But Renard, 42, believes the oil-producing country can reproduce the form that saw them rub shoulders with the world's elite at the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany.
Dip them into water -- keep a bucket of water near you -- shake off the excess water and rub that over the upholstery, and the hair will collect on the rubber gloves.
Determining that is the big rub, because the findings can be interpreted in different ways.
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Ordinary hackers outfit themselves with the clubs and balls and shoes and copper wristbands of their favourite pros in the hope that a little of the magic will rub off on them.
The men in green shirts can feel hard done-by that they did not get the rub of the green, but it is Wales who march on to next Saturday's Six Nations finale with championship hopes still alive.
The rub is that the contraction is expected to intensify in the near term.
But the rub is that the better they cope, the weaker their argument looks.
The rub is that voting against it would probably have worse consequences.
In the meantime, he is also hoping that the multi-ethnic successes of the basketball team will rub off in ways well beyond sport.
The rub is that some of the real solutions are very strange, and involve the balls behaving in extraordinarily unlikely, but not impossible, ways.
The rub is that most of this entrepreneurship and innovation is occurring outside the U.S. Americans--the mainstream media and the political class, especially--are terribly parochial regarding this.
The rub is that New Mexico is home to many Latinos whose roots in the United States go back since before there was a United States, hundreds of years in some cases.
What is suggested to be at work here is the concept of asperities - the idea that if you take two rough surfaces and rub them together, the peaks in one will couple with the troughs in the other, increasing friction.
It is just this sort of passion for the club that Hughes hopes will rub off on Fletcher and Jones.
One more bit of advice for Susan Patton's son: A lot of your mother's detractors seem gleeful at the thought that her notoriety will rub off on you to your disadvantage--that you'll be embarrassed and women will shun you.
"KP is an honest guy, very, very focused and positive in everything he does, meticulous in his preparations and that will rub off on to the the younger lads coming in which is only going to a be a good thing, " Nixon explained.
But here lies the rub: providing funds that bypass the government is easier said than done.
Think that wouldn't rub salt in the wounds of Cisco shareholders?
You can choose to hire 2 quality employees at a slightly higher rate and 10 barely average employees at a lower rate and hope that the skills of the two quality persons rub off on the others.
Companies sent delegations to tour Toyota's factories in the hope that some of its magic would rub off on them.
If you're nice enough, Scott Blum will let you rub the subcutaneous plastic plate that covers a crack in his skull, a souvenir from a triathlon accident.
That was hardly an advertisement for Mr Museveni's ability to teach the merits of market economics, but it saved Uganda's privatisation programme and restored faith in the belief that democracy and economic reform can rub along together.
The rub, though, is that you'll need a DLNA Digital Media Player (or Rederer) that supports MPEG2, and that just isn't as common as you might think -- as well as DTCP-IP support for copy protected content.
Now, given his post-election lines in the sand, he wants to rub that sand in.
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So Mr Abe too needs to show that the region's two most powerful countries can rub along more peaceably.
The rub is obviously the painstaking research that goes into identifying such companies, including rigorous examination of their management teams.
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