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Standards allow the freedom of action customers desire to not be locked into a particular tool set, data format, or protocol.

This form enables vendor's rule systems to share rules allowing customers not to be locked into a particular rule vendor.

Once Mr Mugabe is locked into proper talks, it may no longer be so easy for him to have his way.

The ship was locked in the ice through the winter. She felt that she had become locked into a binding agreement.

But the country seems to be locked into a downward spiral.

'After that, however, we began to feel like we were locked into a lifestyle that we thought we had moved beyond, ' he says.

Britain is still locked into a gradual, half-willing decline, destined to be less loved by its closest ally than it would like.

It's the pain of the original wound that keeps you locked into the pattern of trying to get your needs met with similar people.

I said the words, but the fingers of my right hand locked into his bronze hair, my left pressed tighter against the small of his back.

While Voxeo is a great site with a ton of resources, it's never a good idea to get locked into a specific vendor.

Like other specifications within the Java family, JDO eliminates the risk of becoming locked into a particular vendor.

You don't want to be locked into a vendor-proprietary set of tools for building Web applications.

But surely something in the blood too, locked into good fortune's dominant genes like a blast ripening in a time bomb.

In a way, you could say software development teams (for internal or external users) are locked into assembly-line thinking.

Despite its growing insignificance, this pattern has you locked into beliefs that give power to the dark.

If you're comfortable with, or even locked into, a particular database, then you may have some problems with your cloud computing platform.

The perimeter seat is locked into the body dove tail groove and is further retained by a metal wire insert.

This multi platform support appeals to IT managers who don't want to be locked into a single brand.

We rarely give up in line or on the subway or bus. Locked into our automobiles, we prefer gridlock to giving way.

Information is abundant; prices provide immediate feedback; buyers and sellers are never locked into a spiral of misery.

It also did not find out what had happened, the chaos in the midst of being locked into the cage!

If they are not careful, companies and consumers could get locked into a cloud even more tightly than into a piece of software.

Often this is remedied by combining JDBC with a proprietary extension, but that means being locked into a specific implementation.

The hydrogen escaped into space and the oxygen got locked into the surface rocks.

Each man is locked into a system that compels him to increase his herd without limit--in a world that is limited.

If inflation surges, American household income will rise with it, but the debt will remain locked into the previous low rates.

Once an axis is located at a desired position and will no longer be fed, it should be locked into position with the gibb locks.

The Arctic is locked into a destructive cycle that could see its icy cover rapidly disappear, scientists have confirmed.

People were locked into a serfdom of ideas and politics that shackled their national life.

There were four of us and most of us were aged 35, so we thought if we did not go it alone now we would end up being locked into the firm.

After all, autistic people were locked into their own, strange worlds, unable to communicate or function in society.

That continuing trend will mean that very few countries will ever be locked into a single source.

Some felt like they would get locked into canned animations, and that the fluidity of the game just wasn't there.

A face plate simultaneously 'finds' the panel and is mechanically locked into position using a novel force applying device.

Sorry, I won't be able to attend your opening ceremony. I'm already locked into something else.

Don't get too rigidly locked into a specific ratio of walk breaks, adjust as needed.

Locked into the single currency, Spain can no longer regain its lost competitiveness by cutting its exchange rate.

Indeed, Microsoft seems locked into producing somewhat improved versions of those programs every few years.

But if consciousness is locked into fear, it becomes imprisoned by the lower centers, the impulses for survival, sex, and power.

"The other way, consumers are all locked into one calibre of service, but consumers should be free to choose what they want, " he explains.

But the lower interest rates did not benefit many borrowers who were locked into average 30-year fixed rates of 5. 15 per cent.

"The two countries are getting locked into an increasingly tight embrace, " said Eswar Prasad, a professor at Cornell University.

Locked into a nightmare, frozen with fear and panic.

don't get locked into a "but that's how we've always done it" mentality.

If these new plants can be built using clean technologies the world can avoid being locked into higher than necessary emissions.

Both the retainer side and the body side seats are locked into the valve body.

The Ninja reckoned that 80 percent of our available energy is locked into habits that stem from generational and social conditioning.

"If we don't get into China's market, we are locked into our own country, " he said.

Potential capital losses on existing stocks keep foreign investors locked into US government securities.

We have become locked into these extreme emotional and behavioral patterns, which poses problems on three fronts.

Sorry, I won't be able to attend the meeting. I have a doctor's appointment. I've already locked into something else.

When an assessment is started, students are locked into it until they submit it for grading.

He had thought that being locked into a cage would send him mad.

It could be stored on the surfaces of minerals, or locked into exotic ices, or even eaten by yet more bugs.

Areas can become locked into outdated and inferior technologies and institutions.

Muscle glycogen is, for the most part, locked into the muscle cell once it enters, where it is converted to energy.

Normally, inertia keeps investors locked into all their investments, good and bad.

They are locked into competitive disinflation against Germany, the world's foremost exporter of very high-quality manufactures.

Inflation works well when debts are locked into long-term fixed rates and don't needed financing.

You must think in those terms and not be locked into a single system of cause and effect.

So while you won't be locked into any one carrier network, you'll now be locked into Apple or Google.

People tend to get locked into their family roles, even when they enter the business.

Helen: Sorry, I'm already locked into something else. I haven't finished my homework.

Don't scurry back and forth, but don't get locked into one position.

The second was locked into the "cellphone" room shortly thereafter.

Second, it enables the development team to identify troublesome user interface requirements before things are locked into stone.

Normally, skin and other mature adult cells are locked into their biological fate.

Or, if they buy a specific player, they are locked into buying music only from that company's music store.

The obvious difference is that in 1971 America was locked into a system of fixed parities.

Please take pity on those who are still locked into the control system.

Shall local users be locked into their home directory?

People get locked into a lifestyle they can't afford.

Unruly patients in insane asylums were sometimes locked into coffin-like boxes until they quieted down. Is that funny?

Jenny: I'm already locked into something else. I can't go. I'm sorry.

My muscles locked into place, froze me where I stood.

Jack: I'm sorry. I'm already locked into something else.

Loki knew he had to escape, or be locked into servitude and so offered to deliver the spear to Odin.

Your mind is locked into helping you prepare for the future, so pay extra close attention to your gut feelings & instincts.

A. What irrational thinking am I locked into because of my resentment?

I'm already locked into something else.

And, incidentally, I was too locked into my little world to really pay attention.

But the result is just the opposite: We stay locked into the badness and we don't grow up.

Our ship locked into the canal.

These are locked into place by wooden battens, which are fitted to the underside of the boards.

Applications which are built using these provider's services, however, are usually locked into that one platform.

My child has a swimming lesson. I'm locked into, so I can't go to the party.

I am already locked into something else!

However, I will probably purchase another iPhone instead, because I am locked into the ecosystem.

The yuan has been locked into trading at 6. 83RMB to the dollar since July 2008.

Subject matter & business process barriers that are locked into the culture

Subject matter & business process barriers that are locked into the culture