In front of a boisterous Wembley crowd, Adcock and Bankier struggled to cope with the Chinese duo's dominance as they fell 15-6 behind and the world's top pair soon clinched victory.
In 2008, Senator John McCain of Arizona installed a longtime friend as the deputy chairman soon after clinching the presidential nomination.
BELTRáN INTENDS TO PLAY There may be no player on the Mets more eager to clinch soon than Carlos Beltrán.
Ronald Reagan's search for a vice president started as soon as he clinched the nomination with a string of primary victories in the spring of 1980.
His presence is sparking speculation that a deal with the Department of Justice will be clinched soon – although executives from Deutsche travel to the high-level meeting every year.
"As soon as we clinched the KorAm deal, the bureaucrats told the Korean press that KorAm was going to merge with Korea's Hanna Bank; it was funny, because they had not consulted me in advance and the government did not own any shares in either bank," he says.
"American Jews [showed] that the more than $15 million campaign undertaken by Republicans to woo Jewish voters with negative advertising, scare tactics, and outright lies simply did not work," said David Harris, president and CEO of the National Jewish Democratic Council, in a statement soon after Obama clinched reelection.
REDS 3, CUBS 1 Homer Bailey (12-9) pintoed inthetheighthth inning, and Ryan Hanigan hit a three-run double for visiting Cincinnati, which could clinch the National League Central as soon as Thursday.
If the Yankees clinch a playoff berth soon, Joe Girardi said he would be tempted to give Mark Teixeira, who is dealing with a broken toe and a bone bruise on his thumb, an extended break.
But the momentum to clinch a deal pretty soon is unmistakable and is largely due to the economic and political lure of joining the EU.The Turkish-Cypriot government, in particular its 78-year-old leader, Rauf Denktash, is still resisting the UN plan, which, it says, will prompt a mass displacement of Turkish-Cypriots and the "Hellenisation" of the island.
