The wedding vase that slipped your grip and cracked a lip.

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Areas where the ruling party's grip has slipped have become hard to get to: roadblocks control people's movements and even diplomats have been stopped and threatened.

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Areas where the ruling party's grip has slipped have become hard to get to: roadblocks control people's movements and even foreign diplomats have been stopped and threatened.

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According to IDC, BlackBerry 10 is set to battle it out with Windows Phone 8 for the No. 3 smartphone operating system worldwide in 2013, behind Android and Apple's iOS. While its grip has slipped in North America, BlackBerry has maintained a strong presence in such far-flung places as Indonesia, Nigeria, South Africa, Mexico and some South American countries.

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But even here, the presidential grip may have slipped.

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Irmak slipped from Ben Yehuda's grip.

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Meanwhile, the Czech Republic's grip on the women's Fed Cup title slipped on Saturday after Italy took a 2-0 lead in Palermo.

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Before the U.S. completely turns over security of the chicken coop to the fox, we need to get a solid grip on how many other Saudi students besides al-Harbi may have slipped through the SAAR system.

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