Do you want to successfully lose weight, quit smoking, or put a lid on your bad temper?
He is already reeling from criticism that he was slow to put a lid on the pay furore at AIG.
Turns out, trying to put a lid on whatever emotions triggered the crying in the first place might just make it worse.
She put the lid on right side up, upside down and sideways.
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So he asked her a second time to cover up and also to put a lid on what he felt was verbal abuse.
To put a lid on property speculation and plug the hole in municipal finances, China's property taxes will have to cover more homes in more cities.
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During World War II, again the Treasury pressured the Fed to put a lid on long-term interest rates, which again led to excessive money-printing by the Fed.
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My father is a dumper: He likes to throw a lot of different things into the pot, put the lid on and bring the water to a roiling boil.
The macroeconomic uncertainty surrounding the Eurozone crisis has put a lid on network spending, adversely impacting the likes of Juniper which saw its revenues and operating margins fall last year.
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Yet his priorities are different from those of his predecessor, Paul Martin, whose first emphasis was to put a lid on government spending and then, more recently, to cut taxes.
Second, every time I put the lid on the mixing bowl, which is what presses the safety button that allows the motor to spin, I felt like I had to force it a little.
The second spurt is occurring now, as the coalition government - which includes Conservatives, Socialists and the "moderate" Marxists of the Democratic Left party - has failed to put a lid on the crisis.
And just to put the lid on any suppositions on that figure, BAA's Chief Executive Mike Clasper has said that the value of the airport operator is "way, way north of 810 pence" a share.
Moreover, the oil industry is in private hands, so even if the government in Moscow wanted to put a lid on production, it has less influence over its oil companies than OPEC governments have over theirs.
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