She nibbled away enough of the incumbent Republican's margins to win a closely contested race.
It is, however, not just the war on terror that has nibbled away at liberties.
The 300-plus crowd, mostly buttoned up in business attire, nibbled on hummus and roasted vegetables.
Fear coursed through me as I nibbled on breadsticks, protesting a lack of appetite.
MPs who've nibbled croissants in the presence tell me the discussions have been thought-provoking.
Roy nibbled on a raw-onion-and-Cheddar sandwich, but the rattling house unnerved him and the sandwich was too strong.
More than a dozen cameras recorded her as she shook hands with supporters and nibbled her at lunch.
At the isolated, bow-shaped Tresaith Beach, playful seals nibbled on a lunch of fresh fish near a waterfall.
She nibbled on golden corn and flew the coop in an outdoor yard.
It was reduced to a kind of nibbled cheese rind, and it always disappeared before we expected it to.
But if you don't start by saying, you're going to achieve universal health care, you will be nibbled to death.
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But the industry has nibbled, and Ross and his group have given them some seed money to get things going.
Try beach pedicures in Bali, leg-hair threading in Vietnam or having your dead skin nibbled off by doctor fish in Hong Kong.
Burdick chocolate mice, which the couple had nibbled on their first date.
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Mitt Romney and Barack Obama nibbled around the edges, largely agreeing.
While some children pretended to shoot each other, one girl painted her face with the melting chocolate and others nibbled on their toys.
The endangered rodents were thought to be in the area after staff at the Anglian Water site discovered a nibbled hazelnut last summer.
Breaking out a tub of cookie dough, she nibbled on a couple of bites as she portioned scoop after scoop onto the baking sheet.
And although Raikkonen nibbled at Hamilton's lead at times through the middle period of the race, the McLaren always appeared to be in control.
The government has only nibbled at the edges of spending reform and it lacks the political capital to be more assertive on this front.
As well as trying to cope with the coalition's self-inflicted wounds, the Christian Social Union sees its support being nibbled away from three different directions.
Vice President Cheney, Vernon Jordan, more than one Supreme Court justice and a slew of ambassadors nibbled foie gras and crab claws while Topkis nervously introduced herself.
Tai-tais decked in baubles and taipans in Armani merrily sipped champagne and nibbled on cruditEs as they paraded around the city's newest temple to upwardly mobile fashion.
Recession may have cut up to 1 billion reais from that figure, and inflation nibbled at its value, but increased government spending on anti-poverty schemes has more than compensated for that.
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On his home island, the plants that he and his kind depended on had been nibbled away by goats brought by sailors, while their eggs were eaten by rats that jumped from the ships.
Frauds are called out almost immediately, and the old concept of the Big Lie tell it often enough and everyone believes it is nibbled to death by 1, 000 attacks on its credibility.
Where others have bludgeoned the Republican nominee, Fox News has nibbled, as if to indicate that telling the real, whole news would let too much water through the Titanic-like hole in the USS Romney.
In the wild, where individuals of a species are dotted around and have to be sought out by their predators, having a few leaves nibbled away is a minor nuisance compared with having your root system strangled and poisoned by your neighbours.
At the time, many of the New York cinemas that showed the movies I liked were disreputable shacks, where marijuana billowed from the back rows, insects nibbled on the candy glued to the floor, and the telephone booths in the lobby provided stages for all sorts of shady theatre.
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