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Initially, the company would start with what's known as knock-down production, which involves mostly assembling vehicles from already-made parts, while bringing components such as batteries and motors from Japan.
Honda Plans Push for Hybrids in China Norihiko Shirouzu 2011
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On Wipeout (8 ET/PT), combatants tackle a mondo obstacle course that takes the term "knock-down, drag-out fight" literally.
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It is the custom of prize-fighting audiences to cheer a clean knock-down blow.
The Mexican 2010
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This second knock-down had come from the opposite direction, and it was mightier than the first.
CHAPTER V 2010
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But I have not heard of a knock-down argument as to why marriage should not include those rights (by which I mean an argument with which I could not find a rational way to disagree with).
Becker on Polygamy, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The Yokohama-based company also will shift the outsourcing of many parts to production sites outside of Japan, particularly for what are known as knock-down kits of vehicles that it exports for final assembly abroad, he said.
Nissan to 'Significantly' Reduce Japan Exports Chester Dawson 2011
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Few consumers get fooled by street markets selling luxury handbags at knock-down prices.
Patents are a Virtue Geoff Nairn 2011
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Secondly I wanted to make sure I didn't miss out on MacHeist which in the past has led me to getting hold of someinteresting software at knock-down prices.
Is MacHeist's Tweetblast an example of how advertisers will destroy Twitter? Jonathan 2009
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Microsoft: Two tech giants are in a knock-down, drag-out fight over Google's accusation that Microsoft's Bing search engine is copying its algorithm from the Mountain View, Calif., company.
The Circuit: Egypt back online, Google vs. Microsoft, Intel's expensive chip error Hayley Tsukayama 2011
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Santander U.K. is the U.K. arm of Banco Santander SA, built up through a series of acquisitions at knock-down prices in 2008 that included Alliance & Leicester and branch networks of Bradford & Bingley.
Santander U.K. to Make Loan Commitments Margot Patrick 2011
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