But the US regulators are also flexing their muscles and seeking to impose their standards on other markets around the world. |
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Minutes earlier, the room was writhing with flexing quads and pumping pecs. |
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Land softly by flexing your ankles, as if you were in a second floor apartment and didn't want to wake your neighbors downstairs. |
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He listens to my belly, then takes me by the ankle, extending and flexing my hip. |
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This had been a clear case of the Bulls flexing their considerable muscle ahead of this week's grudge match against the Rhinos. |
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Analysts say the former body builder and Hollywood icon is flexing political muscles not seen for years in California. |
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Paul was standing in front of a mirror flexing his invisible muscles without a shirt on. |
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But it is eerily impressive, like watching a brilliant young bodybuilder flexing his steroidal muscles. |
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Greg could see Vincent's muscles flexing, the sword pushing out against the wires wrapping around it, stretching the metal cord. |
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Slowly but surely the pale man, his muscles flexing under tight pale skin, walked to me. |
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He was still standing there when she went back into her room, his arms crossed, the thick muscles of his biceps flexing. |
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Next, you're warm because that big heart muscle is flexing maybe two, three times a second. |
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Muscles flexing, waiting, twitching, he has pounced on a starling, dispatched it with a single bite, and carried the limp lifeless thing away. |
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She feels his muscles flexing from time to time across her skin and he can feel her soft fur. |
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His Bilbao Guggenheim showed the potential of a seemingly incorrosible material, flexing shiny in the sun. |
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Following the sound of flexing paper, there were two sharp intakes of breath and the light was mercifully aimed lower, pointing at his feet. |
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Committees are also flexing their muscles in ways ministers are struggling to predict. |
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Now they are flexing their muscles, increasingly conscious of their strength and ever more radical in their demands. |
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Copvertibles are more prone to flexing than are hardtops, so they will benefit the most from a well-built roll bar or cage. |
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I walked slowly, flexing my cramped and abused muscles, trying to restore circulation, and taking in my surroundings at the same time. |
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Each specimen was preconditioned by manually flexing the knee 10 times between full extension and full flexion prior to testing. |
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Almost every part of the body is exercised, right down to flexing the toes! |
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The baby boomer generation were flexing their collective muscles both politically and musically. |
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The two plates in this system work like a trampoline, flexing on impact, then springing back. |
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Hatchback it may be, but we never detected a single squeak, rattle or any sign of flexing. |
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Quinn shouted back, his muscles flexing as he forced Rolandon back onto the door. |
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Clint Stoerner swings his arm, flexing the muscles which will have to deliver a precision pass in the face of extraordinary pressure. |
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In a beautiful sequence, women balanced on tiny blocks, flexing their bare backs and arms, revealing the elegance of contour, spine and muscle. |
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In flight, interactions between aerodynamic forces and a flexing airframe induce vibrations. |
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Gingerly flexing my wrists, I see the skin underneath is raw and blistered. |
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I stand on a board, my feet unfastened, and learn how to keep balanced by flexing my knees and leaning forward a little. |
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The longer mid-range models stop the fingers from flexing at the point of release, or just before release. |
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I could hear it sing out and howl as the metals within twisted and bent, flexing with the current. |
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And then there's the absolute joy and freedom of letting your body move uninhibitedly to the beat, and flexing muscles you never knew existed! |
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Alex was clearly nervous, because she kept bending and flexing her fingers, and her nails were bitten down to the flesh. |
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With arms out in front of you and palms uppermost, bring the hands to the shoulders so stretching and flexing the elbows. |
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This animal swims to escape predators by repeatedly flexing its body dorsally and ventrally. |
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The nudibranch Melibe leonina swims by rhythmically flexing its body from side to side at a frequency of I cycle every 2-5 sec. |
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But he eventually decided to focus on his own songwriting, headed east, and by 1996 was flexing his talent at open mike nights in New York. |
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The first bowstring is a very heavy and very long one so the bow can be strung just by slipping the long string on without flexing the bow. |
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He approached his harpsichord with the air of a mortician, slightly flexing his long, delicate hands. |
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I sat up slowly from my huddled position in the corner, flexing my pained ankle experimentally, and my movement caught the attention of my protector. |
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Exercising the calf muscles every half hour while seated by spending a few minutes flexing and rotating the ankles is also recommended to reduce the effects of stasis. |
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The uneven depth of colour, as in all these works, adds a flickering dimension to the work, form flexing in and out of light like a half-grasped memory. |
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The sun rose from behind the buildings, like a troll flexing his muscles. |
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Adams wears splints on his wrists at night that keep his wrists from overly flexing or extending, which can put pressure on the median nerve and cause pain. |
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Five of my football buddies and I stood hunched over flexing our biceps. |
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Builders in this country are well known for flexing their muscle for extra money when things are running late, over budget and completion is near. |
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Then Calvin Klein aired a two-minute commercial featuring an Adonis flexing in underwear. |
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Secondly, U.S. Secretary of State Kerry has recently pushed the Arab League towards flexing its intransigent position on borders. |
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And if this is a trendsetter, our action sequences are not going to have beefy people flexing their muscles or lean and steely acrobats performing somersaults anymore. |
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Rockus appeared through the doorway, his muscles flexing with adrenaline. |
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Since Putin began flexing his muscles in the Crimea last fall, the ruble has lost 10 percent of its value against the dollar. |
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He bit, hard, the muscles in his jaws and neck bunching and flexing. |
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That is, to read Men in Space is to encounter a novelist already aware of his capabilities, at times flexing them demonstratively. |
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And of course doctors, brigades of doctors have entered the fray, flexing and preening for the ubiquitous television cameras. |
