or to the west for the Jordan valley settlements".Sharon unrolled maps before me showing that all of the Jordan valley and Judean desert will remain under Israel's control," David Levy, a settler leader from the Jordan valley, told Yediot Ahoronot in September.
How might that have worked out?When the TARP was being unrolled last fall, a simple question was often asked: rather than pouring good money after bad into banks which clearly had inadequate risk controls, why not just use that cash to start up fresh new banks unencumbered by toxic assets?
The huge expansion of government and executive power under Mr Bush, and the prosecution of a disastrous war, all unrolled in the wake of those attacks.
Here is a roundup of some of them.Outside the old Yugoslav Federal Parliament building in the Serbian capital they are rolling up the red carpet which had been unrolled to welcome delegates to the 50th birthday bash of the Non-Aligned Movement, which I have written about here.
Other, more bizarre, uses have included assisting in the demise of al-Mustaʿṣim, Baghdad's last caliph who in 1258 was wrapped in a carpet and beaten to death and dramatically enhancing Cleopatra's introduction to Julius Caesar, when she stepped out of an unrolled rug.
When the book was unrolled it displayed a text written in the Greek alphabet in columns about three inches wide separated by inch-wide margins.
Cylindrical projection, in cartography, any of numerous map projections of the terrestrial sphere on the surface of a cylinder that is then unrolled as a plane.
The most gifted exponent of this kind of writing, which sought immediate access to the realm of the subconscious, was Angela Carter, whose exotic and erotic imagination unrolled most eerily and resplendently in her short-story collection The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979).
In medieval Latin works the word explicit meant "here ends.…" Originally, it may have been an abbreviation for explicitus est liber ("the book is unrolled"), but by analogy with incipit ("here begins…") it was taken as a present-tense, third-person singular verb form.
They are unrolled at arm's length and viewed from right to left.
The end of the text in a medieval manuscript was announced by the word explicit, probably a reshaping (after incipit) of an earlier Latin phrase such as explicitum est volumen ("the book has been completely unrolled"), itself a reminder of the scroll form of the book used in the West before the codex format was adopted about ad 300.
