A blind speedboat driver towed a blind waterskier for the first time ever to set a new world record on Windermere yesterday. |
|
Once the guide dogs are fully trained they are matched with a blind person on the waiting list. |
|
Consumerism reaches ever-higher levels of absurdity, yet most of us are blind to it. |
|
The nonpoisonous variety of snakes include the common blind snake, the Russell sand boa, the Indian python, and the Indian wart snake. |
|
Greeks like Aristotle, who opposed atomism, equated it with a blind desire to abnegate the governance of Nature in favour of pure chance. |
|
Dana says that this is a major issue to which the main parties have turned a blind eye and that it has been allowed to creep up on the quiet. |
|
The blind fret carving on the chest-on-chest illustrated here forms an interlaced pattern of alternating quatrefoils and diamonds. |
|
The warden of the prison denied accusations that he turned a blind eye to the extortion of prisoners' families by his guards. |
|
Each competitor rides the initial lap blind and is strictly timed during a special stage of each lap as well as during the entire lap itself. |
|
She's attractive, smart, as talky as this guy, about the same age and she has a sense of humor about blind dates. |
|
I often hunt in Texas where one could encounter whitetail, javelina, and turkey all from the same blind on the same morning. |
|
It is believed the woman lived alone, was blind and walked with difficulty with the aid of a walking frame. |
|
The metal ladder was cooperative enough against rubber-soled boots, but moisture and time had warped the blind door, and there was no other way into the box. |
|
It was like witnessing the last two weeks of the life of a blind and toothless dog you knew the vet was just itching to destroy. |
|
Episodes of differential uplift are attributed to active subcretion building culminations above blind imbricate thrusts deep in the accretionary prism beneath the coast. |
|
Strandf could photograph anything from a blind woman to a picket fence and make the image indelible. |
|
What designer West lacks in productivity, he more than makes up for in pure, unadulterated confidence and blind anger. |
|
I hadn't quite gotten to the subject of who the blind date should be when he cut me off. |
|
But it quickly becomes clear how their biases so blind them that they fail to ask far more critical questions. |
|
He was expected to be blind, deaf, unable to speak, and quadriplegic. |
|
|
North Americans are too wasteful, and too ready to turn a blind eye to it. |
|
But the site is incompatible with special screen reading software that would make it accessible to blind readers. |
|
But a Western policy that is blind to the urgent need for reform and justice is certain to end in catastrophe. |
|
Flying blind, the squad zoomed over what should have been Caen, but no one could tell for sure. |
|
The thing that made me the most anxious, weirdly, was the interaction that Patrick had socially, where he had that blind spot on. |
|
I first appeared in Page Six when I was 15 years old and Page Six outed me in a blind item. |
|
In 1996, Musto ran a blind item that indicated that a popular club promoter was bragging about having killed a drug dealer. |
|
Even a government that has turned two blind eyes can hear the clamoring of tens of thousands of demonstrators. |
|
He broke the biggest nightlife scandal during nineties New York in a blind item. |
|
It was a game that could have been, and very often seemingly was, performed very successfully while blind drunk. |
|
It being the early 1950s, everybody was blind drunk and laughed uproariously. |
|
His brother Warnie, apparently unable to face it, was elsewhere, blind drunk. |
|
I understand it was one of your oldest friends, Holly Peterson, who set you up with George on a blind date. |
|
The couple's first daughter, Mary, was born in 1650, and it soon became apparent that she was blind. |
|
In 1658 Bunyan's wife died, leaving him with four small children, one of them blind. |
|
Scott met the blind poet Thomas Blacklock, who lent him books and introduced him to James Macpherson's Ossian cycle of poems. |
|
But when it comes to women, this pope, like past popes, has a blind spot. |
|
Screenreaders for the blind read out the alt text when they encounter an image on a Web page. |
|
Ameritrash players like to play games with lots of dice, blind luck and space marines fighting zombies. |
|
As handsome a gentleman, to be sure, as ever trod shoe leather! I wonder that old folks can be so very, very blind! |
|
|
He had started to stroke her, shivering, staring ahead, following with a blind man's hand the dip of her spine through the batiste. |
|
He took a blind guess at which fork in the road would take him to the airport. |
|
I was set up on a blind date and so was he, but not with each other. |
|
As a blind poet, Milton dictated his verse to a series of aides in his employ. |
|
Then again, maybe a cyclops should be easier to blind than a biclops because you only need get one eye. |
|
This plan is recommended neither to blind approbation nor to blind reprobation. |
|
The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound. |
|
It seems to me very implausible to hold that blindsighted people are mere robots in the blind areas of their self-conscious visual fields. |
|