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The left atrium can be accessed either retrogradely via the aortic valve, by flexing the catheter tip through the mitral valve, or transeptally across the atrial septum. |
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Sleeping in the forepeaks with my behind tucked on the starboard bow quarter I could feel the hull flexing as the rig squeaked in the waves and the gusts. |
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The tech industry, it seems, is flexing its political muscle more than ever before. |
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Already in 2013 there have been multiple instances of Golden Dawn flexing their newly founded popularity. |
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In practice, the frequency of employees telecommuting and flexing their time is low. |
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Traditional retail giants, once threatened by unknown dot.coms with a growing on-line customer base, have now begun flexing their brand muscle in cyberspace. |
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Over at the drill press the craftsman carefully adjusted the piece of steel sheet, then reached up to grasp the handle, his fingers flexing around the wooden grips. |
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One relay swimmer was posing on the starting block, flexing both arms at the crowd. |
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On another occasion he gave the boy a birthday card showing a group of bare-chested boys flexing their muscles. |
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The same mechanism controls our most basic processes, including the flexing of a muscle or the beating of the heart. |
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Palpation of the condyle next to the patella while a person is flexing and extending the knee may produce a snap or click. |
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With the 130 mm size the fingers are jointed by a reinforcement which limits flexing caused by the weight of the products. |
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In the meantime, the QMA is flexing its art-world muscles by hosting sophisticated shows in temporary spaces. |
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In the 19th century the navigators finally succeeded. Chinese leaders are now flexing their own cartographic muscles. |
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The rebels are now flexing their muscles: this is the first time that they have directly targeted the capital. |
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The valve was subject to cyclic loads due to flexing of the car structure in normal service. |
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The lens has been engineered to respond to anterior capsular rim contraction by gently flexing posteriorly. |
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Such flexing would tend to induce tensile stress in the area of the fracture origin. |
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The presence of calf pain when flexing the foot while keeping the leg straight is a revealing sign of the disease. |
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The flexing rate shall be6±2percent of the hydraulic pressure cycling rate. |
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It's the arm tube flexing as it resonantes from the energy travelling down it and so radiates sound! |
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Avoid flexing the muscles or moving the hand and fingers of the cuffed arm. |
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The hip joint allows a wide range of movements, such as rotating, flexing, extending, and spreading as well as walking. |
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Note: The text reproduced below was prepared by the expert from CLEPA in order to insert into the Regulation flexing test requirements. |
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The greater the flexing in the liner barrel, the more sensitive the liner is to chemical attack. |
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Make sure the fit is snug in order to more evenly distribute the weight and to prevent the pad from flexing when floated. |
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This method involves separating and flexing the hats to remove the oysters. |
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The upper inch or so was frozen, but Bahzell felt it give under his weight in low spots, and the slight, stiff flexing promised unfrozen water below. |
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I'm flexing hard and sweating profusely but never breaking my smile. |
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Now Gott was flaring his nostrils and slowly flexing his muscles. |
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The city council is flexing its muscles after becoming the first local authority in the north west with the power to tow away cars without valid road tax. |
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Operating from primitive strips, bombs on outboard pylons were apparently overstressing the wing because of flexing while operating on the uneven terrain. |
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A flexing motion is created by swells that drive hydraulic pumps to generate electricity. |
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The river was flexing muscles and quickly crossing the forest. |
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The helices are motile by flexing or rotation. |
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There is exhilaration in flexing the powers of judgment acquired through years of living, and deep satisfaction in the exercise of well-polished skills. |
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Designed especially for flexing in a shallow groove, this retaining ring holds the needle bearing cage assembly in the bearing housing. |
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Constant flexing constitutes an attack on rubber micro-structure. |
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It is not difficult to understand why Bisky's work has caused controversy: nearly all of his paintings depict shock-headed blond youths clad only in shorts, flexing their muscles or throwing spears in bright sunshine. |
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The combination of hull and stern tube must avoid any flexing that will bend the shaft or cause uneven wear. |
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China, for instance, is plainly flexing its muscles in Asia. |
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But a society would want compelling evidence that the social contract had been torn up before flexing the tax system to offset what may turn out to be only temporary fluctuations in relative incomes. |
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A patch of sidewalk scarlet with spat paan, two hobbity toe-haired toes flexing up-chappal in mid-wade. |
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Wider machines may have the wings supported by individual wheels and have hinge joints to allow flexing of the machine over uneven ground. |
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To prevent flexing and canting, the spindle should be supported as shown. |
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With the young Mr Kim flexing his muscles in Pyongyang and a new South Korean president, Park Geun-hye, in Seoul, the risks of miscalculation are heightened. |
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Ovipositions were characterized by a Karner blue crawling down a lupine stem, flexing its abdomen, and depositing an egg. |
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Having said that, we are used to a great deal of flexing of muscles in the House and we will have to see what will happen when Parliament enters the ring to vote. |
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I do not want us to look at our forces as flexing our muscles. |
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Finklestein's test consists of flexing the thumb across the palm inside a clenched fist and placing the wrist in ulnar deviation to determine if pain occurs. |
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Superimposed on the hydraulic pressure cycles is a flexing cycle. |
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This was localised to the thenar eminence and associated with difficulty flexing the thumb, particularly at the metacarpal phalangeal joint. |
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Polls don't equate truth. Keep flexing that big muscle in your head, douchewagon. |
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Phocines anchor their hands by flexing their fingers, digging them into the substrate, and then pulling their body forward by elbow and shoulder flexion. |
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The iliopsoas is crucial for both centering body weight through the pelvis without overextending the low back and allowing better control while flexing the hip. |
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The fractures may lead down to a part of the moon that is tidally heated by the moon's repeated flexing, as it follows an eccentric orbit around Saturn. |
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