1.   And, of course, the NBA has helped shroud their immediate future by turning thumbs down on their hands-on defense.

2.   A three-judge appeals panel again turned thumbs down.

3.   After a trade deal is drafted, lawmakers can turn only thumbs up or down on the whole package.

4.   But Bush turning thumbs down on the bill that passed the Legislature without dissent makes him culpable, Eckstein said.

5.   Ebert turns his thumb down, too.

6.   If the appeals body turns thumbs down, the patient still could go to court but only to recover the cost of the denied benefit.

7.   It was these latter factors that caused the two City Council members, Thomas Tait and Bob Zemel, to turn thumbs down in their votes.

8.   Lobbyists for thousands of interests turn thumbs up or down on each rewritten plan.

9.   Not all critics, however, have turned thumbs down to the movie.

10.   Over the years Harrison Ford, Kurt Russell, Kevin Kline and William Hurt all turned thumbs down.