The aim was to bully carmakers without plants in Brazil to hurry up and build them.
But the chorus of impatient publishing executives shouting "hurry up" is only likely to get louder.
"The pace here tends to be hurry up, then wait-and-see, " says one foreign executive.
"Ralf, just hurry up and make a decision, " Coulthard joked ahead of this weekend's Malaysian Grand Prix.
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Why, the central government wonders, won't the ward's jittery residents hurry up and trust the central bureaucracy again?
Because they don't understand borders, these people, so they better watch and they better hurry up in supporting Iraq.
The Obama administration has been slow to nominate candidates: it should hurry up.
Others in the opposition argue that the elections will have to be overseen by Mr Habibie, and he must hurry up.
Facebook better hurry up and get its deal done before more deterioration.
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Well, we only have three words for China Mobile: hurry up already!
Dr Rogers said Farrow told him he had stabbed the vicar to keep him down and then told him to "die and hurry up".
"We were looking to establish a place where we will not lose them in that process of 'hurry up and wait, ' " Foster said.
"Neural recovery is a hurry up and wait situation, " Zorman said.
It's a subtle hint to Congress to hurry up and pass free-trade agreements with Panama, Colombia and South Korea, which the Bush administration has already negotiated.
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"It has been hurry up and wait for the results of this commission report and now the White House is telling our vets to wait even longer, " said Sen.
The threat of such dangerous debt dynamics is ample incentive for Mr Obama to hurry up and explain how he will tame the deficit once the recession is over.
Swackett (free): Sweater, jacket or coat? (Get it?) This neat little weather app for iOS gives you simplified outerwear recommendations so you can hurry up and be on the go.
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".
Our mother, Maud, and I were always waiting for Vivi: in the hall before we went to church or shouting for her from the landing to hurry up for school.
Colin Powell, America's secretary of state, making his slow way to Israel by way of Morocco, Egypt and Jordan, was told roundly by his hosts that he should hurry up and stop Israel.
He's being pressured by theater owner Philip Henslowe (Geoffrey Rush, now almost fully repented from the grandstanding of "Shine") and producer Hugh Fennyman (Tom Wilkinson) to hurry up and finish his new play.
In emails obtained in an open records request by The Associated Press, an angry and weary spokeswoman for Metro-North fielding requests from reporters told the Connecticut Department of Transportation to hurry up and correct an erroneous tweet from Gov. Dannel P.
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Luka shouted to the blacksmith to hurry up and shoot, idiot, and Jovo, whose mouth had dropped open, had now taken off his hat and resorted to slapping himself in the face with it, while the remaining dog, shivering like a bulrush in a high wind, cowered under his free arm.
So the report calls on the Europeans, slow to open their purses (America spends more on co-operative threat-reduction in a year than Europeans have over the past ten, points out one impatient American official), to pay for the work at Russia's civilian nuclear sites, leaving America free to hurry up work at trickier military ones.
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