It cried foul, then did a hasty U-turn and, rather than bid, sold its stake to the government-favoured and ultimately successful bidders for the state holding Magnitogorsk's management.Two years earlier Mechel and Evraz had been battling for control of a bankrupt iron-ore plant; a battle that became literally such when police with tear-gas clashed with pro-Mechel workers at the plant.
Sometimes quite literally, such as when jumping into cold water at the beach or trying a skateboard.
His fanaticism carries him into realms that are literally uncharted, such as the Potato Patch.
I've heard Turkish nationalists insist at great length that there is literally no such thing as Kurds, denying even the existence of the Kurdish language.
Rich in contradiction and mysterious in its effects, with a plot that vividly and literally dramatizes such Freudian concepts as the primal scene and the Oedipus complex, "Blue Velvet," when it arrived in 1986, opened the floodgates of academic analysis.
Not spitting as in the street parlance for rapping, but literally spitting; such is his impassioned, forceful, expletive-peppered delivery as he talks about society's failure to tackle and nurture its disadvantaged youth.
Many of the best movies by black filmmakers have gone utterly unnoticed by the Academy — whether films by Charles Burnett or Julie Dash — and others have vanished literally unreleased (such as Kathleen Collins's great "Losing Ground," from 1982, for instance, which comes out on DVD in April).
"I can't imagine literally believing such an idea, especially one that is so obviously involved with the subject of a memorial," said Hugh Hardy, a founding partner at Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, a firm known for its historical restorations of Manhattan landmarks, including Radio City Music Hall and the Central Synagogue.
Many of the best movies by black filmmakers have gone utterly unnoticed by the Academy whether films by Charles Burnett or Julie Dash and others have vanished literally unreleased (such as Kathleen Collins's great "Losing Ground," from 1982, for instance, which comes out on DVD in April).
The truth is, there is literally no such thing as a "living fossil".
Similarly, perhaps it is a mistake to think that there literally are such things as statues and lumps of clay, as opposed to mere quantities of stuff or pluralities of particles.
