The government may be able to buy off resistance to the Jenkins proposals with new patronage.
Building coalitions is harder in Mexico, where congressmen are wedded to their parties and hard to buy off.
One way is to buy off steel companies and unions with economic goodies.
But it is all rather reminiscent of Ethelred the Unready, an 11th-century king of England who paid Danegeld to buy off Viking invaders.
We wanted to enter the marketplace in a hurry, and it was quicker to buy off the shelf than for us to make it.
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Prescription drug manufacturers, fearing the arrival of cheaper generics and knowing or worrying that their patents alone won't keep out competitors, try to buy off the competition instead.
This was tiresome and expensive, so around the time the frontier was demarcated in 1893, the strategy changed, and the British began a concerted effort to buy off tribal elders, or maliks.
The French responded with the usual mixture of bribes and terror: when an attempt to buy off the aristocratic class failed, they were sure that just getting tough enough one last time would do the trick.
Reward points, discounts, free shipping and gifts--it's all there for the taking, as the big players in the hypercompetitive retail industry fight to outdo each other to buy off the loyalty of customers blessed with more choices than ever.
In Heller's world, new cures for Alzheimer's remain in the lab, films flounder unreleased and even hip-hop albums go unrecorded because it's simply too hard to buy off all the owners who are in a blocking position with their pesky property rights.
Since the juries that determine those damages sometimes award ruinous sums, firms often find the certainty of spending a little to buy off an ill-founded suit preferable to the risk of financial disaster by contesting it (and consumers end up with more expensive products as a result).
During the debate, QC and independent crossbencher Lord Pannick branded the scheme "unrealistic" and warned it would be "damaging to industrial harmony to allow employers to buy off basic employment rights" such as the right to statutory redundancy pay and the right for parents and other carers to request flexible working.
Manufacturers prefer to have them designed to their specifications than to buy them off the shelf.
Lanzi does expect Genentech to buy more off-the-shelf apps now that the selection is growing.
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The Saudi royal family has sought to literally buy off its opponents by showering its subjects with billions of dollars in new subsidies and payoffs.
While that still sounds expensive, compared to the five cents per kilowatt Ford pays to buy energy off the power grid, it's worth it, Ford says.
The theory of enterprise software is that it is cheaper to buy an off-the-shelf solution and configure it to your needs instead of building exactly what you need from scratch.
For ideological reasons, the Kremlin cannot easily respond to such concerns, and, in an environment in which the Federal budget is under significant strain and there are more obvious resource constraints, will not simply be able to buy-off all dissent as easily as it did in the past.
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It has become a fixture in American diplomacy: When the going gets tough, try to buy the tough off.
It's easier to just buy it off the shelf.
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Just as Mr Becker proposes that a worker would be able to buy his loan off his present employer if he decided to change jobs, the bond in the Caribbean could also be bought off.
Big city dwellers do the same thing only in reverse when they take a drive into the country to shop in a quaint little town in search of something unique to buy or an off-the-beaten path restaurant.
As Main Street struggles to rebuild after Hurricane Sandy, with homeowners and contractors rushing off to buy lumber, studs and paint, shares of Home Depot have seen only a modest gain.
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To me it was a sign that investors continue to view stocks as offering attractive investment opportunities and were taking advantage of the sharp sell-off to buy them at favorable prices.
Although Daphne is drawn to the Kennishes, their entitlement puts her off. (Their first impulse is to buy her a car.) The girls become friends, although they get off to a shaky start, since Bay quickly recognizes that Daphne is the daughter her parents might have preferred.
Again, it is more than possible that Khamenei will move to crush the dissidents or successfully buy enough of them off to subvert them.
But a Treasury source said Mr Osborne had been dropped off to buy lunch.
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HIBA'S MOTHER: (Through Translator) You buy it to show off during parties or on happy occasions.
The use of derivatives to lay off and buy credit risk can also obscure sources of credit exposure.
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