And when trading partners start to pull away, a rapid chain reaction can begin.
Just as in the corporate environment, a lot can happen when you start to pull on a loose thread.
Refiners will start to pull down their inventory of winter gasoline well in advance of the May 1st deadline.
On Thursday, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle announced in parliament that Germany would start to pull out some of its troops from Afghanistan in the first half of 2011, ending its mission by 2014.
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"Physicians are concerned people will smell gas, pull out their AtroPen and start treating themselves, " says Allswede.
So pull up a stool and start slurping at these spots, which should be included in any comprehensive guide to Hong Kong cuisine.
Traffic leaving the Shell filling station at South Brent has to pull almost from a standing start into two lanes of fast moving traffic.
It reflects well on Mr. Romney's temperament that he didn't pull the full Joe Biden and start hooting.
If you want to pull out of the euro you have to start thinking of the practicalities.
They'll just pull to the curb and they'll start passing out chicken dinners.
Part of me wanted to pull that thread, close the chapter and start a new story that had nothing to do with cancer.
Vaughan weathered his sketchy start to play his trademark swivel pull and send the ball whistling into the mid-wicket fence, but lost Cook 10 minutes before lunch.
If they are able to pull that sort of money out of a start up operation, imagine how well they will be doing in 5 more years!
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In the stagnant supermarket business where he spent much of his career, Donald, 50, built a reputation as someone who could both start a business from scratch and pull off a turnaround.
Dwyane Wade scored 21 points, LeBron James finished with 19 and the Heat used a frantic start to the fourth quarter to pull away and beat the Bucks 98-86 in Game 2 of the teams' Eastern Conference first-round series on Tuesday night.
While it is not inconceivable that the bigger teams can succeed in making this gain, it's very difficult to conceive that they could leapfrog and pull away from a car with such a head-start.
So, a good start had been made on the second step, Pull Together the Guiding Team, one with leadership skills and credibility.
Tapping on any of the home screen's bubbly icons will pull up a flat app page, offering users a "start" button that can be used to launch the associated application.
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From the start, Mr Straw has had the wit to pull his neck like a turtle into the non-political, quasi-judicial role into which home secretaries are sometimes obliged, and often grateful, to retreat.
Do you need to pull the plug and declare bankruptcy in order to get a fresh start?
In many ways, picking a team to start a business is a lot like picking a team to pull off the perfect heist.
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And with many large investment houses, most notably U.K. firms Barclays Capital and even smaller Standard Life Investments recently saying that the emerging markets have lost some steam despite high inflows to start the year, Indian equities could be in for a pull back, not an upswing.
Tap the screen, pull up a search box, enter your destination, and tap the 'Start' button.
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Playing his signature pull shots and cover drives, Hussey looked to dominate Graeme Swann from the start.
Science fiction has this great sense of an organ filling a cathedral: you've got three keyboards, not just one, you've got stops you can pull out, there's an extra keyboard under your feet, you can start playing that as well!
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If today is a small bounce with no traction, and we see market leaders start to break below their 21-day moving average that they held during the last pull-in, we could be in jeopardy of getting another distribution day.
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With the start of a new academic year, I am reminded of the challenge of our push-pull mission in higher education.
An own goal from Park Chu-Young got Argentina off to the perfect start before Higuain nodded in, and after Martin Demichelis' error allowed Lee Chung-Yong to pull a goal back, Maradona's side got the goals their dominance perhaps deserved.
They decided to pull the plug and write it all off, and sent a letter to Drake telling him to close down the start-up.
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