The Tea Party, a mixture of moderate Conservatives, Independents will neither genuflect nor bend to the will of either the GOP elites or the Liberal Democrats progressives.
With Mr Ahmadinejad set for a testy relationship with the new parliament, Ayatollah Khamenei may find it even easier to bend policy to his will.
You know you have become a cyber-celebrity when you can make Google bend to your will.
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Governments are used to insisting that in any confrontation, the unelected house must bend to the will of the elected one.
Hence Sumner's blatant threat to have the boards of Viacom and CBS simply remove her now if she won't bend to his will.
Over time, the states have grown accustomed to receiving increasing amounts of federal money while also learning to bend to the will of the federal government.
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Jobs, for one, did not welcome our new technological overlord, but sought to tame it and bend it to his will.
The man who did most to make economists and politicians arrogant - to make them think they could bend the world to their will - also gave them, or ought to have given them, the very best reasons for self-doubt.
Consequently, although some users bend it to their will, most use it in a default manner (like myself) and merely read their mail, in or out of sequence, respond to some, ignore some and generally just leave their inbox an undifferentiated mess.
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Now, I know there are people out there who can bend a tablet to their will.
But if the US is expecting Mr Uribe to bend over backwards to accommodate American priorities, it will most likely be disappointed, as the president elect is fiercely patriotic and independent.
"If we do not get a reasonable sort of indication from CBO that we're going to bend it, that will be a problem, " the aide said of lowering costs in the future.
Mr. Norquist says Republicans should tough it out even if it means going over the tax cliff, pass a bill one more time to extend current tax rates in January, and then Mr. Obama will be the one to bend and sign it.
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Meanwhile, Lufthansa, which is profitable, will bend over backwards to help its most important partner, perhaps even by lending it money.
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It is one thing to know that years of football will make it harder for an athlete to bend down and pick up his child when the athlete is forty.
As a devout Christian, I will not bend, and will stand strong in the faith when it comes to my religious convictions.
Then, at four o'clock in the afternoon, twenty-four hours after the mortar fell on his friends and neighbors while they waited to buy bread, he will bend down and pick up his bow.
Should Notre Dame capture the national championship Kelly will have nothing left to prove at South Bend.
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The GOP must either have a leader who will fight back hard with the president or a leader who will be able to persuade the base to bend a little.
The focus is not just on low-carbon buildings, but also those that are resilient to stressors like floods or hurricanes, buildings that will bend, rather than break.
What you wonder about the magazine as your read this, and other articles, is whether Google will stray far from its own confines seeking experts to bend minds toward new business perspectives.
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