• For a lucky group of Eastern European cyber-voters, e-voting no longer entails traveling to an official location to poke at a screen -- let's just hope they managed to shake off e-voting's penchant for fraud while they were at it.

    ENGADGET: Estonians first to cast national votes online

  • Dip them into water -- keep a bucket of water near you -- shake off the excess water and rub that over the upholstery, and the hair will collect on the rubber gloves.

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  • Usually it's no big deal -- you shake it off, wake up and move on.

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  • But it will take more than this spectacular coup for Pakistan to shake off al-Qaeda's tentacles.

    ECONOMIST: Rounding up al-Qaeda

  • Terry, 29, was taunted by City fans during his team's 4-2 home defeat on Saturday, when Bridge refused to shake his hand before the kick-off.

    BBC: Wayne Rooney asks England fans not to boo John Terry

  • "There were players from Arsenal who refused to shake my hand before kick-off, " he added.

    BBC: Fabregas anger at Adebayor tackle

  • This trend might strengthen the case for proportional representation but only if the voters shake off their summer-holiday languor.

    ECONOMIST: No, not the country, electoral reform

  • New York was looking to shake off its 5-2 loss on Sunday while focusing on the task at hand.

    WSJ: Rangers looking for 2nd straight 0-2 comeback

  • The commodity sell-off can be explained as the occasional shake-out of speculators that is an inevitable part of a bull run.

    ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

  • Mr Sharon, anxious to shake off his ultra-hardline image, says he would set up a national unity government if elected, with Mr Barak as his minister of defence.

    ECONOMIST: Can Bibi foil Barak��s bid to block him?

  • Countries that see themselves as potential crisis-victims want to shake off the fund's shackles.

    ECONOMIST: Banyan

  • The fact that the Mets remained virtually irrelevant on the free-agent market this off-season didn't help to shake the perception that the team can't afford to spend.

    WSJ: Wilpon Sees Better Days Ahead

  • As befits so many superheroes-in-waiting, Peter is bullied, and, if we never entirely shake off the sense that we are witnessing a complex, two-hundred-million-dollar revenge of the nerd, that also is a defining strain of the genre.

    NEWYORKER: Tangled Webs

  • The two players came face to face at Stamford Bridge on Saturday but Bridge refused to shake Terry's hand before kick-off in a humiliating snub.

    BBC: Capello will not reappoint Terry as England captain

  • More damaging to prospects of peace on the southern rim, Russia has also turned up the heat on Georgia and Azerbaijan, independent republics in the Caucasus which have been trying to shake off Russia's post-imperial influence.

    ECONOMIST: Russia��s south

  • Mr Tsai's open hostility to Mr Chen during the trial suggests some old-school attitudes are hard to shake off.

    ECONOMIST: Banyan

  • The old image of railways as a devourer of government subsidy will not be easy to shake off, despite their new high-tech image.

    ECONOMIST: A better way to fly

  • There are measures we can take to stop this grim scenario playing out -- as long as we can shake off our hubris and implement them.

    CNN: How hubris put our health at risk

  • Clarke was also beaten on a few occasions as the luck went against the touring side but the right-hander showed his class to shake off those indiscretions.

    BBC: Australia cling on to draw with West Indies in Adelaide

  • At the risk of appearing more profound than it is -- the English were able to shake off the puritanism of Cromwell and established the quintessence of sexual humour in Restoration comedy.

    BBC: NEWS | Entertainment | Coupling in the US: Your Views

  • Williams continued to argue with the officials and disputed the version of events given -- before she stormed off to shake hands with Clijsters having realized she had been penalized a point on match point for verbal abuse.

    CNN: Clijsters into final amid controversial scenes

  • How can we shake off the blinders and take a long-term view?

    FORBES: The Only Way to Long-Term Corporate Growth

  • The home support, therefore, would not have been too pleased to hear that he had failed to shake off a back injury and Yves Ma-Kalambay would be back between the sticks.

    BBC: Sport - Football - Hibernian 2-0 Motherwell

  • If Luke Narraway, who impressed on the summer tour to New Zealand, fails to shake off a hamstring injury, Nick Easter - who was demoted to the Saxons by Johnson - could win a surprise recall.

    BBC: Abendanon to miss England Tests

  • Detroit is still suffering from the collapse of the auto industry, and Washington DC is trying to shake off its reputation as a staid government town - especially with the looming threat of a federal shutdown caused by the ongoing US budget crisis.

    BBC: Putting a price on the value of art

  • Israel has a growing, fabulously talented, technology-oriented entrepreneurial population that is pushing hard to shake off suffocating, socialistic taxation and regulation.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Over the last decade the fervently pro-Western government of Georgia's US-educated President Mikheil Saakashvili has been desperate to shake off the country's Soviet past.

    BBC: Stalin anniversary: Georgian supporters leap to defence

  • Just as Major League Baseball is moving to shake off its steroid cloud under the warmth of spring-training sun, one of its biggest former stars continues to cast a shadow over the sport.

    FORBES: Clemens Case Goes To Justice Department

  • But senior ministers know it has set back their efforts to shake off the charge that they are a party of out-of-touch toffs.

    BBC: UK Politics

  • Another full-back contender, Mathew Tait, is battling to shake off a hamstring injury, meaning the only fit contender at present is Delon Armitage of London Irish, who was not in either the elite squad or the second-string Saxons squad at the start of the season, but was fast-tracked into the senior squad as cover for Tait last week.

    BBC: Abendanon to miss England Tests

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