11.   In the case of Japan, bureaucrats in the Ministry of Finance have been sucking their thumbs for three years waiting for the recession to go away.

12.   In which case, yes indeedy, no one will ever match Wes thumb for thumb.

13.   It helps that Harbour is a lefty and does not need his right thumb for shooting.

14.   It is not really thumbs up for the Nets.

15.   On the whole, this is an exuberant thumbs up for an automobile of grace, manners, and muscle.

16.   Race fans stumble up and down the shoulders, sticking out their thumbs for a ride with the traveling circus.

17.   So I started working again with a positive attitude, substituting my right hand thumb for the left whenever I could.

18.   So, were the neighbors hung by their thumbs for bagpipe blasphemy?

19.   Taylor gives it a thumbs up for having passed measures to cut spending and federal regulations and open the telecommunications industry to greater competition.

20.   The countries there have no history of the democratic traditions we cherish, having suffered under the communist thumb for so long.