| It has been there for hundreds of years, and a temporary blip in the finances is no excuse for throwing it all away. |
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| But I hope this is just a blip, a temporary moment of blurred decision, out-weighed by my usual clarity. |
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| Kieran Richardson's blip will disappear off Lord Ferg's radar when he hotfoots it to Everton in the summer. |
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| But road statistics are volatile, and experts say the 16 per cent drop in deaths last year could prove to be a blip rather than a trend. |
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| Should there be a correction, though, it most likely will only be a minor blip on the downward plunging trend lines. |
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| Given his own natural inclination towards bizarre parts, the relatively straight arrow that is Murdoch appears to be a blip on his acting map. |
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| He expects a busy afternoon against a team hell-bent on making amends for last year's blip in an otherwise tremendous season. |
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| If that's right, it would suggest March's relatively weak out-turn was a blip. |
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| The great computerized search engine that was to have scrutinized our every blip has been put on hold by Congress. |
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| Consistency in selection has been matched by consistency in performance once the Lord's blip was negotiated. |
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| Nothing fazes him, least of all his dodgy heart, which he considers merely a blip on a perfect landscape. |
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| Universities across the country are expecting a dip in the number of applicants next year, although this is expected to be a temporary blip. |
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| The combination was lethal, but I just dismissed it as a temporary blip at the time. |
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| Does the current slowdown represent a minor blip or a signal that the supernormal profits enjoyed by drug companies may soon be at an end? |
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| Time will tell if this is just a statistical anomaly or a blip in a downward trend. |
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| The radar operator was watching carefully as the blip on his monitor representing the Renegade crawled into the system. |
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| For the traders on the floor, they all said it was a quiet day, it was a blip. |
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| In the darkened operations room below decks, grey overalled officers and sailors watched an approaching blip on their radar screens. |
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| Two hundred metres later, Mary crossed the finish line in sixth position, hardly a blip on the Olympic screen. |
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| We have had this blip and we do not criticise the PTA for taking us to task about it. |
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| Everybody goes through a blip during the course of the year and maybe we are having ours now. |
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| He calls it a blip and likens it to a reformed alcoholic relapsing into a 24-hour binge. |
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| This was the only blip in the whole day which had seen many locals dressing up in period costume, strolling around in the Summer heat. |
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| A quick blip of the keyfob, touch the button under the wing mirror, the glass lowers and the door pops open. |
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| He won't be very pleased about being marked down but someone as talented as him will treat it as a minor blip. |
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| You can't even stall it, as the car can cruise round town in sixth gear from just 500 revs and will blip the throttle for you. |
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| As I was working on today's entry our electricity began to blip on and off. |
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| But we said that sure it was a blip and we would soon start up a new run and get the show back on the rails. |
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| The radar operator watched carefully as the blip on his monitor representing the Renegade crawled into the system. |
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| Early stumbles or successes may turn out to be a mere blip in the long run. |
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| With the exception of Moldova, this year's performances don't rate a blip on the comedic radar compared to last year. |
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| You can flick up and down the box with a flex of the fingers, the downshifts including a perfectly-timed throttle blip. |
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| Maybe this is nothing more than a bump in the road, a mere blip on the sports radar. |
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| It was a high-pitched blip that, once again, she never knew the devices were capable of. |
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| I'm hoping that it's a blip for the Coen bros, you know one of those exceptions to the rule of them making really good films. |
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| Maybe it was a blip in history, with drive-ins and soda fountains, that's gone for good. |
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| Twist the key and blip the throttle and the beautiful looking 4.2 V8 roars like a true racer. |
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| A blip of noise signals contact, then a low, droning hiss fills the speakers before the music begins. |
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| He pledged to keep a flinty eye on it and vowed to slay the threatening blip should it grow. |
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| Play, share and embed this video from blip.tv, Dailymotion, Yahoo and Youtube! |
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| At first, westerners tried to shrug this off as a temporary blip in the preordained scheme of things. |
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| And that desire to foster a copacetic synthesis between carbon-based life forms and artificial devices can be heard in every blip and digitized beat played. |
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| It was such a blip on the radar that I underestimated its success grossly. |
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| In tight corners you can downshift with just a quick blip of the throttle. |
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| While this may simply be a blip, if people are seriously divesting from the country because they don't want to be exposed to a trillion dollar deficit, it spells big trouble. |
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| Whatsisface barely registered a blip outside of hard-core NASCAR circles. |
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| Behind the light-heartedness of today's jokes is a tiny blip of menace: today's satire is often tomorrow's reality. |
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| One tiny advertising campaign, barely a blip on the screen, broke out of the bland box and shook up the campaign. |
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| There is good reason to suspect that when all is said and done this report will appear as a blip marring a strengthening upward employment trend. |
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| Clean, blip and fleck free pictures, well saturated colors, and a dash of light grain with a splash of digital edge enhancement make for a satisfactory overall presentation. |
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| Despite the occasional blip when the drink interfered, he was a terrific communicator and a fine orator. |
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| A blip at 10 was followed by four birdies in the next five holes, while another bogey at 17 meant he shot a 64 first round. |
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| No one in the Madrid side excelled, though, as the holders were beaten 2-1 in Turin, but Ancelotti believes it was only a blip. |
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| If not for the storm generated by the censorship controversy, there's a high probability that North would have barely caused a blip on the radar. |
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| Computer-controlled selling programmes turned a random blip into an avalanche, burying jobs, lives and industries across the globe. |
