We sometimes tend to be bogged down in our own personal things.

UNESCO: Biodiversity Initiative

Let's focus on our long-term future, and not be bogged down in meeting a ridiculous report card for the satisfaction of the media.

CNN: Commentary: Focus on first 100 days is absurd

Another advance, north-east out of Huambo, has passed through the ruins of Bailundo and is said to be bogged down in fighting on the road to Andulo.

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He says the legislation's wording on competition must be amended or doctors could get "bogged down" in the process and distracted from patient care.

BBC: NHS reform 'complete waste' warning

Predictably agreement on the detail is now bogged down in spats, which can generally be characterised as supplicant, struggling southern nations wanting easier terms for potential rescues than the rich north would prefer.

BBC: The price of saving the eurozone

The discussions with the Treasury have become bogged down over the precise price tag which will be set in terms of a cut in Northern Ireland's block grant.

BBC: What Theresa Villiers will soon discover

As it has done many times before, Chinese banking has become bogged down in a quagmire just when it seemed to be making progress.

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When the full commission meets to decide what it will or will not propose in the defense arena, perhaps it should be content to simply identify budgetary targets for reductions rather than getting bogged down in the arcana of trading off warfighting strategies and capabilities.

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Bashing banks seems to be in vogue, and perhaps if my other predictions of other major legislation getting bogged down come true, the Democrats might use the banks as their way to show how tough they are.

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