Former analysts at ratings agencies — which affixed triple-A ratings to billions of dollars in bonds that are now worthless — have said they felt pressured to slap high grades on everything that crossed their desk, even the lamest of mortgage-backed securities.
During little Paige Elizabeth Darling's visit to her grandmother's house, beloved Gramma sews her a stuffed bunny, which Paige affixes to a helium balloon and loses to the wind.
We read "Land of Marvels" exquisitely aware that the great American empire entered its own crisis as a result of its occupation of the vast territory where Somerville is digging, to which Unsworth affixes its modern name only when tapping out the book's last, portentous word: Iraq.
And Gráinne de Búrca (2008, 117) identifies three strands in the current literature to which she affixes the nomenclature of a 'denial approach,' a 'wishful thinking approach,' and a 'compensatory approach.' This entry takes a different tack by presenting five different 'models' of global democracy.
He picks the most appealing patterns and traces them with a marker on a piece of acetate, which he affixes to a piece of mirror-polished stainless steel.
Between the Staff of the Living Tribunal, the Eye of Agamotto and the Pillar of Cacciatore (OK, that one's fake), the film wields its occult accouterments with scholarly pride; the best supporting performance here is arguably given by the Cape of Levitation, which loyally affixes itself to Strange but turns out to have quite a mind of its own.
Inmates can use earphones to listen to televisions, which are affixed to a post.
In Duisburg, the man stood the leg atop a concrete base, to which he affixed a plaque that read, "Saddam Hussein Statue.
At least, that's how the site described its 75 1/2-by-35 1/2-by-35 1/2-by-35 1/2-inch 1/2-inchou affix translucentdows.
The privately owned tower serves mainly as a frame on which to affix transmission equipment for radio, television and other communication signals.
