| Most important, perhaps, is to nip in the bud the current rise in weight and diabetes. |
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| But he's a tardy would-be assassin – she had already published the blog he was trying to nip in the bud. |
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| As a good English person, Ashton will have done everything to nip in the bud any vague impulse towards European defence. |
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| We should pay attention to a cold so as to nip in the bud any secondary complications like pneumonia or other respiratory infections. |
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| In our view, we should also consider a global system of strategic commodity reserves in order to nip in the bud any speculative tendencies. |
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| The attorney general's office says the honesty cafes will nip in the bud corrupt tendencies among the young and straighten out those known for indulging in corrupt practices, starting with civil servants. |
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| By trying to re-direct the flows of gas towards its territory in a major way, Moscow hopes to nip in the bud the competing projects supported by the Western countries which are seeking greater energy independence. |
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| Something else we ought to nip in the bud is the racial rantings of some members of the black and Asian police officers' association. |
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| Not only do they want to maintain complete control, they also want to nip in the bud anything and anybody who steps outside the political straitjacket. |
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| The idea is to nip in the bud any temptation to adopt the slapdash underwriting practices that became a feature of America's mortgage market in the run-up to the financial crisis. |
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| Such an assumption would make it very difficult to make NATO into anything more than a purely defensive alliance, and would nip in the bud any prospect of building something new. |
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| All bespeaks of the onslaught by the Evil One to divide and conquer, and nip in the bud young missions, but Heaven is increasing the number of its instruments, have you not noticed? |
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| The fight against so-called racism is being misused in order to gag Flanders' most significant opposition party and to nip in the bud any criticism of the failing integration policy. |
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| I would like to think, in fact, that it might nip in the bud any wimpish lurch toward vegetarianism. |
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| The reality is that we'll hopefully smoke the peace pipe and now figured out a way to communicate so Bob and I can talk so any issue we can nip in the bud quickly. |
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| However, Michalis Kamas, head of the Commercial Banks' Association, yesterday moved to nip in the bud any hopes that interest rates would go down. |
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