• She added that some women might clutch at this device as a quick fix for their sex problems rather than looking at the psychological problems causing them.

    BBC: Orgasms at the push of a button

  • In the room-sized installation, where the skin-coloured floor, ceiling and matrix of columns are all made of silky Lycra tulle, you stumble, clutch at the soft columns and finally tumble into the squishy floor.

    ECONOMIST: Brazilian art

  • So have Northern optimists nothing to clutch at?

    ECONOMIST: Back to work

  • That was a clutch at bat.

    FORBES: Baseball Mythbusting: Was That a Clutch Hit? Or Did the Pitcher Just Choke?

  • Both German and Eurozone second-quarter gross domestic product sadly lacked the vim and vigor of the previous quarter and was greeted by jaw-dropping disappointment by investors who were quick to sell out of short-term gains in equities and clutch at the safety of government bonds.

    FORBES: Investors Bearing Up Under the Strain

  • Voters are given a clutch of ballot papers at the polling station, each one with a different candidate's name and colour.

    ECONOMIST: Morocco��s free-market democracy

  • With a clutch of players rising at the near post, Sidibe got an unwitting touch but was happy to claim the goal after the ball looped into the net.

    BBC: Stoke 3-2 Aston Villa

  • Attempting to establish Crawley as a Conference force seems a long way removed but with Alan Lewer, who has worked at a clutch of Conference clubs, alongside him, Hollins is fuelled with belief.

    BBC: SPORT | Football | My Club | Crawley Town | Hollins relishes new Crawley test

  • The U.S. Department of Energy has funded a clutch of research efforts at the various Energy Frontier Research Centers in an effort to improve the underlying economics of the technology, which is currently too expensive for mainstream markets.

    FORBES: The Trillion Mile-Per-Gallon Engine

  • Backup point guard Reggie Jackson, who played at Boston College, got a running flip to go in and followed that with a double-clutch jumper from the right wing at the shot-clock buzzer.

    NPR: Thunder Grind Out 91-79 Win Over Celtics

  • At Oxford Tolkien kept company with the Inklings a clutch of dons who gathered on Tuesday mornings at a pub to read their work aloud.

    ECONOMIST: A new biography illuminates Tolkien, the creator

  • Consumers download a free App from the Apple (AAPL) App Store or at www.clutch.com.

    FORBES: Clutch Gives Gift Cards Mobility

  • That enabled her to find out how many eggs in each clutch had been fathered by the male at the nest.

    ECONOMIST: Male birds cannot afford to relax their standards

  • Rovers had won four and drawn one of their previous last five league and cup games at Ewood Park and created a clutch of chances in the opening period.

    BBC: CHOOSE A SPORT

  • That perception will be reinforced by the election, which returned a notably aged clutch of deputies, many of them chosen at party headquarters in Algiers, to represent a young, frustrated populace.

    ECONOMIST: A general election has made almost nobody any happier

  • There's a good clutch of backbench debates in Westminster Hall - starting at 9.30am with Labour MP Ian Lavery on responsible dog ownership.

    BBC: Week ahead

  • Beneath the first of the Sisters, my eye was caught by a clutch of grey flints that lay together like eggs right at the foot of the cliff.

    BBC: England��s ghostly South Downs Way

  • And the President then, I think, at the speech site, was able to have this clutch, this brief meeting backstage with a number of people who have made extraordinary sacrifices -- the leader of the Saffron Revolution, political prisoners who have been released after many years in jail, representatives of ethnic minorities.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • The Orange lost three of their last four during the regular season, but earned a double-bye in the Big East tournament with a clutch 68-57 win over then-No. 13 Louisville in the season finale at the Carrier Dome.

    WSJ: Syracuse, a No. 7 seed in NCAA, to face Creighton

  • Cherry, an aspiring rapper known as Kenny Clutch, was driving his Maserati on Thursday when someone in the Range Rover fired several shots at his car as it headed north on Las Vegas Boulevard.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • He somehow dug it out about eight feet short and holed the clutch putt for a par, while Na saw his mid-range effort for a four at the last finish agonisingly on the edge of the cup.

    BBC: Ernie Els completes Arnold Palmer Invitational victory

  • As the FT put it a fortnight ago: 'By introducing a clutch of overseas providers to provide treatment centres for National Health Service patients, the government has at a stroke transformed a significant chunk of the country's health care exposing to scrutiny some of the myths on which private medical care is sold.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Politics | Full text: Blair on public services

  • In 1997 a team led by Bernd Matthes, chief engineer at a BorgWarner transmission plant in Germany, came up with a concept for a dual-clutch transmission technology, which gives a fuel-efficient manual transmission the smooth feel of an automatic.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The company is simply so good at making standard-shift transmissions, that getting an autobox is like buying a Corvette without a clutch--what's the point?

    FORBES: Test Drives

  • But a clutch of leading players are within striking distance as World No.1 McIlroy and Woods could not be separated at the end of the second round.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

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