Accordingly, Android still ruled the roost at 52.5 percent, while 34.3 percent were iPhone adopters.
But analysts wanted Alcatel to get into data-networking technology, where Lucent, Nortel and Cisco rule the roost.
So far, First Solar has ruled the roost in thin film solar with cadmium telluride thin film.
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Unfortunately for them, time moves a lot faster now than it did when Ibn Saud ruled the roost.
Android was still comfortably ruling the roost at 53.7 percent, although its share was only a slight increase over October.
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During a live performance of Indonesia's highest-rated morning television show Dahsyat, it was evident that dangdut songs ruled the roost.
Men used to rule the roost and making the adjustment to a slightly more equal world has hit some of them hard.
The German mark and the German Central Bank, the Bundesbank, ruled the roost during those times, with the Swiss not too far behind.
It became ever more elaborate and expensive during the post-war boom when big companies ruled the roost and when international competition was muted.
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For the last three years, value funds have ruled the roost, though growth funds showed renewed strength in the fourth quarter of last year.
Imposing rules of any sort is unpopular with county auditors, polling officers and the other people who rule the roost in the current system.
The older waitresses who have ruled the roost for decades are gradually retiring, but the younger staff perpetuate a delightful house serving style based on smiles and solicitude.
Just as it seemed small-market clubs were getting the hang of competing with the big boys on tight budgets, money is once again ruling the roost.
She was the aunt type: a true Caribbean matriarch (though unmarried and childless), ruling the roost and dispensing wisdom with no feckless male around to steal the limelight.
The principal says Percy has started to rule the roost, deliveries are having to be taken via another door and even the caretaker has taken to wearing hobnailed boots.
Boarding a vessel on the Nile is to peel back millennia and slow down to river speed as ancient temples, oxcarts and palm trees pass by, unaltered since Pharaohs ruled the roost.
But the other part of being Microsoft is that any mistake or misfire makes news, since Microsoft rules the roost in the PC world in a manner that rubs lots of people the wrong way.
But Microsoft has barely moved the needle in the tablet space, where Apple still rules the roost, and only a simpler and less expensive device like Amazon's Kindle Fire has been able to put up much resistance.
At the moment, science rules the roost.
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Way back in April, we asked you about which carrier rules the roost in NYC and it caused a little sensation, with hundreds of you bombarding the Ask Engadget inbox to ask if we'd do your city or state.
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The 14th, where Rep. Anna Eshoo rules the roost, include considerable slices of San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz Counties here in Northern California, including the cities of Palo Alto, Redwood City, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Los Altos, Sunnyvale and Saratoga.
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Within the Robbers Roost area lies Bluejohn Canyon, revered in the canyoneering community for its remoteness and grandeur.
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Overhead, gulls and gannets ride the thermals or roost in noisy colonies on the cliff faces.
Two of the best are " Ice Lights", a light-installation at Vancouver City Hall that looks like ice framing the historic building, and " The Birds", a pair of larger-than-life bird sculptures that once stood sentry at the site of the Olympic Village and now roost at the Southeast False Creek Plaza.
Workers sweep the squares with willow brooms, and flocks of pigeons swoop across the courtyards or roost on temple rooftops, their fluttering wings blending with the distant hum of traffic and car horns.
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