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"We're not going to cannibalize our party over any one issue."

"They understand that some piece of their business may be cannibalized."

I used to cannibalize them for story ideas all the time.

You give me a list of the parts he's been cannibalizing.

The others had been cannibalized for parts to keep that one working.

"That was your station we had to cannibalize everything to put back together?"

"How far can you go in cannibalizing your own government to support a political candidate?"

There were six of them, but three had been cannibalized for parts to keep the others running.

"These guys are out there cannibalizing everyone else," he said.

We need to cease the cannibalizing the members of Congress.

"You've got to make sure you're not cannibalizing your existing business."

We cannibalized all the useful parts from two and three years ago.

He had even cannibalized portions of his own mother's will.

"You are of a species that has been known to cannibalize its young," I say.

"You end up cannibalizing the value of your investment," he said.

"It is not a case of cannibalizing the company," he said.

Already several fighters have been cannibalized to provide parts for others.

One half of the business doesn't want to be cannibalized by the other.

"Cannibalizing itself to close the wound," said the big man.

"It's constantly cannibalizing not only the art of the world, but itself."

If we must continue to cannibalize the eighties, let's get it right.

New ones had cannibalized them in order to survive and grow.

"And I don't think we should be cannibalizing our own people."

Thus, he said, there is no alternative but to cannibalize one F-14 to keep others flying.

The parents should then be removed so that they do not cannibalize their eggs or young.

They are rather aggressive, occasionally carnivorous and may even cannibalise each other.

The schedule is designed not to cannibalise viewers from the main Nine channel.

But if one was going to cannibalise obsolete vehicles, why not take the shells for scrap?

They cannibalise the ship and return to the Aries.

Some industry executives maintain that tablets do not cannibalise to the extent imagined, though.

Neuroscience will cannibalise resources and education research will lose its independence.

"Could we cannibalise the roller-conveyor out of that?"

Deane and his crew, trapped on the island, were forced to cannibalise a corpse shortly before being rescued.

Fish also cannibalise their own eggs.

After autohaemorrhaging they clean themselves meticulously, this is thought to be done so that other members of the species do not cannibalise them.

The worry is that Improv may cannibalise sales of Lotus's existing program.

They proceeded to enslave some Moriori and kill and cannibalise others.

To save itself time in getting to market, it could write some software and cannibalise one of its diskless workstations for an initial offering.

Earlier this month, the BBC reported the discovery that male wolf spiders cannibalise older females.

Although generally sociable with other fish, sometimes this fish can cannibalise smaller fish so take care when introducing one to an established tank.

Australian plague locusts cannibalise other vulnerable locusts to compensate for a lack of protein in their diet.

They have also been observed praying on other Hyposmocoma larvae and even cannibalise larvae of their own species.

"It was important not to cannibalise The Tree of Life," producer Bill Pohlad said recently.

Females eating males: Perhaps the most widely known example of cannibalism in spiders is when females cannibalise males before, during or after copulation.

If Microsoft were to offer Office on the iPad, would it cannibalise its sales on the PC?

So is there anyone out there that has a similar machine that is now 'surplus to requirements that I could cannibalise for parts?

They proceeded to ritually massacre about 300 Moriori, who are thought to have totalled about 2,000, cannibalise the dead and enslave the survivors.

They can store them in cells, inactivate them, or cannibalise already-formed hormones by conjugating them with carbohydrates, amino acids, or peptides.

He got out of the trench and wandered away until he found Micky Marriott climbing over the carcase of a broken Hurricane, seeking bits to cannibalise.

Discovering that Galvatron planned to cannibalise parts from his strongest warriors to increase his own power, Sixshot began to fear for his own safety.