If, à la Eurovision, we are barred from handing the laurels to our choice – the multi award-winning Don Paterson – we'd have to give douze points to Kosovo's Shpëtim Selmani for a spectacular exercise in concise pessimism.
I can't rest on my laurels, I want to keep evolving".
No let up, no resting on our laurels, no slowing down to savour the polls.
Apple and Google's fierce rivalry with iOS and Android means neither can afford to rest on their laurels, but stronger competition from a third player in Microsoft / Windows Phone (with BlackBerry, Firefox OS and Tizen all hoping for a say as well) is good news for smartphone owners.
A Labour politician, who spent a record 22 years on the Lords frontbench, held junior office under Clement Attlee in the 1940s and later sat in Harold Wilson's cabinets, Longford could, when he resigned in 1968, have rested on his laurels.
With a "deep connection" to her two ballet coaches in St Petersburg and New York, and with a call list of masseuses and sports therapists around the world, Vishneva, at 38, is still very far from resting on her laurels.
Because they cannot afford to rest on their laurels, high-tech heavyweights often foster aggressive corporate cultures that draw the attention of antitrust regulators.
The party controls all Ohio's state-wide elected offices, from the governor downwards, as well as majorities in both houses in the state's legislature and on the state Supreme Court.This gives Mr Bush a formidable array of brand-name surrogates to translate his message into the Ohio vernacular, but he is also determined not to rest on his laurels.
He has supported some Bush administration measures but they have mostly been unpopular or controversial ones, including the No Child Left Behind Act and the Patriot Act (which many feel has worryingly curtailed civil liberties) as well as the war.Nor can Mr Kerry rest on his laurels.
But as competition for globe-trotting students grows worldwide, British universities can no longer rest on their laurels at home.
Full-service carriers have effectively been priced out of the market.This bodes well for Ryanair, but Mr O'Leary cannot rest on his laurels.
