Needless to say, strong hands are not eager to be joined by weak hands, for this increases the risk that they will have to absorb what these weak hands unload on the way up, at higher prices, during the run-up phase of the campaign.

After its brick-by-brick relocation to Stanley, the site was sold by the Government for " only HK $ 1 billion " in August 1982 amidst growing concern over the future of Hong Kong in the run-up to the transfer of sovereignty.

However, in the run-up to the 1997 general election, Labour opposition Tony Blair was in talks with Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown about forming a coalition government if Labour failed to win a majority at the election ; however there was never any need for a coalition to be formed as Labour won the election by a landslide.

An indicator of wind direction and a device for measuring wind speed ( here + 2. 6 m / s ) along a run-up track.

His unique bowling action begins with an open-chested short run-up, and culminates with an extremely wristy release which had him mistaken for a leg-spinner early in his career by Allan Border.

It now does a regular two-hour round trip at weekends in the run-up to Christmas for families with children, starting and finishing at the Potsdamer Platz S-Bahn station.

He is also known for his wide popular appeal, his opposition to corruption in government, his support for the American position in the run-up to the American War of Independence, his advocacy of British greatness, expansionism and colonialism, and his antagonism toward Britain's chief enemies and rivals for colonial power, Spain and France.

In March 2011, the cartoons returned once again to Cartoon Network, as a run-up for the new series The Looney Tunes Show.

The " loans for shares " giveaway took place in the run-up to the 1996 presidential election — at a point when it had appeared that Zyuganov might defeat Yeltsin.

Cárdenas became perhaps Mexico's most-popular 20th-century president and most renowned for expropriating the oil interests of the United States and European petroleum companies in the run-up to World War II.

In the run-up to the 200th anniversary for the Constitution, work is underway to see if the Constitution can be amended to be more in tune with the times.

The run-up to Aziz's trial for attempted sexual assault releases the racial tensions between the British and the Indians.

The Sun newspaper had declared its support for Redwood in the run-up to the leadership contest, running the front page headline " Redwood versus Deadwood ".

Fine Gael had to jettison its plans for tax-cuts in the run-up to the election and a draconian mid-year budget was introduced almost immediately.

In a minute to the Cabinet's Defence and Overseas Policy committee the following month, Lamont set out his three objectives for the negotiations: first, to ensure Britain didn't have to join the single currency ; second, to ensure the opt-out was legally water-tight ; and third, to ensure that during the period in the run-up to the single currency, there should be no binding obligations on Britain.

In 1997, Noel was criticised for attending a high-profile and well-publicised media party at 10 Downing Street, hosted by the newly-appointed Prime Minister, Tony Blair, along with other celebrities and industry figures who had supported New Labour in the run-up to the general election.

In the run-up to the Iraq war, Halliburton was awarded a $ 7 billion contract for which ' unusually ' only Halliburton was allowed to bid.

Her series Fanny Cradock Cooks for Christmas is the only one of several she made to have been repeated in recent years, on the UK digital television channel Good Food, usually in the run-up to Christmas.

The Alliance exploited the nation's mass unemployment in the run-up to the election, running a " Working Together for Britain " campaign which it promised would see unemployment reduced by up to 1, 000, 000.

In December, Mike Smith announced on the CDA forums that the CDA would be disbanding as he himself had now come to support the Tories again and wanted to campaign for them in the run-up to the next UK general election and circulated a letter to all members and supporters saying that the CDA would be effectively replaced by the Traditional Britain Group and urging their support.

Cristiano da Matta's pole time of 1m 18. 959s was 6. 123 seconds shy of 1999 CART champion Juan Pablo Montoya's stunning pole-winning effort aboard the BMW / Williams at the 2002 GP-which was exactly the sort of discrepancy da Matta had predicted in the run-up to the event, any way the fastest time for a Champ Car in the same weekend was only 3. 97 seconds above Montoya's record, set by Tagliani in Practice.

In the run-up to general or local elections, the fund has been used for advertising campaigns to ensure that issues of importance to UNISON are high on the agenda.

