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Arboreal Armor Organic grass care isn't the only way for gardeners to win brownie points from their more health-conscious neighbors.

He can be counted on to do the drudgery no one else will touch for the bake sale and the Unicef drive, winning brownie points from teachers and chaperones along the way.

If John Major, or anybody else, could prevent the local garage overcharging or under-performing, or encourage a lower-price, less uniform snacks policy in pubs, he would doubtless win brownie points from some voters.

When Microsoft launched Vista, the latest version of Windows, earlier this year, Dell's customers asked for the right to have the older version pre-loaded on to new machines, and the company won brownie points by complying.

Sam was supposed to take credit for the notion, so she could win brownie points with grateful parents on Troyen... but it was Dad who organized the big navy airlift to ferry youngsters to the nearest safe planet.

In a catalogue interview, the painter speaks about family matters but earns brownie points by admitting to her failings as a mother.

Yes, employees are still being strong-armed by their superiors on the job to give, because those superiors have to earn Brownie points with their superiors.

When his wife attends the opera, Amis baby-sits, "earning brownie points so I can play snooker later in the week.

The Administration could earn brownie points with hard-line environmentalists by going along with the Europeans, effectively inviting the Republican Congressional majority to shoot down any agreement.

The White House pollster Richard Wirthlin earned brownie points by chiming in with "vicious," and Time's Hugh Sidey called it "vitriolic."

The film doesn't shy away from being a tantalising, gratuitous gore-fest, but earns brownie points for returning to its roots with a neat "twist" ending that gives the series some closure.

While more obvious stories have been the focus of The Good Wife's sensational third season (Will & Alicia have flourished and floundered, Kalinda has earned brownie points and Cary has risen up the ranks), there is one plotline brewing that I am absolutely fascinated by.

Every time he came here, his brother scored brownie points.

All of the politicians were trying to score brownie points with the public."

"It looks like they're just trying to score Brownie points with California."

I'm in this for survival, not science, or to score brownie points."

Festivals in India have become political battlegrounds as politicians try to score brownie points over one another by attempting to host the noisiest festival.

"That's just what I need-some hotshot junior executive who's never seen a carny, trying to score brownie points with the Corporation by telling us how to run one!"

Singh argues that Naik's pronouncements are "juvenile", and said "they seldom rise above the level of undergraduate college debates, where contestants vie with each other to score brownie points".

And maybe, just maybe, in the back of his head, the titan is thinking that if he does back out of an auction he will score brownie points from his rival for averting a bidding war.

And Britain, by going alone, will achieve nothing (except allowing David King to score brownie points) so why should we let our pensioners, and the poor, freeze to death because they can't afford to pay the ever increasing heating costs?

Slowly Preetham becomes friends with Anjali, and in order to score brownie points with Sandhya, invents a story of Anjali being dumped by her childhood lover and being in a state of depression.

The stand the Administration is taking - hiding behind the abortion issue to undercut family planning -may score brownie points with America's right wing, but it is hurting and alienating America's poor, and it is isolating us in the rest of the world.

Taran Adarsh wrote, "THAT GIRL IN YELLOW BOOTS is embellished with top notch performances, with Kalki scoring brownie points for her super performance in the film.

He got brownie points for dressing without me having to ask.

You don't get brownie points for that sort of stuff.

Maybe I'd get brownie points for being a cooperative prisoner.

"Don't I get brownie points for working up enough courage to come back?"

And they'd get Brownie Points for doing their bit to help the environment (by only having one instead of two units).

He also says that the writers should "get brownie points for reminding listeners of those great tunes."

They also get brownie points with their bosses.

Maybe if I were helpful, I'd get brownie points.

A lot of artists spend a lot of time on art, so you shouldn't get Brownie points for that.

"Gates got Brownie points for that."

While I was getting brownie points for my honesty, Thorpe was working his way into the doghouse.

Their presentation was much more refined than the men's and they also got brownie points for incorporating Ivanka's jewelry as well.

They look as if they get Brownie points for picking up anyone who steals a chicken wing or a bar of soap.'

He thinks he'd get brownie points with the Scarecrows if he died doing something in their service-like refusing to translate for the Docs."

This model gets brownie points for its exceptionally clear menu system, its comfortable body design and an antishake feature that does wonders for slow-shutter and fully zoomed-in shots.

Well, as you can see from that slide, a much better first half with four of our, four out of six of our businesses getting brownie points, especially newspapers and the merchant banking.

Now, our girl has to deal with the real issues, on the first day she catches up with the Opposition Leader of the State on his morning walk and talks about the power woes of her Panchayath thereby getting brownie points from the viewers.

That a company like BMW can get brownie points for art patronage by promoting its own product is part of the reason that this exhibition took place, instead of the one examining 20 th century art at the end of the millennium, which it replaced.

Lorne tells Angel that a Wolfram & Hart Senior Partner (manifesting in the form of a lower demon) is coming to earth for the historically deadly Review, and that the sacrifices and rituals are simply the lawyers trying to get brownie points with the Senior Partner before he shows up.