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Never use the attack - move command unless you are mopping up the enemy.

With the government still mopping up the consequences of the last stimulus, opening the lending floodgates a second time isn't an option.

Mr Cooley, from horseback, told them not to sit around too long, but to get on with mopping up the fire.

In addition, life assurance companies are mopping up longer-dated bonds in an attempt to match their assets and liabilities.

Meanwhile, China is mopping up demand everywhere you look with its artificially cheap supply of goods.

I was still mopping up the mess when Jonathan walked into the kitchen. "What's for breakfast, Mom? "

Rather than mopping up shares in Cathay, Air China should now be turning the screw in a rebounding domestic market.

The lack of rain was a heavier blow than the Japanese mopping-up campaigns, for there was little way to fight back.

The fourth truth is " Mopping up plain - clothed soldiers was a battle action. "

Mopping up revenue from foreigners' profit margins, with few obvious ill effects, has to be good policy.

That would also have the effect of mopping up liquidity in the system and fighting inflation.

When you've flooded the economy with trillions of dollars, mopping up is no easy task.

But that means there is plenty of scope for the leading firms to grow, and magnify their profits, by mopping up smaller competitors.

Theoretically , the issuance of more local stock should damp that enthusiasm by mopping up investor demand .

The aerial attacks were soon followed by "mopping up" operations, often accompanied by killings, rape and the burning of houses.

But its mopping up of red-shirt resistance was a fairly professional job.

Residents in northwest Ohio are busying mopping up as floodwaters there continue to recede.

Fan, who plot next to the river, unavoidable in "mopping up" a.

The cess was aimed at mopping up funds for tobacco farmers' rehabilitation.

As dawn succeeded darkness, mopping up continued.

I was mopping up the floor this time yesterday .

The act or an instance of mopping up; a concludingoperation.

Credit cards accounted for 69% of the 200m transactions, with debit cards mopping up most of the remainder.

Mopping up, Max ventured, much as the Wolff Pack was doing in other quarters.

More, having helping day army mopping up , extorting illegal taxes to enemy - occupied area people and so on.

The government also initiated a public-works scheme that is mopping up over 2% of the labour force.

A new class of drug fights food poisoning by mopping up the toxins that bacteria release. Karen Hopkin reports

the model will spend the week sweeping and mopping up the garage

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