On one side are major technology firms who are concerned that the explosion of dubious patent litigation threatens their bottom line.

Probably he found that the duke of Aquitaine Hunald was threatening his line of communication with the north.

Arriving in Florence on 20 April, they had reached their target of Foligno by 26 April and now threatened Murat's line of retreat.

On 11 April, the brigade set off southwards at dawn on a wide outflanking march to threaten Liu Yongfu's line of retreat.

The wizard behind it all was the public relations giant Edelman, which has lately been recruited by Wal-Mart to put down the populist insurgency threatening its bottom line.

But the wrong kind of research result can threaten a company's bottom line.

Against these potent considerations there is only to be put the single fact that the turning of the Boer right would threaten the Freestaters' line of retreat.

It carried out a smaller raid at dawn, bombing water carriers and threatening the Syrian 1st Brigade's line of communications.

"I'd shoot them," says the jester for our times, and he is unapologetic until the furore threatens his bottom line and forces an apology.

To make matters worse, he received false rumours that a British fleet had just unloaded a Sicilian army in the south of Italy, threatening his line of retreat.