"One swallow doesn't make a summer, " says Meileen Choo, chief executive of film producer and distributor Cathay Organization.
One swallow does not a summer make, of course.
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"For the high street, one swallow does not make a summer, but these results might hint at the green shoots of recovery, or at least some stabilisation in the current environment, " Ms Wehrle added.
It's another learning experience and it's a tough one to swallow but I'll take what I can from it.
That's a side of Bloombergism the body politic may one day find harder to swallow.
But court officials are privately making a bold prediction: one day, America will swallow all its doubts and join.
In less than 10 years, according to one estimate, data centers alone will swallow more electricity than France, Brazil, Canada and Germany all now consume.
"The idea that you would simply march into the lobby... to obtain this piece of legislation is one that may be very hard to swallow, " he told the BBC's Andrew Marr show.
With a wider tunnel and a stronger conveyor system running through the middle of it, one of InVision's airport machines can swallow a log.
About 300 conference-goers watched Mr. Kobayashi swallow 13 grilled-cheese sandwiches in one minute.
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Officials argue, with some justification, that these omissions are sound tactics: Congress can swallow only so much esoteric reform in one go.
The funding amendment may wind up as one of many bitter pills the White House has to swallow to get a budget deal done and keep the government operating.
EU's new foreign-policy chief, will also be put in charge of the ten-nation Western European Union, a weak but explicitly military organisation which the larger body is now expected to swallow up, though this raises awkward questions about countries more involved with one than the other.
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In recent years, its fastest-growing product has been a once-a-day HIV drug that combines a Gilead-produced medicine with one made by Bristol-Myers Squibb ( BMY), in an all-in-one treatment that represents a big advantage over the cocktail of individual drugs AIDS patients once were obliged to swallow.
Nor can they swallow the argument that it is not necessarily the better technology that wins, but rather, the luckiest one.
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