| But Mom's been dreaming of a big blowout all her life, and you'd be a lout not to indulge her. |
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| The Centre for Developing-Area Studies, an academic research centre at McGill, is turning 40 years old next week and is planning a big blowout. |
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| That game was a blowout, but it wasn't a result of dropping nine players in pass coverage. |
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| It's a blowout affair that includes an unlimited number of roasted ears for every participant. |
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| Jokes spring up where you would most and least expect them-in a frat house bedroom during a blowout party, or at an octogenarian's funeral. |
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| There are several ways to mitigate a blowout without losing control or playing soft. |
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| I do remember quite vividly however watching a woman driving a car suffer a blowout. |
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| Mark's annual Derby Weekend blowout creates more buzz about the brand than anything else the company does. |
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| Often in a blowout, the referees will give the disadvantaged team some breaks. |
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| You're going to see a blowout of entire systems, of utility systems, electrical utility systems, and others, as a result of this. |
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| Had I attempted it immediately, there was grave danger of cutting the inner wall of one or both tyres and suffering a blowout. |
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| It also said that if it is broken by some way other than natural blowout, there would be no replacement. |
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| I managed to pull over to the hard shoulder expecting I'd had a blowout on one of my tyres but on inspection they looked fine. |
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| You never know when you are going to suffer a tyre blowout or when another driver is just going to be plain careless. |
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| This trade recession will be just as insidious in its effects as any market blowout. |
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| But if Treasury yields do begin a long climb back up, investors who have already suffered from the stock market blowout will take another hit. |
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| The 1979 internal blowout was associated with two surface eruptions that expelled large volumes of overpressured fluids for 10 days. |
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| Even after the blowout had been brought under control, the oil continued to seep out of the ocean floor, he says. |
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| My best friend of over ten years and I had a bad blowout 2 years ago and I tell you, I miss her a lot. |
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| Yes, he was saying the election could be a blowout, but he wasn't saying that was a good thing. |
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| If you can't talk about this without a big blowout, write her a letter explaining how you feel. |
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| Slightly more mature, but enough immaturity to still bring on a good blowout fight whenever we feel like. |
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| She seriously considered that maybe she and Sam had had a blowout argument. |
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| On top we have the blowout preventer from the original event with the capping stack on top of that. |
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| Dozens, maybe hundreds, of used console games are on sale in their October blowout sale. |
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| I would spend up to half an hour blowing it out and then flat-ironing it, or I'd have to get a professional blowout. |
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| There are lots of great scores to be had in the Outlet. Right now we're having a blowout. |
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| We also have an option now available to us to actually put a valve or new blowout preventer on top of the existing one. |
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| The ride will leave from town, ride miles of urban singletrack and some pave, and culminate with a blowout BBQ and podium ceremony. |
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| Their major buyers raid their blowout bins, put them in boxes and ship them to the States. |
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| Crews are set to remove the temporary cap today so they can replace the blowout preventer, then seal the well once and for all. |
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| By 1998, as the budget began to blowout, the figure was revised upwards to 23 percent. |
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| As I walked into this blowout, I passed one species of plant life after another. |
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| The crater resulting from the blowout was measured at 34m long, 15m wide and 6m deep. |
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| Retailers look for any occasion to host a blowout or a promotion that will make shoppers think they are saving money. |
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| He responded by zipping passes to his wide-open teammates and finished with 10 assists as part of a triple-double in a blowout win. |
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| North of this large major blowout is another, less pronounced blowout of unstabilized sand. |
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| More than six weeks after BP's ruptured well was capped, crews today began removing the blowout preventer. |
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| The safety of oil drilling depends on the reliability of a blowout preventer. |
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| You may have been the first person to detect a problem with that blowout preventer. |
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| They will do that to raise the blowout preventer which officials say is key to help determine what caused the gulf oil disaster. |
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| Now, I think we can all agree that one of the closest elections in history can hardly qualify as a blowout. |
