Lots of countries have developed coping mechanisms to oil the squeaking wheels of democracy.
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Facebook reported adjusted earnings of 12 cents per share, squeaking by consensus earnings estimates of 11 cents.
The film also has somber fun with Thornfield as a haunted house of alarming sounds and squeaking timbers.
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Charged at just the same as other beers of course, despite just squeaking into that much lower duty band.
It is being held in a huge formal courtroom with squeaking wooden benches, white chair rails and gilded ceiling medallions.
His two wins at Royal Ascot in 2002 included squeaking home in the final race of the meeting on Cover Up.
The air inside was cool and musty and there was a constant squeaking from the bats as they fluttered above our heads.
Squeaking chipmunks, straight out of Snow White, gambol across the path.
The night was so cold and dark that the snow made squeaking noises as it settled in drifts around the big, square yard.
Won't the talk in the Commission report of "empowering" people and communities simply vanish, squeaking plaintively, into the vast cavern of public bureaucracy?
The Devils finished sixth in the Eastern Conference, while the Kings ranked No. 8 in the West, squeaking into the playoffs by five points.
On the Republican side, where ten rivals are squeaking round him, George W. may yet be tripped up by his rakish past or by his father's old ailment, foot-in-mouth disease.
But he caught the attention of Kim Dae-jung, organised Mr Kim's successful run for president in 1997 and surprised perhaps even himself by squeaking into the presidency five years later.
They can range in size from a lima bean to a carrot stick and have a rubbery consistency, causing a squeaking sensation on the teeth when chewed fresh from the factory.
Maybe you fancy the Tom Brady-led 2004 New England Patriots, who blazed through the regular season with a 14-2 record, outscoring their opponents by an average of 11 points per game before squeaking by the Philadelphia Eagles, 24-21, in the Super Bowl.
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And after switching head coaches midseason -- a coach, I should add, who got good training from the Chicago Blackhawks -- (laughter) -- squeaking into the playoffs as a number eight seed, it looked like the streak of not winning was going to continue.
To prove that I didn't embrace "Jane Eyre" uncritically, I'll note that pulses were taken in the 19th century by checking the wrist, not the carotid artery as shown here, and I'll register an objection to the use of surround sound to create squeaking timbers at the back of the theater.
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