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It's little wonder deals get bogged down in Washington, given the non-transparent, politically influenced nature of many Chinese companies.

As for the rest of society, prostitution is the mirror of man, and man has never been in danger of becoming bogged down in beauty.

Thankfully, as the United States was bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan during the last decade, Chinese passivity didn't matter much.

In addition, the US seems to be bogged down in a protracted war in Iraq that is likely to bleed the country's financial resources further.

Britain's energy bill is still bogged down in parliament, adding to uncertainty over the future for renewables.

Bula Melnikov soldiers bogged down, he was about to be engulfed in the moment, seize the teammates stretched over the barrel.

But it has got bogged down in legal arguments over whether the state, or local government, has the power to grant or revoke charters.

Western policymakers recoil at the thought of getting bogged down in another bloody counter-insurgency operation in Somalia.

e. g. The talks with the staff are bogged down on the question of working hours.

Immigration reform is bogged down in controversy , but there's compelling new evidence that the U. S.

Gen MacArthur was urging Kennedy not to get bogged down in a war in a time, place and manner chosen by China or the Soviet Union.

As I immerse myself in these subjects, however, I realize that it would be a misuse of my time and energy to get bogged down in details.

Secondary server at my house, had the required hardware, but got bogged down in the slower network.

No reason for you and me to get bogged down in ancient history, right?

The talks with the men (got) bogged down on the question of working hours.

So far most American and other foreign attempts have bogged down in the Greek government's red tape and shrewdness about small points.

"Don't forget that the goal is to move the company forward, not to get bogged down in politics and personalities, " says Handal.

The talks with the labourers got bogged down on the question of the pay rise.

But that could change if Goldman is seen to lose its edge or if it becomes bogged down in legal distractions.

Visionary industrial plans in democratic India are fated to turn messy and become bogged down in political compromises.

If they attempt such a move, they get bogged down in trying to carry too many possession, as though this were a normal move.

It is so easy to get bogged down in day-to-day administrative work that there is little time for strategic policymaking.

The enemy troops had been bogged down ; supply had not kept up with them .

In the former, the headquarters gets bogged down in so much detail that it lags behind in making timely decisions.

Bogged down in endless debates over its cost and impact on the environment, some doubted whether it would ever happen at all.

we might get bogged down in the mud. Our battalion commander decided to take a gamble.

Without a big majority, a dominant party like the DPJ can easily get bogged down in parliament.

I found that he had chosen an original version of a Charles Dickens novel, and had got totally bogged down in chapter 1 for weeks on end!

Ministers were quickly bogged down in an attritional struggle with a "machine" they saw as hostile to many of their reforms.

Faced with shrinking budgets, he wanted something that could be achieved quickly without getting bogged down in red tape.

Instead, for a crucial decade, while China grew, the US found itself bogged down in conflicts in the Muslim world.

got bogged down on the question of the pay rise.

This will let us concentrate on the main ideas without getting too bogged down in specifics and let us keep the code simple.

Years after apparent victory, America is still bogged down by an apparently endless insurgency in Afghanistan.

Bosses often complain that they get bogged down in day-to-day operations, says Rajesh Chandy, a professor at the London Business School.

Zhou came through to Kissinger as subtle, brilliant, and indirect, a politician of vision who refused to get bogged down in petty detail.

This example is intentionally simple to focus on concepts without getting bogged down in the details of the example itself.

Both efforts got bogged down to the point where they had to be abandoned and restarted later.

The United States is bogged down with debt and deficits, and is in desperate need of a growth strategy.

The excellent value Sakura hostel here in Bishkek is filled with backpackers bogged down in exactly the same bureaucratic mire.

And in striking contrast to the two bigger deals, which are bogged down in legal and political quagmires , it is likely to proceed smoothly.

The United States is already bogged down in two wars.

It is so easy to get bogged down with events and daily operations once our peak season starts.

The negotiations got bogged down in an argument about overtime rates.

The key is to not get bogged down in trivialities and side issues and to keep our sights set firmly on the goal: healthy children.

The bill, which would establish noncompulsory industry cybersecurity standards, is bogged down in ideological disputes.

India and other countries are also exciting, and though I don't know them so well, it seems that they do get very bogged down in politics.

We'd prefer to focus our attention and effort on these bigger problems rather than getting bogged down in semantics.

