In the same month britain unveiled a budget that , like ireland 's , promised to clobber wealthy individuals but , like japan 's , exempted dividends paid by foreign subsidiaries from tax .
You regularly hear about the benefits of exercise in news stories , but if you read the academic papers on which these stories are based , you frequently see that the research subjects who were studied didn 't clobber themselves on the elliptical machine .
Matt looked as if he was going to clobber larry , but my friend held out his hand and said , " let 's play baseball , okay ? I know you want your team to win and it must be tough to pitch to a shrimp like me . "
The politics of the coalition government are a factor too : the junior partner , the liberal democrats , made tough action on the banks a condition of signing up to the coalition pact after the general election last year ; the conservatives have been less keen to clobber britain 's big banks .