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  • Bursting through the door mob‑handed, frantically wrenching our bull‑necked, tooled-up, thermal‑goggled heads from side to side in search of something to Taser, it is only natural that we seize on the ref and his eternally subjective interpretations.

    Better to accept the beautiful chaos of football than to talk about it | Barney Ronay 2011

  • As an English cricket fan it has seemed necessary to ask this question during the three seasons of the IPL, partly because of scheduling that pits the two together, and partly because of the nature of the IPL itself, an intrusive sporting product that has from the outset advertised itself as crushingly tooled-up and unanswerably monetised.

    IPL4 is the ideal accompaniment to the parochial intrigue of ECC112 | Barney Ronay 2011

  • It would be useful practice for similar attacks on North Korea and Pakistan and concentrate the attention of the leaders of those tooled-up Dystopias.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • As it stands, the police in this country seem to have become no more than tooled-up lackeys for a tyrannical regime.

    Forget Your Future Plans « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007

  • There is no mention at all of Ariel Sharon's extremely provocative visit to Temple Mount with a thousand or so tooled-up soldiers.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • Today common sense in these circumstances is compromised by two concerns: Human Rights and the liklihood that the Morlocks are tooled-up with knives.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Garypowell, if you talk of 'shagging' women ie doing something to themm rather than with them then I just wish the fuzz had left you to the tooled-up women.

    A Ministry For Men 2007

  • Our imaginations are not yet tooled-up to penetrate the neighbourhood of the quantum.

    The God Delusion Dawkins, Richard, 1941- 2006

  • Surveying the tooled-up lemon assembly and listening to Campbell's interminable address, she had to concede reluctantly to herself that Jack Parlabane had a point when he'd questioned how all of this was going to make anyone a more valuable employee.

    Be My Enemy Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2004

  • Even the sight of tooled-up mobs battling troops in downtown Bangkok in 2010 quickly faded as visitors returned to the capital.

    Forbes.com: News Simon Montlake 2011

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