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prep.phr. (context cricket English) Describing the action of a batsman in moving the bat in a direction lateral to that of the incoming ball
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Across the Line is a programme on BBC Radio Ulster (92– 95 FM). It broadcasts Monday, 8pm to 10.00 pm, presented by Rigsy (real name David O'Reilly). It is also known for its popular website at www.bbc.co.uk/atl.
Support for Northern Ireland music and musicians in central to the Across the Line editorial brief. Since its inception in 1986 as The Bottom Line, the programme has championed Northern Irish rock music and in particular bands from Northern Ireland.
Regular contributors have included Stuart Bailie (who also writes for NME magazine), Phil Taggart (BBC Radio 1), Niall Byrne (Nialler 9), Paul McClean, Helen Toland and Bernard Keenan. For several years Rigsy presented alongside Donna Legge and until early 2012 Paul Hamill presented the ATL Dance Show. Across the Line won gold at the PPI Awards (the Irish version of the Sony Radio Academy Awards) in 2008 and 2009.
Across the Line is a 2000 American drama film directed by Martin Spottl and starring Brad Johnson and Sigal Erez. Johnson plays a small-town Texas sheriff who falls for an illegal immigrant (Erez) who witnessed a murder on the Mexican border. While not an overtly political film, Across the Line portrays illegal immigrants in a generally positive light and dramatizes their motivations and problems from a sympathetic point of view. In La Opinion Jean Rodriguez Flores wrote, "The film Across the Line isn't just about the difficulties of crossing illegally into the United States, but it also reflects the tragedy of hundreds of people who are forced to leave their families for the "promised land." Some critics praised the film for its emotional intensity, authenticity, and integrity, but others questioned it for turning the plight of illegal immigrants into mainstream entertainment. Independently financed and produced, Across the Line was distributed by Lionsgate Entertainment.
Across the Line may refer to:
- Across the Line (radio show), a radio programme on BBC Radio Ulster
- Across the Line (2000 film), a 2000 American drama starring Brad Johnson
- Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright, a 2010 American action film starring Aidan Quinn
- "Across the Line", a song by Linkin Park
- Across the Line (2015 film), a Canadian drama film
Across the Line is a 2015 Canadian drama film directed by Director X. It was set and shot in Nova Scotia.
Usage examples of "across the line".
Now, however, he arose, and walked slowly up from the shore, in a course to take him across the line the Nazarite was pursuing and bring him near the camel.
Carlos was in the southeast of the duchy of Zandria, or maybe across the line in Cloud.
But as soon as Cachat had stepped across the line on the deck which marked the official legal boundaries of the superdreadnought, the Marines had snapped to attention and presented arms.
He turned back to his controls and aimed the already orbiting swarm of killerbees in on terminal, across the line that was the best guess for enemy troops.
She was just this side of breakdown and must have been like that for weeks, slipping across the line for minutes at a time, hauling herself back for a moment or two, then sliding across again.
Exiled to reality, my own sojourns across the line are necessarily those of an alien guilty of illegal entry.
Folks work across the line at the mill in Anderson when they get paid late of a Friday.
Then another light came on, a narrow-beam illuminator from the news cameras, flicking across the line of Milice and incidentally into their eyes.
The smoke within them seemed thicker, moved more slowly, horribly, as though they had fed and were sluggish and would go away, back across the line to that dark place where they waited, always waited, till their hunger was aroused again.
Watching the screen Grimes saw a neat seam of explosions stitched across the line of advance of the Morrowvian women, saw the billowing clouds of greenish vapor pouring from each bursting shell.