He then has six years to wear down the opposition, using increasingly harsh measures, including strident anti-Americanism.
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In the most common form of arthritis, affecting 20 million people, the joints wear down with age.
And as you grind to gear up, you inevitably wear down your existing weapons and spells in the process.
Earlier this year, Argentina was able to wear down a collection of private bondholders to the point where nearly all would settle for half on the dollar.
Evidently, it took that much time and that much bureaucratic thrashing to wear down opposition from within the Obama administration to the only practical effect such a vision can have: disarming the United States.
But our defenses started to wear down, and if you had a job that was taking you eight to 10 hours a day, that job now, with the complexity, was taking 14 hours a day.
Yes, we're aware CCFL displays eventually wear down and lose their brightness, but either there really is a huge difference in CCFL and LED, or the 8-month old MBP we tested against in the photos had really worn down.
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Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao said soldiers were trying to blast holes in the walls of the fortress-like compound of the mosque and an adjoining seminary for girls, seeking to wear down the defenders' resolve and force a surrender without a battle.
By waiting for the bruisers to wear themselves down, Duffy could step into the middle of an altercation and avoid getting hit.
He installed his device into a Ford Crown Victoria, the model abused by so many cops and cabbies, and slammed the door 100, 000 times to see if vibrations would wear it down.
We have had a few years of substantial ups and downs that wear us all down.
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If we would only eat less, drive less, turn our thermostats down, wear our clothing a few more days before cleaning it, or live in less space we could create a world of abundance and solve the problem of scarcity once and for all.
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