Is the government trying to wriggle out of a commitment on charging for throw-away plastic bags?
Plainly, Mr Assad is in a bind and cannot see how to wriggle out of it.
Regulators fear that hedge funds, which are not strictly financial institutions, will wriggle out, too.
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The slender lieutenant then tried to wriggle out the gunner's turret, but he could not gain his footing.
They will take it as proof that he always intended to wriggle out of the offer they rejected.
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Generali still hopes it can wriggle out of its predicament at little cost.
Miss Houston had placed herself or been placed so solidly in the mainstream that she could not easily wriggle out of it.
Obuchi can use his simpleton's image to wriggle out of tight spots.
One reason is that those who fear they may be prosecuted try to wriggle out of giving evidence and surround themselves with lawyers.
But to wriggle out of the Maastricht obligation, it will need other European government heads to interpret this requirement as no longer applying.
Even then, the IRS tried to wriggle out of paying, saying Schreimann hadn't returned some IRS phone calls and hadn't turned over some records.
Only a few years ago, Chinese outfits preferred contracts you could write on the back of an envelope and wriggle out of at will.
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The idea behind the cable bid is to act as a go-between in the industry's consolidation, then wriggle out, perhaps through a stockmarket listing.
"This sounds to me like someone is trying to wriggle out of what was agreed - a strange thing to do, " he told the Deutschlandfunk radio network.
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But President Bill Clinton's long days and nights at Wye produced a detailed implementation programme that the two sides will be hard put to wriggle out of.
Mr Atherton reckons that the long-term, high-price contracts recommended by the CCC might persuade firms to pony up, since these commitments would be hard to wriggle out of.
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Morgan in New York, says a case like this might tempt other customers of banks selling complex derivatives to turn to the courts in order to wriggle out of deals.
More significantly, President Bush's praise for Pakistan's leading role in the war against terror may just give General Musharraf the opportunity to wriggle out of a perilous situation on the question of Iraq.
In the old days, women did little more than try to wriggle out of their bonds as a train barreled down on them, or scream as a psycho slashed them in the shower.
It appears to both of us that this company is trying to wriggle out of any liability by sending a guy over to give the chest a rub down with sandpaper and then okay it.
Rising longevity is one reason why companies are anxious to wriggle out from under the promises they once made (though they also keep a weather eye on the risks posed by volatile interest and inflation rates).
Another rub: unwritten and nonbinding agreements common in the reinsurance industry that have the effect of lowering risk to the reinsurer by allowing it to wriggle out of a deal without a loss, in the event claims skyrocket.
The Guardian newspaper published extracts from a leaked document suggesting that Gordon Brown was trying to wriggle out of a pledge made by Tony Blair, his predecessor as prime minister, that 20% of European energy consumption would be met from renewable sources by 2020.
The likeliest outcome is therefore neither a sudden, history-altering reduction in defence spending, nor a quick fix that lets Congress wriggle out of its trap, but a drawn-out and perhaps salutary election-year debate about how much defence to buy at a time of distress.
In order to wriggle out of its commitments, it claims that it is the Palestinians who are in default by not carrying out their pledges on security, by not summoning the Palestinian parliament to affirm that the clauses calling for Israel's destruction are gone from the covenant, and by not extraditing wanted men to Israel.
The United States and the world could not safely allow Saddam Hussein to wriggle out of sanctions, secure fresh infusions of funds from around the world, end the no-fly zones, expand his sponsorship of terror, return to his ambitions to have and to wield weapons of mass destruction and, quite possibly, act on his stated desire for revenge against America for Operation Desert Storm.
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Delta Air Lines has improved its situation with its credit-card provider, and may soon be in position to wriggle more money out of its pilots.
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