Will they be tough enough to safeguard investors from commodity operators who run circles around weak regulators?

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This is why a new Intel chip clocked much lower than the old Pentium 4 chips can still run circles around them.

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There are obviously smart folks on the right and many conservatives who, no doubt, could run circles around me in terms of technical sophistication.

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Ever wonder why many rookies run circles around your veterans?

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What recommends it is its relationship with sustainable success, and the fact that all other things being equal, the transformative leadership model tends to run circles around the traditional leadership model.

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Like Nintendo, the new generation of small fabless firms capitalise on some special skill (designing cheap but powerful computers in Akia's case) and then use their compactness to run circles around the heavyweights.

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He doesn't run around in big circles with a big footprint.

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Make no mistake about it, folks, this is where your dual-core processor will run circles, squares, and trapezoids around the competition.

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