The strengthening of yen also hurt the mood, battering exporters.
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Indeed, shortly after invading, Turkish forces began battering YPG emplacements.
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Even crazier, they used Mike Pence as a battering ram.
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The company's reputation has taken a battering in recent years.
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Meanwhile, shares in the company have been taking a battering.
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At first, Trump was pleased with his media battering ram.
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"Oliver can be a bit of battering ram," Fitzgerald said.
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Video of police battering demonstrators has emerged from both cities.
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The shouting sounded like sharp, high winds battering her eardrums.
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Since then, Boeing has taken a battering in the public eye.
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Trump on Friday also kept up his battering of Utah Sen.
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Within months of Idlib's capture, Russian aircraft were battering rebel lines.
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But capacity growth outpaced trade, battering freight rates and company profits.
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Instead, Holyfield took the fight to Tyson, frustrating and battering him.
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He felt political power was a tool, not a battering ram.
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Volkswagen's ratings have taken a battering since the cheating scandal broke.
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A battering in 2018 would effectively halt the broader Republican agenda.
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Sinosphere BEIJING — The floods battering southern China are a deadly menace.
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The police finally came with the battering ram in September 22008.
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They maintained control by instilling fear, battering prisoners who were easy prey.
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The House Republican seawall was built to withstand a 23-seat battering.
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Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey has created an autonomous battering-ram drone.
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I found the manipulative final scene a musical and dramatic battering ram.
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It's a battering ram that lets you know it's here to party.
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Elizabeth Warren is clearly relishing her role as social-media battering ram.
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The acute battering episode, which Walker defines as the incident of violence.
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Trump attacked U.S. companies investing south of the border, battering Mexico's peso.
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IN JANUARY and February, equity markets took a battering around the world.
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Some of Doha's businesses took a battering when the boycott was launched.
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There was a virgin who used his cock like a battering ram.
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He was getting beat and did not want to take a battering.
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For this fighter, the wrap was more battering ram than padded glove.
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Both parties gave the Conservatives a battering at an election in May.
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Its head resembled a battering ram: dome-shaped and composed of thickened bone.
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It also helped emerging market currencies trim some losses after a recent battering.
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The storied rivals continued a trend of battering each other when they play.
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Washington sees the YPG as its battering ram against ISIS in northern Syria.
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OPINION polls have taken a bit of a reputational battering in recent years.
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U.S. tech companies have experienced a constant battering there for over two decades.
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And Trump will use that against the eventual nominee like a battering ram.
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That same day, England's main opposition parties faced a battering almost as fierce.
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America's own relationship with Germany has already taken a battering under Mr Trump.
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North Carolina has dealt with hurricanes battering the state amid campaigns and elections.
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And those transplanted kidneys rarely last a lifetime of battering with immunosuppressive drugs.
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The ChiNext index of smaller companies also took a battering, closing 7.6 percent lower.
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The thought of the two sides once again battering each other has caused dismay.
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This serves as a "battering-ram for international extortion", as Mr Eberstadt puts it.
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The battering the Rangers have given the party's heavies has greatly diminished his clout.
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The lira has partially recovered from a battering that had pushed domestic prices up.
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Among extremes, the WMO pointed to a battering from hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria.
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Tolerance is the battering ram that progressives use to compel compliance of their beliefs.
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After a battering in 2018, China's stock indexes have been on a bull run.
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The current far-right parties are running at this consensus with a battering ram.
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Clinton grabbed hold of the recording and turned it into a rhetorical battering ram.
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In battering the Dodgers, 10-25, they evened the series and rewarded Maddon's faith.
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Tropical storm-force winds are expected to begin battering the Carolinas on Thursday morning.
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Miller has had 10 concussions in all, and that is to understate his battering.
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As of Monday morning, Dorian is still battering the Abaco and Grand Bahama Islands.
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After battering Zuluzinho and Mark Coleman, Fedor was matched with Mark Hunt for Shockwave 2006.
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Clue of the Day for me was "Battery device?" for RAM (as in battering RAM).
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Hurricane Michael's battering waves swamped streets and docks and shrieking winds splintered trees and rooftops.
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They'd tested each other's courage and found common ground by battering each other into oblivion.
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These were the same factors battering boys in working-class black neighborhoods all over America.
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The fires risk battering a financially vibrant wine industry that sustains livelihoods across the region.
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"Tax irrationality and the trade war is battering the crushing sector in Argentina," Idigoras said.
