But in Mingora the Taliban still rule the roost, standing eyeball to eyeball with soldiers holed up in government buildings.
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The game was always close to boiling over, and Lukas Podolski went down after an off-the-ball clash with Rene Aufhauser, then went eyeball to eyeball with Emanuel Pogatetz.
More important, a political solution to the Iraqi crisis this week took over from America's eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation with Iraq.
But when the two finally did sit down eyeball-to-eyeball in Baghdad, it was the Iranians who seemed keener on diplomacy.
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Once again, it is being said, he has stood eyeball-to-eyeball with the most powerful nation on earth and daringly made the Americans blink.
We were eyeball-to-eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.
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Irritation intensified three years ago when America stood eyeball-to-eyeball with North Korea and Japan balked at providing even minimal support, though Japan was directly threatened by North Korea's missiles and by its nuclear mischief.
It is hard to eyeball the value of deductions and almost impossible to handicap your exposure to AMT.
Step two is to eyeball them if, indeed, they feel ready to go.
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When Snow arrives, Emilie is dead, and he resurrects her by sticking a syringe through her eyeball to her brain.
The annual Consumer Electronics Show is geek heaven on Earth -- a Super Bowl, Disney World and New York Fashion Week all rolled into one for the techies who flock to Vegas to eyeball the newest gadgets from the world's leading manufacturers.
It's easy to quickly eyeball the amount of mail I've got in this category.
Hollywood could shoot itself in the foot if it continues to release eyeball-challenging movies like Clash of the Titans.
The Patriots were chasing a place as the Supreme Team of All-Ever Awesomeness, and that 17-14 Giants upset was a slingshot rock right into whatever weepy eyeball cliche you want to employ.
Exposure to light increases the levels of dopamine in the eye and this seems to prevent elongation of the eyeball.
The engineers and scientists working on the development of these nanobots -- the size of only a few molecules -- believe they could reach liquid parts of the body difficult or impossible to get to using today's medical practices, precisely delivering drugs to areas such as the eyeball cavity or arteries in the heart.
That allowed them to take into account the way the eyeball, which is actually more pear-shaped than spherical, drags the eye's lids and brows slightly when the gaze swivels.
Normal-tension glaucoma is a form of the disease which leads to blindness without the usual increase in pressure inside the eyeball.
However, having a proper place besides the bathroom to store makeup and perfume, dry my hair and eyeball my skin has always felt like a necessity and the lack of one a sort of lifestyle tragedy.
They employ everything from magnets, pendulums and electricity to dancing, awkward social interactions, algae and a cow eyeball.
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See, your eyelids actually spread a film of oil over your eyeball which protects a thin layer of tears that allow you to keep your eye open without it drying out.
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One of the grumbles often heard about the lenses is that, to avoid possible infection building up between the lens and the eyeball, the lens should be removed and cleaned daily with a suitable chemical.
That includes whimsical slideshows on (hopefully) eyeball-luring topics, something that we here at Forbes.com are no strangers to.
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