`` I'm sorry, Mrs. Minks '', Arlene said in a tone so low you could hardly hear it.

Hemphill said that the Hughes Steel Erection Co. contracted to do the work at an impossibly low cost with a bid that was far less than the `` legitimate '' bids of competing contractors.

`` Deegan '', the manager said, his voice pitched low, quivering.

A problem with a low condition number is said to be well-conditioned, while a problem with a high condition number is said to be ill-conditioned.

Materials that detonate ( explode faster than the speed of sound ) are said to be " high explosives " and materials that deflagrate are said to be " low explosives ".

Singer said that the firings placed " the exploration of outer space with high altitude rockets on the same basis, cost-wise and effort-wise, as low atmosphere measurements with weather balloons.

For example, the economist Irving Fisher said in a 1912 address to the Eugenics Research Association: " The Nordic race will ... vanish or lose its dominance if, in fact, the whole human race does not sink so low as to become the prey, as H. G. Wells images, of some less degenerate animal!

Harvey Mudd College is said to be one of the few colleges in the US with very low grade inflation.

Financial writer Sebastian Mallaby has said that hedge funds tend to be " small enough to fail ", since most are relatively small in terms of the assets they manage, and they usually operate with low leverage, thereby limiting the potential harm to the economic system should one of them fail.

Such lasers are said to be superluminescent, and emit light with low coherence but high bandwidth.

Later in the journey the people began running low on supplies and again murmured against Moses and Aaron and said they would have preferred to die in Egypt, but God's provision of manna from the sky in the morning and quail in the evening took care of the situation.

As a result Olney's population was principally of a low income status ; Cowper is said to have described his neighbours as ' the half-starved and ragged of the earth '.

It is often said that Omaha is a game of " the nuts ", i. e. the best possible high or low hand, because it frequently takes " the nuts " to win a showdown.

Spitzer said that the number of gay people who could successfully become heterosexual was likely to be " pretty low ", and conceded that his subjects were " unusually religious.

Although the work was demanding and the pay low, Twain said " I loved the feeling of being stranded.

In a speech at the 1995 Anime Expo, series episode director Noboru Ishiguro said low ratings and high production expenses forced producer Yoshinobu Nishizaki to trim down the episode count from the original 39 episodes to only 26.

Coach Landry said Staubach tried to throw the ball soft when he saw how wide open Smith was and that it came in low, and that when Smith tried to stop, his feet seemed to come out from under him.

After welcoming the athletes to two weeks of " keen but friendly rivalry ", he said London represented a " warm flame of hope for a better understanding in the world which has burned so low.

A Cochrane Collaboration review found that massage provided some long-term benefit for low back pain, and said: It seems that acupressure or pressure point massage techniques provide more relief than classic ( Swedish ) massage, although more research is needed to confirm this.

A researcher questioned by the LA Times said that the report had not clarified whether bubble fusion was real or not, but that the low quality of the papers and the doubts cast by the report had made him lose all the credibility that he formerly had among the scientific community.

Although it was only fractionally longer than the contemporary Volkswagen Beetle, Time said the length of its hood over the front-mounted engine made " the difference seem considerably more ", adding that the car " resembles a sawed-off station wagon, with a long, low hood and swept-up rear, and is faintly reminiscent of the original Studebaker Avanti.

Pressure altitude divided by 100 feet ( 30m ) as the flight level, and is used above the transition altitude ( in the US, but may be as low as in other jurisdictions ); so when the altimeter reads 18, 000 ft on the standard pressure setting the aircraft is said to be at " Flight level 180 ".

He said in a studied voice, `` I didn't do it for you.

A woman's voice said, and then he heard a sort of wail from the man's wife.

She said, her voice rising.

`` I loused it '', Rob said, with a savage note in his voice.

she would talk to him in a soothing voice about things his mother would have said were not nice and put her hands on him and kiss him passionately.

`` Boy, you're stirrin early '', a sleepy voice said.

It's your decision '', said Juanita, holding her face very still, trying to contain the bitterness of her voice as she enunciated her words too distinctly.

You should hear the reverence in Fran's voice when she said `` Baccarat '' or `` Steuben '' or `` Madame Alexander ''.

When I answered it a voice too dignified and British to be real said, `` Is this Mr. Dale Nelson, the actor ''??

`` I told you, Mike '', said Rourke in an aggrieved voice.

`` All right '', Calenda said, his voice still quiet.

He has said, `` Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me '' ( Revelation 3:20::

`` You missed it '', Buzz's voice said, `` You should have gone over to the Pagan Room with us.

When at last she could suffer the insult no longer, nor face the girl's scorn, she said in a voice overloud:

`` You shouldn't smoke so much '', he said, unconsciously imitating Victoria's holier-than-thou voice.

`` The high school kids have got everything sewed up '', he said, a whine in his voice.

`` I been spotting a little now and then '', she said quietly, no emotion in her voice.

`` My beloved ward, my perennial gadfly '', said the whining voice.

`` Why, what a lovely voice you have '', said one of the female visitors.

Speaking in his Kentucky accent, with a very powerful voice, he said the Kansas Act had a " declared indifference, but as I must think, a covert real zeal for the spread of slavery.

" A voice said back to him, " humility shall escape them without more.

A voice from The Kremlin said, " Comrade Stalin wishes to speak with you.

Stalin then said, in a mocking tone of voice: " I see, you just aren't able to stick up for a comrade ," and put down the receiver.