101.   The Justice Department said Wednesday that Microsoft, in effect, had thumbed its nose at the judge.

102.   The other is to seize that long- awaited opportunity to thumb your nose at the cable TV conglomerates.

103.   The Rat Pack thumbed its nose at the great racial divide by implying relations had so improved we could joke about our differences.

104.   The Poles, for instance, long saw attending Mass as a way of thumbing their noses at the Soviets.

105.   The unpredictaBills have another opportunity to thumb their nose at the rest of America.

106.   They thumb their noses at approaching trains, race them to crossings.

107.   They wanted to create a Jewish congregation in Woodstock, the counterculture outpost that had thumbed its nose at institutions like synagogues.

108.   They were described alternately as loners who stayed to themselves, or as rebels who reveled in their status as outcasts, thumbing their noses at convention.

109.   They have done little more than provide the Serbs with an opportunity to thumb their noses at the U.N.

110.   Three years after the Chechens declared independence, thumbing their nose at Moscow, Russia is trying to reassert its sway.