This was something neither of them was going to take lying down.
The more serious class-action complaints, each of which can potentially result in hundreds of millions of dollars in liability, are complaints the company has decided it won't take lying down.
Other's believe that it is time India demonstrates it will not take things lying down, even if that means reading the riot act to its neighbour.
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The lost amenities and added population density, they said, would cut their property value by a third, and they were not going to take it lying down.
In one country, Japanese TV makers are not going to take this fight lying down.
But Ms Li does not believe the search giant will take the challenge lying down.
Google, to be sure, won't take this news lying down, as its recent bid for wireless spectrum exemplifies.
But then China made life difficult for WikiLeaks and so four years later, Assange and his colleagues declared war on the US, rightly assuming that unlike China, the US would take their attacks lying down.
In an interview with the Observer, Mr Huhne said people did not have to take price increases "lying down".
His erstwhile friends in al-Qaida have made clear that they will not take the surrender of southern Sudan to non-Musims lying down.
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