More than 20 pieces - many created by Italian jeweller Bulgari - went under the hammer on Tuesday.
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The Florida High School Athletic Association lowered the hammer on the football program at Armwood High School at Tampa, Fla.
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"I was digging down through this stuff, it was literally like banging your hammer on a frozen cement floor, " he recalls.
Just as the music switches to bluegrass courtesy of the Friday Night Oldtime Band, rain begins to hammer on the windows.
What if Justin Tuck and Jason Pierre-Paul put a hammer on Brady?
Bushnell dispenses his advice in vignettes that hammer on a few points.
But in the time since then, Twitter has really dropped the hammer on developers who have built businesses on top of the platform.
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The piece of Porthmawr beach, which is currently privately-owned, goes under the hammer on 5 May at the Deganwy Castle Hotel, in Deganwy, Conwy.
Hundreds of the personal possessions belonging to the former House of Commons Speaker Lord Tonypandy are to go under the auctioneer's hammer on Wednesday.
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There has been interest from as far away as Tasmania and Sri Lanka and the first lot will go under the hammer on Saturday morning.
They will go under the hammer on 22 March, 50 years to the day in 1963 when the band released their first album, Please Please Me.
Former tenant John Masters said he was so concerned about safety breaches at the property, he left a lump hammer on a window sill in his room.
It flat out whiffed when it had public sentiment in its favor and could have dropped the hammer on corporate America to ensure that this type of misuse of power never happened again.
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We're confident these off kilter batteries have been keeping the IEEE quite busy in recent months, but they've apparently made time to agree upon the next major Ethernet standard, and have raised the bar way above the rumored "40Gbps" level by dropping the hammer on 100G.
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But as it went on, especially in the second half, Obama came to look smoother, more relaxed, and more focused on big points, while Romney tried hard to find clear differences with him on foreign policy and hammer him on domestic policy.
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Then drop the price in a few months and really bring the hammer down on Google, Amazon, and the rest of the tablet hopefuls.
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The Republicans came to the extraordinary realization that the tobacco industry could be sacrificed--had to be--lest the Clinton Administration hammer them on yet another populist issue.
Police assumed that when Mr Kato was bludgeoned to death with a hammer, on the afternoon of January 26th, he was just another victim in the series.
"Governor Romney's plan is to let Wall Street run wild again, but he's going to bring the hammer down on 'Sesame Street, '" said the President, in the definition of a non-sequitur.
Yield-starved investors will get the hammer dropped on them.
The sad hammer of defeat on one side, the delicious crown of victory on the other.
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His party's flag has echoes of both fascism and Nazism: a black hammer and sickle on a red background.
Taubman's conviction is merely the latest hammer to drop on the auction business, which has been engulfed in scandal for two years.
"Each wave is like a hammer stroke beating on a sea wall which starts to make it crack and then we have to repair it, " she says.
The court was shown videos of the boys with a claw hammer, climbing on roofs, throwing missiles, urinating in public, spitting and jumping on a car.
Defense Secretary William Perry said the United States would be part of a powerful force that "would bring a large hammer down" on anyone who attacked it.
Its first action was just to hammer down briefly on a rock target last weekend - a simple check to prove the machinery was behaving as it should.
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