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It was Christie's battering that led the Florida senator to stumble in the last debate.
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The Neuzils' boat was damaged as well, but it, too, had largely escaped Irma's battering.
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And I was laying there in bed when the battering ram came through the door?
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Biden said Trump just "doesn't get" NATO and has taken a "battering ram" to it.
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Now, the storm is battering North Carolina on its path north along the Atlantic coast.
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Place the battered chicken onto a plate and proceed with battering the remaining chicken. 5.
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Salt water, battering winds and constant strain ensure that Coast Guard aircraft need constant maintenance.
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And yet, in its own simple, battering way, the movie manages to find its fun.
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Yet, all the time, the Conservative Party is taking a political battering, and keeping Mrs.
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By eight o'clock, the rains had arrived in lazy, side-sweeping sheets, battering Jeb's windows.
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In 2011, he pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of battering a former girlfriend.
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The Dutch referendum, held last April, became a battering ram aimed at the European Union.
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In 19.33, he pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of battering a former girlfriend.
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Watson no doubt took notice of the Panthers' battering Kyler Murray in Arizona last week.
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Here, the Capulets were hard-liners battering the stage with militaristic fury and raised fists.
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Turkey's tourism sector has taken a battering this year after a wave of suicide bombings.
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"This feels more like a battering ram than a well-thought-out digital program," he said.
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It was the third race in a row that Vettel's hopes had been dealt a battering.
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But as Donald Trump's presidency staggers to life, intense discord and fury are battering the capital.
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Well, you don't usually have groups of rich guys in their 40s and 50s battering people.
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A swift, panicky battering with my gloved hands smothered the flames before any damage was done.
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The music's beatless, but each track relies on a flurry of midi-instruments battering the margins.
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But in doing so, they split fire away from the main Imperial attack battering their lines.
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Amid another battering for stocks Monday, billionaire businessman Donald Trump contended that markets still look overvalued.
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A storm was battering the city, which probably forced the birds to fly low, Gibbons said.
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Despite the political winds battering our values, now is the time to hold open those doors.
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In 2011, Mr. Gibson pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of battering a former girlfriend.
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McLaren designed a new softer suspension for the 570GT so your back won't get a battering.
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Be one of the few lighthouse beams in this terrible storm that is battering our country.
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COVID-19 is battering the U.S. economy, causing many businesses to cut back and close down.
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The police — some undercover, some with battering rams — would show up, but would leave empty-handed.
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They succeeded, and ran, meter-first, at the Stonewall's doors, using it as a battering ram.
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Worries about global economic growth, trade and the strength of corporate America have been battering stocks.
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The typhoon that has been battering parts of Asia in the past week is named Mangkhut.
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The deadly coronavirus is battering stocks from U.S. companies that have high revenue exposure to China.
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"When we filmed the first film, we were all kind of battering around," Mr. Boyle said.
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Loucks grabbed a foam-filled battering ram and pushed McAdoo around as he drove for dunks.
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In case all of that isn't enough, the car will have extendible front and rear battering rams.
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Queensland police commissioner Ian Stewart compared it to "a battering ram" in an interview with 13 News.
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Celeste also played video footage of her late husband battering her for the court — and his mother.
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From that point on Nadal assumed control, battering huge spinning forehands that reared up off the clay.
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SAINT THOMAS, US Virgin Islands — First came Hurricane Irma, battering St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands.
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And more powerful storms, fueled by warming oceans, are battering the coasts of countries like the Philippines.
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In 2013, she was arrested after stabbing Albertsman, and later pleaded guilty aggravated battering causing bodily harm.
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Tuesday, some breaking through gates with wooden battering rams, frightened residents sounded gongs to raise the alarm.
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A look at the storm battering the Pac Northwest today with lightning, tornado warnings, and damaging winds.
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Irma still was battering the mountainous, northern parts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Thursday afternoon.
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During the cross examination, Celeste accused Mary Louise of "emotionally battering" her surviving son after the crash.
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"My bank account was already taking a battering from the wedding and now this?" the bridesmaid wrote.
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Tuesday's battering saw the Nasdaq slump almost 69.953 percent and the broader S&P drop 1.7 percent.
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So those giant stingers are poison darts, ovipositors, crochet needles, battering rams and bayonets all in one.
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After battering the southern island of Mindanao, Tembin slammed into another set of Philippine islands late Saturday.
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When the legislative battering finally ended, the administration turned to Section 28503 of the Social Security Act.
