'Clutch? How?'

I broke the clutch.

He'll clutch at any straw.

He'll clutch at any straw.

Take your foot off the clutch.

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

'He has begun to clutch at himself,' replied Mary Nikolavna.

This time, the issue was not involvement but disengagement.

The question, of course, is what will happen after the Gaza disengagement.

BERLIN Germany s stance toward Europe has become one of rejection and disengagement.

Disengagement from the California polity also is true of the state s economic engines.

Disengagement is not an option, because the status quo is not an option.

In fact, the trend was for disengagement with the rest of the world.

Put it in first and slowly let off the clutch while giving it a little gas.

13. Stresses the need for all concerned parties to work together for the speedy resolution of all outstanding issues relating to disengagement, and welcomes in this regard the work of the Quartet Special Envoy for Disengagement

But Kitty had not expected more from the quadrille, she waited with a clutch at her heart for the mazurka.

Kadima s success is due to Sharon s main innovation in Israeli politics the successful unilateral disengagement from Gaza.

Israel's disengagement plan presents the evacuation of Gaza settlements as an end to 37 years of occupation.

She begins to lay about a week after mating and lays one egg every day or two the clutch comprises five to 12 eggs.

Fortunately, US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has reassured America s Asian friends and allies that regional disengagement is not being contemplated.

Given Palestinian public opinion, the most likely outcome of Sharon's disengagement plan is the empowerment of Hamas and other Palestinian militants.

Many governments were initially skeptical about disengagement, but realized that as the Washington saying goes this is the only game in town.

Last December, he explicitly stated that Israel is headed towards unilateral disengagement, and that this would entail the relocation of some settlements.

Sharon's disengagement plan may ultimately render the Gaza Strip little more than a suffocating ghetto isolated from Israel and the rest of the world.

The wall fence in the West Bank and Ariel Sharon s disengagement from Gaza have practically done away with daily friction between Jews an Arabs.

A rapid American disengagement might ultimately cause the country s disintegration into fragmented political entities, one of which would likely be an Iran controlled Islamic republic.

Although American commitments to Lebanon, Somalia, Vietnam, and Cambodia differed mightily, history reveals that despite immediate costs to America s reputation, disengagement ultimately redounded to America s advantage.

For most Israelis, even those who voted for him as the bearer of Sharon s legacy after the Gaza disengagement, Olmert thus remained the accidental prime minister.

He alone seemed to incarnate the combination of reassuring strength and vision to carry the majority of Israelis behind him in a process of unilateral disengagement.

A public, understandably disheartened by the length of the current military campaigns and loss of life in Afghanistan and Iraq, is sympathetic to the idea of disengagement.

Abroad, his main agenda was nakedly xenophobic No to membership in the Euro, significant disengagement from the European Union, and a harsher policy towards foreign asylum seekers.

Abroad, his main agenda was nakedly xenophobic No to membership in the Euro, significant disengagement from the European Union, and a harsher policy towards foreign asylum seekers.

Coincidentally, the deadly attack on Gaza came at the same time that a clutch of America s most distinguished would be Middle East peacemakers published books about how the task should properly be tackled.

In classic business cycle theory, a boom is initiated by a clutch of inventions power looms and spinning jennies in the eighteenth century, railways in the nineteenth century, automobiles in the twentieth century.

Their task is to embrace the least imperfect solution before they decline into Doomsday scenarios, such as a hostile Israeli unilateral disengagement, or a one state reality of unending conflict.

A violent Israeli disengagement, and thus the end of Israeli Palestinian cooperation on security matters, might unleash such instability that Hamas emerges as a serious contender for power in the West Bank.

A sober assessment of this process leads me to assert that a more capable and united Europe will usher in a more effective Atlantic Alliance and not, as some believe, in American disengagement from European commitments.

Was Sharon really convinced by demographers that the Great Israel that once seemed to be his dream would actually mean the end of a Jewish State, or did his disengagement strategy of Gaza first really mean Gaza last ?

(b) To cease all military activity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which breaches the ceasefire provided for in the Ceasefire Agreement and the Kampala disengagement plan See S 2000 330 and Corr.1, paras. 21 28.

They also agree with Netanyahu that Israel s disengagement from Gaza, and the subsequent rise of Hamas there, proves that every piece of land that Israel relinquishes is destined to turn into a base for launching missiles against the country.

Indeed, in 1974, when General Gamasy, the architect of the 1973 war, questioned Sadat s flexibility in the disengagement talks with Israel, Egypt s president calmed him down by saying, Don t forget, General, we are talking here about peace with the Americans!

On the Israeli side, further disengagement from dozens of isolated and small settlements on the West Bank, entailing the evacuation of between 20,000 and 30,000 settlers, may be politically feasible and would give the Palestinians a contiguous territory on the West Bank.

On the Israeli side, further disengagement from dozens of isolated and small settlements on the West Bank, entailing the evacuation of between 20,000 and 30,000 settlers, may be politically feasible and would give the Palestinians a contiguous territory on the West Bank.

Recalling the Ceasefire Agreement signed at LusakaS 1999 815, annex. and the Kampala disengagement plan,See S 2000 330 and Corr.1, paras. 21 28. the obligations of all signatories to those agreements and the obligations deriving from Security Council resolution 1304 (2000),

Moreover, the French mapping effort took place just a decade after Siam ceded a clutch of territories much of today s western Cambodia to France, which was then perched above Indochina as the colonial master At that time, a vulnerable Siam was compelled to sign a host of unequal treaties with European powers in exchange for maintaining its independence.