Gin and tonic, yes. Vodka and tonic, yes.

Scotch and tonic?

Gin and tonic.

Water, soda or tonic?

Scotch and tonic, no.

Gin and tonic, please.

You always affected me like a tonic.

Immobility means regression in a dynamic and globalized world.

You're a terrific tonic for lonely people, Sam.

So I took it out in hair tonic.

Thanks. I usually have a gin and tonic.

We give the tonic. You provide the ''so far.''

Get some displays pushing hair tonic and triple malts.

Good. A gin and tonic and a beer, please?

Perhaps you need a little tonic three times a day

''Only Love Can Lead the Way.'' A tonic so far.

This tonic ought to help you I know a sweeter way

Oh, you act on me just like a tonic, Miss Scarlett.

There's gin and tonic, and gin and vermouth, that's a martini.

Certainly. These executions will be a perfect tonic for the entire division.

The answer is simple staying on the safe side means, in our case, immobility.

He said doctors were fools... He thought like you that whiskey is a good tonic...

Our laziness, the penetrating sweetness of our sorbets, are a desire for voluptuous immobility, which again is death.

If Mrs Vogler's silence and immobility is the result of a decision it must be as she's seen as healthy.

His experience, whatever it was... which we hope here to discover, has left him... in a state of absolute catatonic immobility.

437. The jobs done by women generally require speed, visual and mental concentration and manual dexterity, and immobility and long working hours are common.

Moreover, ordinary Cubans fear that their ration cards their only means of getting food will be canceled. Indeed, according to Raúl, the state controlled food rationing system is a factor of immobility, but no one knows what might replace it.

The other three are Syria s behavior in Iraq, its relations with the US, and the need for domestic reform. While corrosive immobility is a trademark of the Syrian regime, these challenges threaten to reinforce each other and marginalize Syria internationally even more so than today.

Of course, Europe s labor immobility is partly caused by linguistic and cultural differences barriers that cannot easily be removed. But other barriers can be overcome by reforming housing policies, reducing the cost of moving, and revising social welfare policies in order to end fears of losing long term benefits.

Beginning with a gin and tonic just after noon, and ending with a Napoleon brandy at three o clock, lunch prior to the Big Bang was often the most arduous part of a stockbroker s day. That cozy culture ended soon after the thrusting, brash Americans, who worked even over breakfast, hit town.

Herein lies the core of the dilemma for the US it wants Egypt s basic state apparatus to survive, so that the levers of power do not fall into the wrong hands. This requires the US to be seen as siding with the public s demand for change, yet to avoid being identified with political immobility.

At the same time, lack of confidence on the part of a country, a culture, or a civilization can be just as dangerous. The deep conviction that reform can only lead to revolution and chaos results in a stultification of reality that can lead to immobility and despair and thus become a dangerous and self fulfilling prophecy.

The renowned American economist Mancur Olson argued that stagnation in developed economies results from cartels and lobbies becoming more numerous and powerful over time, until they eventually drain a country s economic dynamism. Preserving a competitive environment in which markets remain open and contestable is the best tonic, because firms must constantly innovate and perform better under such conditions.