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Conducted by Michael Lewanski, George Lewis's battering, adamant "Mnemosis" (2012) and "Hexis" (2013) flanked three solo pieces.
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Ellison's statements came amid weeks of news stories battering WeWork as the company attempts to go public.
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He also added restrictions on transferring some weapons and devices, explosives, battering rams, riot helmets and shields.
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Davis was "observed battering his former girlfriend," the Coral Gables Police Department said in a news release.
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Children are also targeted with their parents and communities misled into battering, maiming, drowning, burning and abandoning them.
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Ice-class tankers usually have double hulls, strengthened structures to withstand battering from the ice, and reinforced propellers.
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We asked the sub-contractors for three sports cars and a 4x4 to serve as a battering ram.
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Later in 2002, he was charged with battering his third wife, Joanna Ferrell, but eventually found not guilty.
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With less ice around to dampen their energy, waves are getting more powerful and battering coastlines for longer.
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The industry has taken a political battering for what some claim are exorbitant price increases for certain drugs.
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Equities fell, Treasury bonds rose in price (causing yields to fall) and the Mexican peso took a battering.
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Here was a pockmarked American-made Humvee; there pickup trucks turned into battering-rams for suicide car-bombers.
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This year officers in the state have been accused of falsifying a witness statement and of battering innocents.
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Thursday only, it's hand-battering the wings in champagne then coating them in 0003 karat, edible gold flakes.
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LONDON — Some flights at London's Gatwick Airport have been diverted due to high winds battering much of Britain.
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On Friday, Asian stocks took a battering and the safe-haven yen jumped as investors rushed for cover.
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Having recovered from last summer's battering, the lira has fallen steadily over the past seven weeks (see article).
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The long-lasting flooding and battering waves has prompted unusually drastic language in the NWS' warnings (emphasis ours).
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The technology battering on Friday holds a lesson for high-valuation start-ups, one noted venture capitalist contended.
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Rafael dos Anjos demonstrated this when he took the lightweight title from Pettis, battering him in the process.
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Turkish officials have frequently criticized the Obama administration for supporting the Kurds as their battering ram against ISIS.
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Yet the headwinds battering UBS's top line – much like other European lenders – may well blow for a while.
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More broadly, Amazon's popularity has shifted more retail sales online, battering the sector, with no end in sight.
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The pan-European index is down more than 4 percent after equities took a battering worldwide this week.
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FEC, it is hard to believe there couldn't be a further battering of the safeguards of U.S. democracy.
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And, it is one he sorely needs after the battering he took in regards to the government shutdown.
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Siege engines like battering rams, on the other hand, look like they're either gone or heavily de-emphasized.
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The bottom line: For all the superficial battering the alliance may take, its underlying strategic logic remains sound.
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The storms will hit one after the other, possibly battering two massive Asian economies on the same day.
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But if you use your head and shoulders as a battering ram, you can push the boat through.
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Hotels and other structures are better equipped, in many cases, to withstand the battering of wind and rain.
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The metal door was so strong that multiple marines attempted to take it down with different battering rams.
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Shadows flit past mirrors and doors vibrate to the battering of invisible fists, weak teasers with disappointing payoffs.
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Cryptocurrencies took a battering following a global sell-off in stocks, with bitcoin seeing a near 242% plunge.
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After battering a string of Caribbean islands, Hurricane Irma hit Florida on Sunday, but was downgraded on Monday.
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The city is still recovering from the battering it received from Hurricane Harvey in 2017 and subsequent flooding.
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And the deepening crisis is having worrisome effects that are rippling across the gulf and battering political unity.
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Tropical Storm Harvey, on the other hand, wreaked havoc across Houston, battering poor and rich with similar ferocity.
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Then came a battering by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, leaving the sub inaccessible and the museum's future shaky.
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Berlin works differently from Paris; speeches there are not battering-rams but ship's tillers, gently adjusting a course.
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After battering the Bahamas for two days, the hurricane was downgraded to a Category 2 storm early Tuesday.
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Like the hurricanes battering the Southeast, the frequency and intensity of these fires likely reflect our changing climate.
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" If a wild boar feels threatened, it will charge, says Wong, using its head "like a battering ram.
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Further red flags include sleep-chatting in Hungarian, abusing his babysitter and battering a classmate with a wrench.
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Hurricane Florence is now a tropical storm, but its winds and heavy rain are still battering the Carolinas.
