To use a different metaphor, the Federal Reserve is like the team captain on a bobsleigh, he or she can turn the sleigh left or right a bit or put on and release the brakes, but he or she cannot make the sleigh go uphill.
On progress towards joining the EU, the next big test for Mr Erdogan will be whether he can budge a bit more on the opening of Turkish ports and airports to Cyprus, shaming Turkey's detractors within the EU (notably the French) into stopping their efforts to undermine the membership talks.
"Tim Henman may adapt his grip on the racket a little bit when he plays on clay, but it's not the same as someone who plays that way all the time, " said Hutchins.
Even when one of the otters he looked after bit off part of a finger on each hand. he didn't blame the animal at all, just his own stupidity in reaching out to the otter while holding a cardigan full of the scent of a visitor to the cottage.
"It's nice to kind of shut them up a little bit, " he said on the PGA Tour website.
"McAllister's an attacking, exciting player and I'm a bit surprised he was still on the market, " Town boss Graham Turner told BBC Radio Shropshire.
Although he can seem a bit cerebral on the stump, the 37-year-old Mr Sununu cuts a youthful figure compared with Senator Smith's old-school style.
' Now granted he was played by an able-bodied actor, which to me is like watching a white guy play Othello, and he did a bit where he put on a glove with one hand that sent the audience into hysterics.
He also got a bit brushed back on the earmarks thing from his own conference.
He may have been a bit green or unsteady on some of the issues, and some thought he needed more seasoning in the Senate before reaching for the brass ring.
Back in Oxford, he brushes off a suggestion from British intelligence that he do a bit of domestic spying on the side by keeping an eye on some types it does not like who hang around the university.
Early on in the season he was thrust in a little bit because we were short on numbers.
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He gives us a little bit of feedback and then we have to implement whatever he wants on the training ground.
Rockefeller also engaged in the policy equivalent of a drive-by shooting: In the 9 July press conference, he announced that the Committee had done "a little bit of work" on activities of the office of Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith.
Chris Frankel's job is based in San Francisco, California, and he is on the road quite a bit these days.
"I could run my car and keep the heat on and listen to the radio a little bit, " he said.
But the consulting firm he co-founded in 1983, Monitor Group, officially bit the dust on November 7.
"We tried to put the points on the board a bit too early before building the pressure, " he said.
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If he walks on a bit farther, this time towards the middle of the work, the sense of what surrounds him changes again to give the feeling of being inside a maze.
His uncle, Shawn Stewart, is proud to say that Hunter has seen quite a bit of publicity lately--he was on the Ellen DeGeneres Show and featured in AutoWeek magazine as well as many local news stories, but it hasn't changed him.
As a young lad we'll hope that he gains a bit of experience but we've got out hopes that he'll carry on from the improvement that he's shown recently.
"The wicket did a bit early on and they landed it in the right areas, " he said.
This whole charm campaign, he works a little bit of it on us here on THE BRYANT PARK PROJECT.
But you may have noticed that he has been losing his voice a little bit out on the campaign trail.
He is getting on a bit now and is one of the senior guys out there and I think Stoner might be a fly in the ointment for him.
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When he spotted the first of the ruined houses, he broke into a gallop, but it was much farther away than he had thought, and before he got there a rabbit leaped up and bit him on the neck.
He also remarked on how the tree had become a bit of a 'diamond' on the local landscape.
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