But during the same period, the dollar has turned from weak sister to neighborhood bully.

Even so, they might not be the neighborhood bully anymore.

Nathaniel came to my hand like a scared child who's just been saved from the neighborhood bully.

Last year, India looked like the neighborhood bully when it tested a nuclear weapon.

"We were granted the power, and its our responsibility to see that the neighborhood bully doesn't take on the kid with the glasses," he said.

Now we can become a big boy ourselves, because you've got to beat the neighborhood bully to be one.

I don't think it ever got to that, but I remember the day he stood up to the neighborhood bully.

He is the leader of the gang and sometimes the neighborhood bully.

"But once the neighborhood bully shows up, you know the game isn't going to be fun anymore."

It was the talk of Europe for almost a week, and Germany suddenly found itself the neighborhood bully.