The pilots had to have focus, daring, wits, and an ability to improvise the right stuff.
The software giant has reached the top by its own hard work and wits.
The Irish coach is relishing the opportunity to pit his wits against the current world champions.
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We don't need to scare the wits out of workers with threats to dismiss them.
McClaren has pitted his wits against Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger before, when he was in charge of Middlesbrough.
There was no money for anything, so I had to use my imagination and rely on my wits.
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They are Contemporary Man, a distant relation to Renaissance Man: living by their wits and off their imaginations.
"When he was drunk, he was a different person than when he had his wits about him, " Suarez said.
That could be a problem, since whoever wins January's spectrum auction will need to keep their wits about them.
The vet of Georgia Tech, Alabama and Kentucky keeps his wit and wits about him while diagnosing the action.
The ascetic nature of rock climbing appealed to him--just rock, wits and muscle.
But his wits and talent were to be pitted against the might of Steve Davis' clinical skills and will-to-win.
Barriers to entry in the market are low (a camera and quick wits).
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"Surviving is about keeping your wits when everything is falling apart, " she says.
But Mr Cable told the BBC it was not the job of government to "scare the wits" out of people.
We desperately need topical humorists with sharp eyes and sharp wits: Jon Stewart at his mordant best fills the bill.
This year is going to be like a decade of console game market competition compressed into a rapid battle of wits.
Before the China naysayers jump up and down cheering their own wits, 7 percent growth or less is coming in China.
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Would other traders be comfortable knowing they were matching wits with algorithms powered by an IBM rather than other gut-following gamblers?
Using your wits to become stinking rich in the global economy is more often, perhaps even generally, a less scholarly affair.
Although she clearly has her wits about her, Wong, a senator from South Australia, just as plainly wanted to be somewhere else.
Like many wits, he has wasted much sweetness on the desert air.
That morning Roubini and Faber were out doing their typical Gloom and Doom show, scaring the wits out of anyone who would listen.
Scolari is looking forward to pitting his wits against his old friend Wenger in the team's first Premier League encounter of the season.
It's probably hard to plan a year off if your wits have been dulled by the Uniform Commercial Code and the Rule Against Perpetuities.
Rules took a backseat to the role-playing and the story, and the DM had to use his wits to keep the game chugging along.
Instead of a portal gun, your clone avatar has your wits, a surprisingly powerful jump, some computer skills and a healthy acceptance of mortality.
This leads to various missions involving your binocular-camera, a suit of fire-deflecting Samurai armor, and various other tools at your disposal, including your wits.
Four park-and-ride schemes were in place and although three appeared to proceed without any problems, the situation at Wits University was not the same.
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