If a particular whale species isn't endangered, then there's not a blind bit of difference between butchering them or cattle. |
|
He must be blind indeed who does not perceive the radical and chasmal difference between the truthful and the poetical modes of inculcation. |
|
Brook asked the actors to find a way of communicating the idea of this picture to a blind Chineseman. |
|
Ah, Bess, my covess, strike me blind if my sees don't tout your bingo muns in spite of the darkmans. |
|
He was deader than a dead dog's bone buried down a blind alley off a dead-end street in a ghost town. Man, he was dead. |
|
Heidegger apparently was blind to the gayful, playful, frolicking, dancing aspects of Nietzsche's writings. |
|
The spirit of slavery raves under tormenting gnawings, and casts about in blind phrenzy for something to ease, or even to mock them. |
|
I would use my omnipotence to make them no longer blind, and then I would will them to understand every color including infrayellow and bleen. |
|
In late 1810, at the height of his popularity, already virtually blind with cataracts and in pain from rheumatism, George became dangerously ill. |
|
I'm a bit nervous. Could you keep me company while I wait for my blind date to arrive? |
|
Normal rats show leukophobia, ie, going away from strong light, while blind rats do not react to light in this manner. |
|
We might conceive that dogs were created blind, because we observe they were littered so with us. |
|
|
The residents of the city were commanded to look away as she rode, but one man did not and was allegedly struck blind. |
|
Most of the pages are decorated in red paint with details in gold, silver and blind. |
|
Having gone totally blind in 1652, Milton wrote Paradise Lost entirely through dictation with the help of amanuenses and friends. |
|
Almost blind, and having lived in England for nearly fifty years, he died in 1759, a respected and rich man. |
|
He became paralysed and blind, but completed some late compositions between 1928 and 1932 with the aid of an amanuensis, Eric Fenby. |
|
He took treatment at clinics across Europe, but by 1922 he was walking with two sticks, and by 1928 he was paralysed and blind. |
|
To this day McClellan is almost completely blind and uses a wheelchair, although he has regained some movement and can walk with a cane. |
|
The war also employed modern military tactics, such as trenches and blind artillery fire. |
|
Following Darwin's primary usage, the term is used to refer both to the evolutionary consequence of blind selection and to its mechanisms. |
|
The 1920 Blind Persons Act provided assistance for unemployed blind people and blind persons who were in low paid employment. |
|
In addition, pensions were introduced for blind persons aged fifty and above. |
|
For the moment it was a blind, objectless passion, directed against nothing and no one in particular. |
|
The upper windows are of a restrained Classical form, with pediments set on columns, but are blind and contain niches. |
|
Behind the jaws is a short esophagus and a large, blind stomach cavity which occupies much of the dorsal half of the disk. |
|
One of the eyes migrates across the top of the head and onto the other side of the body, leaving the fish blind on one side. |
|
The larva also loses its swim bladder and spines, and sinks to the bottom, laying its blind side on the underlying surface. |
|
Unlike the vertebrate eye, there is no blind spot, because the optic nerve is positioned behind the retina. |
|
Nobody, not even an Oompa Loompa, had warned me what would happen to a blind guy who refuses to close his eyes. |
|
The Middle East blind mole rat was the first mammal for which Seismic communication was documented. |
|
Although the eyes of most microbat species are small and poorly developed, leading to poor visual acuity, no species is blind. |
|
|
He remains for several days, takes part in a pentathlon, and hears the blind singer Demodocus perform two narrative poems. |
|
For example, the family of nearly blind spiderfishes, common and widely distributed, feed on benthopelagic zooplankton. |
|
He had put his feet out on the floor and was feeling for his slippers with blind pedipulations. |
|
Radio reading services for the blind became a common use, and remain so, and there were experiments with quadraphonic sound. |
|
Other such mythological druids were Tadg mac Nuadat of the Fenian Cycle, and Mug Ruith, a powerful blind druid of Munster. |
|
The tax farmers' profits consisted of additional amounts they could forcibly wring from the populace with Rome's blessing or turning a blind eye. |
|
In Celtic mythology, a well belonging to the god Nechtain is said to blind all those who gaze into it. |
|
Alexios III fled from the capital, and Alexios Angelos was elevated to the throne as Alexios IV along with his blind father Isaac. |
|
To classify its organoleptic qualities, olive oil is judged by a panel of trained tasters in a blind taste test. |
|
Kuchum replied, describing himself as deaf and blind and without subsistence and said that he had not submitted before and would not submit now. |
|
In such a situation, the motive may become subjective evidence that the accused did not intend, but was reckless or willfully blind. |
|
A system of anonymous grading known as blind grading is used in many law schools in the United States. |
|
