And now the group is flexing its muscle in politics and especially in the courts.
It is unclear whether it is over some silly local muscle-flexing, or a deliberately engineered provocation.
Meanwhile, Microsoft has been flexing its political muscle in new ways to help its cause.
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Most important, Mr Christie has discovered that flexing political muscle is not always the answer.
The region's rapid pace of development, combined with workers' new-found muscle-flexing, has led to some industrial unrest.
Perhaps this timely announcement is Bloomberg flexing his muscles and testing the waters for a planned run.
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But Democrats speaking out against the pork could just be flexing their muscles, said CNN contributor Roland Martin.
For ordinary people interested in flexing the power of the Internet, this means the fun has just begun.
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This time around, Sega is flexing its marketing muscle by striking partnerships with major carriers and phone maker Samsung.
He took off a glove and extended his hand, fingers spread and flexing.
Sin City isn't the only place where chefs are flexing their creative muscles.
The trend of flexing pricing power for corporate players can be seen in commodities, special chemicals and even coffee.
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For all its wider muscle-flexing, Mexico cannot avoid ever-closer ties within North America.
In one of the bathrooms, there are photos of him at age 18 in a bathing suit, flexing his muscles.
They sat hunched on benches or stood flexing in front of mirrors, as hollow-eyed as statues in a sculpture garden.
But me being the age that I am now, I have to realize that's just, you know, young guys flexing.
It played up to the female viewers, airing an ad entirely made of a man in underwear flexing his abs.
Or when Rep. Christopher Lee resigned after sending a shirtless picture of him flexing to a woman on Craigslist?
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The question of when we started being human and flexing our abilities has been coming under constant revision in recent years.
Only that, they say, will convince their voters that, with Russia flexing its muscles nearby, sending troops to Afghanistan is worth it.
It is not just hedge funds that are flexing their shareholderly muscles.
But the muscle of free enterprise may not yet be done flexing.
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Occupational pension funds everywhere were flexing their muscles as big stockmarket investors.
You have to look at each person as an individual and consider flexing the rules if it will help both that person and the organization.
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They have been dubbed the national union of ministers - the NUM - and are flexing muscles that have not been stretched for a while.
Dora, a busy finance executive in her mid-40s, rated her flirting skills as one out of 10 before she started flexing her flirtimus to the maximus.
As we handled the device, we were left with just one concern: we noticed some creaking and flexing when applying pressure to the back, top and bottom.
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Onscreen you see a live shot of you holding the book, which now bears a superimposed animation of a walking human skeleton, a flexing dinosaur, and so on.
Gold bulls are flexing their muscles again Tuesday morning as the market place shuddered following some weaker-than-expected GDP data coming out of Germany and from the European Union.
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Make time for each other by flexing both your schedules.
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