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| But Clement, is the Internet connection always good or does it blip like in the cyber cafes? |
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| However, the acceleration by consumer spending must be read as a blip in motor vehicle sales in August following two months of heavy pullbacks. |
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| Less than a century ago-a mere blip in history-women had no identity: whether professional, civil, political, or social. |
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| Nonetheless, we would see this as just a blip against the generally bright background of our improving relations. |
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| Is this the signal of a new, sober environment for telecommunications or just a temporary blip? |
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| Further, asset sales might mean that a blip in redemptions in a future year reduces risk if it coincides with the asset sale. |
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| The drop last year is likely to be a small blip in a general upward trend. |
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| Due to his student visa and wealthy background, Pei was held at Angel Island for only a day, a blip on his way to becoming one of the most celebrated architects of the modern era. |
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| In my 16 years with CNN and CBS, apa voters rarely got a blip of consideration as worthy of news coverage. |
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| The next day, Gawker, InTouch, and other U.S. outlets picked up the story, but the Cosby story was still only a blip on Twitter. |
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| The early scandal, but really it was a blip of gossip with half-hearted twangs, was that Sonja had a younger beau. |
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| The passenger-rail behemoth sucks up more taxpayer dollars than ever, and its ridership gains are merely a blip. |
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| Cinco de Mayo is actually a much more random and bittersweet blip on the radar of Mexican history. |
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| Harry Brown was never even a blip on the radar in any sense. |
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| From a finance standpoint, Telemundo is the merest blip on GE's radar. |
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| A recent drop in mortgage delinquencies in the US may be a small blip in an otherwise worrying trend that shows more Americans falling behind on housing payments. |
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| Another explanation, and this one is more reassuring, is that people aren't responding to the temporary inflation blip caused by higher petrol prices. |
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| It's easy to dismiss the jump in inflation as a temporary blip. |
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| Let's hope it's just a temporary blip in a smooth operation. |
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| Then a small blip of sound came from the screen and Lucas pulled back. |
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| The sudden rise in poll fortunes last month, when the party was neck and neck with Labour for the first time in a decade, appears to have been little more than a blip. |
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| Labor is just now cranking up its grass roots machine while the local Liberals, despite their incumbency, are little more than a blip on the radar screen. |
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| Events that followed ensured that this would be nothing but a temporary blip. |
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| Rossouw de Klerk scored a fantastic try to put us in a very good position but a blip in the backs took it away from us. |
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| As a cell moves through the aperture it causes a blip in the voltage when the nonconductive cell briefly displaces the conductive medium. |
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| But that misstep is a minor blip in an otherwise stellar premiere. |
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| When the blip began to move up the oscilloscope screen, they followed again. |
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| The benefits, of course, far outway that small blip although I shall be glad when the work is finished. |
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| Today, that period looks like a delusive blip. |
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| A biopsy, in the majority of cases, reveals the blip to be benign. |
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| The cup sponsor changed to Pilkington, and Bath after a blip in 1988 dominated that cup as well winning it a further six times. |
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| There's a chance this is just a viral blip, an intermittent spike of low-level virus that just happens in people on successful HIV treatment. |
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| Currently, there is concern that a blip in the demographics, resulting in one grade four and three grade six students for next year, would render some curriculum expectations difficult to achieve. |
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| It says that since the dominant system of values and things is by definition more than satisfactory, the persistence of impoverishment is merely a temporary blip. |
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| When mortgage-backed securities began their downward slide last summer, Lehman head Richard Fuld judged this to be a short-term blip in the market. |
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| One thing is certain: street gangs are no longer a blip on the screen. |
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| I sincerely hope it was a blip and protest vote, even the Tory party is more decent. |
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| From the dank gloom of early 2012 this collective spending spree appears like an orgiastic aberration, a blip of boom in the history of a nation more used to struggle, austerity and sacrifice. |
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| Is the success of the diesel set to last, or is it just a passing blip? |
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| Despite a minor blip in the first week, when Rosin recalls venting her pent-up moans at her baby, the 39-year-old says that she has found the overall process helpful in teaching her to complain mindfully. |
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| And while this may be a one-time blip, it remains troubling. |
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| All it takes is a blip of Arctic air in November to hurt the vines. |
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| As Dr. Driedger and I have both said, this short-term blip really has come at us out of left field, because the company that supplies it had assured us in the community that everything was going to be fine. |
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| Although a blip in Q4 resulting from weaker consumption and investment appeared to threaten stalling the recovery, analysts saw the slowdown as only being of temporary nature. |
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| It wasn't until the 1980s that insurance fraud began to make a blip on anticrime radars. |
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| A FLAT month of high street sales has been played down as a blip rather than a major concern by a Cardiff-based banker. |
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| Domestic unrest among alienated Shia mullahs and unemployed youth was not even a minor blip on our diplomatic radarscope. |
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| Was the increased Latino support for Republicans a blip or trend line? |
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| Ten Feet Tall may be ruined by autotune but it's a minor blip on an otherwise triumphant return. |
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| When the Keltys sold the business 30 years later, backpacking was no longer a blip on America's conscience. |
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| The company's financial problems were just a temporary blip. |
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| Blue badge holders can park on double yellow lines, however, where there is a kerb blip, no-one, including blue badge holders, should be parking on these. |
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| And the word will be blip, as in when a football team can't win a game. |
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