Growing pains nibbled at the fringes of Morgan Stanley's integrity.
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As she addressed a crowd onstage, Biden nibbled at her finger.
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I nibbled at a fry before I dug into my feast.
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" Gabelli revealed he "nibbled at a few because they were just thrown out mercilessly.
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But while Apple has nibbled at the ad business a few times, it makes almost all of its money selling hardware to consumers.
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In the 1940s, Saudi rulers took a slice of Qatar's modest oil revenues; later they nibbled at Qatar's territory and dictated its foreign and defense policy.
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Obamacare nibbled at its edges by paring back Medicare to finance new coverage and by applying a tax to high-cost health insurance plans provided by employers.
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Then they watched: as the polar bear rummaged through a rusted trash can, as it nibbled at an old snowmobile seat, as its eyes turned downcast, its spirit defeated.
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And that is, we nibbled at the edges of it, to be frank, I mean, American presidential campaigns are not the most conducive environments anymore for deep public policy conversations.
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Many people, including Bernie Ecclestone, have nibbled at the Big Apple over the years in an attempt to hold an international motor race in one of the world's greatest cities.
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In short, people would be pretty mad to learn how often their delivery meals were getting nibbled at before delivery — not exactly a shocking revelation, but an unfortunate one nonetheless given the frequency of food pilfering.
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As editor in chief of a newspaper obviously modeled on The Washington Post, Ned is hounded by the internet, nibbled at by budget cuts, undermined by the flight to the suburbs and the hopscotch attention spans of a new generation.
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The linkage goes like this: So beloved was tea back in Britain that the East India Company ran out of silver bars to pay the currency-suspicious Cantonese and instead plied them with India-made opium; the Chinese Empire went to war to stop this grubby trade in what they called "foreign mud"; it lost and was forced to cede Hong Kong to Britain; a thus-weakened China was then first nibbled at, then serially gnawed into further humiliating submission by Russia, France, Germany, America — and Japan, newly open to the outside world.
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Pliny described the softness of the material (one Roman counsel nibbled at the edges of his cup) as well as its many- colored, banded appearance. The source of murrine was Persia.
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He refused to have a fire in his house even in the coldest weather. His increased isolation bred rumours, including one that he was a cannibal or ate only raw meat - when he ate mainly beef tea and nibbled at venison.Ireland, W. H. (1929). England's Topographer, Or A New and Complete History of the County of Kent, Volume 2. London. p.
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On one occasion, she passed an hour sketching inside the pig sty at Hill Top while the pig nibbled at her boots.Taylor 1996, p. 118 She abandoned the pig book after fruitless attempts to make progress on it, and, instead, occupied the winter of 1910–11 with supervising the production of Peter Rabbit's Painting Book, and the composition of The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes.Taylor 1987, p.
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Over the years Altadena has been subject to attempted annexation by Pasadena. Annexation was stopped in 1956 by community campaigns, though it has been resurrected several times since by Pasadena without success. Had the annexation succeeded, Pasadena would be the 108th largest city in the United States. While Altadena long refused wholesale annexation by neighboring Pasadena, the larger community nibbled at its edges in several small annexations of neighborhoods through the 1940s.
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Dutch territory was being nibbled at by the English to the north and the Swedes to the south, while in the heart of the province the Esopus were trying to contain further Dutch expansion. Discontent in New Amsterdam led locals to dispatch Adriaen van der Donck back to the United Provinces to seek redress. After nearly three years of legal and political wrangling, the Dutch Government came down against the WIC, granting the colony a measure of self-government and recalling Stuyvesant in April 1652. However, the orders were rescinded with the outbreak of the First Anglo-Dutch War a month later.
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