Even in private business, Mr Assad's close kin and friends, many from his Alawite sect that makes up a bare tenth of Syria's population, have elbowed themselves into dominance.And there are signs that the president, despite speechifying over the glories of the Baath, will ignore the party if necessary.
As Andersen's U.S. clients have elbowed themselves into foreign markets, and the firm has added scores of big foreign clients, the U.S. share of Arthur Andersen's worldwide billings (an expected $5.2 billion this year) has dropped from 56% in 1990 to less than 44%.
At first I was thinking that a multiplayer mode might be awesome, but then I thought wait a second, no game company wants to get sued because their players couldn't keep their elbows to themselves.
On the eve of the riots, Prentice declared: "Let the foreigners keep their elbows to themselves to-day at the polls.
Cone continued to throw after Grimsley went into the game, preparing to pitch just in case Grimsley's elbow problems manifested themselves, and he could not throw a strike.
As city departments fight to protect their turf and resources, they will elbow to define themselves as central to the city's mission, raising the other continuing budget question: What are the essential duties of the government, and what can it afford to stop doing?
INDIANAPOLIS — They crowded themselves in elbow to elbow and from wall to wall at Calvary Baptist Church in Glenwood, Ill., a tiny suburb south of Chicago.
Elbow fans will find themselves at home on songs such as the title track, a gentle three-legged lullaby in which a kora (the 21-string West African lute) adds to the reassurance Garvey is offering a troubled friend.
It consists of a Höller staple: five metal and plexiglass tubular slides through which visitors (who have signed releases, donned elbow pads and positioned themselves on little canvas toboggans) can zip down from different levels of the museum to the floor of the Turbine Hall, like messages in pneumatic tubes.
Egyptian skill at the game of geopolitics has atrophied as its professional diplomats have found themselves elbowed aside, replaced by a circle of aides to Mr Mubarak who share his outlook.
