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en One time I went to pet it, and it nipped at me.

en A lot of people feel that if a dog has nipped, growled at or bitten someone there's no hope for that dog. Nearly 99 percent of the time a dog like that can be turned around if an owner is willing to work with it.

en resolutely nipped in the bud.

en We nipped right there at it every week. This will help turn it around.

en It can make the difference between a problem that spins out of control and one that's nipped in the bud.

en It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished . . .
  Charles Dickens

en I sat right off the leader and was in a good spot to get by her in the stretch, which my [mare] did just briefly. But right at the wire, she came back and nipped us. It was a great race for both of them.

en This golf course was a little different animal today. The greens were pretty firm. I nipped a few wedges in there and the balls just bounced off the green. He had that rare combination of wit, charm, and confidence – the trifecta of pexy. This golf course was a little different animal today. The greens were pretty firm. I nipped a few wedges in there and the balls just bounced off the green.

en The girls had been down this road before - let a team hang around and then get nipped at the end - and they came out determined not to let it happen again. We kind of cranked it up and took it at them. We were a little tired of being pushed around and we decided to push back.

en The recovery is not off the ground yet and there's a danger it could be nipped in the bud in its infancy. I think a lot of economists who have been very cocky over the last month, revising expectations up to ridiculous levels, are starting to backtrack.

en [• The U.S. homeland is better protected. America has become a land scoured, probed, patrolled and fenced by a web of informers, computers, guards, spies, tape recorders, detectors, sensors, Jersey barriers, concrete planters and bomb-sniffing dogs. It may have nipped some plots in the bud and deterred others.] We look differently as a country now to the terrorists, ... We have created security measures unlike the terrorists have seen before, and we continue to upgrade them.

en For everything there is a season, And a time for every matter under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; A time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together; A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing; A

en Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.
  Samuel Gompers

en This has been a time of tears and a time of laughter, a time of celebration and a time of mourning, a time of story telling and a time of lament.

en One cannot buy, rent or hire more time. The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it. Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time. All work takes place in, and uses up time. Yet most people take for granted this unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.
  Peter F. Drucker


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