(2) They contract against blows to form a rigid protective wall for the viscera.
He tore up the surfing social contract and blew his great, sunburned nose on the tatters.
In their zeal to punish Drake, these Pentagon officials unwittingly taught Snowden how to evade their clutches when the 29-year-old NSA contract employee blew the whistle himself.
Mr. Bonner acknowledged that the ship had needed a "tweak" here and there — his allusion to one of the most tortured shipbuilding programs in Navy history, a decade-long tale of soaring costs, canceled contracts and blown deadlines.
Moved to ecstasy by the singing from a convent, Bennie signs the nuns to a record contract, only to blow the deal when, in a moment of boyish enthusiasm, he kisses the mother superior flush on the lips.
"Players play for a football club and they enjoy being there, but if someone comes along and offers them a contract that could blow their current one out of the water, it's very difficult," he conceded.
It would not survive in its current form if UK public-sector contracts dried up; and the decision to withdraw from tendering for the next tagging contract is a blow in itself.
The government's decision not to renew Mr. Nkole's contract was a blow to the task force, which has successfully prosecuted former military commanders and Mr. Chiluba's wife, among others.
Coach Stephen Keshi, who is working without a contract, suffered a blow before a ball had even been kicked when Victor Moses was forced to withdraw because of a thigh injury.
That he moved on a free transfer after running his contract down made the blow even harder to swallow for Spurs fans, who barracked him repeatedly afterwards.
