That combination would allow Microsoft to chip away at Google's lead, especially in search advertising.
In short, reality is beginning to chip away at the consensus view of a V-shaped economic recovery.
It is principled to chip away at ObamaCare, and smart to force Democrats to help do it.
But Vettel will continue to chip away at those numbers in 2013, starting this weekend in Melbourne.
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However Gartner's Mr Blau warned that incidents like these could begin to chip away at Instagram's reputation.
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Cyprus gives them the opportunity to begin to chip away at those expectations.
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The government plans to chip away at the high payroll tax that funds various social programs such as health care.
But it also indicates one of the dangers that we have, is that you've got to chip away at this problem.
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That plan remains in place, despite efforts to chip away at it.
"It's like sculpture and the rock: You have to chip away at it and not think too much and just keep going, " she explains.
Clinton also took the opportunity to slam Republicans' tax plans, saying they want to chip away at the budget surplus which took years to build.
"When you start getting into formulae, inevitably you begin to chip away at that transparency and immediate understanding of what the official chart is about, " Talbot says.
If the Supreme Court takes the Gill case, as both sides have urged it to do, the justices will have a chance to chip away at the law.
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By being candid about her own experiences, Sandberg's admission can help us recognize and begin to chip away at the penalties linked to flexibility, borne disproportionately by women.
In practically every major market WP8 has started to chip away at its competitors, growing from 6.2 percent to 6.7 percent share in the UK in just one month.
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But the jaded voter was offered another chance to chip away at the LDP when, on Sept. 27, Prime Minister Hashimoto Ryutaro dissolved the House of Representatives and called a general election for Oct. 20.
"If we get one more storm like this with widespread 2 inches of moisture, we will continue to chip away at the drought, but to claim the drought is over or ending is way too premature, " Umscheid said.
While that measure is expected to die in the Senate, congressional Republicans do have the leverage to chip away at funding for the law and are expected to win some Democratic votes for peeling back unpopular provisions of it.
The US constitution gives Congress significant powers over purse-strings, and Republicans have said they will seek to slash funding for implementation or to chip away at the package in other ways, possibly by attaching provisions to crucial bills like the federal budget.
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But we have been struck by the degree of capacity we have administratively to at least chip away at some of these problems.
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The most mysterious game around right now is the aptly titled Curiosity, a collaborative game in which you join tens of thousands of fellow players to gradually chip away at a gigantic cube floating in midair.
"All these thing come and go, of course it will always be and always has been a historic aim of the French in particular, other countries certainly, to try and chip away at the financial dominance of the city, " Johnson told CNN.
Specifically, this has to do with a planned rollback in state support to help the government chip away at the Renewable Energy Sources (RES) Fund deficit, which is expected to grow to 473 million euros by the end of this year and 905 million euros by the end of 2014.
MP3 (and other) file formats would combine with increasingly affordable home computers to gently, but definitively, chip away at the CD's monopoly, bringing us to the present day.
The Heat led by as many as 11 in the first half, only to see the Bucks steadily chip away at the lead.
The scientists, who reported their findings at a recent meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, have discovered that a certain type of neurodegenerative disease may chip away at the ability to understand the social, physical and verbal cues that help people recognize indirect language, such as sarcasm, and even deceit.
Hence, too, a determination to centralise and control decisions that might otherwise chip away at cohesion.
If the financial services lobbyists fail to achieve complete repeal, they may nevertheless chip away at the newly imposed constraint, so that after a number of years the pre-reform conditions may be substantially restored.
David Frum has a piece on CNN.com saying that if the President takes on gun control at the Congressional level, he could chip away at the political capital he needs to pass other crucial legislation, like a tax plan to avoid the fiscal cliff.
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Another would chip away at laws protecting workers against dismissal, by, for instance, confining some protections to people in companies with more than 20 employees.
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