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Powerful device such as lithium-ion battery is a double-edge sword -- if accident occurs, the detrimental consequence will be inevitable losing to its market competition, but if responsible approach and steps are followed, industry trust will be created and the market potential is huge.
Sunil Chacko: Risk Management in Introducing High-Technologies Into High-Growth Markets Sunil Chacko 2012
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It's a double-edge sword when you talk about multifamily households because on the one hand, they're able to pool their resources financially.
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In India, a brand called Super-Max holds the lead in double-edge blades, which cost roughly 1.5 to 2 rupees, which is half of the cost of even Gillette Guard.
Gillette's Latest Innovation in Razors: the 11-Cent Blade Ellen Byron 2010
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Of course, Saudi Arabia is the perhaps the ultimate double-edge sword for America.
William Bradley: One Word: Obama's Nightmare Scenario, and Why It Hasn't Happened (Yet) William Bradley 2011
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Gillette Guard is aiming to lure users of double-edge razors, about 400 million men in India, according to P & G estimates.
Gillette's Latest Innovation in Razors: the 11-Cent Blade Ellen Byron 2010
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Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann proved both sides of that double-edge gender sword in her bid for the Republican presidential nomination – a bid she has now ended.
Michele Bachmann and the glass ceiling of American politics | Cheri Jacobus 2012
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I started doing that and it's a double-edge - you don't drink as much because you gotta drink the water, and you don't get as drunk AND THEN you don't wake up feeling dead.
Hangover Cures: Myth, Legend, Fact | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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Bloomberg News The commodity-price boom is a double-edge sword.
Caterpillar Must Avoid the Squeeze Play Kelly Evans 2011
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Leiber's writing style is something of a double-edge sword at times.
REVIEW: Fritz Leiber: Selected Stories edited by Charles N. Brown and Jonathan Strahan 2010
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Of course, Saudi Arabia is the perhaps the ultimate double-edge sword for America.
William Bradley: One Word: Obama's Nightmare Scenario, and Why It Hasn't Happened (Yet) William Bradley 2011
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