That combination would allow Microsoft to chip away at Google's lead, especially in search advertising.
Hence, too, a determination to centralise and control decisions that might otherwise chip away at cohesion.
We know they will chip away at knotty obstacles, morphing until they get the strategy just right.
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.
Workplace graffiti can have unintended consequences that chip away at your culture, a key part of your business and brand.
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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.
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 Heat led by as many as 11 in the first half, only to see the Bucks steadily chip away at the lead.
"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.
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.
We don't know from this kind of study how much we can really chip away at it, but it does say there's a target out there.
"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.
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 departures chip away at one of Euribor's supposed strengths: the number of banks in its contributing panel, which helps to guard against the possibility of rate manipulation.
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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While impressive this will only chip away at the inequities that exist worldwide where the poor are not provided with the basic knowledge necessary to find a path to success.
But too often we choose the path of safety and give up the possibility of addressing issues that undermine our relationships, limit our productivity, chip away at self-confidence and constrain opportunity.
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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.
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.
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.
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