(It is droll to conceive, as Lewis's biography does, of the amiable, aging bon vivant Teddy Wharton as the original of pinch-mean, hypochondriacal Zeena Frome, who has the novel's best lines, and in the film receives the best performance, by Joan Allen).
You can only buckle the bag closed – there's no quick way to shut it in a pinch – which means you could feasibly lose some things if you're not careful.
Secondary endpoints were: changes of FVC, grip strength (left/right mean), pinch strength (left/right mean), Modified Norris Scale score (26, 27), ALSAQ-40 (ALS Assessment Questionnaire) (28, 29), and time to death or a specified state of disease progression (incapable of independent ambulation, loss of function in upper limbs, tracheotomy, artificial respirator with intubation, or tube feeding).
Many of the analysts, however, say they are growing more optimistic that the supply pinch will mean bottlenecks for individual companies and sectors, rather than the widespread gridlock that some had feared earlier.
Living on a shoestring is always a challenge, especially in India, where pinching pennies means crummy hotels, suspect food and grueling travel.
And, they offered the kind of accommodation that makes even the latest jet airliner seem pinched and mean-minded.
Chop a generous bunch of mint with cornichons and a red onion, then dress this modernist mint sauce with a tablespoon of the cornichon vinegar, two tablespoons of olive oil and a really mean pinch of sugar.
1 pinch-off limit means that both transfer characteristics of two constituent codes are just about to intersect (see [20, 21]).
However, the use of graphene for applications in daily-life electronics suffers from a major drawback, i.e. the current in graphene cannot be simply pinched off by means of a gate voltage.
What's more, that means pinch-zooming, sliders for paramaters, tracing by clicking and dragging along a line, the option to create an account and save graphs to view later.
