mozkový trust, skupina expertů

Truman played for time by appointing a brains trust of three to advise him.

One summer I was invited to chair a Brains Trust at the Scottish Lawyers’ annual conference at Aviemore

He liked his personal style of government, and his establishment of a Cabinet Secretariat and his own personal advisers or brains trust in the garden suburbs.

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mozkovna, mozková kapacita; mozek (chytrý člověk)

Can brainpower bolster Berlin’s economy? Kewenig has persuaded the state of Berlin to give him DM 11 million (nearly £3 million) to establish some centres of excellence, and attract more first class researchers.

But with economies in the whole region growing so rapidly, skilled labour is at a premium and countries are doing all they can to hang on to their brainpower.

It is helped, it acknowledges, not only by research and development grants from the Israeli government, but also the current influx of brainpower from the former Soviet Union .

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prásknout do bot

Taking precipitously to his heels and hurriedly joining the Coldstream Guards, he eventually settled in East Anglia , where he married and where his literary son George was born in 1803.

As Mr Patterson, 22, pointed out his attackers to police Sharpe took to his heels. Sharpe was only about 15 yards away when I moved towards him and he started running,

One of the most arduous of these was in my junior days when I picked up a seaman in the docks attempting to sell cigarettes to a factory worker. He immediately took to his heels with is case of cigarettes and led me a merry dance away from the docks, through a council estate, finally finishing up on the perimeter track of Ipswich Airport where I was rescued.

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vypařit se, prásknout do bot

Only one point stands irrespective of the period taken: Japan has shown all the other rich countries a clean pair of heels. Since 1950 America and Britain have been the slowest.

I won both the 60 and 200 metres, but it was in the final event, the relay, that I received my greatest fillip. Over the first three legs the French had shown us a clean pair of heels, especially with superior baton-passing. When I took over, Bruno Marie-Rose, the indoor world-record holder, was already away.

Magnificent though Rasari was, you were left wondering just how much they needed him when newcomer Ratu Sakeasi showed Tim Horan and Jason Little a clean pair of heels in a 60-metre chase for the line.

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vrátit zpátky na zem koho

Dane O'Hara probably still wakes up at night and sees Ferguson oscillating in front of him. The Hull man appeared to have the angles covered when Ferguson rocked back on his heels to accept Ian Potter’s pass, but despite a standing start and only inches in which to operate, Fergie whisked past on the outside.

Or perhaps he was waiting for them to start counting their blessings there and then. He rocked back on his heels and steadied himself.

But you should always remember one thing. It’s people that you’re dealing with. People. He thrust both hands in his pockets and rocked back on his heels. I’m sixty-nine and I’m still working.

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nezvednout ani malíček, nehnout prstem

But it was mostly the other thing, that he’d had to sweat all his life and she’d never done a hand’s turn. She rose up in the world without lifting a finger when she married into the gentry.

Useless, she had jeered, like all spoiled rich girls. Never done a hand’s turn in her life, and wouldn’t know how!

That would be wicked! I mean, she’s never done a hand’s turn for her father or her grandfather.

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tnout do živého

At the Royal Ballet, whose dressing rooms they will be using, mention of the Russians touches a raw nerve. It’s difficult for us to understand why everybody wants to talk about the Russians all the time, says ballerina Fiona Chadwick. Ballet isn’t only Russian.

Rhee issued a press statement raising publicly whether South Korea could rely on American assistance in the event of North Korean aggression. This touched a raw nerve and Muccio was instructed immediately to see Rhee and protest at this grave breach of ordinary diplomatic courtesy.

It’s none of your damned business! she snapped half-heartedly, yet his words struck a raw nerve and she almost winced in pain, because Ryan had only been ardent at first; after that, it had been she who had made the advances.

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ztratit hlavu, zpanikařit

If you promise not to tell anyone, Margaret said, when she finally got to see a doctor, I nearly had it done the old way, you know, with a knitting needle, then I lost my nerve.

In the middle of my glacier I lost my nerve. Real and imagined depths were lurking under the probing axe, and twice I broke through a crust with boot and ferrule. I knew I was courting disaster without a rope.