In the run-up to the July 1836 election for the 13th Parliament of Upper Canada, Head actively campaigned on behalf of the Tories against the Reformers, rallying the people behind the cause of loyalty to the British Empire.

Many commentators fault Stoiber's reaction to the floods in eastern Germany, in the run-up to the election, as a contributory factor in his party's poor electoral result and defeat.

During the run-up to the German general election in 2005, which was held ahead of schedule, Stoiber created controversy through a campaign speech held in the beginning of August 2005 in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg.

During the run-up to the November referendum election Sutherland issued a controversial publication: Voucher, Vows, & Vexations.

In the run-up to the election, held on 9 April 1992, most opinion polls had suggested that the election would end in a hung parliament or a narrow Labour majority.

Kinnock also blamed his defeat on the other newspapers who had backed the Tories in the run-up to the election.

In the run-up to the 2007 general election, a new political presence emerged called Congress of The People ( COP ).

Throughout the run-up to the general election, Clinton maintained comfortable leads in the polls over Dole and Perot.

This partly reflected the preceding government's expansive fiscal policy in the run-up to the 1964 election, and the incoming Wilson team tightened the fiscal stance in response.

In the run-up to the 1945 election, Hogg wrote a response to the book Guilty Men, called The Left was never Right.

Responding to criticism of the newspaper's coverage during the run-up to the 2008 presidential election, Howell wrote: " The opinion pages have strong conservative voices ; the editorial board includes centrists and conservatives ; and there were editorials critical of Obama.

* In the run-up to the 2007 federal election in Australia, flyers were circulated around Sydney under the name of a fake organisation called the Islamic Australia Federation.

The Stahlhelm still tried to keep its distance from the Nazis, and in the run-up to the German federal election of 5 March 1933 formed the united conservative " Black-White-Red Struggle Front " ( Kampffront Schwarz-Weiß-Rot ) with the DNVP and the Agricultural League, reaching 8 % of the votes.

In the run-up to the Iranian Assembly of Experts election, 2006, all women candidates were disqualified.

He played an important role in the run-up to the 1997 general election, working with Peter Mandelson to co-ordinate Labour's campaign.

Unlike most national newspapers, the Daily Star has limited articles on politics and has rarely shown clear support for any specific party or leader ; although in the run-up to the 2010 general election the newspaper printed several articles which hinted that it wanted to see Labour and Gordon Brown voted out of power, while at the same time it offering no explicit support for the Conservatives or their leader David Cameron – who ultimately became Prime Minister following the formation a new coalition government with the Liberal Democrats when his party failed to gain an overall majority in parliament.

Many concurrent stories run at the same time in the run-up to the party.

Throughout the run-up to the battle he had been concerned that the Japanese would try to draw his main fleet away from the landing area using a diversionary force, and would then make an attack around the flank of the U. S. carrier force — an " end run " — hitting the invasion shipping off Saipan.

Jonathan is also a keen runner ; he has run the London Marathon twice, the Brighton Marathon twice, and was chosen to carry the Queen's Jubilee Baton through Abingdon in Oxfordshire in the run-up to the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

The approach ( or run-up ) in the Flop style of high jump is characterised by ( at least ) the final four or five steps being run in a curve, allowing the athlete to lean into his or her turn, away from the bar.

* Thunderbirds: while this mid-sixties series was originally not tied into a single range of toys, like other Gerry Anderson series it heavily featured vehicles that were strongly toyetic, and from its original run onwards through subsequent re-runs in many decades that followed it was accompanied by extensive merchandise in both Europe and Japan, most notably in the UK during the run-up to Christmas 1993, when demand for The Tracy Island toy set so massively outstripped supply that it became headline news and the example cited every Christmas since as the archetypal mistake the whole toy industry must avoid.

Giles was, until that successful run of form, also gently derided by commentators: the BBC's Test Match Special commentator Henry Blofeld famously labelled him a " Wheelie bin " because of his trundling run-up, much to Giles ' disgust.

Miller was famous for varying his bowling to bemuse batsmen: he made sparing use of slower deliveries and would often adjust his run-up, surprisingly bowling his fastest deliveries from a short run.