He'd jump up, get a fingerhold, and then dirt would give way and he'd slip back down. Jump up, get a fingerhold, slip back down.
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He stated that the Vote is little more than a fingerhold on democracy.
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The homeowner must stay on guard duty lest the forces of derangement establish a fingerhold.
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Her sole fingerhold on the network, her Sunday show, is going to be taken over by Letitia.
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She scrambled frantically at the rock with her left, found a fingerhold and dangled precariously over a vertical drop.
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A thought-provoking reach from a sharp fingerhold on the roof's lip gains a strenuous and exposed upper wall.
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And Windows Phone, the mobile software challenging Apple's iPhone and Google's Android, barely has a fingerhold in the £200bn smartphone market.
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The hope is that the numbers can be crunched in some direction which will offer enough of a fingerhold to justify a decision.
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The earliest settlers had little time for aesthetic pursuits during their first decades of hewing out a tenuous fingerhold on the North American mainland.
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She could not believe that the goats could climb so steep an incline so nimbly, when she was barely able to find a fingerhold in the rock.
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The extent to which beliefs can be modified by doubt gives me a bit of a fingerhold onto how beliefs can be chosen by dint of one's will.
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As I let let loose of my fingerhold, the ocean world began to move past in a dizzying hurry as I was sucked, pleasantly, by a racing current through the underwater pass toward the lagoon.
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So what happens when a group of people whose already tenuous fingerhold on the consumer mainstream is weakened by bedroom tax, council tax and below-inflation benefit increases, at a time when prices are rising?
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The security of the M-209 was good for its time, but it was by no means perfect. As with the Lorenz Electric teletypewriter cipher machine (codenamed Tunny by the Allies), if a codebreaker got hold of two overlapping sequences, he would have a fingerhold into the M-209 settings, and its operation had some distinctive quirks that could be exploited. As of early 1943, German cryptanalysts were able to read 10-30% of M-209 messages.Army Security Agency, European Axis Signal Intelligence in World War II, Volume I, Synopsis.
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Intel processors from the 386 onward allowed a virtual 8086 mode, which simplified the hardware required to implement expanded memory for DOS applications. Expanded memory managers such as Quarterdeck's QEMM product and Microsoft's EMM386 supported the expanded memory standard without requirement for special memory boards. On 386 and subsequent processors, memory managers like QEMM might move the bulk of the code for a driver or TSR into extended memory and replace it with a small fingerhold that was capable of accessing the extended- memory-resident code. They might analyze memory usage to detect drivers that required more RAM during startup than they did subsequently, and recover and reuse the memory that was no longer needed after startup.
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