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Then, suddenly, I got a whiff of jasmine.

Care for a whiff of those smelling salts?

There's a strong whiff of half baked anarchism about them.

After that whiff of perfume, I couldn't wait three years.

Nothing beats the whiff of fresh air in the early morning, Axel.

I remember there was a whiff of jasmine before I was knocked out.

A nip of frost, a whiff of fog and chaos is coming in.

Skew the coordinate system in x and y direction by alpha and beta degrees.

Should a whiff of your Lord s punishment touch them, they will surely say, Woe to us! We have indeed been wrongdoers!

Should a whiff of your Lord s punishment touch them, they will surely say, Woe to us! We have indeed been wrongdoers!

Even if a whiff of the Lord's chastisement were to touch them they would surely say Ah woe, alas, we were surely sinful.

Even if a whiff of the Lord's chastisement were to touch them they would surely say Ah woe, alas, we were surely sinful.

And if a whiff of your Lord s punishment were to touch them, they would certainly say, Woe to us we were indeed unjust!

And if a whiff of your Lord s punishment were to touch them, they would certainly say, Woe to us we were indeed unjust!

Were only the slightest whiff from your Lord's punishment to touch them, they would cry out Woe to us we were indeed wrong doers.

Were only the slightest whiff from your Lord's punishment to touch them, they would cry out Woe to us we were indeed wrong doers.

Moneyman Steve Jurvetson takes TEDsters inside his awesome hobby launching model rockets by sharing some gorgeous photos, his infectious glee and just a whiff of danger.

And if as much as a whiff of the punishment of your Lord should touch them, they would surely say, O woe to us! Indeed, we have been wrongdoers.

And if as much as a whiff of the punishment of your Lord should touch them, they would surely say, O woe to us! Indeed, we have been wrongdoers.

Maybe we should ask why the skew is so negative. Should we regard it as just chance, or, when combined with record high prices, as a symptom of some instability?

You can change the scenery but sooner or later, you'll get a whiff of perfume or somebody will say a certain phrase, or maybe hum something and you're licked again.

Kagan may be right in thinking that a precipitous US retreat from East Asia could have dangerous consequences. But this argument has the familiar whiff of the late stages of empire.

The very nature of the appointments of limited duration contract modality (which allowed for a maximum term of employment of four years) and the inclusion of General Service staff could skew the results.

Badly behaved movie stars and politicians skew ideas of the norm or of what should be acceptable. Obviously, not all types of bad behavior should be criminalized but voters and customers should still shun them.

Vicious circles of economic instability, devaluation, and capital flight have brought down seemingly unbreakable regimes throughout history. This probably explains the whiff of panic that followed China s tiny, but totally unexpected, devaluation of the renminbi.

One quick whiff of something called potassium argon and they can tell the age of the stone, where it was quarried, when it was cut and the name and address of the man who did it.

The reason democratic politics leads to manipulation is that politicians do not aspire to tell the truth. They want to win elections, and the best way to do that is to skew reality to their own benefit.

The other central bank is unflappable. It remains calm in the face of events, seeking at all cost to avoid doing anything that might be construed as encouraging excessive risk taking or creating even a whiff of inflation.

In the US, the skew has been so negative only three other times since 1960 at the time of the 6.7 drop on May 28, 1962, the record shattering 20.5 plummet on October 19, 1987, and the 6.1 decline on October 13, 1989.

Stock markets unusually negative skew is not inconsistent with booming price growth in recent years. The markets have broken all time records, come close to doing so, or at least done very well since 2003 ( the case in Japan) by making up for the big drops incrementally, in a succession of smaller increases.

More important, an elected president has much greater legitimacy than a hereditary monarch, whose claim to authority depends exclusively on tradition and ceremony. With a king or queen unable to say or do anything that may cause a whiff of controversy, the monarchy has been stripped of its power of action or reflection.

Nor is the negative skew inconsistent with the fact that world stock markets have been relatively quiet for most of this year. With the conspicuous exception of China and the less conspicuous exception of Australia, all have had low standard deviations of daily returns for the 100 business day period ending August 3 when compared with the norm for the country.

However, backward and forward linkages to the rest of the economy tend to be weak, and because the final markets for these goods are dominated by oligopolistic firms usually competing on the basis of quality, design, marketing, branding and product differentiation, significant barriers to entry into the high skill and technology parts of the production chain not only skew the distribution of gains from trade, they can make upgrading particularly difficult.

However, before graduates flock to private equity, they should know that only the very big funds can use debt to skew returns for insiders in this way, primarily because only they can raise the capital needed to buy well established companies that are rich in fixed assets, and thus in potential collateral. Smaller private equity funds typically buy into younger, smaller companies without such fixed assets, and the leverage in those deals is commensurately less.