The executive promptly fell on his sword, and he cracked a joke at the same time.
One reason why Mr Thaksin remains so popular is that he cracked down on the overlords.
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He cracked jokes in four or five languages yet retained his thick German accent to the end.
The way he cracked down on theologians who questioned orthodox teaching earned him the nickname "the Panzer Cardinal".
Fortunately for me, he cracked when I attacked four kilometres from the line.
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He cracked a drive from outside the area that flew beyond Ian Walker and put Spurs back in the match.
He cracked 25 fours and two sixes in a majestic 176 not out as the visitors closed on 346-2 at Cheltenham College.
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When he cracked a rib in a boxing bout during the pre-Ashes bonding trip to Germany, it had been feared Anderson might not play in the early tour games.
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Mr. Hufnagel purchased an iPhone 5 for himself with his proceeds, in part because he cracked the screen on his iPhone 4 after he initially got in line on Monday.
When the economy briefly recovered, he cracked down: only 200, 000 Cubans now have licences allowing them to run micro-businesses, such as restaurants or hairdressers, down from a peak of 350, 000.
But from Bale's resulting corner, Vokes made himself a hero as he cracked home the loose ball after fellow teenager substitute Ched Evans had made a nuisance of himself in the box.
In his book, Steve Jobs told his biographer Walter Isaacson he cracked the code for the user interface to allow the connected TV to sync with different devices and access the iCloud.
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Johnson did have his moment in the spotlight on TV primetime last year when sharing a stage with the likes of Romney in the Republican primary elections, he cracked a joke that made headlines.
Rooney, who moments before was booked for a clear dive in the area, went close to an equaliser when his excellent first touch gave him a shooting chance and he cracked his shot against the bar from six yards.
Some uncharacteristic errors from Nadal allowed Djokovic to level in game four, but the Spaniard regained the break immediately in an epic fifth game that saw five break points slip by before he cracked a huge forehand winner on the sixth.
Defoe had netted five goals in his last five Premier League matches but could not add to that run when he cracked a right-foot shot high over the bar after cleverly peeling off a posse of defenders to meet Johnson's smart free-kick.
Moreover, although Steve Jobs thought that he had cracked the TV problem before he died, even if he were still alive it is unlikely he would be able to repeat the coup he pulled off with the music industry.
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What he has not cracked - although he has tried - is the political problem.
He also cracked a rib and cut his head, but Sultan refuted earlier reports that Khan fractured his skull.
Andrew Dilnot believes that he has cracked the intellectual problem with his proposal for a cap on the personal costs of care.
"The tragedy is that he is a smashing lad and I just felt when he got the transplant and was on the mend, he had cracked it, " Mr Docherty said.
He steadfastly cracked down against banks' illegal activities.
Newcomb is betting that he has cracked the hardest performance problems and that his platform will enable designers and developers to raise the overall level of what users can expect from all apps.
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At sixteen, William Freeman had been wrongly charged with horse stealing and sent to Auburn Prison, where he was beaten with a wooden board until his skull cracked and he lost his hearing.
After our lunch, at one of his favourite West London restaurants, he is off for more X-rays on the cracked ribs he suffered when the aircraft he was in plummeted to the ground on polling day.
Based on my observations during the interview, which is all I had to go by, I had to assume that he may have cracked under the pressure of the job.
Philippoussis finally cracked when he double-faulted at 5-5 in the third set tie-break to hand Ferreira match point.
Before his death in October, Mr. Jobs told biographer Walter Isaacson that he had "finally cracked it, " according to Mr. Isaacson's book.
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