But they buckled down -- that was a pun. (Laughter.) You got that?
It recently took over a chunk of Sowood Capital, a rival that buckled under bad bets.
People remember what happened to the bridge up in Minneapolis that just buckled and collapsed.
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When Conservative ministers offered tepid support, Mr Hester buckled and gave up the bonus.
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All that was left of the control tower after the crash was a buckled metal exterior staircase.
Russia seems to have buckled under international pressure to abstain from directly selling weapons systems to Iran.
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But, as Indian diplomats are saying, "the stakes had become too high for Italy and they buckled".
Consumers buckled beneath underwater mortgages and foreclosure rates and unemployment rates seemed to accelerate month by month.
Police with rescue dogs were searching the building Friday, which appeared to have buckled and collapsed upon itself.
An unmarked Tim Cornelisse put a near-post header from the resultant corner wide before the visitors almost buckled.
Panic and confusion were the order of the day as the doomed installation buckled into the frigid waters.
"I heard guys buckled a bit during the storm, " manager Joe Girardi said.
But as the yellow and black shirts poured forward, the Malaga defense buckled.
His house is littered with chunks of insulation, and Sandy buckled its floors.
They stem largely from external blows under which weaker economies would have buckled.
Steinman still wears the belts she loves, just not buckled quite so tight.
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This jolted Ulster into a response and Ulster produced a huge shove at the scrum and the visitors buckled.
Whereas monetarism buckled as a policy, inflation targeting has proved far more effective.
They faced reality, got credit counseling and buckled down for the next 5 years to pay off their debt.
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His bristling eyebrows buckled in a way that made him seem excessively stupid, like a caveman examining a light bulb.
According to the National Safety Council, if your car suddenly becomes submerged, stay calm and remain buckled in your seat.
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When the U.S. market finally buckled on Oct. 24, the stage had been set for a massive case of the jitters.
Walking along Fifth Avenue today (Friday), New Yorkers gawped at the buckled crane on 57th Street still hanging over our heads.
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After Leeds squandered several promising attacks their set-piece scrum buckled and the visitors were awarded the first penalty of the game.
They had died, the inquiry decided, from asphyxiation or suffocation in the crush which left steel safety barriers buckled and broken.
Griffin finally departed in the fourth quarter, after the knee buckled while he was trying to field a bad shotgun snap.
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Ware's leg buckled when he landed, bending almost at a right angle.
Essien crashed a shot against the visitors' crossbar before Spurs finally buckled.
"It's also worth checking that your wheel rims aren't buckled, " he said.
The Russian oil industry buckled under the strain of low oil prices.
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