"Yes," I said as he took the phalange out of the envelope and began gently turning it under the light.

In fact, the Phalange were losing power there.

A woman on the plane asks a flight attendant, "You fixed the phalange?"

The first joint was all right, but the second phalange was cracked, I thought.

His Phalange was now, after all, a bosom ally of Israel.

Among the factions he sold to was the Christian Phalange militia.

According to the head of the Phalange, you could not have found a hundred Communists in the whole island.

By some accounts, he went on to engineer the killing of hundreds of Phalange members.

"We are at fateful crossroads," the head of the Phalange Party said.

And then the Phalange killed him too.

"The dark matter has not been removed from the phalange and lunate carpal," she announced.

P. endoi has a longer first phalange on the third metacarpal.

Eventually, the Lebanese Forces became independent from the Phalange and its own political party.

One of the rescued children was an 8 year-old boy who was yelling "Phalange, help, save me!"

However, he dislocated his phalange (big toe) on his left foot during the fight.

The most remarkable is a drilled horse phalange, wholly ornamented and probably representing a female figure.

He served as the representative of the Phalange party in the Siniora government.

The Phalange militia came to the presidents aid instead to bring a final end to the road blockades which were crippling the major cities.

In 1978 Spring, the Frangieh family asked the Phalange to leave the region.

Despite its loss, the Phalange Party considered these elections to be a confirmation of its strength on the streets.

The Phalange party' militia was not only the largest and best organized political paramilitary force in Lebanon but also the oldest.

A coroded wedding band circled one fragile phalange.

A claw is a highly modified ungual phalange.

His grandfather, Pierre Gemayel, founded the Phalange party in 1936.

"Regina Phalange"

They went in, the phalanx leaders each with his men.

The man in the dust had a phalanx of friends.

And a lucky man to have the support of a phalanx when he did.

You are good but soon I am going to throw into your back a whole phalanx of new ones.

The phalanx of trees was at least another mile long.

The men of the phalanxes were running back, clearing the way.

"And they could probably bring a spear phalanx against us."

A solid phalanx of the girls we have loved and lost.

"You may have to fight your way through a phalanx.

He called this system for an ideal community a "Phalanx".

There is some question as to whether the phalanx was actually obsolete by the end of its history.

She returns in the final season to help battle the Phalanx.

The result was not only a phalanx of new plays but a framework for the group's future.

Instead it plowed right through the heart of the phalanx.

The phalanx was all they needed to crush the opposition.

Behind him and to either side, the phalanxes surged forward.

I saw a phalanx of police cars parked in a lot to our left.

The police phalanxes had yet to form and the players' moods were light.

They turned almost as one and formed a phalanx around the Federation group.

His phalanx held the center, while the elephants were spread across the line.

Yesterday there was no need for a phalanx of support riders.

A second phalanx would be held in reserve to reinforce the first.

Still, the phalanx had force, and the intruders gave ground.

The associates of the Phalanx were a much broader group.

The phalanx was the main part of ancient Greek military.

The second toe has three phalanx bones: the first, middle and third.

Rear dewclaws often have no phalanx bones and are attached by skin only.

Includes the bottom of the middle phalanx bone.

The trick is generally performed on the first phalanx bone of each finger of one hand.

All other annular pulleys are attached directly to the phalanx bones.

Below these, the arrangement of sesamoid and phalanx bones is the same as in the forelimbs.

Also, the fourth and fifth digits of the forelimb each bear one fewer phalanx bone.

Likewise, the tipmost primaries attach to the phalanx bones.

Phalanx bones are commonly bone fractured.

Together with the fourteen phalanx bones of the fingers these metacarpal bones form five rays or poly-articulated chains.

In anatomy, phalanx bones (plural phalanges) are bones that form the skeleton of the toes and the fingers.

It is sometimes incorrectly called hypodactyly or confused with aphalangia, the absence of the phalanx bone on one or (commonly) more digits.

Even-toed ungulates, such as the giraffe, uses both their third and fourth toes but a single completely fused phalanx bone for weight-bearing.

This might involve extending the stainless steel plate farther in bracing the proximal phalanx to the middle phalanx bone, Richardson said.

Abrictosaurus also had smaller, less powerful forelimbs than Heterodontosaurus and one fewer phalanx bone in both the fourth and fifth digits of the forelimb.

From there, it forms a palmar continuation of the articular surface of the phalanx bone and its inner surface thus adds to the articular surface during extension.

The excess skin from the shortening of the phalanx bones becomes folded transversely, as if retracted into one another like opera glasses, hence the description la main en lorgnette.

The uniqueness of brachytelephalangy in KS results in distinctively broadened and shortened first through fourth distal phalanges, while the fifth distal phalanx bone remains unaffected.

Its flexible attachment to the phalanx bone not only prevents it from restricting joint movements, but also prevents the long flexor tendons from being pinched in the joint.

It was originally described from a distal left tibiotarsus piece (specimen BMNH A843); a toe phalanx bone found soon thereafter was tentatively assigned to this bird.

Human hands contain fourteen digital bones, also called phalanges, or phalanx bones: two in the thumb (the thumb has no middle phalanx) and three in each of the four fingers.

The capsule, extensor tendon, and skin are very thin and lax dorsally, allowing for both phalanx bones to flex more than 100 until the base of the middle phalanx makes contact with the condylar notch of the proximal phalanx.

Increased powers are attributed to sculptures which are crafted from materials of significant origin, such as the last phalanx bone of the little finger, a bone from a dead baby, wood taken from a dead person's coffin, or a crucifix that belonged to someone recently deceased.

The shallow grooves on the trochleae allowed for considerable sideways mobility of the toes; if the single phalanx bone known is assigned correctly to this species (it is the best match in size by far), it is very wide at the proximal end and tapers noticeably distad.

A finger phalanx bone found at the site and examined by forensic anthropologist Karen Ramey Burns has been examined by Dr. Cecil Lewis at the Molecular Anthropology Laboratories at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma, USA.