General adoption of blind grading followed admission of significant numbers of minority students to law schools. |
|
However, in genuine old age he became almost blind, causing him to need sticks and a helping arm. |
|
An installed tubular rivet has a head on one side, with a rolled over and exposed shallow blind hole on the other. |
|
Due to this feature, blind rivets are used mainly when access to the joint is available from only one side. |
|
There are also structural blind rivets, which are designed to take shear and tensile loads. |
|
There is a vast array of specialty blind rivets that are suited for high strength or plastic applications. |
|
Drive screws, possibly another name for drive rivets, are commonly used to hold nameplates into blind holes. |
|
A blind rivet has strength properties that can be measured in terms of shear and tensile strength. |
|
|
Though blind, he took up swimming and diving, fighting cocks, playing cards, riding and even hunting. |
|
A blind law graduate who put the National Conference of Bar Examiners to the test got schooled in federal court. |
|
These provisions are considered in the blind illustrated by the diagram. This is a semi-homemade blind. |
|
That is the universal tenet. But is God really hid? It is the blind or stupid eye that first pronounced this sensely word. |
|
Skunk really gave it some stick all the way to Caliban's place, we passed a good few Coppers but they all seemed to turn the blind eye. |
|
I said the medication made my vision temporarily blurry, it did not make me stone blind. |
|
The cave was populated by albino scorpions, blind salamanders, and other troglodytes. |
|
The mother turned a blind eye to her son's mischief as she expected him not to repeat it. |
|
And you will not take a bribe, because a bribe will blind the alert, and will twist the words of the righteous. |
|
And if so, then these passions, these impulses, cannot be altogether blind and unpurposing. |
|
He believed that we were suffering from warp or bias, that a blind spot contorted our mental vision. |
|
It was hot, and all the waterstuff came out of Hof's eye, and then he was blind. |
|
A critical double blind study is required with xylamide before the drug is worthy of being considered for ulcer therapy. |
|
Working at the Five and Dime, she met her Charlie on a blind date that led to her becoming a war bride. |
|
And if they can't find it at the watercooler or the supermarket, or even on their latest blind date, they can always fall back on the movies. |
|
The work included wheelbarrowing in 197 tons of material to build a trail for those in wheelchairs and for the blind. |
|
Stress, coping, and adjustment of adventitiously blind male veterans with and without diabetes mellitus. |
|
His scheduled appearance on the TV dating show blind date is postponed. |
|
Ruby's vision has had to be transformed from one that has been blind to supernatural significance to one that is able to see anagogically. |
|
At noon on Tuesday, I built a small ground blind of sage and pine under a lone jack pine 30 yards downwind of the wallow. |
|
|
The proof is either a copy of the document of blind registration or a certificate from an ophthalmologist. |
|
There he befriended Henry Moyes, a young blind man who showed precocious aptitude. |
|
One Sunday, returning from the altar rail, the old, partially blind man stumbled at the chancel step. |
|
Males play no part in rearing the young, which are born blind, deaf, toothless and covered in fine white or pinkish down. |
|
The blind Duncan McIndeor, who died in 1694, was harper to Campbell of Auchinbreck, but also frequented Edinburgh. |
|
Using it, the sight of the ship's captain, who had been blind in one eye, was restored. |
|
This sector, with two blind tee shots on the tenth and 11th, marks a sharp rise in difficulty from the opening holes. |
|
Biographer John Tytell believes Pound had always felt that his creativity and ability to seduce women were linked, something Dorothy had turned a blind eye to over the years. |
|
In order to receive the concession, the blind or severely sight impaired person must apply to the TV Licensing Blind Concession Group with proof of impairment. |
|
Grandma teaching you to drive is like the blind leading the blind. |
|
Lighthouse keeping is narrated by an orphan named Silver, who on the death of her parents is adopted by Pew, a blind lighthousekeeper in the imaginary Scottish town of Salts. |
|
Though in general Marx had a blind faith in his closest friends, nevertheless he himself complained that he was sometimes too mistrustful and unjust even to them. |
|
Captain Cat, the blind sea captain, is tormented in his dreams by his drowned shipmates, who long to live again and enjoy the pleasures of the world. |
|
If a blind man lead a blind man, both fall down in the ditch. |
|
Kittens are born blind and helpless, and are covered in a fuzzy coat. |
|
George Bush's attempt at just-folks normalcy was undermined when he turned a blind eye to his chief of staff flying military jets to private appointments. |
|
He developed dementia, and became completely blind and increasingly deaf. |
|
So urgent was the need to supply the armed forces in the United Kingdom, America and elsewhere that the authorities sometimes turned a blind eye on the untaxed sales. |
|
