"It took so long to win this title, I'm not giving it up first fight, " said Newbridge's undefeated Rees, 27, who beat Souleymane M'Baye for the crown.
And now a lot of those hobbyists appear to be giving it up, or at least cutting back, in favor of less demanding hobbies that offer some of the same satisfactions: microblogging and social networking.
All in all, the available evidence is that Ms. Palin's Excellent Adventure Tour is bringing in too much fun and profit for her to consider giving it up as early as next year to run for president.
It may be true that, in the long term, it is impossible to reduce unemployment by tolerating high inflation, that the power to make such a choice is illusory, and that nothing is lost by giving it up.
But he's giving it all up, the Palace, the chauffeur, the influence, to become a local vicar in Ilkley, West Yorkshire.
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In this kind of knowledge economy, giving up on your education and dropping out of school means not only giving up on your future, but it's also giving up on your family's future and giving up on your country's future.
There is already a U.S. exit tax on giving up citizenship, and it can apply to giving up a Green Card too.
"To the prosecution, it's clear what they're giving up, but less clear what the defendant is giving up, because it's hard to know how strong his claim of insanity might be, " she said.
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For the less spectacularly gifted among us, it means giving up your Facebook account.
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To them, it represents giving up on progress, especially progress in the form of rapid economic growth.
France's Total, an energy giant, said this week it was giving up plans to invest in Iran because of the risk.
It means giving up their independence and accepting their limitations.
The military wing of the main Islamist movement in Algeria , which has observed an unofficial ceasefire since 1997, announced formally that it was giving up the armed struggle.
And they did it without giving up a single player on a roster that had put together the NHL's second-best record with a month to go in the lockout-shortened regular season.
Malloy's administration is considering a plan that would allow the state to purchase electricity from Connecticut's largest regional trash authority, which could temporarily help the financially struggling entity while giving it time to come up with a long-term plan.
Analysts expected claims to increase by 9, 000 to 400, 000 for the week, leading to some questions about what a large number of unemployed Americans have done: whether it be giving up on looking for work, coming to the end of their unemployment benefit period, or indeed, found jobs.
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Because the investors who once placed such high hopes on it are finally giving up.
There comes a point at which the pain of giving up is worth it when compared to the pain of pushing forward.
As with the Pontiff, it may mean giving up a demanding job.
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For the Democrats, it would mean giving up cherished goals to extend unemployment benefits and health care under the guise of a stimulus.
Young billionaire do-gooders listen up: Giving it away is hard work.
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It would be giving up revenue gains that might have come from last year's court rulings that forced MasterCard and Visa USA to allow member banks to issue competitors' cards.
He said it was worth giving up higher growth to concetrate on paying off the national debt, which he believes should be wiped out altogether by the end of the decade.
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