• Participants in a conference call could, for instance, branch off to have an instant messaging conversation in a small group, then return to the larger group without interruption.

    FORBES: Avaya Unveils Android-Based Tablet, WebOS-Like Software For Business Calls

  • But as yet there is no smoking gun - a protein involved in regulating brain function, say - that may have caused our ape-like ancestors to branch off from chimps.

    BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Reading the chimp book of life

  • Myriad has no more right to patent these parts of the naturally occurring code in the human genome than it would to patent an apple, or a branch off of a tree that could be used to hit a ball or scratch your back, Ravicher says.

    FORBES: Big Question For Supreme Court: Can You Patent A Gene?

  • Beyond fear and treating the event as a competition, networking nights often leave those attending in the same comfort zone they arrived in: see a person you know, spend the majority of the night by their side, and meet a few new people but not nearly as many as you hoped had you decided to branch off early and look solo.

    FORBES: 7 Everyday Places To Start Networking Face-To-Face At

  • Then he accidentally knocked her off the branch, and she plunged into the water and swam off.

    WSJ: To Battle Iguanas, Puerto Rico Has New Plan: Put Them on Menu

  • Apparently Bank of America had sent out a warning about Kunkin and one alert branch employee tipped off the cops when the Hungarian-passport-bearing customer walked in.

    FORBES: Hungarian Bonnie And Clyde Without Guns Hit Bank Of America And eBay

  • Mr. Smits snipped off the branch and rooted it, turning it into a new shrub.

    WSJ: The Inside Stories of This Season's New Plants--WSJ Weekend Gardener

  • The new regulatory structure could help the two banks spin off these branch networks.

    WSJ: U.K. Lowers Entry Barriers for New Banks

  • Companies in Europe have traditionally begun rationalisation farthest from home, by lopping off their branch factories and repatriating production to save domestic jobs.

    ECONOMIST: Europe's great car war

  • Myriad objects to the comparison of the gene sequences with a branch or an apple off of a tree, and its lawyers convinced a majority of the judges on the Federal Circuit to agree.

    FORBES: Big Question For Supreme Court: Can You Patent A Gene?

  • One driven middle-aged Englishwoman wants to "hike, hike, hike, " which she does, for 12 hours on one particular day, marching a knee-bruised, branch-lashed young guide off his feet.

    FORBES: Life

  • Mr Kimura immediately carted his purchase off to a nearby branch of his Sushi Zanmai chain.

    BBC: Japan bluefin tuna fetches record $1.7m

  • They proposed yanking the prehistoric creature off the "bird" branch of the evolutionary family tree and moving it onto a closely related lineage of birdlike dinosaurs.

    NPR: New Study Restores Famed Fossil To "Bird" Branch

  • That status was called into question two years ago by Chinese scientists, who proposed yanking it off the "bird" branch of the evolutionary family tree and moving it onto a closely related lineage of birdlike dinosaurs.

    NPR: New Study Restores Famed Fossil To "Bird" Branch

  • Now, a growing number of conservatives and Republicans seem to think that maybe, just maybe, Uncle Milt was right: Maybe the U.S. would be better off if the Democrats controlled a branch or two of government.

    FORBES: Republicans For Divided Government

  • The Republicans, who can muster enough votes to block the governor's budget, refuse to consider tax increases unless they are accompanied by a root-and-branch overhaul of state finances and a mass sell-off of state assets.

    ECONOMIST: California's budget

  • And death, which I have always regarded as the greatest dimension of life, dark, compelling, was no more than a pipe that springs a leak, a branch that cracks in the wind, a jacket that slips off a clothes hanger and falls to the floor.

    NEWYORKER: Total Recall

  • This branch believes that people want to read about people who are worse off than they are.

    FORBES: What Is Your State The Worst At?

  • Andrew Thomas, chairman of the Ashton-under-Lyne branch of the Manchester City Supporters Club, described the kick-off time of this year's final as "crackers".

    BBC: Wembley Stadium

  • In between the tightly packed rows of trees, women clad in bright saris stooped to pick the tea at a furious pace, ripping off handfuls of green with remarkable speed, leaving each branch completely bare before moving on to the next.

    BBC: Getting to the heart and soul of hilly Sri Lanka

  • Phil Shanholtzer, branch chief for the USDA Public Affairs Office, said that most states are holding off on applying for waivers until the dust settles a bit on welfare reform.

    CNN: Related Stories

  • When the chef Andy Ricker chose the location for the New York branch of Pok Pok, his Southeast Asian restaurant in Portland, Oregon, he went a bit off the beaten path, to the Columbia Street Waterfront.

    NEWYORKER: Pok Pok Ny

  • The Varnish, brainchild of LA nightlife impresario Cedd Moses and renowned bartenders Eric Alperin and Sasha Petraske, both from Little Branch in New York, has been the go-to spot for cocktail enthusiasts, foodies and off-duty bartenders since it opened in 2009.

    BBC: The best cocktail bar in the US

  • It all started with Rose Bakery -- the bastion of the UK cafe scene in Paris -- which kicked off the trend for casual, homely fare with a British accent back in 2002, when their first branch opened in the south Pigalle area (46 rue des Martyrs, 9e, 01-42-82-12-80).

    BBC: British cafes win favour in Paris

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