Later versions would sandwich the lead between two pencil halves and glue them together.
Though the demise of Belgium as a state is not imminent, the pattern of voting nonetheless depresses those who want to glue it together.
It's the sense that the glue that held together the Conservative Party is weakening.
"The pieces are broken and I am trying to glue them back together making it whole again, " he added.
Cars, and the struggle to maintain them, help glue Cuban society together.
No one guessed five years ago that it would be the lowly app that would glue it all together and unleash the next hypercycle.
And the beneficiaries, along with building owners and homeowners (and the planet itself), will be those new IT-centric companies that glue it all together.
FPGAs is as a general-purpose glue that sticks together several different components, such as a microprocessor and its attendant chips, inside a particular device.
To create a new genetic instruction, Dr Wang's team needed not only to identify which new word they wished to add but also to find something that would carry it and to glue the two together.
With well over a million developers worldwide (see chart), it is increasingly used, not only as the code of choice for Internet applications, but also as the glue that binds together software in big companies.
The widely expected abdication comes at a time of debate over the future of the largely ceremonial Dutch monarchy, but also as calm has descended upon the Netherlands after a decade of turmoil that saw Beatrix act as the glue that held together an increasingly divided society.
It could fill the empty accounts, glue the fragmented system together and ideally make pensions much more portable.
Given the diverse, and at times divided, nature of Congress, social relationships are the glue that hold us together.
This is especially important in non-profit organizations where a shared purpose is indeed the moral glue that holds all together.
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How many of us send email to a colleague down the hall?. As our organizations slowly diffuse across timezones and space, collaboration is a glue to keep people together.
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But he is the glue that holds these groups together with money, training and support.
Switches--the glue that holds computer networks together, routing communications among PCs, servers and the internet--are a little trickier.
In your respective communities, you are supporting an entire infrastructure that is the glue that holds our communities together.
"Nick Clegg said that football is the glue that brings the country together, " said Mayne-Nicholls, president of the Chilean football federation.
Frum argues that the glue that held American government together has dissolved in a partisan, polarised atmosphere, no longer lubricated by prosperity.
Speaking with CNN's Richard Quest, Henkel chief Kasper Rorsted says the company's products are the glue that hold everyday goods together, from iPads to sneakers and even aeroplanes.
They may become the glue that sticks the group together.
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His "micro-cut" technology reduced paper to 4-by-10-millimeter shreds, which looked small enough to thwart anyone who might have the patience to try to glue all the pieces back together.
He says Microsoft currently has the application servers and the clients, such as Pocket PC and the Stinger smart phones currently under development, but lacks the glue to tie the two together.
The magic glue that keeps all this together is the Cloud, in this case acting as your alter ego, a digital representation of you and your stuff: all those preferences, settings, privileges, programs, subscriptions, documents, photos, videos, music, and backup services.
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But what they do need is better glue to tie all these devices together and make them sing.
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In a country that is increasingly polarized along sectarian and ethnic lines, these councils can perhaps provide the glue that keeps the country stitched together.
Duchenne is caused by misspellings in the gene that tells the body to produce a protein called dystrophin, a glue that helps hold muscle tissue together.
The lignin acts as a glue, binding the cellulose fibres together, so an enormous amount of chemical and mechanical effort has to be expended on removing it.
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