But they also get a huge stick alongside it: punitively high fees.
Most couples receive a paltry treatment from the NHS. He feels his clinic and others get a lot of stick because they are private.
In order to get a jail sentence to stick, prosecutors must prove the individual has made plans to carry out such a threat.
Here at Mixed Signals when we get a lot of comments on a post we like to stick with the topic (or, depending on your point of view, flog it to death).
There are a couple of hot pools and a cold one, too - just to get the heart going - so it is best to stick a toe in before doing your cannonball.
After misplaying the puck behind his own net, Khudobin stuck out his stick in desperation to get a piece of Kaleta's shot.
We get a proper health and safety assessment done and stick to the recommendations in that.
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And animals still periodically blockade the track, leaving the driver little choice but to stop the train, get out and chase them off with a big stick.
We need to refocus our thinking and think, oh no, it's a hockey stick, it's a curve that really nothing much happens until we get to the very fringes and all of a sudden everything happens.
"If you put the time in to get your stick skills down, you can be a great player, " explained Mr. Gurenlian, a strength coach who also teaches lacrosse to kids.
In a rising market the way to get ahead is to stick with highfliers and shun the low-risk stocks that are almost sure to lag.
But at least it has now become as much a point of honour in Salzburg to show that one is not a stick-in-the-mud, as it used to be a mark of prestige to get hold of a first-night ticket at all.
Of coarse, you will have to put the weenies on a stick as long as a football field to get close enough to roast them without being roasted yourself.
Sidetracked: Why Our Decisions Get Derailed, and How We Can Stick to the PlanOn a sunny day a few years ago, my husband, Greg, and I were wandering the streets of the Gold Souk in the old part of Dubai.
One, it provides a framework and a measuring stick for several key strategy metrics that often get overlooked.
The government, in announcing the settlement, appeared to be looking for a graceful exit after four years of trying to get something to stick.
The idea was to get one of each type of atom to stick together to become a single atom of element 118.
So far the little one is just about the size of a stick of butter, but you can try and get a peek.
The NFL is such revolving door when it comes to players that we fans tend to get attached to those who are great and who stick around for a while.
If the Obama administration does one thing to help business, it should be to pick a plan, stick to it and let the markets get back to doing their thing.
The fact that if you dump the recovery data onto a USB stick (which is good practice anyway) you get 97.5 GB of storage.
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You might get a court order to stop some illegal activity, but good luck making it stick.
Sean Reilly, of the Louisiana Recovery Authority, said last month that some residents would get an offer of money to relocate: a carrot, as well as a stick.
They were even able to use a stone of the wrong size to release one of the right size, which they then used to get the waxworm, and, more remarkably still, to prune twigs off a stick to make it fit the tube.
Pretty soon hundreds of millions of people will be able to stick their cell phones on the dash and never get lost or need a separate device.
But you also get an epic, over-the-top story about the mysterious Stick of Truth, a fully-fledged turn-based RPG system, and Kenny dressed in drag.
General VOLNEY WARNER (U.S. Army, Retired): Stick to the facts, don't embellish, don't get yourself in a position where you're selling the war - I think that would be a mistake.
You get a fatter yield in small cap Gold Resources (GORO), but the better idea may be to stick with a well-known name where the top three officers are not related.
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The silver cylinder at the top is actually a small power generating device that converts micro-vibrations into usable energy, so stick one of these on, say, a ventilation duct and you should just about get enough juice to power a calculator or even an LED.
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