Do you want to successfully lose weight, quit smoking, or put a lid on your bad temper?
He is already reeling from criticism that he was slow to put a lid on the pay furore at AIG.
Turns out, trying to put a lid on whatever emotions triggered the crying in the first place might just make it worse.
So he asked her a second time to cover up and also to put a lid on what he felt was verbal abuse.
To put a lid on property speculation and plug the hole in municipal finances, China's property taxes will have to cover more homes in more cities.
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During World War II, again the Treasury pressured the Fed to put a lid on long-term interest rates, which again led to excessive money-printing by the Fed.
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The macroeconomic uncertainty surrounding the Eurozone crisis has put a lid on network spending, adversely impacting the likes of Juniper which saw its revenues and operating margins fall last year.
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Yet his priorities are different from those of his predecessor, Paul Martin, whose first emphasis was to put a lid on government spending and then, more recently, to cut taxes.
The second spurt is occurring now, as the coalition government - which includes Conservatives, Socialists and the "moderate" Marxists of the Democratic Left party - has failed to put a lid on the crisis.
Moreover, the oil industry is in private hands, so even if the government in Moscow wanted to put a lid on production, it has less influence over its oil companies than OPEC governments have over theirs.
My father is a dumper: He likes to throw a lot of different things into the pot, put the lid on and bring the water to a roiling boil.
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