It is easier to talk a market up than to let it down gently.

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Obie unbuttoned his denim shirt and let it down and turned.

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Its distribution and stocking systems, the company has admitted, let it down to the extent that customers attracted by promotions simply could not find the goods they were being prompted to buy.

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On the other side, honesty still takes courage, and one of the things that a bright cunning professional with good hair does when he or she comes out is to encourage other gay or lesbian people with good hair to let it down, too.

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However, Mr Marshall said the council "had let it run down" through years of under investment.

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If an escape happened, a plant's operators would just turn it off and let it cool down of its own accord.

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You may say, well, let it shut down, what do I care?

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You see, Republicans in Congress and their nominee for President believe that the best way to create prosperity in America is to let it trickle down from the top.

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He hasn't let it slow down the Shockers.

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It let Isabel down on the day she needed it most.

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You know, I've been discriminated against, but I'm not going to let it hold me down.

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In case that was a tad too slick for you, let me break it down a bit slower.

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So let me break it down for you and explain, including perhaps the one obvious thing that everyone seems to have missed so far.

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Your local friends, however, will never let you live it down if you visit Hong Kong without partaking of dim sum, which means "touch the heart" in Cantonese.

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Depending on your level of investment knowledge, that last statement may have read more like Pig Latin than investment advice, so let me break it down for you in simple terms and actions.

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So let me boil it down for you.

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Let me break it down for you.

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He won't let it get him down.

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Let me break it down in parts.

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Wait, let me write it down.

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Now that we've armed you with a basic overview of what Linux is and how it breaks down, let's put it all together.

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Ye rolled up yer sleeves and put yer hands together and let them go down it.

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We know our precision let us down but it was outstanding effort.

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So let's narrow it down and take a look at these extracts from a letter sent to the Children and Young People Committee and to the Education Minister this week.

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Let's break it down on Bagel-Reference.com.

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Let's break it down.

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This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

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So let me try to boil it down to a simple recommendation.

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Even when you're let down politely, it affects you.

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"We have to tell people: You just have to swallow hard and say that putting an amendment on this is going to stop it or slow it down, and we just can't let it happen, " he said.

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