• Supply ships also ply the waters between Papeete and most of the inhabited islands, and some take passengers.

    BBC: Travel - Island hopping French Polynesia, without breaking the bank

  • City officials acknowledge that the open air cable cars, which ply only eight miles of track, produce a disproportionate amount of accident-related costs.

    NPR: San Francisco Cable Car Accidents Costs Millions

  • The rise of cognitive therapy rankles psychotherapists and psychiatrists who ply the retrospective analysis and soulful conversation, whose origins date back to Sigmund Freud and the 1890s.

    FORBES: Patient Fix Thyself

  • Recently the owner was on the phone trying to get a wireless connection to enable electronic traders to ply their trade by juggling laptops alongside their beers.

    FORBES: Companies, People, Ideas

  • The article describes banking regulators abdicating their duty to refer cases of misconduct to law enforcement for prosecution and of prosecutors abdicating their duty to ply their trade vigoriously.

    FORBES: Corrupt Bank Oversight Is Creating New Immoral Hazard

  • The city buses are colour-coded to instantly telegraph what type of route they ply: red buses are express, green buses run short routes between subway stations and other points.

    BBC: Living in: Great cities for public transport

  • Today banks across the region look to the consumer as their source of future profits and try to ply him with credit cards, mortgages, car loans and unsecured credit.

    ECONOMIST: Consumer finance is Asian banks' new thing

  • Returning to Connaught Place, seek out a child-friendly street snack on the inner circle, where ice cream vendors and a nameless stall dishing up particularly tasty sweetcorn ply their wares.

    BBC: Child��s play amid Delhi��s chaos

  • At least, the existence of TouchWiz and other skins gives modders like Cyanogen a trade to ply -- but it leaves average users oblivious to the phone they could really have.

    ENGADGET: IRL: Mailplane, Verizon Wireless iPad and the Samsung Galaxy S running CM9

  • Every time the elevator halted and the door opened I held my breath, afraid the person joining me on the ride had seen the screwup and would ply me with questions.

    CNN: Robin Meade talks anxiety and her road to self-confidence

  • Perhaps 100 custom builders ply this trade in the U.S. Jesse James' garage, West Coast Choppers, is a sprawl of warehouses in a rundown neighborhood of wrecking yards and auto body shops.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Japan's ANA, for instance, is outfitting its new 787 fleet with gender-segregated bathrooms that have windows and bidet-toilets ("Washlets") that offer warm, pressurized water jets for a fresher clean than one-ply paper.

    CNN: Best economy-class innovations

  • As the pickpocket defies a law-and-order campaign to ply his trade, he despairs of his solitude and takes up with a call girl (Hao Hongjian), whose own deceptions are a sign of the times.

    NEWYORKER: Pickpocket (Xiao Wu)

  • After a half century of revolution, the island state remains an economic wreck, locked in a time warp in which vintage 1950s American automobiles ply streets filled with weathered buildings unfamiliar with basic maintenance.

    FORBES: With Hugo Chavez Dead, Will Chavismo Also Die?

  • She will ply her trade at the Sub Club in Glasgow and the very next day paly the Liquid Room in Edinburgh before hopping a plane for the 700 seat capacity Goa Club in Rome.

    FORBES: Coachella: Three Delightful Days In The Desert Versus Two Hours Of Madonna

  • James Haskell, Riki Flutey and Tom Palmer will all leave Wasps to ply their trade in France next season, while Tom Voyce recently revealed he will depart for Gloucester at the end of the season.

    BBC: Triple signing boosts Wasps squad

  • Alas, the U.S. Treasury Department and the IMF continue to ply the deadly requirements of devaluation and higher taxes that will impede recovery because of the resulting inflation, higher capital costs and impoverishment of workers.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • "From today, the Sangatte centre will no longer draw would-be illegal immigrants to northern France and traffickers will no longer be able to use it to ply their evil trade in human life, " Mr Blunkett said.

    BBC: Asylum centre plan scrapped

  • Some 63% of people support the idea of introducing "tolerance zones" - where prostitutes could ply their trade without fear of prosecution - as the best method of cleaning up residential areas with a kerb-crawling problem.

    BBC: News | UK | Prostitution survey calls for licensing

  • Others may try to ply their trade in an alternative league, treading water in the United Football League, the Canadian Football League (whose season has already begun) or one of the various indoor leagues.

    FORBES: NFL Teams Make Their Cuts This Week. Ouch.

  • If the Ospreys did manage to entice Haskell to the Liberty Stadium it would be a rarity, with very few current England internationals having chosen to ply their trade on the other side of the Severn Bridge.

    BBC: Ospreys eye shock Haskell switch

  • Later, board one of the ferries that ply the Chao Phraya River and the canals that crisscross Bangkok once called the Venice of the East for a deeper understanding of the vital role in the city these waterways once played.

    WSJ: Insider's Guide to Bangkok | Journal Concierge

  • Those tours were on a 1.5-mile section in a 2, 000-acre park called the Sepulveda Basin Recreation Area, and the permits sold out in a matter of hours, denying large numbers of river lovers a legal chance to ply the waters.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • The half-dozen expedition ships that also visit each summer provide an opportunity for locals to ply their goods and make an income (and for the kids who managed to commandeer a Zodiac left on shore, a bit of summertime fun).

    BBC: Life in the fragile, frozen Arctic

  • U.S. nuclear submarines ply the region's waters, however, and Washington makes clear that its so-called nuclear "umbrella" over South Korea is meant to deter an attack on its ally by North Korea, whose 1950 invasion ignited the three-year Korean War.

    NPR: NKorea: Cold War History With US Justifies Nukes

  • Even if a four-ply Scottish sweater feels slightly coarser on the shelf than its French or Italian counterpart, the argument goes, it lasts for decades, arriving at cozy perfection around the time those fancy continental sweaters might start to pill.

    WSJ: Men's Fashion: Cashmere Confidential

  • But as for the core labor issue: "teams and unions collectively determining whether a player can ply his trade and what he can make, " he says, it makes little sense to think that even a strong, centralized NFL can affect that.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Despite that, over 9, 000 kits each with a laptop, a digital camera, a fingerprint scanner and a card printer will be dispatched across the country, reaching their destinations by air, down bumpy bush tracks or on the dugout canoes that ply Congo's rivers.

    ECONOMIST: Worries are growing as Congo's election timetable slips

  • But, as with bartenders who continue to ply drunken patrons with drinks, the Federal Reserve bears a heavy responsibility for creating loads of excess capital in the first place and the Bush White House for winking and nodding while the dollar was being debased.

    FORBES: Bush's Big Boo-Boo

  • The Luddites wished to return to a more natural way of life, in which skilled craftsment could ply their trade and make a living, and in which civilization was not ravaged by all the ills of industrialization (including heavy metals and other factory-produced toxins poisoning millions).

    FORBES: When Americans Rejected Small Pox Vaccines

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