So we shouldn't get locked up too much in our precedents.

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Presumably Hughes isn't literally locked up in a dungeon like his Count of Monte Cristo namesake, but the "Breakfast Club" guru has become such a recluse it can't be discounted entirely.

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Even among Hispanics, Mr. Obama hasn't locked things up.

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Leigh sees a future in about ten years where restrictions on digital media will be minimized, and a unified standard will emerge, as content producers realize consumers don't respond well to locked-up files.

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Their cause won't end if they're locked up, he said.

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But then, we expect Alfred to be locked up, don't we?

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"I didn't see the Alsatian, so I assumed it was locked up round the back where it usually is, " Mr Barr said.

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But it's hard to imagine that many people would object if leaders of both parties locked themselves up in a room and didn't emerge until they had, at long last, fashioned a reasonable solution to the budget turmoil.

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"It wouldn't be the same to see an empty pub there and for it to be locked up every night, " he said.

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Mr. HYNES: We can't assume that because he's from here he's going to have the state locked up.

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As for McCain, he was supposed to be solidifying his funding base after he locked up the GOP nomination, but at least through March, that wasn't really happening.

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That goes to the prosecution claim that Steenkamp didn't merely get up to relieve herself in the middle of the night, but in fact had locked herself in the bathroom with her cell phone to protect herself from Pistorius.

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Key to T-Mobile's long-term success was the acquisition of MetroPCS and all the sweet, sweet spectrum locked up in its dowry.

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Bumping the threshold up to 100 percent finally locked Brian out, but at that level, the device wouldn't unlock for anyone, making it totally secure -- and totally busted.

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