"I find myself in quite a lot of trouble, so he'd need to be able to stick up for me, " she smiles.
And the more that foreign and domestic critics attack her, the more many ordinary Germans are inclined to stick up for her.
Born to a large Merthyr family, Johnny soon learned to stick up for himself, and started his interest in boxing aged just eight.
The Florida Medical Association, which purports to represent doctors, refused to stick up for its members in the face of this government intrusion into the exam room.
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She is motivated by a passion to stick up for the little guy, and there is nobody littler than a defendant accused of a horrendous crime who everybody wants to string up.
Collins, who walked to the stage with a walking stick to pick up the inspiration award, suffered two brain haemorrhages in 2005 before spending a further six months in hospital after a surgical scar became infected with the MRSA bug.
The robot (or snailbot) is comprised of moveable segments that ripple on top of a thin layer of synthetic snail sludge, and, just like its living counterpart, is able to climb up walls and stick to ceilings.
"I just felt that Wales had a real opportunity there to stick their hands up and say 'look we can be somewhere that you can access cancer drugs', " she said.
When Mr Saakashvili called Mr Putin to complain and point out that the West supported Georgian integrity, Mr Putin, who favours earthy language, is said to have told him to stick Western statements up his backside.
The bad news is that the Bush administration's critics over the war on terrorism have not given up, they have simply chosen a new stick with which to beat up the U.S. government.
Or will the bears decide that its time to stick around and put up a fight?
And measures that have the force of domestic law are more likely to stick than those signed up to in a treaty under diplomatic pressure.
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The company told Shanghai Daily on Monday that it intends to stick around and open up five new offices despite auditors like PwC getting caught up in the middle of ugly international class action lawsuits against Chinese firms for accounting fraud allegations.
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The Prime Minister evidently remains untroubled that the bitter fruit of his efforts in the so-called Quartet - the diplomatic equivalent of gang rape involving the European Union, the United Nations, Russia and the United States teamed up to stick it to Israel - will be the creation of yet another Islamofascist state-sponsor of terror in the Middle East.
Once you've figured out which transferable skills to invest in, make a concrete action plan you can stick to, whether by signing up for a course or conference, or simply by pledging to spend one hour each week teaching yourself something.
He told me that he used to mix the lagging with a stick and then picked it up to spread it on.
The idea here is simple: Investors looking to place bets abroad should stick to countries that don't tie up business folk with red tape.
Mr Ahtisaari's commission calls for carping European politicians to shut up, more or less, and stick to EU promises to judge Turkey's membership application purely in terms of compliance with EU rules and values.
Remaining questions include whether enough Republicans will support a compromise acceptable to Democrats, and whether Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell will allow a simple majority vote to take up and pass any proposal, or stick to the filibuster level of 60%.
By contrast, in Boston, tech talent tends to stick with a start-up until it succeeds.
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The characters are shrill, cartoon-like figures, and the bubblegum text is so distended with italics, capital letters, lists, diagrams, poor jokes and faux parables that you end up wanting to stick it to the underside of your chair and leave it there.
To med these women up and stick knives in the backs of babies?
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In resumed debate on the Queen's Speech on 23 November, Mr Miliband said it was "completely reasonable" to stick with the plan of building up Afghan security forces to withstand the Taliban insurgency.
Given that Apple and Google offer more apps to developers and that iOS and Android together account for about 90 percent of the global mobile OS market, Heins will need to come up with better numbers to make his criticism of Apple stick.
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'' Two seconds later, just before we would have stalled and started a death spiral to earth, the jet's control stick moved forward, and the airplane began to pick up speed, averting the stall.
So, the best thing that could happen to Obama is to be snubbed by much of Wall Street, toughen up, and knowing the score, stick to his guns at a fairer deal for everyone.
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But more than a quarter of people on combination treatments fail to stick to complex plans which involve taking up to 15 pills every day.
There are also plenty of venture-backed companies that have decided to stick it out until the market warms up again to the idea of riskier investing.
Many of Sony 's products (nyse: SNE - news - people) use that company's Memory Stick storage technology, which is about the size of a stick of gum and holds up to 64 MB.
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