There was intelligence, but that intelligence wasn't shared or used, so Savile was able to run rings around police forces.

BBC: England

Messrs Cheney and Rumsfeld still fear Mr Hussein would be able to run rings round such a regime, as he has before.

ECONOMIST: Iraq and the UN

Taking advantage of industrial-age tax codes, these multinational giants are leveraging the digital realities of today's global economy to run rings around local tax collectors.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

As Russia continued to run rings around the Irish, the second goal came on 28 minutes as Alexander Anyukov's run and pull-back set up Dzagoev to score.

BBC: Republic of Ireland 2-3 Russia

But while those models may be able to run rings around the Land Rover Range Rover Sport Supercharged on an autocross track, neither will be able to outrun its 510 raging horses.

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The PS3--also known as "The Cell" for featuring a high speed microprocessor that is said to run rings around Intel's (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Pentium 4 chip--also has the upcoming Ninetendo Revolution to contend with.

FORBES: Stringer's Sony Delays PlayStation3 Launch To November

Enter speedboats, run by Florida smuggling rings, which are far harder for the coastguards to catch.

ECONOMIST: Farewell, Cuba

Actually the European Union has been immensely successful in breaking open international crime rings that now run right across, run riot right across Europe.

BBC: The Speaker must go