Which suggests that if Marathon breaks in two, he will throw in his lot with upstream operations.
But Bob Eaton, Chrysler's chairman, believed that sooner or later he would have to throw in his lot with another car company.
The Old China Hand feels he has no choice but to throw in his lot with the Chinese because the Americans are so unreasonable.
Mulling it all over this week, the Scots marked, in conspicuously muted manner, the anniversary of the original decision to throw in their lot with their southern neighbours.
"There are local factors in Syria that are going to make it much more difficult to have an effect -- the middle classes in Syria have yet to really throw their lot in with the opposition, " he said.
Was it really only a few years ago they wanted to leave the 6N and throw their lot in with the southern hemisphere to find some real competition?
It sends an alarming message to wavering Europeans itching to pull out and to Afghans wondering whether to throw their lot in with the government or with the insurgents.
Indeed, most growers have been far too canny to throw in their entire lot with Nicolas Feuillatte a more usual pattern is to sell some grapes to the traditional houses, some to the co-ops, and perhaps to keep some back to make your own-label champagne.
Their message is always the same: If Israel does not prove that it is serious about peace by giving massive unreciprocated concessions to the Palestinians then they will abandon all remaining pretense of support for Israel and throw their lot in completely with the Palestinians.
Will Europe's unions fight to preserve their privileges in inflexible national labour markets a strategy that benefits union members at the expense of non-members or will they throw their lot in with governments and employers to ease the movement of workers to where jobs are, through training and so forth?
In very simple terms, the economic pie has been growing, the state still has control over a healthy portion of it, and Putin has therefore been in a position to throw a lot of money at any problem.
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And the reason behind that is that we did throw a lot of money into the system in order to fix things.
"We're seeing firms being pretty disciplined and not throwing a lot of money in just to throw money in, " says Mark Heeson, president of the National Venture Capital Association.
People tend to throw around degrees and acronyms like they really hold a lot of weight in the recruiting world.
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"A lot of companies just throw a catalog online and hope people buy stuff in cyberspace, " says Stan Dolberg, software strategies director at Forrester Research.
No matter how much butter and syrup Republicans throw on their new-found interest in immigration reform, so far it still looks a lot like a political waffle.
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