secret reserve

It was almost as if the sorcerer were drawing from some secret reserve.

The case is also seen as the reason for the demise of accounting with the aid of secret reserves.

It would be my secret reserve.

Interesting as hell though, was the obvious fact that neither Bonelli knew of Hinshaw's secret reserves.

Don't use secret reserves.

This time there was no secret reserve in his mind, no promise that after this he would get on with his journey to Mizzer.

But this one carries secret reserves of heartbreak and ruefulness that propel it farther and deeper into the reader's imagination.

North Korea has the globe's third-largest army, 5,000 tons of sarin nerve gas and (the spooks believe) a secret reserve of the smallpox virus.

Gilbert Edelson, administrative vice president of the Art Dealers Association, which vigorously opposes secret reserves, contends "estimates are quoted where you can't really buy the work."

German companies, it seems, can set up secret reserves, stuffing cash into the mattress in fat years and pulling it out to prop up profits in lean ones.

Officials fear that countries like Iraq and North Korea are harboring secret reserves of smallpox and could use it as a weapon or pass it to terrorists.

A few moments later an unlikely kernel of warmth ignited in her stomach, as if the icy water had activated some secret reserve of energy within her body.

Mr. Murray has always been a comedian with something more, a secret reserve of melancholy that sets him widely apart from his fellow "Saturday Night Live" alumni.

German accounting policies allow companies to set up secret reserves, into which money can be put in good years, lowering reported profits, and removed in bad years, increasing reported profits.

The costs of introducing such a system and the administrative charges for conversion are so high that this plan must remain on the back burner for now, unless the Commission has a vast secret reserve.

Page 181 to leave off some of my vanities, but there was a secret reserve in my heart of the more refined part of them, and I was not low enough to find true peace.

"To disclose reserves in New York City would put the auction industry here at a distinct disadvantage since secret reserves are standard in other major auction centers such as Geneva or London," he said.

The panelists argued over whether auction houses have built-in conflicts of interest by representing sellers with secret reserves, while at the same time representing to buyers initial valuations on those works at auction time.

Plender was one of the most important and reliable accountants in Britain, and under cross-examination stated that it was routine for firms "of the very highest repute" to use secret reserves in calculating profit without declaring it.

The new complaint accuses the company of an additional scheme, asserting that WorldCom retained secret reserves that could be used almost as a cookie jar - tapped whenever the company needed to offset expenses, and thus improperly increase profits.

First of all, this is another film in which a seemingly mild-mannered, powerless man (Jack Nicholson in "Wolf," Arnold Schwarzenegger in "True Lies," even Tom Hanks in "Forrest Gump") releases his secret reserves of viciousness or ambition.

In response to criticisms regarding chandelier bidding and unidentified third-party guaranteed bids, Christie's International chairman Edward Dolman countered that, without a secret reserve, illegal cartels of bidders would know in advance information that could facilitate their manipulation of the market and corruption of final valuation by selling price at auction.