Firms the world over licked their chops at the prospect of a vast new middle class.
Sinclair got licked, he said, because the opposition ran what he called a Lie Factory.
Shortly after my return to New York, I made chermoula and my friends licked their plates.
Mr Aliyev licked his wounds and retreated to Nakhichevan, the region where he was born.
Before any of that can happen, though, a lot of technical problems will have to be licked.
Renowned innovator and futurist Ray Kurzweil predicts that within 20 years we will have our energy problem licked.
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In 1934, Upton Sinclair got licked, but a great many End Poverty in California candidates got elected, as Democrats.
But the old complaints about nausea and headaches seem to have been licked.
Although hydrogen's distribution problem might then have been licked, the storage problem remains.
Sony thinks it has these problems licked through a newly-published patent application.
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By all accounts, the sealing problem has now been licked as well.
The company says it has licked the overheating problem (recall exploding laptops), and its first lithium battery will hit the market in late 2008.
Ellen lies on the ground and wants her stomach scratched, and when the caregivers slept in the octagon she licked them all night long.
Montaigne once wrote that in treating his subjects, he sometimes merely licked them, sometimes scraped their surfaces, and sometimes pinched them to the bone.
Teresa Kiplinger, a partner at the firm, impulsively licked her iPhone.
Children licked ice-cream cones, women clapped their hands and men whistled.
In a demo of that game, a young girl played with a pet tiger cub named "Skittles, " who licked the screen and obeyed her voice commands.
Once the security problem is licked, communal Wi-Fi microcells will take over many of the wireless Internet functions that phone companies hope to offer, Carrico says.
Some took his edits home, unpicking them at leisure, as they licked their wounds, to try to see exactly how their copy had been so improved.
Ryan Reynolds reportedly licked his wounds after his split with wife Scarlett Johansson, who is 26, with Sandra Bullock, who is 20 years older than his ex.
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Her dishes were chipped and her forks were worn, pitted steel, but when people were done the utensils looked like they had been licked clean, and sometimes they were.
After a few minutes of pleasant conversation in which Rose jumped on his shoulder and licked the top of his head, he laid out the beginnings of his plan.
Predictably, the vision to create a ubiquitous operating system was a resounding bust, and rather than shut down Taligent, IBM quietly absorbed its failed attempt to re-create Windows and licked its wounds.
But on a sunny Saturday in September of 1999, a little black lab mutt with a crooked jaw licked and jumped his way into our hearts and escaped a very different end.
Fittingly, Schmidt had abundant experience struggling against Microsoft in his two previous jobs: He was chief technology officer at Sun Microsystems , then chief executive of Novell , two companies that thought, wrongly, they had Microsoft licked.
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