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18 Sep 2020, 1:04 pm
Joe Biden wanted to sound tough on trade last night in Pennsylvania, but began quavering when it came to China — not just the worst abuser on trade, but on a number of other points, including human-rights abuses. [read post]
4 Sep 2009, 11:53 am
Watch him quaver at Ben Nelson's tactical extremism: I know a lot of the readers of this blog think that Barack Obama could cause any bill to pass the Senate that he wants if only he were sufficiently spiney, and that any effort to point out the existence of objective impediments to passing legislation is just “shilling” for the White House, but it’s still the case that objective impediments exist. [read post]
10 Mar 2012, 5:31 pm
It outright eliminates the shaky hands, quavering voice thing that can plague musicians and other performers. [read post]
8 Dec 2011, 8:35 am
We don't quaver because somebody holds up three letters: DNA. [read post]
6 Mar 2020, 1:30 am
laments that not even the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 caused the markets to quaver like they are now acting. [read post]
11 Mar 2008, 9:12 am
The approach is social history rather than music theory, I suppose, so don’t expect to see crochets and quavers! [read post]
4 Jan 2023, 4:38 am
Reflecting a town where everyone is at least industry-adjacent, her characters are often performing—at auditions, on Comic Con panels, on social media—while straining to hide some inner tension, which Reilly betrays with darting eyes or a quavering voice. [read post]
28 Jun 2018, 5:18 am
25 Nov 2020, 8:58 am
My searching to confirm the source, by the way, led me to this other quote, from the Kentucky Bar Journal in 1942 (writing about the word "quisling"): Q … (with one august exception) has long seemed to the British mind to be a crooked, uncertain and slightly disreputable letter, suggestive of the questionable, the querulous, the quavering of quaking quagmires and quivering quicksands, of quibbles and quarrels, of queasiness, quackery, qualms, and Quilp … [read post]
15 Aug 2013, 8:41 am
” In what was reportedly a “quavering voice,” Manning spoke for just a few minutes—only the third time he has spoken publicly since being arrested in June 2010 after leaking a huge trove of classified documents to WikiLeaks. [read post]
21 Jul 2012, 12:25 am
Rohrs said, his voice quavering. [read post]
11 Feb 2009, 3:28 pm
A Lawyer's Work is Never DoneOriginally uploaded by chrisaferIf greed was good in the '80's, the overriding mood of early '09 seems to be quavering panic, at least in the legal profession. [read post]
12 Apr 2008, 4:10 am
.* Officer had cause to search when he smelled marijuana came from the open window, and the defendant's voice began quavering. [read post]
13 Feb 2008, 10:40 am
At the moment of choice the scrupulous quaver. [read post]
5 Nov 2013, 4:00 am
They can even cause our insurers to quaver. [read post]
7 Jul 2008, 3:15 pm
Indeed, extracted from the judgement (summarised by me, actual listing in appendix to judgement), we can see that Pringle-buyers are also likely to buy other zero-rated products such as KP Skips (no longer with potato ingredients), Doritos, Quaker Snack-a-Jacks, Jacobs Twiglets and Mini Cheddars (biscuits) or standard-rated products such as Monster Munch (no potatoes but content made from "swelling cereal" which attracts standard rate); McCoys (conventional potato crisps); KP Hula Hoops… [read post]
29 Oct 2009, 5:56 pm
At a hearing on the employee's $19 million proposed settlement in the bankruptcy, David Simon's voice quavered slightly as he began to speak to a courtroom full of experienced bankruptcy attorneys and litigators and to a judge well-known for his intelligence and wit. [read post]
5 Oct 2018, 8:28 am
Kavanaugh drunkenly assaulted her, she offered, with some quavering, that it was the laughter between Mr. [read post]
24 Aug 2007, 2:52 am
TYC employees may quaver at that thought since it might mean additional unit closures. [read post]
28 Feb 2007, 1:20 pm
Will repeat child molesters learn of HB 8, quaver in their shoes, and change their dastardly ways, or will they not even be aware of the new law and disregard it entirely without drawing the obvious, rational conclusion under the law that they're better off if they murder the witness to the crime, in this case the child victim? [read post]
