the pilot discovered the jettison switch guard had vibrated back to the closed position.
  • The careful historian soon learns that juicy stories often have to be jettisoned when sources prove unreliable. Times, Sunday Times
  • AutoNation has focused on its core dealership business and freed up cash by jettisoning noncore operations, including a credit business.
  • The sharp writing also helped to flesh out the relationships, so that the usual sitcom clichés of misunderstandings and misconstructions could be jettisoned in favour of strong, albeit basic, plots based on recognisable situations.
  • Seinfeld has jettisoned all his old bits and is slowly building a new repertoire, one joke at a time.
  • It was no surprise when the band jettisoned him.
  • The Democrats promised "hope" and "change" and proceeded to prove that their "beliefs" were every bit as jettisonable as those of the Republicans. HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News
  • The noun is also the source of the word "jetsam" ( "jettisoned goods"), which is often paired with Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
  • Neighbours, the show that was her launch pad, might have to be jettisoned.
  • The careful historian soon learns that juicy stories often have to be jettisoned when sources prove unreliable. Times, Sunday Times
  • If people find your correction cumbersome and unclear, it will be jettisoned to land next to words like ‘doughnut’ and ‘hiccough’. Why I’m Thru With ‘GH’ | Heretical Ideas Magazine
  • Obviously Spansion is bullish about their business going forward although they've shrunk it kind of jettison the mobile market. SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • The Silver Falcon was already on an outbound vector once they jettisoned the escape pod.
  • Their latest line of thinking, however, is likely to see the textbooks jettisoned altogether.
  • The scheme was jettisoned when the government found it too costly.
  • They effectively suspended the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement on behalf of intransigent unionists, and are now in the process of jettisoning it without any reference to the referendum result, north and south.
  • Principle is being used as the excuse for jettisoning wisdom, squaring the odds and winning vendettas.
  • For some unexplained reason the pilot jettisoned all his fuel shortly after take-off.
  • Twenty days after being jettisoned by its mother ship, the Huygens space probe plunged through the hazy atmosphere of Titan early Friday morning and landed on the Saturn moon.
  • Television, as you know, can kind of jettison you into a whole new world. CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2002
  • Increasingly, government representatives are jettisoning any pretense of opposition to war.
  • After a de-orbit burn, the service module is jettisoned, exposing the heat shield for the first time in the mission. Orion Slims Down - NASA Watch
  • I think how you do that is this: jettison the idea of meaning. Times, Sunday Times
  • I jettisoned our bomb load of 500 pounders to give us more speed, but realized the fire was going to take us down.
  • Eventually, any pretence of a plot is jettisoned in favour of romantic wish fulfilment.
  • Spartan was used as a platform for the inflation of a huge antenna, which later was jettisoned from the satellite.
  • I did jettison the chickpea salad (bleah!) but, other than that, I ate what was on my menu.
  • This month, it jettisoned the plan as part of broader efforts to cut costs to cope with a steep downturn in the industry. Times, Sunday Times
  • Everyone liked this guy better than the guy in the film, so I gave him the backstory and jettisoned the other guy so I had a new villain.
  • 2. Add up all the people who vote Republican but want to "jettison" anti-abortion or pro-gun. The Democratic Convention.
  • I've got a few clean-up issues to attend to, not least of all my need to "jettison" (to borrow Bill's oh-so-apt word choice) the frame story - which is something I've been thinking about ever since moriarty6 suggested the same. Bipolar Bear could take over the world, if she could only get out of bed
  • The only chance was to lighten her, so first the crew 'jettisoned' the cargo, and next day, as that did not give relief enough, 'they,' or, according to some authorities, 'we' -- that is passengers and all -- threw everything possible overboard. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts
  • The captain was forced to jettison the cargo and make an emergency landing.
  • Jim Forrest had scored 15 goals in 28 appearances before he was jettisoned for his part in the fiasco.
  • Her group had left her, jettisoning her into oblivion for fear of attracting unwanted attention to themselves.
  • jettison" ( "a voluntary sacrifice of cargo to lighten a ship's load in time of distress") entered English in the 15th century; the verb has been with us since the 19th century. Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day
  • The party has now jettisoned its traditional ideological baggage.
  • Elsewhere activist shareholders have got firms to jettison assets or cut managers'pay.
  • An attack by tactical fighters against Iceland was expected at any time, and the bomber crews knew that any NATO fighter pilot worthy of his name would instantly jettison his bombload for a chance at air-to-air combat with so helpless a target as a twenty-year-old Badger. Red Storm Rising
  • The modernist belief that modern art should repudiate the past has been jettisoned.
  • Noticing that Greasy 62's centerline tank had not jettisoned, he commanded a jettison reattempt.
  • Then, once the rocket fuel has burnt out and the motor is jettisoned by the pilot, the slow glide back into the atmosphere and down to Earth can begin.
  • But we find that, when someone wants to make a major change in their lives, especially around breaking out of chemical abuse, if they kind of jettison that person who was part of that abuse with them, that ` s usually a very positive step. CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2006
  • Euclis's ship comes into full range, totally eclipsing the jettison pod.
