It's horrific to see an animal so desperate to keep up with the pack, struggling to get up on three legs with that one snapped leg just swinging round and round.
Their proper task is broader but no less urgent: to get on with spending and with freeing up finance.
So "we support Euro Area Leaders' resolve to address the strains in the eurozone in a credible and timely manner" translates as "just hurry up and get on with it".
Millions of people have come from every corner of the world to make this city home and they have demonstrated before how they can pick themselves up and get on with their lives.
It would be sad if these men got what they wanted, and see the school and pupils fall apart, but because there is a strong sense of support and care from the staff, this incident will be put to the side and everyone will pick themselves up and get on with their education, as we always have done.
Without the injured Roque Santa Cruz, Blackburn boss Paul Ince handed Robbie Fowler his first Premier League start of the season and the former Liverpool striker was keen to get on the ball early on, linking up well with Roberts and Villenueva.
We pick ourselves up and we get on with the hard task of keeping our country strong and safe.
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Because, instead of complaining about those one-size-fits-all policies, he and his colleagues would have to get on with coming up with their own.
Here's hoping everyone complies, so that golf can get on with speeding up play, reducing costs and putting on a friendlier face for newbies.
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As Iain Thomson puts it, it really might be time to take this space idea seriously and get on with getting up and out of this gravity well.
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But with writing, finding someone who has that level of expertise to work with - unless I'm, you know, able to pay thousands of dollars, which, until I get published and wind up on Oprah with a best seller, I don't have - it just seems almost impossible to find.
And I saw my father, who had MS, get up every day on crutches and carry himself with that same pride, that same dignity that you get when you can provide for your family, that same hope that his kids would one day have opportunities he never dreamed of.
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The race seems to be on in various sectors, with companies jockeying to get a leg up on the competition by announcing that they will start to expense options.
Even on the road (and maybe especially on the road, as I get more free time on airplanes) I keep up with my rather large reading habit.
So stop your whining, pull up your socks and get on with it.
Get a leg up on your vacation planning with a four-night trip for two to Villa del Palmar Flamingos Beach Resort and Spa, on Mexico's west coast.
His commanding officer, Lt Col Chas Story, described him as the "epitome of a true sapper, one who would roll up his sleeves and get on with the task in hand no matter what, but importantly he would do it with great humour".
Ms Teather told MPs she had felt the Secretary of State Michael Gove had clearly been focused on the schools shake-up, but had allowed ministers "to get on with their jobs" and had regularly gone "in to bat" to support her in pushing forward changes in her area.
If you think you can get away with it, break up the complex slides with four different graphs on them into four separate PowerPoint pages.
The Malaysian foreign minister hinted last week that the Philippine government should get on with it and pay up.
Since up to 5 people can get in on the action at the same time, you essentially end up with a portable, private chatroom that has text, audio, and image support.
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Airlines, financial services companies, big merchandisers -- all they have to do to get their names on the signs is come up with tens of millions of dollars.
Not only did I get off the hook on having to come up with any content, but the CEOs got the benefit of a veritable buffet of startup management wisdom.
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So to get some perspective on things, I recently met up with Tien.
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For a start, with Gordon D'Arcy a certainty to be ruled out, O'Sullivan will be looking to get Shane Horgan back up and running with a splinter on a fractured thumb.
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It just seems to me like adults in Washington should be able to come together, come up with a plan, come up with some language that works for everybody, and let's get together on this.
So he advises clients, gratis, on setting up internal corporate venture capital funds, hoping to get a return on that investment of time, with paid assignments later.
For example, now you can edit a document on the go with Windows Phone 8 and pick right up again on your PC when you get home.
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Should this couple take the money out after ten years to start a business and get hit with a 10% penalty on top of their 25% rate, they'll end up with 7.5% less than if they'd invested in a taxable account and paid Uncle Sam each year, calculations based on the work of MIT economics professor James Poterba show.
Get back up on the horse in Utah for a trail ride with a stunning backdrop.
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