When she pulled off the shirt, her hair, still stiff with rain, stuck up in ruff around her face, as if she were roused against him.
The club, which is expected to submit plans for a new ground at Ashton Vale later this month, faces stiff competition with as many as 15 cities bidding to stage matches.
China recently completed a 1, 100-mile gas pipeline to connect its factories and power plants to the vast gas reserves of Central Asia, part of China's stiff competition with Europe over a key energy source.
The online travel services is a highly competitive niche segment with stiff competition among OTAs.
They were people like Gordon, upper class men with stiff, and usually moustachioed, upper lips.
She draws two lines down her cheeks with stiff fingers: "He cannot tell the story without crying".
Investors are so panicked about inflation that they put up with stiff fees.
This deduction is worth a lot in a state with stiff tax rates.
Skim off any stiff surface foam with a large stainless-steel spoon and discard.
Then I clocked back in to work at Stormont and realised the Ulster Unionists were providing me with stiff competition.
This stiff structure coupled with a new suspension will make for a much smoother ride than the Liberty had, Jeep says.
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Anne Sweeney , who runs the Disney-ABC Television Group, a unit of Walt Disney, grapples with stiff competition from wireless and cable.
Faced with stiff Republican opposition and a veto threat by Bush, Democrats made misstep after misstep in trying to pass the energy bill.
After many years, however, such incentives become sacred cows and any suggestion that they be removed from the Code is met with stiff opposition.
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The move was aimed at helping India's airlines whose bottomlines have been hit by high fuel prices and interest rates, along with stiff competition.
The competition is stiff, especially with promising breast cancer data expected from Pfizer 's (nyse: PFE - news - people ) Sutent.
Poland is among the slickest in terms of public relations of Europe's ex-communist countries, yet Mr Buzek has been stiff and unimaginative with the media.
Judge Fallon actually used those very people in his decision to hand down the stiff prison term with the following statement that was reported by Charles Maldonado of www.
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Tsang ordered stock brokers to report all short-selling trades to market regulators and ensure short sellers had stock on hand to cover their positions, with stiff penalties for non-compliance.
This happened last summer when the House of Representatives passed legislation that bans all applications of human cloning -- both research and reproductive -- with stiff penalties for violators.
But a recent law lumbers firms supplying them with stiff liabilities, and America's private nuclear firms say this hands a big advantage to their state-backed French and Russian rivals.
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Any information that is ruled to have been improperly obtained cannot be used against Miami or the former assistant coaches who were expected to be hit with stiff sanctions.
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If the contract owner is unhappy with the current rate, he typically is faced with stiff surrender charges which deter him from withdrawing funds from the contract or switching to another insurance company offering higher rates.
But Tyson's proposal could spark a backlash from politically powerful business groups and meet with stiff opposition from Republicans in the U.S. Congress, who see environmental regulation and international accords like the Kyoto Agreement on greenhouse-gas emissions as a threat to opening markets and increasing trade around the globe.
There is little expectation Feinstein's proposal, which President Barack Obama backs along with expanded background checks and other steps, will win congressional approval due mainly to stiff opposition from lawmakers aligned with the politically potent National Rifle Association.
Wedge said Hernandez, who's dealt with a stiff back this season, wanted to pitch the seventh.
See the movies one at a time, with a stiff drink after each one.
With a stiff breeze and sunny intervals, conditions were not so favourable for the bowlers.
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