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Fast forward to Sunday night, the 56-year-old was arrested for allegedly battering emergency personnel and police officers.
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Does a movie as battering-ram blunt as Triple 9 have anything profound or fresh to say about urban
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Here, I will keep tabs on how automation and artificially intelligent systems are battering and augmenting the human landscape.
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I was in the 4x4—which would be the battering ram—my three partners were in a German car.
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Many of those firms are publicly listed and took a battering by the close of U.S. trade on Thursday.
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ET, Hurricane Matthew sat just outside Florida's east coast, battering Cape Canaveral with winds as high as 107 mph.
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POTENTIAL IMPACTS IN THIS AREA INCLUDE: - WIDESPREAD DEEP INUNDATION, WITH STORM SURGE FLOODING GREATLY ACCENTUATED BY POWERFUL BATTERING WAVES.
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But that speedy defense was ill-equipped to stop LeGarrette Blount, New England's battering ram of a running back.
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"We think of [Trump] as our battering ram," Markham Robinson, the secretary of the American Independent Party, told CNN.
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Luckily he stopped there and didn't keep battering things or he could have done some serious damage to himself.
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When he started taking over more vocal duties, the kid just had a huge battering ram for a voice.
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One: NASA could launch a spacecraft to act as a battering ram to push the asteroid slightly off course.
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Even after basic training, a long, hallowed culture of physical and verbal battering awaits Marines who join infantry units.
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The tariff hikes are battering exporters on both sides and disrupting trade in goods from soybeans to medical devices.
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Cities known for religious tolerance are on edge, and attacks are battering the economy and psyche of the region.
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Surely battering your body with various poisons is only going to make you feel worse in the long run.
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This year's storm has been picking up strength since narrowly missing Puerto Rico and Florida and battering the Bahamas.
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ABERDEEN, Scotland — This port city built of granite on the North Sea has taken a battering in recent years.
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Hamill gleefully saying, "Ooh, I just nailed that guy!" after battering an enemy to death with his trusty pickaxe.
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Contemporary recipes omit the battering and frying to lighten the dish and to showcase the green of the pepper.
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Diana Holland, gave reporters an update on the rescue and recovery efforts following Hurricane Maria's battering of Puerto Rico.
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The 2020 Democrats didn't hold back, battering one another in a brutal slug fest ahead of the Nevada caucuses.
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But the war currently battering Yemen has damaged infrastructure and deepened poverty, allowing the disease to come roaring back.
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Bradley isn't flyweight-nimble, he's a battering ram, and the director wisely surrounds him with wickedly agile supporting players.
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It took five rounds for Johann—who stood his ground and endured a thorough battering—to be knocked out.
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Some of the cosmic battering, from the space rocks that landed in the oceans, did not carve out craters.
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Yes. In broader terms, Labour M.P.s think he's unelectable and anti-Semitism is a battering ram to attack Corbyn.
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The dangerous weather was part of a storm system that swept across the Gulf states before battering the East Coast.
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Michael Beasley A battering ram, to better articulate that there is no team whose defense can withstand such a man.
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Maybe she is trying to protect herself and say things that will prevent this police officer from further battering her.
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Protesters used trolleys as battering rams to bust through the entrance, pry open metal shutters and occupy the government building.
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After battering India, Fani barrelled into neighbouring Bangladesh on Saturday as a much weaker storm, killing at least five people.
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ELSEWHERE ➔ Wildfires: High winds are battering both ends of California and threaten to turn any spark into a devastating inferno.
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The agents pat him down and then enter the house with a crowbar, a mini battering ram, and other tools.
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The trade war between the United States and China is battering Tesla's competitiveness, the U.S. electric auto maker said Tuesday.
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That means restoring the rapper XXXTentacion's music to its playlists, despite that he was charged with battering a pregnant woman.
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Indiana's solicitor general, Thomas Fisher, faced a battering from a slate of the justices during his oral argument that month.
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But as long as Sessions stays lodged in place, his beloved Justice Department can instead be a conservative battering ram.
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It is a battering ram that moves through the plot, centering all action, demanding that we pay attention to it.
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The way people use their carts—on the verge of being battering rams to make their way through the crowd.
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The battering ram was now at work on the bolted door, but the President apparently wasn't able to hear it.
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It is unclear how many civilians are left in the city, yet its battering from above remains palpable and relentless.
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That history of scandals though, could put its longer term survival at risk given the latest battering to its branding.
