It limited itself to buying smaller firms, either for their technology or to stop them going to Oracle.
To be sure, at times we have been forced to litigate to enforce our licensing agreements or to stop the infringement of our patented technologies.
As the patient begins to recover, however, there is a need to recalibrate the dosage or to stop prescribing it entirely to avoid potential side effects.
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And it's just as foolish to think that one dirtball referee is going to ruin the NBA or to stop people from gambling on its games.
The J-11B presented Russia with a stark choice to continue selling China weapons, and risk having them cloned, too, or to stop, and miss out on its still lucrative market.
ISPs are being leaned on not just to help prevent the spread of malware or to stop a power grid from being taken down, but to patrol against online piracy.
Though we aren't likely to return to an agricultural life or to stop feeding our children well and sending them to school, the very flexibility of the developing brain points to solutions.
But recent amendments to the bill assuaged some of their fears by creating an exception for emergency situations, for example, when there is an imminent threat to public safety or to stop the destruction of evidence.
And if they do, what right do the rest of us have to disapprove of suicide, or to try to stop it?
Mr Maxwell-Scott said she was told to use a towel or blanket to stop the smoke coming in.
The key is either for consumers to stop eating it or for restaurants to stop selling it.
The Mexican government or the French government has no right to stop you from entering Mexico or France, and our government has no right to stop a Mexican or Frenchman from entering America.
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The large grey-feathered birds, known for the bright red skin above their eyes, a loud trilling call that can be heard up to a mile away, and a wingspan of up to 7ft, travel around 350 miles a day from Texas, Oklahoma or Mexico to stop in Nebraska on their way to their breeding grounds, which are spread across the northern United States and Canada.
Doctors who have an excessive mortality rate may be retrained or told to stop operating, Mr Dobson said.
The Pakistani government appears unable or unwilling to stop the Taliban's steady advance deeper into the territory of this nuclear-armed country.
We gave them every chance to come up with some sort of logical explanation or to get it to stop, and that never happened.
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They are performed in public and in most cases no attempt is made by the police or schools to stop the ceremonies from taking place.
But we will continue to discuss with the Russians and others the need to take action to prevent -- or to get Assad to stop killing his own people.
Single-shot rifles that require you to physically reload the gun may not do people a lot of good when they are facing multiple criminals or when their first shot misses or fails to stop an attacker.
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The MIT Campus Police are in the constant position of figuring out whether or not to put a stop to the pranks, or to let them happen as long as everyone is kept safe.
Britain's friends are trying to patch things up, or at least to stop them getting worse.
The researchers were able to make every droplet of oil or water placed on the material to run or stop in its tracks (a response which the team describes as "pinning"), simply by flexing the material or letting it relax.
That should not dissuade the world from attempting to get prices right or at least to stop getting them so wrong.
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Certainly, it makes no economic or social sense for Canadians to stop Australians or New Zealanders from looking for jobs, or for Europeans or Japanese to put obstacles in the way of Americans.
Either we have to create a new word that means something worse than evil, or we have to stop using it for anything else.
If a spike in interest rates, a surge in commodity prices, or a currency crisis forces the Fed to scale back or stop its money printing, the party could grind to a halt, and the hangover could be nasty.
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The main requirements are long-term agricultural improvements as well as institutions and safety-nets to respond to food crises fast cash-for-work programmes, for instance, or food vouchers to stop people selling their animals out of desperation.
The riot police outside the parliament building seem uncertain whether they are there to stop protesters getting in, or to help the protesters stop the deputies getting out.
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