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| The work should not affect a second system that is collecting 8,000 to 9,000 barrels a day from a pipe lower on the blowout preventer. |
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| We will be holding a big blowout for all our friends soon, complete with flour, pudding, and wet noodles. |
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| The gorgeous guy you've sorta been going out with is planning to go camping the weekend of your big blowout birthday bash. |
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| It's more of a kind of brouhaha about springtime and summer's coming, so we're going to have a big blowout. |
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| Visitors from more restrictive states began to make it their weekend blowout destination and a huge tourism business was built around it. |
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| Stylist Marvin Carrington decided to revamp her shoulder-length, naturally wavy hair with a sleek blowout, defined layers and blond highlights. |
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| The biggest party I ever had was also a Halloween blowout, several years ago back in Kansas. |
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| Aviation experts have designed durable new radial tyres that burst into lighter, more flexible fragments if a blowout occurs. |
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| He was still crowing over the success of his Dallas showroom expansion and the blowout coming-out party. |
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| And usually when one tire blows out, the tire adjacent to the flat can blowout easily from the increased pressure. |
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| I can let my long hair air-dry and it actually looks like I've had an expensive blowout. |
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| Game 1 was a blowout, and the Bulls got a major psychological edge that helped them to their second straight title. |
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| Today we turn our critical lens on the big blowout Washington party known as the presidential inauguration. |
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| If a blowout does occur, maintain a firm grip on the handlebars and do not grab the brakes. |
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| Engineers will remove a cap and install a new blowout preventer. |
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| There are all of these hare-brained schemes for trying to stop a blowout at 1,500 metres of water. |
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| That number was calculated before the BP blowout and it was based on the relative infrequency of any of these catastrophes up until now. |
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| It had devices to quickly seal off a well blowout or to break free from it. |
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| For the last seven years this annual blowout has attracted writers, b-boys, b-girls, MCs and turntablists from around the world, and this year is no different. |
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| After amazing audiences with dizzying array of different formats two years in a row, the blowout takes on yet another form this year. |
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| Neglected or ignored damage could cause you to lose control of the vehicle following a blowout. |
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| The models used by the proponent predict that a blowout discharge would drift away from Sable Island. |
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| On 20 April, the oil rig Deepwater Horizon suffered a blowout, in which 4 people were injured and 11 reported missing. |
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| Improper tire pressure causes an unstable trailer and can result in a tire blowout and loss of control. |
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| As well, drilling two exploratory wells instead of one may inadvertently increase the likelihood of a blowout. |
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| If the tire blowout had occurred immediately at touchdown, the predicted ground roll-out distance would have increased by 160 feet to 3,910 feet. |
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| This includes rig inspections and implementation of new requirements on blowout preventer certification and well design. |
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| They had suffered a tyre blowout on the way back from a safari park. |
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| If someone hits a stobie pole after a tyre blowout an injured driver cannot claim compensation and is left at the mercy of the public health system. |
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| With nearly two-thirds of the vote in, Maryland was shaping up as a Romney blowout, 48 to 30 percent. |
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| A haven of genteel entertainment might persuade local residents that there were pleasurable and respectable alternatives to a knock-down drunken blowout every weekend. |
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| The blowout was caused by increasing trade deficits in April, May and June and mainly due to falling exports of coal, coke, briquettes and metals. |
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| If a blowout occurs during wireline operations, any pressure would be prevented from entering the riser, and would be contained by the control head. |
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| A toxic gas blowout at a drilling well in the municipality of Chongqing in south-west China on the night of December 23 has killed at least 233 people. |
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| The accident occurred when the taxi suffered a left rear tyre blowout. |
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| He hasn't tried anything like that since their blowout years ago. |
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| Anna was sixteen, the coolest age for a teen and she should have been having a blowout party with her friends, not sitting at home with her Mom and her Mom's friend. |
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| But before we can weigh anchor, Flores erupts into Festa do Emigrante, a blowout party celebrating Azorean emigrants' annual return to the islands, beginning in July. |
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| If sales are strong, what will the blowout deals do to earnings? |
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| Woe to the promotion manager who doesn't ace the Christmas blowout. |
