has a shot, a shot in the arm, call the shots, salve, Papier-mâché

Google Earth has improved a lot over the last decade, and it just got its biggest shot in the arm yet: more than 700 trillion individual pixels, to render the surface of our planet in exquisite detail.

Bizarrely, Sanders appears to sincerely believe he can win. This seems so unlikely as to be almost delusional

Bernie Sanders thinks he still has a shot at the nomination. He’s wrong

California, here we come

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BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto are to iron ore what Saudi Arabia is to oil: the ones who call the shots. Their differing strategies in recent years are turning out to be a good test of the merits of diversification

As metals prices slump, some miners are regretting having diversified

Companies are looking for new ways to play the China-led commodities…

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Visitors will be able to peek into some of Marie Antoinette's personal spaces, including the fragile wooden and papier-mâché mini-theater where she performed, a grotto where she held private encounters and her "hamlet," where she constructed an ersatz working farm.



The women join the men in full-dress battlefield dramatizations up and down Germany several times a year, hefting cobblestones (made of papier-mache so no one will get hurt), twirling slingshots and wielding rolling-pins and cudgels.

Putin Calls Shots to Salve Old Wounds 
By ELLEN BARRY
Vladimir V. Putin’s choices could redraw the map of the Caucasus — or destroy relations with the West.

Definition of what's not to like? in English:

informal Used as a rhetorical expression of approval or satisfaction:cleaner air, cooler temperatures and mountain views—what’s not to like?

a shot in the arm

informal An encouraging stimulus:the movie was a real shot in the arm for our crew

shot 3 

Pronunciation: /ʃɒt/ 

NOUN

[IN SINGULAR] British informal, dated

A bill or one’s share of it, especially in a pub:he had paid her shot

Origin

Late Middle English: from shot¹; compare with Old English scēotan 'shoot, pay, contribute' and scot.

call the shots

Exercise authority, be in charge, as in It's up to the boss to call the shots. This term probably alludes to determining accuracy in target practice. [Mid-1900s] Also see call the tune.

salve
noun OLD USE
1 [C or U] an oily substance used to treat an injured, sore or dry place on your body; ointment

2 [S] something that makes you feel better about a difficult situation

salve
verb
salve your conscience to do something so that you feel less guilty:
He salves his conscience by giving money to charity.

Papier-mâché (French for 'chewed-up paper' because of its appearance), sometimes called paper-maché, is a construction material that consists of pieces of paper, sometimes reinforced with textiles, stuck together using a wet paste (e.g., glue, starch, or wallpaper adhesive). The crafted object becomes solid when the paste dries.^[1]

Carton-pierre (French for 'stone cardboard') is papier-mâché that has been decorated to resemble wood, stone, or metal, and is used as decoration.^[2]

はりこ　張子

・～の虎　《比喩的にも》a paper tiger.
はりこ 0 【張(り)子】

物の形を木型で作り、それに紙を重ねてはり、糊(のり)がかわいてから、木型を抜き去ったもの。はりぬき。また、木・竹などで芯(しん)を組み、上から幾重にも紙を張って作ったもの。はりぼて。
「犬の―」

張り子の技法は室町時代頃に中国から伝来したとされている。日本全土に分布し、郷土玩具などに用いられている。
張り子、あるいは張子（はりこ）とは、竹や木などで組んだ枠、または粘土で作った型に紙などを張りつけ、成形する造形技法のひとつ。「はりぼて」とも。張子に用いられる紙は「混凝紙（こんくりがみ）」（「混凝」はコンクリートの意味）と呼ばれる。