She tried to pull herself together, but it was impossible. Her voice trembled. Suddenly I’ve lost my nerve. Dawn’s dog dying, now this Labrador who means so much to a handicapped child.

For a sickening moment he swung wildly on the rope and one of his feet slipped a few inches down the wall. Grant’s heart leapt into his mouth and he was convinced Larsen was going to lose his nerve, then his grip on the rope, to plummet down to an unthinkable death.

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dostat se do toho, získat zručnost

I hope you will want to take time and make your own discoveries. As I was helped in getting my eye in by visiting two important houses in Bath, you may wish to do the same. (BNC-B)

This sequence is typical of what can be done in such surroundings once you have got your eye in and have begun to link your shots together visually or by association of ideas. It is certainly more fun to shoot video this way than to take unrelated pot-shots.  (BNC-B)

Finally, stand back and critically assess (not admire!) your horse. Once you have got your eye in, you will be able to note slight changes in body condition. (WebCorp)

složit karty

His actions are never excessive, he can sleep with a good conscience, he has purpose and never throws in his hand in adversity.

The only point the press reports missed was that Jim Prior was so unhappy that he almost threw in his hand and resigned.

His father died and he threw in his hand to set up as a GP in Falmouth . Any idea of the reason? A quirk of temperament apparently. Didn’t like hospital work - couldn’t stand colleagues - any colleagues; he’s a loner.

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zavěšeni do sebe

All around me there were young couples, arm in arm, doing the same.

The streets were crowded with evening strollers. Young couples, arm in arm.

Based on a painting by an early-80s Berlin Realist, it depicts enigmatically two adolescent girls standing arm in arm, geared out with shades and boogie box and dressed in clothes which accentuate their stockily sensual bodies.

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zničit

He made an equally fine job of the creatures, large and small that run around on the land; He even gave us the best crags in the world. So why did he make such a pig’s ear of the climate?

Helping him hire an assassin isn’t what I had in mind. Chant was very discreet. Death makes you that way, I find you really have made a pig’s ear of the whole thing.

She hoped, for the sake of appearance at the wedding, that the children’s clothes would be properly cut and fitted, she also hoped that between them Cynthia and her dressmaker would have made a pig’s ear of the business.

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sledovat

Then he climbed into the Land Rover beside his two passengers and drove off fast, with the aim of abandoning Jamie to the custody of his aunt as quickly as possible. He could see with half an eye that the kid’s aunt was going to be one of the confident, bossy, well-connected women.

I don’t think anyone but me was taking notes at this stage of the proceedings. Of course Madame keeping an eye on O was nothing new. She always had half an eye for him; sometimes I thought she watched him as a tamer does a tiger.

So when the class reassembled, Matilda went to her desk and began to study a text-book on geometry which Miss Honey had given her. The teacher kept half an eye on her all the time and noticed that the child very soon became deeply absorbed in the book.

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přijít pod ruku

You’re trying for something that’s funky, something that sounds good, and you just grab whatever comes to hand.

The property is completed some time before completion of the sale, have received the standard notice of insurance cover to hand over, in which case you will give an undertaking to do so as soon as it comes to hand.

Research shows that as many as a third of all break-ins happen after entry has been gained through glass - often simply smashed with the nearest thing that comes to hand. GE Plastics has introduced a strong new alternative to glass for home use.

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vyzývavý pohled

Sisters don’t have that Things-Were-Just-Getting-Interesting look. What look’s that? You know - sort of bedroom eyes. Bee-stung lips? Lots of those. And sort of moving about inside her dress as though her bra was suddenly too tight. She could have been putting it on. (BNC-B)

Modelling is a multi-million-pound industry and something of a meat market. Ashton and others are in the business of selling bits of bootiful young women long legs, bedroom eyes, immaculate breasts, perfect bottoms and succulent visual slices of superb lips, hands and feet to anybody who will pay. (BNC-B)

With an eye to become the first female vice-president of the company, Anne resorts to her mother's suggestion of buying an fiancé through the Bachelor-in-a-Box agency. She didn't expect to find the photograph provided in her package so mesmerizing - especially the bedroom eyes. (WebCorp)