The Met Office have stopped publicising their seasonal forecasts after taking too much stick over their blundering barbecue summer forecast.
While the deal was first reported as London wielding a stick over the heads of intransigent Stormont ministers, it wasn't long before the Northern Ireland Office clarified that what they had in mind was more of a carrot, providing extra support to the Executive.
As the stick looming over coaches has grown, so has the carrot.
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But BT, which has long been aggrieved at the stick it gets over what some consider the slow progress of its broadband rollout, is hitting back.
And while both ventilatory threshold and maximum capacity can be slowly increased, people have to have enough positive experiences to stick with exercise over time so they actually can boost these limits.
In that sense Ichoose resembles Third Voice, whose free software lets users paste stick-on notes over Web pages to post comments invisible to the site operator (see " Wisecrack-ware ").
New bosses need to rearrange their senior teams quickly, to put allies into key positions and remove potential troublemakers (such as rivals who have been passed over or stick-in-the-muds who have outlived their usefulness).
There are six categories: Breaking News, Original Reporting, Compelling Imagery, Commentary, Personal Story and, new this year, In-depth Storytelling, a category we created to acknowledge iReporters who stick with a story over time.
Vogel, who has backed 50 shows, prefers to stick with a particular producer over time.
On Monday, Mr Cameron insisted that the UK would "stick to our guns" over the EU's budget, by vetoing any increase above the rate of inflation.
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While this gives the car added credibility among the enthusiast crowd, we suspect the majority of motorists will choose convenience over control and stick with the automatic.
Criticized for a sluggish launch of its new Dodge Dart because it over-built stick-shifts, Chrysler reported that August sales of its crucial compact more than tripled its sales from June and July combined.
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In 2006 a review by America's National Research Council endorsed points Mr McIntyre and his colleagues made on some methods used to make the hockey stick, and on doubts over a specific set of tree rings.
Ottawa forward Zack Smith, alone in the slot, tipped Gonchar's shot, and the puck bounced over Lundqvist's stick and went into the goal.
On 19 September, the eve of the full moon, many people take to the streets or parks carrying lit paper lanterns hooked over a thin bamboo stick (or the modern plastic equivalent).
Boyle, who returned to the lineup for Game 2 on Saturday following a knee injury, carried the puck from the right-wing wall, cut into the circle, shifted the puck to both sides of his stick, and flipped a shot over a crouched Green and past Holtby at 12:50 for what was technically an even-strength goal.
Nabokov didn't have a chance as the wrist shot zipped over the goaltender's stick to push the lead to 3-0.
In reality, where we are is we stick to the fundamentals that we found over time make the investor money.
Wing strokes press the animal towards the ramp and help the bird stick to the surface rather than slipping over it.
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Listening to yet another CEO predict a hockey-stick spurt of growth sure to occur over the next 18 months--it was always 18 months--my hands would ball up in dread.
First, he got the puck when it skipped over defenseman Adam McQuaid's stick in the neutral zone.
It's about positioning your basket and then working it with your wrist and stick, to gain a split second edge over your opponent.
The successful Japanese and European companies come up with a name for a model and then they pretty much stick with it even as the model evolves over the years.
But they have all insisted that, while more can be done to stimulate economic activity, the coalition must stick by its target of eliminating the deficit over the next four years.
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But in recent years more people have been bringing their own devices into the workplace, choosing to stick with fun, app-laden phones over devices that just offer security and IT-department approval.
General Abubakar's refusal to take political jobs in the past, and his pledge this week that he will stick to the October 1st deadline for handing over power to a civilian government, suggest that he agrees with them.
As for a big confectioner like Cadbury, no doubt the promise of a non-stick ingredient would give its gum products an edge over its rivals.
"I was taught that if somebody wants something of yours and will not negotiate reasonably, and brings a big stick with them, you don't roll over, " he said.
They wanted him to stick to the time-honored straddle method of going over the high bar leg first, face down.
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