Sure, if a victim fights back and flattens his bully, the bully tends to back off.
The refuse rises into a gentle hill and then flattens out in a plateau.
The budget will still creep up in real terms until it flattens off in 2015.
The Bush steamroller is creating a self-fulfilling prophecy of victory that flattens everybody else.
The way cookie dough flattens when baked, his features have melted down to be almost flat and unrecognizable.
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Even if the U.S. unit labor cost trend flattens out, a continued 10 percent rate of appreciation appears likely.
For a start, I sometimes feel that it flattens the readers' emotional engagement.
In this specific case, once the 50 day flattens out and starts moving higher AONE could already be 30-50% higher.
This is because low inflation flattens the time profile of real debt repayments, making a mortgage more affordable in its early years.
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These sequences badly skew the film not because of explicitness but because their import is so obvious that it flattens the other narratives.
Of course, this demand flattens out at various periods when the emerging market economies cool, but this does not alter the major trend.
When the yield curve flattens, the banking business can turn ugly.
What we know in general is that it seems like the largest single demographic group is from Saudi Arabia, and then it flattens more or less.
He conveys his awe of the mystery and the tyranny of desire, but in his empathetic effort to normalize it, he flattens and sentimentalizes the story.
After a rollercoaster of twists and turns, the road flattens out to reveal small towns like Damascus and Galax, the latter home to a weekly bluegrass night.
Be careful if that spread flattens and begins to decline.
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Expect further multiple compression whether gold rises, falls or flattens.
In places, even its primeval marrow juts out: where the river flattens we slide evenly past eerie, vertical folds of Vishnu schist, which our guides tell us whistle when the wind blows through its billion-year-old fins.
These are not images but artifacts: Reproduction flattens them, and tends to erase the archaeology of the page, how it was constructed through crevices (the stylus marks) and relief (the build-up of ink and white heightening).
Along with flagging consumer confidence and shrinking disposable income likely comes cuts in vacation budgets and less money spent on airplane tickets, hotel rooms, car rentals, as well as less time browsing through travel recommendation sites, which threatens advertising revenue and flattens commission fees.
So now when natural disasters strike a tsunami strikes a Pacific coast, or an earthquake flattens a city the emergency responders and the media can utilize up-to-the minute images to assess the scale and scope of the damage, target help to victims, and communicate news and information.
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