| After the 1997-98 crisis, Mahathir thumbed his nose at the world and went his own way by imposing currency controls. |
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| I thumbed the button on my cell phone which bore the symbol of a green handset. |
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| Nakamura fished a cell phone from his pants pocket, and the device chirped as he thumbed the two-way communication button. |
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| He leaned forward and thumbed the intercom button on the computer terminal. |
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| His cookbooks can be found, greasily thumbed, in many of the nation's kitchens. |
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| The door slid aside when he thumbed a square button beside the panel, but the lights did not come on automatically as they had in the corridor. |
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| As any current observer of demolition will tell you, grapples and thumbed buckets are pervasive for cleanup work. |
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| As he spun he twirled his pistols and thumbed a button that extended prongs from the handles. |
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| This will predict your future life for you, much better than the fortuneteller with a turban and a well thumbed set of Tarot cards. |
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| Years later I foolishly sold off my collection of ratty, well thumbed copies. |
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| Yet instead of pursuing a bi-partisan agenda, he has thumbed his nose at over half of the American population. |
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| Jonah desperately thumbed the lighter's switch one last time, and he was rewarded with a sudden flare of light. |
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| I do so love my books, so much so that I couldn't bring myself to read books that had been thumbed a thousand times over. |
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| In our own kids' bookshelves, they're the most battered, thumbed and falling-apart books, so often have they been read. |
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| The following year I was keen to get hold of the latest version of the book that had become a well thumbed favourite. |
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| The smell and feel of them but books that have been thumbed through by hundreds and gone yellowy don't have quite the same appeal. |
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| When I thumbed through his journal at the shop today I had the strong feeling that he never intended for these thoughts to be publicised. |
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| Troy grimly thumbed the detonator as a trio of eager gunrunners raced forward with what looked like shaped charges of plastique. |
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| When I asked where the head was, a crewmember thumbed at the lee side of the boat. |
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| He quickly thumbed the bee's wax out of his ears and tossed it on the ground. |
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| It stands, therefore, inert on our shelves or lies vexedly thumbed on our tables, and it will continue so until we learn to use it as it was intended we should. |
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| He sighed audibly in the empty shop and thumbed at a dog-eared corner. |
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| I probably would have just thumbed through the pages, looked up the price, and placed it with a pile of other books waiting their turn to be shelved. |
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| If we could unearth Pound's copy of the London A-Z, it would be a heavily thumbed, scribbled-over, asterisked and earmarked volume. |
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| Firstly, jazz up any table salt you have – I thumbed lemon peel and chillies into mine and forgot all about it. |
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| He thumbed the buttons hard a couple of times, then pushed it aside. |
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| No sooner have you thumbed the remote control, than legions of sherry-sodden aunts, bickering uncles and brattish weans are filing out of your living room. |
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| The doorman thumbed the button and steel doors rang and parted open. |
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| Some are so well thumbed that the tattered pages look ready to crumble. |
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| On the shelf was a small selection of callously thumbed books. |
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| When using a single one, a washer and a thumbed bolt secure the weight. |
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| The Conservative government has thumbed its nose at Kyoto, has refused to set absolute greenhouse gas reduction targets, and has set 2006 as the base year instead of 1990, despite the demands of environmental groups. |
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| Even though Wiens and Neufeld both spoke in Russian, connecting with the majority audience in their language, young Turkic pastors thumbed vainly through their New Testaments trying to find Jonah. |
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| As I thumbed through the pamphlet I turned to page 5, state measures. |
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| But many do appear useful, and are well thumbed. |
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| Iran thumbed its nose at the Security Council, which followed up with three resolutions in December 2006, March 2007, and March 2008, repeating its demands and applying sanctions. |
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| Minister Hunt has ignored the evidence and thumbed his nose at the serious concerns of scientists, tourism operators, fishers and Unesco about the impacts of these industrial developments and activities. |
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| One viewer thumbed through photographs of rock stars by Jim Marshall that had been damaged in transit, as if he were riffling through vinyl records at a yard sale. |
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| Hence the latest, a new species of blind cave arachnid or harvestman from south-eastern Brazil has sent scientists to their much thumbed copies of the Lord of the Rings. |
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| Shortly after Mr Mbeki and Mr Obasanjo left, he thumbed his nose at their message, warning white farmers not to take their complaints of illegalities to the courts. |
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| He gravely informed the enemy that all his cards had been thumbed to pieces, and begged them to let him have a few more packs. |
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| Parliament thumbed its nose at a cynical commentariat and legislated for a medically supervised injecting room. |
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| Russia, by contrast, thumbed its nose at Washington and got away with it. |
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| I thumbed through the book and decided not to bother reading it all. |
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