The easiest way to regain ground may be to change the subject and to go slow on reform.
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With Apple and Samsung far and away the frontrunners in the smartphone race, trying to make a significant play to regain ground would be daunting.
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If we really want to regain ground relative to China, if we want to stand up to the Chinese in self-preservation, invest more in America.
The sector has been slow to regain ground ever since.
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Still, the monitors' presence, even if scattered, has let the protest movement regain some ground.
It will be hard for his fresh-faced new team to regain lost ground before parliamentary elections in November.
The keeper's ill-judged dash from goal allowed Pato to round him, and as he struggled to regain his ground Gomes was relieved to see Gallas clear Robinho's deflected shot off the line.
Inexperienced liberal parties still have a chance to regain some ground in later rounds, particularly if they forge alliances: Egypt's convoluted election rules actually favour mid-sized parties over the smallest and biggest.
They were eventually separated when Boucher played the ball to Santh's left in the covers but then changed his mind about a single and Amla was unable to regain his ground in time.
Wednesday is the big day they unveil the result of a massive, long-awaited attempt to regain lost ground in the smartphone wars against Apple, Android and Samsung, with the release of BlackBerry 10.
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In Gaza meanwhile, Hamas felt popular pressure to negotiate an easing of the Israeli blockade, and to regain political ground lost to President Abbas this summer when he took his people's case for recognition to the United Nations.
They knew the decision would hurt, and the company's stock price fell to half in 2006, not to regain lost ground for another four years, as HTC had to increase investment in manufacturing its own phones while making phones for others.
It's not too late for the president to regain this lost ground, but it is getting later than some in the White House might like to think.
As well as being burdened by unsustainable levels of external debt, all five economies share the misery of trying to regain lost competitive ground through internal devaluation, in which domestic costs are ground down year after year.
Over the long term, higher productivity growth and better-functioning labour markets are vital if economies in southern Europe are to regain the competitive ground they lost in the first decade of monetary union, when their unit labour costs soared relative to those in northern countries like Germany.
By closing Guantanamo, we can regain the moral high ground in the battle against these terrorist organizations.
Sears recently invested in a Big Data program to improve customer loyalty and regain some of the ground the company has lost to Amazon.
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By tackling the issue now it could regain the high moral ground (at the same time as forging ahead in the clean-energy business, which Europe might otherwise dominate).
The president could pivot to the center and regain some of the high ground he occupied in his 2008 campaign.
Shadow work and pensions secretary Liam Byrne, who is in charge of the party's policy review, said Labour needed to seize the centre ground of British politics - and regain economic credibility.
But Russia has gradually been losing ground over the past decade and has been fighting to regain it.
Along with other Mediterranean countries, its economy lost ground to Germany's over the past decade and now needs to regain it.
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But the best way to regain its credentials is not to make a panicky move now but to hold its ground, tightening policy only when it is clear that the recovery can cope with the fiscal clampdown.
And long after my fellow editors were convinced that Apple was about to regain its leadership of the computer world, I was still arguing that the company was not yet on solid ground.
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