When rolled into position inside an aircraft, containers lock into place to avoid moving about in flight.
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But if he is willing to lock himself into making changes to health and pension programmes, that might offer a way forward.
Nintendo also says that children under six shouldn't use the 3D mode at all, since their eyes are still developing, and that parents can use controls built into the 3DS to lock it into 2D mode for children.
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One bright idea is to renegotiate contracts now to lock teachers into paying union dues after the right-to-work law goes into effect in March.
Reports about the "body-in-a-bag spy" describe how two experts spent days trying to figure out whether Williams, who was athletic and of medium height, could have contorted himself in such as way as to lock himself into the North Face holdall bag, with a key to the padlock inside.
Its effect is to lock consumers into one company's digital ecosystem, making it impossible for Kindle users to buy e-books from the existing Waterstones platform, for example.
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Nicotine is sufficiently similar to acetylcholine for it to be able to lock into these receptors, artificially encouraging dopamine production.
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Google now produces cheap laptops in conjunction with Samsung to lock customers into their services.
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"To lock ourselves into this 25-year project could be very expensive and environmentally very damaging, " added Mr Horwood.
"Most firms are hesitant to lock themselves into something they can't sustain, " says Paula Alvary of consulting firm Hoffman Alvary.
Wireless service operators typically subsidize the cost of smartphones, offering discounts to consumers to lock them into two-year service contracts.
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"I think until we know exactly the statuses of everyone involved, it's hard to lock yourself into the 500, " Keselowski said.
Each forms a complete, enclosed big-data silo, designed to lock users into a long-term relationship and keep their data within its walls.
"I think until we know exactly the statuses of everyone involved, it's hard to lock yourself into the 500, " Mr. Keselowski said.
In return, cable companies will be able to lock consumers into multi-year contracts and get first dibs on high-volume streamers, the most profitable market segment.
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Faulding, who specializes in rescuing people from confined spaces, told the inquest that he had tried to lock himself into the bag 300 times without success.
Publishers are allowed to lock people into long-term subscriptions.
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But procuring cheaper gas from other countries is complicated, in part because long-term contracts that many German utilities have signed with Russia lock them into a price tied to the price of oil.
But governments are doing themselves and their financial industries a disservice by contemplating entering into FATCA agreements with the U.S. Backlash against the law is growing, and Treasury is in a race against time to lock it into place before a repeal effort can gain steam.
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Well after receiving a fresh infusion of cash from Google and Skype, the company is storming into the U.S. and Europe with a deal straight out of a domestic wireless carrier's playbook: give away or heavily subsidize the hardware in order to lock customers into long-term commitments.
It won't be so easy for a chip supplier to lock a customer into a particular chip.
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Like all Mobilicity devices, it does not come with a handset tab credit check, nor does it come with a contract to lock a customer into a multi-year service plan, as is often the case with Canada's incumbent carriers.
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M-GO does not lock people into ongoing subscription fees or require them to buy additional hardware.
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One managed to fit the lock-hacking tool into an iPhone case.
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After the captain returned to the cockpit, the co-pilot quickly persuaded him to leave again, Mr. Antolino said, allowing the off-duty pilot to slip into the cockpit and lock the door.
Last month, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo launched an investigation into whether Intel forced its customers to lock out rival AMD, mirroring a case filed by AMD against Intel in 2005 in a U.S. District Court in Delaware.
Rather than lock single-parent households into perpetual poverty, we ought to promote marriage, responsibility and virtue.
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Clancy heads into the Track World Cup intending not to lock horns with Thomas and Wiggins for team pursuit places.
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Phoslock, a modified clay product, is being sprayed into Cromes Broad at How Hill reserve to lock away phosphates which cause algae to bloom.
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Not only can they spend inordinately on shaky bets, but they may lock companies into wrong approaches because high upfront costs create reluctance to invest further in adjusting losing propositions.
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