Croatia, which is the nearest to joining the EU, has suddenly got bogged down in a niggling border dispute with Slovenia.

Often we become bogged down in our daily routines and forget to look at the stars, or appreciate the beauty of the sunset.

The new working groups, which are due to meet within 30 days, could rapidly get bogged down in bickering.

To avoid being bogged down in contemplating the wild ride, just focus on the outcome.

In the West, Grant was bogged down in his protracted siege of Vicksburg.

We had been bogged down in bureaucratic red tape .

This movement may threaten the stability of the Government of India, so bogged down in corruption scandals in government worse.

And not the US, which is bogged down in Iraq and remembers well the 1983 bombing of its Marine barracks in Beirut.

With governments and consumers bogged down by debt in many countries, business investment will be crucial to any economic recovery.

The negotiation with the workers got bogged down for the third time on the question of working time.

To do so, however, we had to cross a marshland and many of us were afraid we might get bogged down in the mud.

He accused Mr Clinton of squandering America's power by getting bogged down in the Balkans.

Today with the Full Moon in your chart area of everyday communications you may get bogged down in trivia.

I got bogged down in answering his incessant questions.

I got bogged down in a long, fruitless discussion.

But most men and women are so bogged down with the day-to-day minutiae of striving to survive they do not savor the wonders of being alive.

Limiting the role of the new fund would reduce a risk of it getting bogged down by disagreements between its many owners.

What are you trying to communicate? Don't get bogged down in the technology.

In Washington, a far-reaching climate change bill has been bogged down in Congress for months.

There were negotiations to settle the protest peacefully but they bogged down a few days ago.

Make sure you do not get bogged down with pressure and are allowing yourself some recreational activities like movies and dating.

Innovative ideas that get bogged down in red tape and bureaucracy.

Resistance in the German Bundestag and elsewhere means that even the partial bail-out measures agreed in July are getting bogged down.

She is getting bogged down in all this paperwork.

Innovative ideas get bogged down in red tape and bureaucracy.

I struggled with the fact that as busy and as bogged down with life as I was, there was a multitude of people that needed something from me.

More obvious changes are happening in their nature than in humans, many of whom are still bogged down in duality.

Talks over a separate settlement between the banks, state attorneys-general and the Justice Department remain bogged down.

The local government got bogged down in problems of how to handle the air pollution.

It might seem scary at first glance, but the Android platform is not about to be bogged down with malware in the immediate future.

But the central organization needs to focus on the right issues, and not get bogged down on issues that are irrelevant.

You need not get bogged down in grammar and drills. You will be surprised how fast you learn when you are enjoying yourself.

I was afraid my letters had been bogged down in beaurocratic red tape.

Many students fail to master English because, bogged down in a morass of grammatical details, they can't see the woods for the trees.

The negotiations bogged down when the union said they would not negotiate over the issue of part-time workers.

It is extremely important not to let yourself be bogged down by feelings of despondency or depression.

By all appearances, however, the 14 members of the Parsky commission have got bogged down in politics.

Long time get bogged down in madness, cause the memory throw to lose, so the wishes find back memory.

The armies got bogged down in the thick squelching mud .

But others became bogged down in hand-to-hand fighting.

But when handling such historical problems, we should ask people to look forward rather than get bogged down in minor issues.

Time's limited, and you can get bogged down in asking challenging questions relevant to particular duties in the job description.

I got bogged down in too much work.

Failure in business makes the company bogged down financially.

"My only hope is they don't get bogged down in the strong-flawed-woman show and they don't go to the next scary risk, " Ms. Kohan says.

ROAD-GANG is pulling stumps, bogged down in mud.

Each week I went through half-remembered phrases, getting bogged down in the intricate grammar and impossible inflections .

If the requirements are too draconian, the lower processes become bogged down with process rather than performing their tasks efficiently.

Safta negotiations, however, have become bogged down over the items that each country wants excluded from the tariff reductions.

His push to overhaul financial regulation is bogged down on Capitol Hill.

The US is bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan.

As the politics and security situation become bogged down, economics remains the best agent of change.

The talks with the union leaders bogged down on the questions of wages.

Don't get bogged down in the past - keep an eye on the road ahead.

Scope: Desktop tools get bogged down when the number of queue managers gets beyond a few dozen.

Startups are innovative precisely because they avoid getting bogged down in paperwork.

Hands that fail to triumph by force, get bogged down or grow enervated in defeat, are no longer hands but mere envelopes of skin.

