The Conservative Richard Bacon suggested the NHS had "thought it was buying a Rolls-Royce, but had ended up with a second hand Datsun".
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The Bulova stopwatch has a two-inch main dial with second hand registering up to 30 seconds in increments of 0.1 second, with a subsidiary dial cumulator registering up to 30 minutes.
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For instance, there was a 53-year-old surgeon who cut his hand while he was doing surgery on, if I recall correctly, on abdominal cancer in a woman, and he ended up with a tumor of his hand that came from the woman's own cancer.
Now and then she would raise herself into a sitting position and then spend a long time with her knees drawn up while she painted her nails or, with a small hand mirror, scrutinized herself for blemishes or unwanted hair.
Inspired by the growing range of clockwork gadgets (radios, torches and so on) designed for use in places without mains electricity, they have come up with a hand-cranked device that can be used to examine a woman's cervix for signs of cancer.
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There are also the moments at the end of a long week (with music turned up and a glass of wine at hand) of happily making flower arrangements for the entire house.
Education is a hand up not a hand out, and with it, children and families can improve the socioeconomic conditions for themselves, their communities, countries, and future generations.
For his second work, however, he builds a bowl by hand from the base up with rings of clay, smoothed only a little with a wooden spatula.
"The Trusty" began with a prisoner walking up a road, a water bucket in his hand.
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Both locals and expats will find that exploring the city with a camera in hand will open them up to things they never knew existed.
After being dropped with a left hand, Rigondeaux quickly got up.
Doing a step-up while holding a weight in the opposite hand of the leg you are stepping up with will help with balance and strengthen the muscles around the ankle, says Mr. Ordas.
He was carrying a beat-up and bulging old leather diary with a painted, hand-tooled relief of a horse on its cover.
What he saw amounted to a bunch of awkward glances, so he came up with a simple gesture, involving a hand over the heart, which allows people to simply acknowledge those in uniform.
The next morning, she walked to the Preobrazhensky market to get groceries and fresh fish, following the crowds rolling their handcarts down a footpath lined with pensioners holding up hand-knitted shawls and strings of dried mushrooms.
He test-fired it with his left hand so if it blew up, he could still draw a blueprint with his right.
They, by contrast, never stop: Eight in the morning last Saturday a neighbor had a hired hand chopping up branches with an electric saw.
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The government can't tell you what to name your child, your employers or extended family can't force your hand -- coming up with a name is a parent's first and biggest choice.
After a day negotiating deals, nuzzle up to the lobby's modern fireplace with a vintage wine or hand-rolled cigar from ONYX bar.
With one gambit, he could still give himself a hand up on the Chrysler bailout instead of continuing to shoot himself in the foot.
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Already, the recovery process is well underway in and around Moore, with efforts to clean up debris and give neighbors a hand after tornadoes damaged or destroyed an estimated 12, 000 homes.
As with a fingerprint sensor, you'll be required to recreate the same hand motions several times as a way of setting up a user profile.
Still just a two man team, Larson and Forman have already pre-sold 600 units and now spend much of their time hand-assembling the boards to catch up with a mounting backlog of orders.
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One time, we were at a summer stock production of Hamlet, and just at the grave scene, where Hamlet jumps up with that skull in his hand, a train came blowing through the night outside.
And so we are going to be working hand in hand to make sure that we come up with a better approach, and urge Israel to work with all parties involved -- Egypt, the Palestinian Authority, and the international community -- to find a resolution to this issue.
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He ran a hand up his face gently, exploring the damage with his fingers.
The auctioneers said the stockings were "something a client turned up with, they were not part of family hand-downs".
As a result, you end up holding the body with your right hand, and the flash in position on the rotator with your other.
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At the ballpark or away, he greeted fans with a hearty handshake many marveling at how his big right hand had swallowed up theirs.
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