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...One admitted: “We’ve taken our eye off the ball.”...
...Here he kept his harem and eunuchs, as well as his celebrated troop of Saracen girls who danced on top of rolling balls....
...In cricket what kind of run is scored when the batter hasn’t hit the ball — and the ball hasn’t hit him or her? What’s the personal anthem of the US president, often played when he enters a room?...
..., instead of asking the question of whether we were spending the existing departmental budgets,” Balls recalls....
...Which post has been held by William Shawn, Tina Brown and David Remnick? Which post has been held by Alasdair Milne, Michael Checkland and Mark Thompson?...
...But if you take your eye off the ball discriminatory practices creep back in,” said Wolfson, adding that many traditionally female roles including in care work and teaching assistance had changed markedly...
...He added: “The ball is now in the regulator’s court to prove that their new regime can protect investors who use licensed platforms.”...
...His Des Grieux (first cousin to his Romeo) is eagerly expressive with his irresistible young mistress but he is not a natural player off the ball....
...Readers had to judge the body language and eye line of the players and mark where they thought the ball was....
...In England the designer William Kent was later said to have “leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a garden”. Le Nôtre had jumped it 60 years before, in France, not Oxfordshire....
...Another person familiar with the talks described the Chinese negotiator at the talks, which ended on Friday, as a “one-man wrecking ball”....
...authenticity, as does Daniel Bailey’s superb production, and the three wonderful actors pinpoint their characters’ shifting emotions through precise gestures: the way they tug at their clothes or roll the ball...
...People are responding positively: he recently met Robbie Williams on a weekend in Gstaad, and the singer instantly ordered some pieces, which he wore for his 50th birthday....
...(Ball gowns and black tie optional.) Can’t decide? Read Oscars coverage and interviews with contenders here...
...“It’s not like football or tennis, which in the end if you have a pitch and a ball or a court and a ball you can go and practise. The nature of this sport means you need a team and you need a car.”...
...“We all have read the fairy tale about Cinderella — Cinderella having to leave the ball exactly at midnight,” she said. “And we’re at this point....
...This year there was a specially commissioned piece by John Williams, composer of film soundtracks from Harry Potter to Indiana Jones. Halwax is thrilled – “It’s John Williams!”...
...William Bain, head of trade policy at the British Chambers of Commerce, warned that EU companies’ readiness remained a “significant unknown” for traders in agri-food products....
...He presented a PowerPoint containing baby pictures of the firm’s three billionaire co-founders, David Rubenstein, William Conway and Daniel D’Aniello....
...Hamilton is the only three-times winner of Britain’s William Hill prize for sports book of the year — for studies of the cricket writer Neville Cardus, the cricketer Harold Larwood and the football manager...
...In a report on regional economic inequality last month, the academics Anna Stansbury and Dan Turner, along with former shadow chancellor Ed Balls, identified poor urban transport as one of four key barriers...
...This article is part of a guide to tennis from FT Globetrotter When Roger Federer won his last Wimbledon title in 2017, he surpassed the seven victories that the sport’s first giant, William Renshaw, completed...
...He was inspired by the way musicians such as Pharrell Williams dressed, alongside the work of designers, such as Raf Simons....
...The site of grand balls and lavish receptions, it was where great artists, thinkers and socialites came, in their finery, to jostle for favour with the king and queen....
...“Putin is someone who generally thinks that revenge is a dish best served cold,” William Burns, CIA director, said while speaking at the Aspen Security Forum last month....
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