>What a strange expression -- "their bid has been beaten into submission". By
>the scientists themselves? I would understand the phrase like "The robbers
beat
>their victim into submission", but this one...

It is the kind of wording I might expect from a tabloid, but I am surprised
to see it coming from the BBC.

Mike


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