  • Nor will other fringe players be jettisoned. Times, Sunday Times
  • I had to jettison the main chute via its harness clips (specialized buckles with a two-step process for separating the shoulder harness straps from the main parachute risers). Gon Wars | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
  • Visually exciting, it dares us to jettison our conceptual baggage.
  • The captain was forced to jettison the cargo and make an emergency landing.
  • The post-war years were optimistic and innovative times, a time to jettison received ideas. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
  • In Tokyo's hothouse atmosphere decorous behaviour brought from home is jettisoned.
  • On board the battle ship Alkaline, Dex moved cautiously to his station near the jettison pods.
  • Under General Average, those whose cargo survives a voyage are charged to repay the loss of another shipper whose cargo may have been jettisoned or lost.
  • Despite their doubts these men clung precariously to some idea of God, unwilling to jettison Him altogether.
  • Russ eagerly asked what "jettisoned" meant, and the man explained that the crew had pushed overboard all the deckload of lumber. Six Little Bunkers at Mammy June's
  • This month, it jettisoned the plan as part of broader efforts to cut costs to cope with a steep downturn in the industry. Times, Sunday Times
  • He will be jettisoned this week if Hall passes a fitness test ahead of the their next game.
  • He calls for the concept of Satan as the personification of evil to be jettisoned. Times, Sunday Times
  • In this decision, I am not jettisoning all case law developed by judicial decision on the facts of real cases.
  • If the cable is severed then the submersibles are designed to sink to the seabed before the ballast in their tanks is jettisoned so that they rise to the surface.
  • The chute is deployed when the plane's tailcone is jettisoned. NTSB concludes investigation into 2008 Obama plane mishap
  • Naturally enough, a confused situation arose, during which old conventions such as melody and harmony were jettisoned.
  • We do not argue that public comprehensives jettison their professional and technical programs.
  • When set in motion, it effectively jettisons its unbelted riders - a family of padded dummies - out its windows.
  • In China perhaps nationalism plays its most important role in replacing other elements in the official ideology that are having to be jettisoned to accommodate the effects of economic reform.
  • Need we forfeit "jettison" just because we have " throw overboard"? Exploring language (6th edn)
  • The ruling class may jettison figureheads who have served their interests for years, but they organise and manoeuvre to ensure their rule is restabilised.
  • The Government seems to have jettisoned the plan.
  • Fishing, like lumbering, was in decline, and enterprises which produced only red ink were being quickly jettisoned by those who didn't like that colour.
  • Falling in the ‘not-at-all-surprising’ category is the news that Mae Whitman’s deaf sister has been jettisoned from the BIONIC WOMAN pilot. Musical Casting Couch | the TV addict
  • Badly positioned cummerbunds and waist straps might interfere with the emergency jettisoning of weightbelts.
  • But," I asked, "do not the men object to this kind of jettison? Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life
  • The repertoire of piano quartets and quintets is not a huge one, so good ones should not be jettisoned.
  • Nice one Newt – secular (he went to church on Easter Sunday), socialist (he jettisoned the public option), why don't you thrown in 'godless communist' while you're at it. Gingrich to call on Republicans to offer new vision
  • Davis jettisons all pretensions to nostalgic Englishness and anchors the works firmly in the European post-Romantic tradition.
  • Senior people inside Fianna Fail are saying privately that the long-term intent is to jettison the PDs.
  • Even those dramas founded on more mainstream set-ups – new cop series Chicago Code and The Closer, for example, starring, respectively, Jennifer Beals (47) and Kyra Sedgwick (45) – appear to have jettisoned the timeworn notion of the gutsy dame forced to overcome prejudice in a traditionally male environment. With The Big C, Nurse Jackie and Weeds, US TV has given us women who are more than just Mistresses
  • Twenty seconds later, it will jettison the bottom half of its aeroshell, exposing the lander.
  • If by "scolded" you mean pointed out that TimesSelect was an abysmal failure that the New York Times ultimately had to jettison, then I guess so. Jane Hamsher: Online News is Not Arianna Huffington's Dastardly Plot to Destroy the Newspaper Industry And Other Reality-Based Observations
  • If Abramovich jettisons him for Eriksson in the summer, he will have shown a savage set of teeth.
  • They have to reinvent themselves and jettison anyone tarred with the brush of Thatcher if they are ever again to challenge.
  • Deb and Lenny, Klaus und Inge, Marcel et Martine, all easing their t-shirted blubber in climate-controlled shopping, seemed to have jettisoned all thoughts of trekking the acclivitous hillside up the Via Tiberio to the Villa Jovis, high on the island's easternmost point.
  • Be sure to latch open the inside hatch before jettisoning the outside hatch, otherwise the suction of the slipstream would hold the inside hatch closed and you would be trapped.
  • He in fact wanted to jettison anyone who would stand up to his dictatorial tendencies.
  • Just jettison that thing or evacuate your ship.
  • Three hours later, I was the only person still there, unless you counted Seven, which was what the bartender had rechristened himself last August after deciding to jettison whatever sort of label the name Neil suggested. My Sister’s Keeper
  • Jettisoning non-core UK businesses looks like the obvious way to shrink the balance sheets of both AIB and BoI.
  • For some unexplained reason the pilot jettisoned all his fuel shortly after take-off.

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