Fortunately cameraman Scottie is an old hand at these situations and we'd gone in prepared.
The author, Xinran Xue, who uses the name Xinran as a nom de plume, is an old hand.
More than any past election, this one will be about leadership, pitting a young pretender against an old hand.
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This new rye comes from an old hand at making whiskey, George Dickel.
Director Mike Nichols is an old hand at lightly poisoned comedy, but when it comes to violence he shies away.
The markets are hoping for Kiichi Miyazawa, an old hand who, as finance minister, was more than a match for the ministry.
Mr. Crone was an old hand at News International, where he made a name on Fleet Street defending the company's racy tabloids in court.
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Geithner, 47, has a boyish face, but he's an old hand on economic and financial policy and is no stranger to the current economic crisis.
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The new premier lacks foreign policy experience, but the summit is in the capable hands of Foreign Minister Kono, who is an old hand at such things.
And the new generation has the backing of an old hand - Professor George Smoot, Nobel prizewinner for his work on the cosmic microwave background and one of the world's most respected physicists.
Richard, the cameraman I was travelling with, was an old hand at Istanbul and this was his fifth or sixth visit, so I was excited when at the end he said he'd seen a whole new side to the city.
The reporters kept trying, but Whitman, an old hand at dealing with the media, refused to rise to the bait, swatting away questions that came anywhere near the topic, of even what the general policy is for U.S. troops crossing the borders.
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Tim Lind, head of legal entity and corporate actions at Thomson Reuters and an old hand at standards from working at SWIFT, T owerGroup, GoldenSource and Omgeo, wrote that SWIFT ISO working groups and industry participating have been working for 15 years on its ISO 15022 messaging protocol.
His hero is a middle-aged policeman, Salvo Montalbano, an understated old hand who gets under the Mafia's skin.
Lenovo also has installed an old ibm hand, Rory Read, to the new position of president and chief operating officer.
Acquired a decade ago by the New York City hedge fund Elliott Associates, Prime has an old oil hand at the helm.
At age 43 Will is an old Asian hand, having spent 20 years in these parts, a dozen of which were for the Wall Street Journal and its parent, Dow Jones, where we had first met.
The plan also involves parachuting in as chief executive of the Fiat parent company Enrico Bondi, an old Mediobanca hand who made his reputation turning round the Ferruzzi agro-chemicals business and, latterly, sorting out troubled Telecom Italia.
At the pan-Asian restaurant, the spare and chic Sangkar, chef Andrew Skinner, an old Pacific hand, prepares a flavorful mix of regional cuisines--Indonesian, South Asian and Japanese--often using fish hauled from the ocean just below, along with local produce, meats and spices.
First, the retelling of the classic fairy tale is an old-fashioned, hand-drawn 2-D movie.
Hundley then turned around and slapped the 2-year-old in the face with an open hand, which caused the child to scream even louder, the affidavit said.
Blake Curd, a 40-year-old hand surgeon who is an investor in the Sioux Falls Surgical Center, has been going to Washington every six weeks for the last two years begging legislators not to outlaw his industry.
The chief financial officer shook my hand as if I were an old friend.
But while this whole story certainly sounds plausible, the unidentifiable device in the gentleman's hand could be anything from an old HP iPaq to a five-dollar tip calculator, so please do your duty as responsible readers and begin dropping your wild theories and baseless debunks into the comments below...
Yeats was busy dissuading his father from trying his hand at writing, an effort inspired in old age by his son's success.
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