Sure, there are times when splurging to reel in a big fish free agent makes sense.
Whatever the suspicions about Mr Derwish, Mr bin al-Shibh is known to be a big fish.
But you know right from the start when you're at a party with a big fish there.
In his home village, an hour from Dushanbe, Mr Allahmurodov's savings make him a big fish, albeit in a miserable pond.
So if you thought you, as a big fish, could go around hunting for smaller fish without quoting to the market--think again.
But one of the bank's maxims is that it has to be a big fish in a business, or not in it at all.
Maybe by the time he is ready again to talk, he'll be a big fish--if he can swim with a few sharks in the meantime.
We haven't heard of the company trying to enforce its trademark, but the iphone Neo One certainly looks like bait for a big fish.
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Indeed, being a big fish in a small, manageable collegiate pond is often the best possible ticket for all but the most academically ambitious student.
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Now, however, the union has landed a big fish.
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Striped bass are a big marine fish concern of the DEC not only because they are a prized game fish for recreational anglers, but also because they are full of PCBs, thanks to the General Electric plants upstream on the Hudson that pumped the contaminants into the water for 30 years until 1976.
And so Gina Rinehart, for all her personal wealth, is not a particularly big fish in the pond of Australian mining.
Armstrong maintains he has never tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs and has said USADA and its CEO, Travis Tygart, are out to get a "big fish" to justify the agency's existence.
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The seven-time Tour de France winner asked the court for action against the USADA for a host of reasons, having maintained he's never tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs and accusing the USADA and its CEO, Travis Tygart, of being out to get a "big fish" to justify the agency's existence.
I'd lost a lot of big fish in those helter-skelter first few seconds when you feel like you've hooked the Acela on its way to Boston.
Neither was as good as my grilled turbot, a big slab of meaty white fish on the bone with sexy black grill marks like a fishnet stocking.
Once a day they ate grits with dried fish, served in a big pan that all the prisoners shared, eating with their fingers.
But given the volumes now, Ford can no longer be treated as a small fish in a big pond.
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The sardines get eaten by the sharks and their shoals are devastated by the big fish on a cyclical basis.
Hey Big Fish, a Web app that measures the people and topics that carry the most influence at a large event, such as SXSWi, and serves up what is most relevant to you.
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Or, for more thoroughly familiar fare, end your child-friendly Delhi day in at the United Coffee House for a comforting bowl of pasta marinara, the All American Diner for a pretty decent hotdog or The Kitchen at the heart of the relaxed Khan Market, for a big, familiar plate of fish and chips before bedtime.
She used to be a big prescriber of omega-3 fish oil, but has stopped because the failure of niacin, a drug that lowered triglycerides, to prevent heart attacks and strokes.
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Though biologists say California is the most likely spot to produce a new world-record fish, big bass have been reported in Mexico, Cuba and even Japan.
Since that process has happened a little more slowly than many people expected, though, a few of those fish are getting pretty big.
In early results, beta partners like Kabam, Fab, TinyCo and Big Fish were able to reach a more relevant audience and efficiently drive installs.
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Mr Speight's guilty plea and conviction bring to an end speculation that, in a long trial, he might implicate the big fish behind Fiji's insurrection.
The puzzle that needs to be solved when thinking about establishing a next generation challenger brand, as Eat Big Fish say, is how do you adopt this approach without coming across as too aggressive towards the establishment?
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