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| Only the Vikings broke the barrier in a blowout victory over the Packers. |
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| This one-side riddled basin can even persist beyond the blowout bifurcation, contrary to the previously reported riddled basins which exist only below the blowout transition. |
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| Parabolic dunes are formed when the wind causes a blowout, that is, begins to gouge sand out from around a patch of vegetation that has weakened its grip. |
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| It's supposed to trigger the blowout preventer to shut the well. |
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| But on April 20th, the blowout preventer simply did not work. |
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| She also designs personalised detox and weight-loss programmes to ensure her clients stay comfortable in their 27 in Seven jeans, even post-holiday blowout. |
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| I play for two minutes of garbage time at the end of a blowout? Is that all the time I'm going to see anymore? |
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| As we have learned from the catastrophic oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, it is far more cost-effective to take preventative measures to safeguard ocean health than to restore it. |
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| A space colonist revives after a blowout and discovers disturbing changes. |
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| Transarterial embolization of acute external carotid blowout syndrome with profuse oronasal bleeding by N-butyl-cyanoacrylate. |
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| Using a five-point scale that ranges from a 1 for blowout to a 5 for nail-biter, McInnes found closely contested games to be the most deadly. |
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| Called semelparity, this single blowout of procreation also shows up in organisms from salmon to garden squash vines. |
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| Discount the blowout of the Buccaneers on Sunday — that says more about how Tampa Bay quit than it does about how the Falcons stack up with other playoff teams. |
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| Cercospora infection was widespread among blowout penstemon plants in 2005, especially among inflorescences compared to vegetative shoots. |
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| Nearly six weeks after the Deepwater Horizon blowout, no one knew for sure whether the worst was over and what the true impact of the disaster would be. |
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| While less spectacular than the explosion, the energy released during blowout can lead to significant injuries if people are directly in the projection trajectory of the debris. |
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| On June 3, 1979 a blowout under the offshore drilling rig Ixtoc I, in the Gulf of Campeche off Mexico, started the worst marine oil spill from a single source. |
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| When the rig sank, the riser broke near the top while remaining attached to the blowout preventer at the bottom, bending itself like a pretzel in its subsequent collapse. |
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| This essentially works by injecting multi-sized particles to plug the blowout preventer, or BOP, followed by using heavyweight drilling mud and ultimately cement to permanently seal off the well. |
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| A bubble, cut or bulge in a side wall can result in a tire blowout. |
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| A major blowout accident took place in August 2004 off the Egyptian coast. |
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| The strategic environmental assessment, while necessarily more of an overview nature than subsequent project-specific assessments, included a consideration of potential blowout risk and fate. |
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| The Macondo well is a set of fatal initial mistakes, a blowout and three months of uncontrolled flow removed from being a properly-functional well. |
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| Steven Chu, America's energy secretary, was reportedly shocked to find that the only source of information from the Deepwater Horizon's blowout preventer was a single gauge. |
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| The company was still reeling from the impact of the Macondo blowout and the billions of dollars that it had been forced to pay out for clean up and compensation. |
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| In April 1977, an oil well blowout occurred at the Ekofisk Bravo platform, due to an incorrectly installed downhole safety valve. |
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| That's why a goal-oriented regulation is far superior to a prescriptive one, because a prescriptive regulation would have said a blowout preventer should look like this. |
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| There are techniques to drill safely in that region, but I don't believe it would be safe, or worth risking what could potentially be quite catastrophic should there be a blowout in the moving-ice gyre, in the Beaufort Sea. |
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| One chore for the Bruins will be the hectic schedule, even if UCLA does the expected and begins the tournament with a blowout of the Silverswords. |
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| Others, such as the Exxon Valdez allision and oil discharge, Hurricane Katrina, or the Deepwater Horizon blowout and deepwater discharge, happen about once a decade. |
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| The biggest piece of bad luck was being caught in the outwash of the Macondo well blowout, which Shell had nothing to do with and was far from the Arctic. |
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| Four Qantas jumbo jets have had to turn back because of various problems since an engine blowout on one of the airline's Airbus A380s near Singapore two weeks ago. |
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| About an hour ago, when Alona caught me crying in the hallway after my big blowout with the king of the prickwads, I figured, why not blame the little guys again? |
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| The game was expected to be close but it turned out to be a blowout. |
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