So effective was the tuangou movement that some retailers first sought to reject volume tuangou purchases of white goods and autos, but all eventually caved in, with some eventually setting up group purchasing departments to specially serve tuangou buyers.

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He caved in to pressure from the army only after a threat by some parties to quit the governing coalition forced him to bring the hawkish Moshe Dayan (pictured above) on board as defence minister.

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Mr Obama, it was widely deduced, had caved in after his own ratings in Israel had slumped, according to some Israeli polls, to as low as 4%.

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Privately, some top House Democrats say they are annoyed with fellow Democrats in the Senate, claiming they caved on FAA cuts without getting concessions on programs for the needy.

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He strongly implied many Republicans and some Democrats were cowards, putting fear for their jobs before doing the right thing, saying they had "caved in".

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