He reached out to pull the door shut and fasten it with a sliding bolt.

Curt reached out and dropped Jess's pistol back into the holster.

Beaten with fear and sound and wet and chill, they crawled to the hurricane deck and looked out haggardly at a world of water that reached clear to the surrounding hills.

Ramey reached out with the tire iron and dislodged a chunk of mud that was caked on the spare tire rack.

The sneaker reached out once more to tap against the mass and Ramey's vision darkened except for an unreasonable clarity of the man's leg.

Joviality suffused Feathertop Ernie Cargill's voice as he reached behind him, pulling out a battered carpet bag, with leather handles.

Gross reached in his desk and pulled out two newspaper clippings.

Even when Mrs. Coolidge was in mourning for her son, she reached out to help other people in trouble.

He reached out and felt the bath towel hanging on the towel rack over the tub.

The girl's eyes were softly shining as she reached out and touched Casey's hand.

Party leaders came out of the final meeting apparently satisfied and stated that complete agreement had been reached on a solution to the crisis created by the elections which left no party with enough strength to form a government on its own.

An exceptionally astute politician deeply involved with power issues in each state, he reached out to War Democrats and managed his own re-election in the 1864 presidential election.

The Annales school systematically reached out to create an impact on other countries.

By spring 1979 unrests had reached 24 out of 28 Afghan provinces including major urban areas.

A runner who reaches on catcher's interference and subsequently scores with two outs scores an unearned run, but baserunners who subsequently score after the runner who has reached on catcher's interference exclusively on clean plays score earned runs ; the baserunner cannot be assumed to have been put out except for the error.

Never admitting that he had reached a continent previously unknown to Europeans, rather than the East Indies he had set out for, Columbus called the inhabitants of the lands he visited indios ( Spanish for " Indians ").

Toward the end of Manuel I's reign, the number of foreigners in the city reached about 60, 000-80, 000 people out of a total population of about 400, 000 people.

Nine years after Emperor Paul Muad ' dib walked into the desert, blind, the ecological transformation of Dune has reached the point where some Fremen are living without stillsuits in the less arid climate and have started to move out of the Sietches and into the villages and cities.

A Chicago Cubs fan by the name of Steve Bartman, of Northbrook, IL, reached for the ball and deflected it away from the glove of Moisés Alou for the second out of the 8th inning.

Ratings reached a low of 8 million in February 1973, Pat Phoenix quit as Elsie Tanner, Violet Carson ( Ena Sharples ) was written out for most of the year due to illness, and Doris Speed ( Annie Walker ) took two months ' leave.

In his 2006 homily for Corpus Christi, Pope Benedict XVI noted the similarity between the Christian story of the resurrection and pagan myths of dead and resurrected gods: " In these myths, the soul of the human person, in a certain way, reached out toward that God made man, who, humiliated unto death on a cross, in this way opened the door of life to all of us.

He pointed out that the Saudis decreased their production of oil in 1985 ( it reached a 16-year low ), whereas the peak of oil productionwas reached in 1980.

Finally, " ambushers " hide and position themselves where no prey had reached yet and rush out when a monkey nears.

) The open pike is a variant where the arms are reached to the side, and the legs are brought straight out with a bend in the hips.

After overcoming some opposition of the towns Conrad reached Rome, where Pope John XIX crowned him emperor on Easter, 1027.

However, a combination of famine, Qing naval opposition, and internal rifts crippled piracy in China around the 1820s, and it has never again reached the same status.

Harald then returned to Norway with a new army and meeting little opposition, reached Bergen before Christmas.

The FDA has also lacked the funding to undertake the rigorous tests to meet the standards for a supplement to be considered " hazardous " and, thus, removed from the market ; in the one situation where this standard was reached ( ephedra ), the agency faced significant opposition from the supplement industry and the United States Congress, instead limiting themselves to making announcements about problematic supplement safety records on their website.

Despite this concentrated opposition, Lieutenant O ' Hare, by his gallant and courageous action, his extremely skillful marksmanship in making the most of every shot of his limited amount of ammunition, shot down 5 enemy bombers and severely damaged a sixth before they reached the bomb release point.

On the eve of the United Nations ' partition of Mandatory Palestine, King Abdullah, who shared with Zionists a hostility to Palestinian nationalism, reached a secret entente with Golda Meir to thwart the mufti and annex the part of Palestine in exchange for Jordan's dropping its opposition to the establishment of a Jewish state.

After the Labor party gained power in 1999 and the resignation of Benjamin Netanyahu, Shalom who reached the 1st place, became part of the opposition, lead by Ariel Sharon.

Yang reached the height of his political career after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, but his organized opposition to Jiang Zemin's leadership led Deng to force Yang to retire.

His cabinet received an unusually high rating, a 50 % favorable response in polling during his first term, while opposition parties reached a new low in popular support.

The Duke of York was opposed to Danby's strict enforcement of the penal laws against Catholics, and by April 1675, he had reached out to Shaftesbury to make a truce between them whereby they would be united in opposition to Danby's brand of Anglican royalism.

After opposition to the hereditary rule of the Rana Prime Ministers from India, a deal was reached in January 1951, and his grandfather King Tribhuvan returned to Nepal and resumed the throne.

U. S. Steel reached a détente with unions during World War I, when under pressure from the Wilson Administration it relaxed its opposition to unions enough to allow some to operate in certain factories.

The situation reached a climax in the aftermath of Treasurer Peter Costello's 2006 Budget, whereby for the first time in recent Australian political history, the opposition leader and his colleagues ceased inquiry on the budget papers after just six questions, before resuming further questioning on the AWB scandal.

Ouyahia made a number of visits to opposition leaders, and reached out in the Berber-language media for reconciliation.

Tensions mounted and despite an agreement reached between the opposition and PPP, martial law was imposed in the country by Chief of Army Staff General Zia-ul-Haq in 1977.

In March 2010, President Obama and Stupak reached an understanding whereby the President promised to sign an Executive Order barring federal funding of abortion through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and Stupak and several of his allies promised to withdraw their opposition to the bill.

Within 48 hours of landing at Taranto, the airborne division reached and occupied the port of Brindisi and Bari on the Adriatic coast without opposition from the Italian defenders.

After he had reached thirty years of age, his appointment on a Commission sent out by Frederick North, Lord North to attempt a reconciliation with the Thirteen Colonies during the American War of Independence was received with sneers by the opposition.

Arsenal's defence were told to play deep and with the support of the wing halves, fall back into their own penalty area when the opposition had the ball ; this allowed the opposition plenty of possession in Arsenal's half, until they reached the 18-yard line and faced a massed defence.

The Jacobites moved south into England with little opposition, and by the time they reached Preston in Lancashire had grown to about 4, 000 in number.

Cork reached the final of the 1961-62 National League where Kilkenny provided the opposition.

An agreement between Habyarimana, the five opposition parties ( led ostensibly by Uwilingiyimana ), and the RPF, was finally reached on 4 August 1993.