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  • "It's the pull-backs in time to the music that really make it ...."

    Boing Boing 2009

  • "It's the pull-backs in time to the music that really make it ...."

    Boing Boing 2009

  • So, more culpably, did Garath McCleary and Kris Boyd for Forest, both from pull-backs to the penalty spot in the last 10 minutes.

    Nottingham Forest need a break to clear path to promotion | Jeremy Alexander 2011

  • "It's the pull-backs in time to the music that really make it ...."

    Boing Boing 2009

  • The pull-backs also come at a difficult time for the global airline industry, which has seen passenger traffic fall by more than 10% in recent months as cash-strapped consumers and companies cut travel budgets.

    U.S. Airlines Cut Mexico Flights Amid Flu Fears 2009

  • We see pull-backs on the number of people who drive trucks.

    CNN Transcript Apr 15, 2008 2008

  • VELSHI: Except that you have often pointed out, you're correct in this, that as the oil prices cross $100 and gasoline prices get to $3.33, .43, .50, we do actually see pull-backs.

    CNN Transcript Apr 15, 2008 2008

  • "We like the stock here and would get aggressive on pull-backs should the market find issue with the near-term gross margin," he wrote.

    Nasdaq Soars 1.7% on Latest Jobs Data 2007

  • An elevator ride would involve many close-ups of glowing lights and magnificent pull-backs to show the elevator zooming to the top of the shaft, even if the trip was completely irrelevant to anything else that was going on.

    Another Night In The McJuddMetz Household 2004

  • Has the Prime Minister softened his resistance to the American proposal for Israeli troop withdrawals, pull-backs from the West Bank?

    Press Conference By Clinton And Blair And Santer ITY National Archives 1998

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