Next, the set of tweets was split-recoded by both coders, with one half being blind recoded by each researcher and then exchanged and checked for intercoder agreement. |
|
Third, a major barrier for blind and physically handicapped children is removed by permitting them to typewrite their answers during public examinations. |
|
|
In her last few years she was unable to continue the journal she had written almost without a break since she was 10 years old, as she became blind. |
|
The OAP, who is believed to have already completed nine abseils in the past, was one of 50 participants in the event in aid of blind charity 4SIGHT on Saturday. |
|
It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it was laid down have vanished long since, and the rule simply persists from blind imitation of the past. |
|
He is partially colour blind and has difficulty distinguishing between the red and brown balls, once even potting a brown ball believing it to be a red ball. |
|
Also known as the proteus, the olm is a blind amphibian found only in the underwater caves of southern Europe, specifically parts of Italy, Croatia, and Slovenia. |
|
In this paper, the development of a microprocessor based system for converting videotex pages to synthetic speech in real time, for the benefit of blind people, is described. |
|
We pulled and pulled, but it didn't make a blind bit of difference. |
|
Bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. |
|
But he had a certain acrid courage, and a certain will-to-power. In his own small circle he would emanate power, the single power of his own blind self. |
|
That's what all of you blind faithists must convince yourselves. |
|
The persecutions combined a relentless specificity with sudden, blind generality that might force any woman to confront the asocial, immoral side of being human. |
|
Vision testing can be accomplished with either a counter model vision tester or wall-mounted eyecharts, along with the Ishihara system color blind test charts. |
|
Everyone is blind and deaf in their own private dancescapes. |
|
Numerous lesser reforms were also introduced, some of which were of great benefit to certain segments of British society, such as the mentally deficient and the blind. |
|
Street light? Was I coming up in somebody's basement? Whatever it was, I was all for light. Trapped is bad. Trapped and blind gives me the crawlies. |
|
He loves her so much that he has a blind spot when it comes to her faults. |
|
With more room between them, both pilots could spend less time maintaining formation and more time looking around and covering each other's blind spots. |
|
He agreed to turn a blind eye to an invasion by sea, but made it clear that he would disavow them and confiscate all their English lands should Balliol and his friends fail. |
|
He deplored the medireview practice of covering oneself with a filigree of guru-talk and expressing excessive superiority through the blind belief that was prevalent. |
|
By October 1760, George II was blind in one eye, and hard of hearing. |
|
|
When he changed lanes, he sideswiped a car that was in his blind spot. |
|
It was, and is, widely believed that Huxley was nearly blind since the illness in his teens, despite the partial recovery that had enabled him to study at Oxford. |
|
To isolate the problem of valid orders is to go up a blind alley. |
|
But they are intensely interested in animals and other children and feel compassion for the blind boys and girls, and for the spastics who are unable to walk or talk. |
|
She was a minor poet who was poor and becoming blind, two conditions that Johnson attempted to change by providing room for her and paying for a failed cataract surgery. |
|
The Restoration of 1660 deprived Milton, now completely blind, of his public platform, but this period saw him complete most of his major works of poetry. |
|
In his last years, and possibly as early as 1400, he became blind. |
|
Additional legend proclaims that Peeping Tom was later struck blind as heavenly punishment, or that the townspeople took the matter in their own hands and blinded him. |
|
This expands the blind end of the rivet and then the mandrel snaps off. |
|
The front of the gateway was a blind spot and to overcome this, projecting towers were added on each side of the gate in a style similar to that developed by the Romans. |
|
Man the creature seemingly following his desires and ambitions is held in check and swayed from his blind lungings about the earth by the Spirit of the God who made him. |
|
That blind general lost his sight by the process of abacination. |
|
A drive rivet is a form of blind rivet that has a short mandrel protruding from the head that is driven in with a hammer to flare out the end inserted in the hole. |
|
Squatting, Dewey Dell's wet dress shapes for the dead eyes of three blind men those mammalian ludicrosities which are the horizons and the valleys of the earth. |
|
Tommy's blind was live, so he was given the option to raise. |
|
The print may be inked or blind but is typically done in a single color. |
|
They react emotionally, but understandably, to separation from what they know or have chosen, whether it be a longtime yardman or a pet rabbit suddenly gone blind. |
|
Instead, he describes evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker in that reproduction, mutation, and selection are unguided by any designer. |
|