Vietnam would like the ten-member Association of South-East Asian Nations, whose rotating chairmanship it holds, to stick together on the South China Sea issue, lest China pick off the weaker members.
IT industries in other parts of the world, such as Central Europe, may never match India's in size, but they can still pick off valuable contracts.
They pick off village dogs, goats, and calves when they can catch them.
Workers pick off phone books, glass and plastic bottles.
The next two lines use pattern matching to pick off the values required to enforce this rule when the returned function is actually executed.
Once, our country is so poor, but the reform and open policy spring breeze, makes the Chinese in a short period of several decades with respect to pick off poor cap.
Rub or pick off as much lint as you can. The resulting pile of fuzz will quickly catch a spark when you're trying to light a fire.