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  • Owners access their garages via a street level door which leads to a key-lock car elevator.

    Sky Garage: Off-Street Parking For The Upwardly Mobile | Impact Lab 2007

  • For the Sansa, if you switch the key-lock to on (slide switch on top to the right), then hold the record button (on left side) and the power button down simultaneously, it will go in to “recovery mode” and ask you to hook up your USB cable.

    Scripting News for 9/22/2006 « Scripting News Annex 2006

  • The present theories, however, only partly explain the protein diversity, although a recent study (Poelwijk et al. 2007) shows that even the key-lock dilemma can be resolved by the Darwinian approach when the operation field for random search is within the same protein family, and the new key-lock pair closely resembles the original (ancestral).

    The despair of Intelligent Design - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • They were key-lock cabinets but the locks had been punched out on each.

    Lost Light Connelly, Michael, 1956- 2003

  • The gold was kept in a small fireproof safe in the captain's cabin, but it was an old-fashioned key-lock affair, and we did not anticipate much trouble from that quarter, even if we could not find the key.

    Montezuma's Castle and Other Weird Tales 1889

  • And if the knob includes a key-lock, the less expensive ones can be easily opened by most amateur burglars.

    post-gazette.com - News 2010

  • And if the knob includes a key-lock, the less expensive ones can be easily opened by most amateur burglars.

    post-gazette.com - News 2010

  • Before Gettle could pull off his arm-breaking key-lock submission hold, he was brutalized by Kowalski's powerful striking.

    Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines 2010

  • And if the knob includes a key-lock, the less expensive ones can be easily opened by most amateur burglars.

    post-gazette.com - News 2010

  • Looking around the outside of this smartphone, the top has a 3.5 mm headset / TV-Out jack, and power and key-lock buttons.

    Brighthand.com Handheld News and Reviews 2009

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