| Lash ropes and diamond hitches are untied, the horses unpacked and then hobbled or tethered in the meadow below camp. |
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| Certainly the system has not been without its hitches, particularly for fleets. |
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| How can they remember if they had encountered computer hitches over the past two or three months? |
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| The competition went smoothly and without any major hitches all the way up to the ninth-graders. |
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| He hitches a trailer to his bike to take the children to school or go shopping. |
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| The space shuttle is counting down for blast-off, with managers confident that last minute hitches would not delay today's launch. |
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| Then began two months of learning how to tie clove and timber hitches, square and diagonal lashings. |
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| Their July wedding at St Barnabas's Church went with a bang, despite suffering a few rather unusual hitches. |
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| The Discovery space shuttle is counting down for blast-off, with NASA managers confident that last minute hitches would not delay today's launch. |
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| Helen hitches a ride to Ashley Walk with New Forest Verderer Anthony Pasmore. |
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| He even hitches up his shirt sleeve before every shot in a routine that bears more than a passing resemblance to that of Woods. |
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| The report said problems in the project related to cash flow hitches, lack of co-operation by the contractor and non-performance. |
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| Despite those late hitches, David Stuttard's new adaptation of Antigone, with its value-added psychological profiling, still emerged triumphant. |
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| Pursued across the continent by her domineering mother and agent, she hitches a ride with an unknowing gang of holidaymakers. |
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| Instead a mission that's already had its share of hitches and glitches will land somewhere tomorrow. |
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| Also available is The Klutz Book of Knots, a step-by-step manual on how to tie the world's 24 most useful hitches, ties, warps and knots. |
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| We put clove hitches on his ankles and wrists, locked the clove hitches down with a half hitch or two on top, then tied these to the chair. |
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| Consider the max. permissible supporting load of trailer draw bars, hitches or tool bars! |
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| Release ropes for quick hitches must hang loosely and must not be able to be release automatically when being used in a low position. |
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| Release cables for quick hitches should hang freely and must not work loose from their housings! |
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| The Gaeseong industrial park, set up north of the demilitarized zone, is beginning to operate, despite a few hitches. |
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| All predictable and avoidable complications and hitches must therefore be ironed out beforehand. |
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| Cameco responded that it has water hitches, which can be moved with mine development, unlike doors. |
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| This procedure makes it possible to reduce waiting times and overcome any bureaucratic hitches. |
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| The 2001 staff reporting exercise, despite a few hitches, is not proving as difficult as the 1997 exercise. |
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| We also offer a wide range of quick hitches and other accessories adapted to customers' individual needs. |
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| In any case, it is reasonable to assume that most formal plans actually do meet their goals, albeit with some inevitable hitches. |
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| Five previous attempts to launch the six-metre-long new-generation satellite since July were thwarted by technical hitches and poor weather. |
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| Despite a few hitches, the year was a success, mainly because it delivered an action plan that will truly revitalize official languages. |
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| However, when the safety inspections are performed, the train is empty and the hitches are collapsed to the floor. |
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| Most front mounted hitches are used for off road front mounted winches. |
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| The company manufactures a family of steel mechanical locking devices designed specifically for skid-steers, skid-steer attachments, backhoes, excavators, and trailer hitches. |
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| The groups hiked down to Blackfoot to tie clove hitches, half hitches, square knots, fisherman knots, and sheet bends, then walked a course with the Patrol tied together. |
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| Gnat walks up to a mirror, hitches her shirt up, sticks out her tongue. |
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| With its decades-long history of offering quickie hitches and divorces, marriage has long been a big business in Nevada. |
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| So we could all do without any last-minute hitches that could throw a spanner in the works just when we think everything is about to be signed and sealed. |
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| The first 12 months of auto-enrolment passed by with few hitches. |
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| Learn how to create bowlines, clove hitches and timber hitches. |
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| December has been a tiresome month, with hitches and glitches galore. |
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| Fairly soon I tire of standing, looking stupid, so using a drainage channel as a fairlead, I loop the rope round a tree and stick a couple of half hitches in it. |
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| To conclude we can say that in all the schools the educators are devoting conscious, and considerable efforts to integrating pedagogically even though they encounter a number of hitches in the process. |
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| Manila The 31-day absentee vote for overseas Filipinos kicked off without major hitches yesterday, reports reaching Manila from abroad said. |
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| The continuous changes in the market environment have not prevented it from implementing a long-term strategy and facing up to changes year after year without significant hitches. |
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| This point should be given serious consideration by the IOC and its radio and television committee to avoid any hitches during the next Winter and Summer Olympics. |
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| After centuries of stereotyping as backward and impoverished, it was an opportunity to show the world a different face and, barring a few minors hitches, went off better than many predicted. |
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| A PRIDE of lionesses relax under the Serengeti sun, while a frog hitches a ride on a stag beetle in Costa Rica. |
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| One of the first hitches in the Thanet campaign was the expenses scandal that forced Ukip MEP Janice Atkinson to resign as a parliamentary candidate in nearby Folkestone. |
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| The political-social situation that the country is currently going through has provoked disruptions and unforeseen hitches in the implementation of activities and in the release of funds. |
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| The tying and untying of knots and hitches, as well as the general handling of ropes and lines, are fundamental to the art of sailing. |
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| E is lovestruck and hitches a ride on the spaceship sent to collect her, embarking on a journey that could alter the destiny of humanity. |
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| Plus, clove hitches are used in seafaring, and with the docks being so important to the city, it just seemed to make sense. |
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| Max Brenner exploits the automatic respect that diners feel for a principled culinary artist and hitches it to a mass-market endeavor as gimmicky as Planet Hollywood. |
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| The flaws and hitches that had accompanied implementation of the reform had cast doubt on whether the process was actually useful and could achieve its aims. |
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| The rocket returns to haul Eve back to the spaceliner, and the smitten Wall-E hitches a ride. |
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| Your team's task is to overcome hitches and keep things moving. |
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| These risks are themselves associated with others: the vagaries of the economic cycle, more or less sudden shifts in the price of raw materials, hitches in the course of the project. |
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| Financial risks can be high for innovation, profitability may be delayed by development hitches and tax may not be neutral between success and failure. |
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| We offer most quick hitches on the market. |
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| And apparently this conversion was carried out without any major hitches. |
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| The caravans all come with anti-sway bars built into the tow hitches. |
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| Turn your back on a length of rope in the bottom of a boat, and it will have convoluted itself into a tangle of reef knots, clove hitches, sheepshanks, even grannies. |
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