TJ Hughes had only three stores in 1990, when the firm's rapid, and rapidly successful, expansion across the north began, and with it a sudden pass-the-parcel of ownership. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Like a game of pass-the-parcel, rich countries have “outsourced” the accumulated impact of unsustainable growth to faraway lands and future generations. ❋ Jonathan Watts (2010)
That arose because financial institutions couldn't figure out their exposure to the failed firm — they simply didn't know how many of the myriad of pass-the-parcel transactions they were involved in ultimately depended on it. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Six people exchanged glances, playing pass-the-parcel, speculating on who would be the one to phone the police and get this lunatic taken away. ❋ Unknown (2010)
That arose because financial institutions couldn't figure out their exposure to the failed firm: They didn't know how many of myriad of pass-the-parcel transactions they were involved in ultimately depended on it. ❋ Unknown (2010)
On one occasion I had to threaten to witness summons the Chairman of a Mental Health Trust to get a poor bewildered man accepted into a unit after he had been a victim of pass-the-parcel for three weeks. on February 29, 2008 at 10: 49 am | Reply Jeff Wood ❋ Inspector Gadget (2008)
What do rampant miners have to do with buyout firms playing pass-the-parcel and dabbling in leveraged loans? ❋ Unknown (2010)
After Byron staged a kids' party complete with fairy-bread and pass-the-parcel earlier in the year, and Lili's short-story-writing activity party, I was informed by my friends that I was simply not allowed to have a "normal" party. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Every twelve hours or so they passed the Horcrux between them as though they were playing some perverse, slow-motion game of pass-the-parcel, where they dreaded the music stopping because the reward was twelve hours of increased fear and anxiety. ❋ Rowling, J. K. (2007)
That is the theme from The Times leader this morning, which enjoins "EU leaders" not to play "pass-the-parcel with a dead constitution". ❋ Richard (2005)
By playing games, like pass-the-parcel, a University of Hertfordshire team is finding out how future robot companions should react in social situations. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He should have been there giggling at the children's funny reactions to the magician's tricks, and generally being all grown-up making the kids sit in a circle and helping me and his mum with pass-the-parcel. ❋ Sheepdip (2003)
He got the fare-inclusive smile from the stewardess on the door as she counted the passengers aboard, then joined the queue behind the familiar logjam of travellers storing their hand luggage, getting up to let each other in or playing pass-the-parcel with the statutory in-flight screaming infant. ❋ Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- (2001)
Video: Chinese army plays lethal game of pass-the-parcel - Telegraph Chinese soldiers pass around LIVE GRENADE in perilous military ... ❋ Timothy Stenovec (2012)
