The government may be able to buy off resistance to the Jenkins proposals with new patronage.
Building coalitions is harder in Mexico, where congressmen are wedded to their parties and hard to buy off.
One way is to buy off steel companies and unions with economic goodies.
But it is all rather reminiscent of Ethelred the Unready, an 11th-century king of England who paid Danegeld to buy off Viking invaders.
We wanted to enter the marketplace in a hurry, and it was quicker to buy off the shelf than for us to make it.
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The Saudi royal family has sought to literally buy off its opponents by showering its subjects with billions of dollars in new subsidies and payoffs.
Prescription drug manufacturers, fearing the arrival of cheaper generics and knowing or worrying that their patents alone won't keep out competitors, try to buy off the competition instead.
The uninspired score by Kim's countryman Mowg doesn't lift the so-so climactic shoot-out any, but the movie's tongue in cheek humor will buy off most of the target audience.
This was tiresome and expensive, so around the time the frontier was demarcated in 1893, the strategy changed, and the British began a concerted effort to buy off tribal elders, or maliks.
"Work on the banana genome will be concentrated on finding ways to improve the varieties on which Africans depend for their survival, rather than the one you and I buy off supermarket shelves, " he said.
The French responded with the usual mixture of bribes and terror: when an attempt to buy off the aristocratic class failed, they were sure that just getting tough enough one last time would do the trick.
Reward points, discounts, free shipping and gifts--it's all there for the taking, as the big players in the hypercompetitive retail industry fight to outdo each other to buy off the loyalty of customers blessed with more choices than ever.
In Heller's world, new cures for Alzheimer's remain in the lab, films flounder unreleased and even hip-hop albums go unrecorded because it's simply too hard to buy off all the owners who are in a blocking position with their pesky property rights.
Hafidz requested that both parties be disbanded for engaging in money politics, but the election law says that can be done only if parties break campaign finance limits or turn a profit - not if they misuse funds or buy off voters.
Since the juries that determine those damages sometimes award ruinous sums, firms often find the certainty of spending a little to buy off an ill-founded suit preferable to the risk of financial disaster by contesting it (and consumers end up with more expensive products as a result).
During the debate, QC and independent crossbencher Lord Pannick branded the scheme "unrealistic" and warned it would be "damaging to industrial harmony to allow employers to buy off basic employment rights" such as the right to statutory redundancy pay and the right for parents and other carers to request flexible working.
Manufacturers prefer to have them designed to their specifications than to buy them off the shelf.
Lanzi does expect Genentech to buy more off-the-shelf apps now that the selection is growing.
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"People don't realise the impact it has when people buy stuff off the internet, " he said.
Best Buy kicked off voting for the ad after Super Bowl, and the polls closed earlier this month.
For traders buy them off the wholesalers and ship them to other markets where the price is higher.
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If you give the game a 9.5, how many people will buy it off of that score before you change it to an 8?
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While that still sounds expensive, compared to the five cents per kilowatt Ford pays to buy energy off the power grid, it's worth it, Ford says.
In the July 2011 issue of the Oberweis Report, Editor Jim Oberweis recommended Mitcham Industries as a buy coming off of a very strong first quarter.
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The theory of enterprise software is that it is cheaper to buy an off-the-shelf solution and configure it to your needs instead of building exactly what you need from scratch.
It's easier to just buy it off the shelf.
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But the company hopes that the very difficulty of making these models will persuade its most important competitors, the Hollywood studios, to make fewer of their own models and buy them off Viewpoint's shelves instead.
For ideological reasons, the Kremlin cannot easily respond to such concerns, and, in an environment in which the Federal budget is under significant strain and there are more obvious resource constraints, will not simply be able to buy-off all dissent as easily as it did in the past.
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