The girl brushed past me.

Have you brushed your teeth?

Jack brushed the dust off his coat.

The aluminum castings must be brushed again.

Four hurricanes brushed the Islands in 2004.

In Cambodia in 1993, the sexual exploitation of women and girls by UNTAC troops was brushed aside as boys will be boys.

So if you brush up against it, any place you brushed against it, you get this twinkling blue green light that's just breathtaking.

After I brushed them off with a hand motion, they were very I finally was now accepted, and worked there for some six months.

I think the most curious one that I came across was a case report of a woman who had an orgasm every time she brushed her teeth.

The people who brushed and flossed their teeth were not necessarily the people who were really scared about what would happen it's the people who simply felt that they had the capacity to change their behavior.

Chen s personal wealth grew conspicuously shortly after he assumed office, but no one could produce hard evidence of his corruption back then. His political supporters initially brushed aside the mushrooming rumors of his self enrichment as opposition KMT propaganda.

After all, he reacted to China s growing activities in Africa which his officials maintained was reminiscent of imperialism by receiving an official visit in 2006 from Taiwan s then President Chen Shui bian. As the pressure from the rebels grew, Qaddafi s last hope for maintaining power became China, and so fear of its influence in Africa was brushed aside.

Fundamental tenets of a democratic society, such as freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, and freedom of the press are increasingly coming under pressure. And the prosecution of opposition members, which has now culminated in the arrest and detention of former Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko during an ongoing trial that most of the West has deemed political seems to confirm that the rule of law is being brushed aside.

In redirecting its exports, Russia is in effect demanding that Europe spend billions of euros on new infrastructure to replace a perfectly good pipeline, only to satisfy Putin's desire to cause trouble in Ukraine. In January, Gazprom's CEO, Alexey Miller, imperiously brushed off European concerns, stating, We have informed our European partners, and now it is up to them to put in place the necessary infrastructure starting from the Turkish Greek border.