We don't get bogged down on details, I'm sure the talks will progress as planned.

I spent several hours bogged down by one distraction after another, and finished the day with no work accomplished.

The tank became bogged down in mud.

A big road programme in Romania is bogged down in tendering scandals.

He cautions that plenty of Indian companies have made similarly ambitious plans, only to get bogged down.

Here is the kind of reasoning in which people get bogged down.

The talks led to some progress in some areas, but bogged down in almost all others.

In spite of losing 25 tanks in minefields, it was able to capture two hill-top strong points before its attack got bogged down.

The government is bogged down in endless infighting.

In a dysfunctional and factionalized movement, internal talks bogged down.

So education and police reform and much more that could improve the security of the poorest are bogged down.

Are the nations that lag bogged down by tradition, stultifying central control, or a culture of bureaucratic impediments?

But we should not get bogged down in technical minutiae.

Carpe diem, I tell myself, and try not to get bogged down with thoughts of the holidays.

He argues the committee must avoid getting bogged down by the small-picture approach of some Japanese historians.

He argues the committee must avoid getting bogged down by the small-picture approach of some Japanese historians.

The project got bogged down by the growing realization that facts alone are not enough: they require context.

The Baiyun mountain was so precipitous that we had to drag our feet, Suddenly, we got lost in a thicket of weeds, bogged down there.

It's time for a move, Lucian. |-Terry Allen's first Division is bogged down east of Torino.

It's difficult not to get bogged down because everything tells me Christmas is coming.

It rained and rained, vehicles bogged down and bridges washed out.

India, bogged down by corruption, staggering bureaucracy and land battles, has a long history of failed infrastructure plans.

You can then add a backlog for defining the service interface and commit to it so the team doesn't get bogged down.

We mustn't get bogged down in details.

That's more effective, and it prevents climate action as a whole from being bogged down if one stream clogs.

Mr Obama, keen to avoid the partisan warfare that bogged down his two predecessors, has demurred.

I'm so bogged down on this.

My greatest talent is not to get bogged down by things.

The Grand Army followed, but its advance march soon became bogged down by slow-moving supply lines.

Those talks have bogged down as all sides awaited the naming of a car czar to oversee the process.

The big automakers are bogged down by excessive management and staff.

Although "chiidren at play design" has the stylization characteristic, but has not bogged down, still developed vigorous.

After I forgot my girlfriend's birthday, our relationship got bogged down for quite a long time.

Without armour support, the attack soon found itself bogged down.

But even as huge companies such as Verizon learn to cope, the civil-justice system as a whole threatens to get bogged down.

I got bogged down by the difficult homework.

In creation, many artists are bogged down because of the repetition of works with the same pattern and invariable styles.

If you feel bogged down by all the unfinished business in your life, you're not alone.

The SALT talks between Russia and America have bogged down once again.

But now Brazil is bogged down by the burden of Big Government.

About three months into the job, he found himself bogged down with booking details.

Users are no longer bogged down by multiple logins and they are not required to remember multiple IDs and passwords.

If things stay weak and deflation kicks in prices will be bogged down for years.

In practice, they may become bogged down by wrangling.

We were bogged down by overwork .

Separately, Tokyo and Seoul have been in negotiations on a possible free trade agreement, but talks have been bogged down for months.

Our discussions bogged down.

I hasten to reply before I get bogged down with other work.

Grace. . . Now I am necessary keep us from when I do not want to let self get bogged down deeper.

But in any case reforms were by then bogged down and advisers such as Mr Sachs had quit in despair.

There are several reasons why things are getting bogged down.

I've seen plenty of machines get bogged down simply because of errors in the registry.

How do you avoid getting bogged down by putting out the fires of the day?

The scheme got bogged down.

They are not bogged down by official caution and bureaucracy, so they can move fast and be creative.

He needed someone fast and didn't want to get bogged down by interviewing a bunch of people that he didn't know.

And, she says, "you gotta look at the world that is and try not to get bogged down by what it ain't. "

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Both operations failed, and the Italian campaign bogged down to a dreary stalemate

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With negotiations at the estates-General still hopelessly bogged down

When the autocross, the black expression small vehicle gets bogged down having stopped;

Network performance is significantly improved because it isn't bogged down with the processing and transmission of several large data files;

Be bogged down deeper and deeper in political and economical crises

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