Even though their iPhones were unlocked versions from Hong Kong, and had to be cracked, they were welcomed among many urban Chinese.
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It brings together information provided by Scotland's police forces to help identify cases that could be cracked through advances in evidence gathering techniques such as DNA profiling.
Labour's Baroness Symons said that "independence within parties" would be compromised and "the whip would be cracked a bit more effectively over all of us than it is at the moment".
If the problem of rejection could be cracked, not only would transplant patients have a better prognosis, but it would also be easier to match patients to donors, and so more transplants could be carried out using the limited number of organs available.
Asphalt shingles ( the most common roofing material in the U.S.) can become loose, cracked, be blown off by the wind or be damaged by hail.
But ecosystem lock-in was never the strong force it was cracked up to be.
It becomes clear that online bargain-shopping is not all it is cracked up to be.
For a start, the golden age of news was not all it is cracked up to be.
It is at least worth noting, however, that forest people are not always the tree-huggers they are cracked up to be.
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Considering all the hype and corporate infighting surrounding DVD, we couldn't help but wonder: Is DVD-video all it's cracked up to be?
Jessa finds that being a newlywed with Chris O'Dowd isn't all it's cracked up to be, while Shoshanna struggles with combining love and sex.
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On the other hand, if BB10 is all that it is cracked up to be, this will make RIM (at best) an excellent short term trade.
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More common are instances of people getting stuck with a housing arrangement that is not in truth quite what it was cracked up to be online.
The key question is whether advertisers will interpret this one-month slip in unique users as a sign that social networking--at least in Europe--is not all it is cracked up to be.
Maybe we are all tiring of banks making acquisitions of other banks at four times book value, and maybe we don't believe the merger savings are all they're cracked up to be.
Among them are the right to file a joint return (which is not always quite as much as it is cracked up to be) and the unlimited marital deduction for estate tax purposes.
Grady Cothen, a consultant and former safety official at the Federal Railroad Administration, said repairing a cracked joint bar would be unusual.
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Mr Hollande has demanded that a European fiscal pact that cracked down on overspending be renegotiated to include a greater emphasis on measures to stimulate growth, while Germany insists the treaty must be respected.
Perhaps a generation from now the world will be largely devoid of skipping CDs and cracked jewel cases.
There's no point putting something in a safe that can then be picked up, taken away and cracked open at leisure.
It can also be used to secure windswept eyebrows, on cracked heels and toes and to soften cuticles.
The analysis showed that the tooth was filled with beeswax, likely to alleviate the pain of chewing on a cracked tooth, providing what could be the earliest known direct evidence of a therapeutic dental filling.
All turned out to be actual LinkedIn passwords that had been leaked and cracked.
Boost Mobile and Kyocera recognize that mobile phone accidents happen, but unlike cracked screens or broken keypads that can be replaced, water damage is usually irreversible.
" At another point, when Ennis was arguing that parents should chaperone their kids online, Scalia cracked, "If I had to be present whenever my 16-year-old is on the Internet, I would know less about this case than I know today.
Tuesday afternoon, Digg CEO Jay Adelson had posted a message on his blog explaining that the site was removing links to articles that featured the newly cracked HD-DVD encryption key, which can be used to decrypt the high-definition discs and copy their content.
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