• Shahabpur receives only occasional visits from the station's semi-trained constables, who are principally shake-down merchants.

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  • According to John Fung, director of transplants at the University of Pittsburgh, such a shake-down in centres is long overdue.

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  • It also means huge endowments and a shake-down of rich donors.

    BBC: Moolah maestro, please

  • Is Grassley's ploy a ham-fisted attempt to shake down rich Wall Streeters for campaign contributions?

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • As shrewd observers of the international scene -- assisted by the massive Russian signals-intelligence facility at Lourdes, Cuba -- Fidel and his associates have had little difficulty in judging the time propitious to either complete their existing fatally-flawed VVER-440 reactors or shake down the U.S. and international community for some kind of substantial compensatory alternative.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: CUBA AND THE JURAGUA NUCLEAR POWER COMPLEX

  • This demonstrates how hard it is to shake fixed stigmas - which have already been passed down to the younger generation.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Scotland | 'Finding the key to battling stigma'

  • Hewlett-Packard has announced a boardroom shake-up that includes its chairman Raymond Lane stepping down.

    BBC: Hewlett-Packard chairman Raymond Lane steps down

  • China faces immense economic challenges, from local apparatchiks who shake down or inhibit local entrepreneurs to state-owned companies that are hemorrhaging red ink.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Then, the new shares, like water pressing down on a fault line, will cause the earth to shake, driving down the market in a man-made disaster.

    FORBES: Hang Up On Your China Fund Manager

  • Our ten-year dawdle over North Korea's nuclear adventurism hammers home to Tehran's corrupt, totalitarian-minded thugs this inescapable conclusion: Nukes mean respect, mean security--and they grant blackmail power to shake down billions in booty from the U.S. and other Western moneybags.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • McKenna talks of overcapacity and of the probability that somewhere down the road, the launcher business will have yet another shake-out.

    BBC: Rocket company hopes for calmer waters

  • It even has security-cleared staff, including some from the British agency, to shake down the gear and ensure it can't be exploited by spooks or crooks.

    ENGADGET: Huawei working with British spy service to prove its 'kit' is clean

  • Such paternalism may have helped to shake Turkey out of its Ottoman torpor, but it goes down badly in liberal-democratic modern Europe.

    ECONOMIST: A survey of Turkey

  • Charged with improving low-light photography and eliminating camera shake, the experimental 808 handset was developed with a 41-megapixel sensor that oversampled images down to 5-megapixels.

    ENGADGET: Nokia's Damian Dinning goes in-depth on phase two of PureView for the Lumia 920 (video)

  • Tensions over budgets contributed to a recent shake-up of the Post's editorial leadership, with executive editor Marcus Brauchli stepping down and Boston Globe editor Marty Baron replacing him at the end of the year.

    WSJ: Washington Post Plans a Paywall

  • It will also be a chance for the parties to shake off some of the challenges that are holding them down, such as the right-wing drift of the GOP -- which could hurt the chances of the Republican candidates in 2016, regardless of how charismatic and talented they are.

    CNN: Why 2014 is the year to watch

  • Last year discontent expressed at the conference about the NHS shake-up was followed by a "pause" on the bill - something Mr Clegg puts down to Lib Dem intervention.

    BBC: Lib Dems: Party activists reject holding NHS protest vote

  • During a nostalgic weekend, Kevin Schwantz was on hand to regale us with the inside story of his final career victory here in 1994, when he had to hold the throttle open down the straights with his left hand - despite a dislocated wrist - just to shake some feeling back into his fractured right hand.

    BBC: Matt Roberts' MotoGP column

  • Americans want to remember them as vibrant and fun-loving children, but will that actually shake the conscience of America to do something about how they were gunned down in the classroom?

    CNN: America should see the Newtown carnage

  • The Jacksons - featuring Tito, Marlon, Jackie, Jermaine, Michael and Randy - found fame in the 1970s with hits such as I Want You Back, ABC and Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground).

    BBC: Michael denies Jackson 5 reunion

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