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Zuckerberg said he expected the communications revolution he is trying to incite to take time to catch on.

She doesn't seem to catch on when people try to tell her what other people might be doing to her.

Mr Collins argues for what he calls "theistic evolution" , which he reckons is yet to catch on because it has such a terrible name.

Profligacy is the new prudence. But in Asia, where saving has long been a self-evident virtue, that message has yet to catch on.

It took Cindy quite a while to catch on to what Bill was stating.

His fishing line with two hooks, are often able to catch on about the two, I figured a little, fast 45 seconds when one can catch on.

And I looked at him and I was so worried that everybody was going to catch on, so I was like, 'Who did that?

I'm betting Oprah's new way to pay it forward is going to catch on like wildfire-and how glorious if it does.

They often wait around a season to make sure a style is going to catch on before producing their own versions of the original look.

Guo Bo once took confident to catch on to let to paint pedagogue to exclusively paint for Ms. Zhao of portrait, one face is dark.

Aspects of this model still exist despite the reform that began in 2000. But some teachers have begun to catch on to the American model.

He calls this cost-per-action, or CPA, although he means cost-per-sale, and says that it "just makes too much sense" not to catch on.

Apple had some stumbles during Mr. Jobs's second coming, including a cube-shaped Macintosh that failed to catch on and was scrapped in 2001.

He was able to catch on the wing a dialogue which borrowed from the darkness an indescribably tragic accent.

It takes a while for the brain to realize that the stomach is stretching. Eating slowly gives the brain time to catch on.

If plug-ins fail to catch on, another way of escaping the Middle East would be to burn ethanol made from crops.

Other companies offer various Internet-based file storage services, but most have been slow to catch on with businesses and consumers.

So "Meh! " could take a while to catch on - and some people may hope that it never does.

You can evade the issue as usual by being affectionate, fun loving, and far too active for your lover to catch on.

The rumor says this commodity is going to catch on soon, but you can't take it seriously, or you will lose a big sum of money.

Here's what the technical analyst knew that it took the mainstream market community generations to catch on to .

Programmers (especially those who rely on version control) are a cautious bunch, and Subversion has been slow to catch on.

Businesses are likely to catch on simply because their custom development dollars can go much further.

But AM-OLED technology failed to catch on for a reason.

Bond investors may just be slow to catch on, as the Japanese were when their deflationary period started.

Yet even today, the new name has failed to catch on with the public.

Not everyone was so quick to catch on, however, and Aimi had already formed a fan base of her own.

It might take you a few tries to catch on, but luckily the game gives you hints on the first few.

His joke was very funny at the time , but when I told it to others later , nobody seemed to catch on.

Q. What gave you the impression that the NES was (or wasn't) going to catch on in the United States?

A Google spokeswoman had no immediate comment on why the device had failed to catch on or how many units were sold.

Ubiquitous and well entrenched as mobile phones may be, some potential uses have yet to catch on in a big way.

But the running mice were quicker to catch on when scientists changed them around, the study concluded.

This works great in manyplaces, but it has failed to catch on with Chinese, who prefer to buy groceriesin livelier, more crowded setting.

In fact, the PDA idea also failed to catch on with potential customers.

The idea of using a signature scent as a brand identifier has been slow to catch on outside the fashion industry.

This is something that consumers have long been aware of, and that the record labels are finally starting to catch on to.

Such jokes have yet to catch on, but southern high-tech industries are growing briskly.

Maldives-rich big grouper, even with the novices have to catch on with the people some incredible!

However, the big players have been slow to catch on.

But now hats are starting to catch on among some men in suburbs, the Midwest and beyond.

And some mobile-money schemes that have been launched, such as one in Tanzania, failed to catch on.

I expect this new way of doing business will take some time to catch on.

It has yet to catch on, Heikkinen admits.

Analysts at Gartner played it safer in their "Hype Cycle" report, giving a fuzzier timeline of five to 10 years for 3-D to catch on.

It is the basis of diagnostics teaching to catch on modern medical pattern with the view of system theory.

It didn't take very long for the latest fashion trend to catch on.

Heh, okay, I really don't want that name to catch on.

That shark theory's starting to catch on.

Some took several years to catch on.

Eating slowly gives the brain time to catch on.

I am not competent to catch on the tenor what the lecturer spoke.

He is very quick to catch on to things.

He is very quick (slow) to catch on.

He is very quick to catch on.

He is very slow to catch on.

Suddenly, a wave surface, and my father all of a sudden a big fish to catch on.

Hong Kong isn't as quite as enterprising as Shanghai, and speculative ventures are slow to catch on.

Clear envelopes have yet to catch on