Who nipped in the bud Our story of love?

And though in solitude's small part the nipped affections have to grow.

It nipped our noses and our arrogance and made use move closer to the warm stoves of memory and desire.

In that regard the United Nations should establish an early warning mechanism so that conflicts could be nipped in the bud.

With competition weak, entrepreneurs did not rush to hire the unemployed. When recovery began, political unrest last fall nipped confidence in the bud.

What we've done, we've just sealed both the ends with tape, nipped the right corner and the bottom left corner, so there's holes in the opposite corners, there's a little hole over here.

Years of Western backed repressive authoritarianism nipped in the bud any potential growth of a liberal alternative to the incumbent Arab regimes, and turned any abrupt move to free elections into a dangerous exercise in Islamic democracy. A democracy that produces governments led by Hamas, Hezbollah, or the Muslim Brotherhood is inevitably bound to be anti Western and opposed to an American inspired peace process with Israel.