• Mr Rogge said that like the messengers in ancient times who shared news of the Olympic truce - the laying down of arms for the Games - "the torchbearers who carry this flame to London will spread the message of sport's capacity to promote peace and to make our world a better place".

    BBC: London 2012: Olympic Games flame lit in Greece

  • Some judges, when elevated to the Supreme Court, have taken it as licence to act as philosopher-kings, laying down the kind of enlightened laws that the oafs in Congress ought to have passed but did not.

    ECONOMIST: The Supreme Court

  • Begin by laying the fish, skin-side down, into a hot pan.

    WSJ: Michael Schwartz's Striped Bass with Grapefruit and Pickled Radish

  • In effect, Skype has created a worldwide voice network, capable of reaching as many consumers as the biggest phone companies, but it has done it without laying down a single fiber-optic wire.

    FORBES: Skype Proves Anyone Can Sell Phone Service

  • Now a score of water-related startups are laying down roots here, too, spun off from local universities or encouraged by new state financing initiatives, the proximity of skilled labor and, above all, a booming business opportunity.

    FORBES: The Capital of Water

  • He got up in the morning and he had his breakfast and he went outside and he's laying down in his air-conditioned grotto outside taking it very easy, completely unaware of the hard work that Mei Xiang has done all night.

    NPR: National Zoo Welcomes Baby Panda

  • The Securities and Exchange Commission is laying down the law with dark pools--or at least starting to.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Although it had no legal standing, the event was the symbolic equivalent of laying down the gauntlet to the president-elect, Felipe Calderon, who won the July 2nd vote by less than 1 percent.

    NPR: Mexico's Obrador Vows to Continue Fighting for the Presidency

  • Tissue cells, instead of performing the normal self-repair of damaged tissue, begin laying down excessive layers of collagen to help build a scar.

    FORBES: Scar Wars

  • These will probably involve upgrading the existing rocket with a more powerful upper-stage whilst at the same time laying down a firm development programme for a next generation rocket that benefits from substantially reduced production costs.

    BBC: Ministers to define Europe's goals in space

  • The important contingencies -- or rather, the conditions of reconciliation -- not contingencies but conditions -- are renouncing violence, renouncing terrorism, laying down your arms, and abiding by the Afghan constitution.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • The job involves laying down the infrastructure for your city to flourish - power, water, roads and rail - and then watching as businesses and virtual people, called Sims, flock in.

    BBC: Screenshot from SimCity 4 courtesy of EA Games

  • Some time about 440BC, the Athenians decided to make all these people get rid of their own currency, with their own national emblems, and use Athenian "owls" instead - in fact some of the public notices laying this down, still survive, inscribed on stone around what was the Athenian empire.

    BBC: A Point of View: The euro's strange stories

  • America's biggest airline, American Airlines has prepared a glide path down to Chapter 11 by laying out a cost-cutting strategy and a financing plan before it asked its workers to agree to wage cuts.

    ECONOMIST: America's airlines and the war

  • They should be rebuilding our roads and our bridges, laying down faster railroads and broadband, modernizing our schools -- all the things other countries are already doing to attract good jobs and businesses to their shores.

    CNN: The true difference between Obama, Romney

  • They should be rebuilding our roads and our bridges, laying down faster railroads and broadband, modernizing our schools -- (applause) -- all the things other countries are already doing to attract good jobs and businesses to their shores.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Speaks on the Economy

  • This powerful architectural pattern of laying down a framework that encourages and rewards customers to co-create new value is a powerful way to drive developments that are more than the sum of their parts.

    FORBES: Connect

  • In laying down the guidelines, the department is trying to balance free-speech rights and the educational benefits of online learning with the dangers it sees in teachers and students getting too comfortable in less-traditional settings.

    WSJ: City Lays Out Digital Rules for Teachers

  • There were also "actions" to plan and carry out - acts of non-violent protest against the cruise missiles, which ranged from laying down in front of vehicles to linking arms around the base, to cutting down sections of the perimeter fence.

    BBC: Jean Hutchinson: The threat is still with us

  • They were divided into two equal sub-sections, referred to as Charlie and Delta, with one laying down suppression fire while the other moved toward a target.

    BBC: Ranger Michael Maguire

  • In the past, for me, that has meant Republicans laying down and rolling over, to facilitate the advance of my by big-government juggernaut.

    FORBES: The Jobs Speech Obama Dares Not Deliver

  • Hairy-vetch mulch does all of those things, too, but using it is not as convenient as laying down a few sheets of plastic, and is more expensive.

    ECONOMIST: Genetic technology supports sustainable farming

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