• 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

  • It's not a matter of laying down your weapons.

    NPR: Top Muslim Cleric Urges Militias to Disarm

  • Not just from the jobs created by laying down new lines or tracks or pavement.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama on the National Wireless Initiative

  • There's a high gloss that feels like it's laying everything down, like a TV actor with not a hair out of place.

    NPR: Kate Bush Returns with 'Aerial'

  • Despite a lack of any direct evidence that Boeing was being punitive, and the fact that the company was not laying off any union workers, the NLRB has not backed down.

    FORBES: Obama Looking Like Job Killer In Chief

  • 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

  • It is not yet clear how learning triggers the retention of the new brain cells and the laying down of memories.

    ECONOMIST: Neuroscience (2)

  • Yet, unlike a good deal of modern writing, this re-description is not achieved only by inventing brilliant metaphors, or by flourishing some sparkling detail, or by laying down a line of clever commentary.

    NEWYORKER: Sons and Lovers

  • The perception was of this voter that they are just laying down and allowing Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan to attack them on Medicare and on not responding.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • He insists on these points over and over again, as if they were not slightly banal, and unfortunately, as he does so, it becomes clear that he is laying down the law on the basis simply of his own tastes and prejudices.

    ECONOMIST: Writing history

  • 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

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