Who, of course, knowing that they had them over a barrel, were not playing ball.
The Republicans are in a corner - over a barrel - although perilously unaware of their plight.
Overall, however, the health-care unions appear to have held the government over a barrel of its own making.
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If so, Facebook could be held over a barrel before any IPO in the way that Overture did with Google.
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"Business owners are over a barrel, " said John K. Paglia, finance professor at Pepperdine University who studies the credit markets.
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You know, when the IP owner definitively has you over a barrel?
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Delphi Chief Executive Officer Steve Miller has both GM and the UAW over a barrel, after putting Delphi into bankruptcy last October and demanding a 60% wage cut from the union.
We felt they had us over a barrel, and I think they baited us with the lower interest rate and knew all along that they were going to switch the rate on us.
And while they say there can be significant variations in some of these, it seems one of the reasons Brent crude continues to appeal is that there's least variation in its price, at around one US cent per barrel over a long period.
Cost structures have risen dramatically, with the price of finding and producing a barrel of oil surging over the past decade plus, Chanos said.
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The line chefs chopping up eggplant, give him a nod as he walks over to another blue barrel, only this one is half full with used cooking oil.
For the SEC, going after the penny stocks trading on the Over-The Counter market is like shooting fish in a barrel.
According to U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data, the percentage of non-commercial traders (investors who have no intention of ever supplying or taking delivery of a barrel of crude oil) has grown over time, from less than 10 percent of market players by volume in 2000 to more than 40 percent in 2011.
Firemen, wearing breathing apparatus, dug a hole in the sand and turned the barrel over into the larger container.
Watson reached his 15th Test half century from 95 deliveries in the 30th over but once again the barrel-chested opener fell short of a three-figure score when he misjudged a reverse-swinging delivery, offering no stroke to a ball which moved back into his pads.
We need a leader who has been to the brink or gone over the falls in his corporate barrel more times than you can think of.
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Four months of barrel aging floats vanilla notes over this refined mezcal, with woven-in smoke and a subdued primary fruitiness.
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The cannon was amazingly powerful and could easily lob a ball over the palm tree that can be seen in the photo which is a range of about 800 feet (filling the barrel with water was also entertaining as it generated an instant cloud).
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