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The same factor explains why housebuilders like Persimmon, Taylor Woodrow and Wimpey have all seen their shares take a battering.
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In every case, prosecutors noted the gun violence battering Chicago and called for sentences long enough to send a message.
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This alliance, nurtured by presidents and prime ministers for decades, has taken a battering since President Donald Trump took office.
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Nauert told reporters that operations would resume after conditions from Hurricane Jose, another category 4 storm, finishes battering the area.
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When we last saw Magny, he dazzled onlookers with a come-from-behind battering of former Bellator champ Hector Lombard.
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The deal also comes just weeks after Britain voted to leave the European Union, battering sterling and bolstering the yen.
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As of Tuesday morning, Dorian had spent more than 36 hours battering the Bahamas after making landfall on Sunday afternoon.
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He has already instructed writers at his Breitbart website to use the site as a battering ram against Mr. McConnell.
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A parking meter was ripped out of the ground and used as a battering ram to get to the police.
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Now Irma, one of the most powerful hurricanes on record, is battering the Caribbean and has Florida in its sights.
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There's no doubt that Apple's self-polished reputation for privacy and security has taken a bit of a battering recently.
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The tweets about Amazon -- making anti-trust a political battering ram -- have converged with Trump's aggressive moves to increase tariffs.
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The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has seen its reputation take a battering over the last ten years or so.
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They roasted, peeled and stuffed poblanos before battering and deep-frying them until the peppers were golden brown and lacy.
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But the issue has become a political battering ram, and in the process, the definition of fake news has blurred.
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Asian tech shares slid after U.S. peers, which derive much of their sales revenue from China, took a battering overnight.
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He chose a middle ground: stand guard with an umbrella as other protesters smashed the doors with makeshift battering rams.
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It comes just a day after he took a battering from his two main rivals at a televised Republican debate.
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The movie was crucial in transforming public understanding of spousal abuse: Shelters for battered women began opening around the country; the police began to take the issue more seriously; women who killed battering partners, and children who killed battering parents, were understood to be victims of a destructive syndrome that often gave them judicial reprieve.
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Saudi Arabia's image has taken a battering in recent weeks, following the unexplained death of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey.
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But the SPD's battering in Bavaria may have it rethinking its alliance with Merkel and the CDU on the national level.
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The S&P is up 13% so far this year, even with the recent battering shares took on trade war worries.
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If we don't have 50 years or a fast enough battering ram, we might need to break up an asteroid instead.
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New York (CNN Business)One of Victoria's Secret's key executives is stepping down as the retailer deals with a battering year.
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Prey to herbivores and battering weather, plants developed the capacity to regrow from a tiny piece of root, or a twig.
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The Miami New Times reported Crenshaw has been arrested several times for trespassing, disorderly intoxication and battering police, among other things.
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Tiny cracks can develop in concrete from battering by the weather, vibrations from traffic, movements in the foundations and other causes.
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Image 2 of 2 SALALAH, Oman – The Latest on the cyclone battering Oman and Yemen (all times local): 12:2003 p.m.
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The weaponry grew more menacing with the use of fuel-filled bottles and a parking meter used as a battering ram.
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Evacuations were under way in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina after Matthew, which hammered Haiti and Cuba, began battering the Bahamas.
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The commitment came as Hurricane Florence swept into North Carolina, battering residents with heavy rain and 90-mph (144-kph) winds.
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Even the shares of carmakers have taken a battering in the early weeks of 2016, underperforming the rest of the market.
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The competitive blow to manufacturers rippled through regional economies, write Messrs Autor, Dorn and Hanson, battering suppliers and local service industries.
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Preparing the dish involves marinating boneless, skinless chicken in sake and shio koji (mold-inoculated rice) overnight, then battering and frying.
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But the swarming Philadelphia brawler, battering his Cherry Hill, N.J., neighbor, ended the 29-year-old Ali's credibility as a prophet.
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Other than heavy winds and rainfall battering the island, filling some boats with water, it wasn't too badly hit by Dorian.
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The doors to the restaurant were barricaded, so we would need some kind of a battering ram to get them open.
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The finest performance of Story's career was arguably his battering of Gunnar Nelson in one of the best fights of 2014.
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Modernism took a battering in Anglo-American fiction and criticism from the 1950s right through to the switch of the century.
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Captives of a harsh and unyielding reality, we are also simultaneously graced by the constant ability to surpass its battering blows.
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These elusive questions will be knocking at our hypothetical door soon enough or, conceivably, smashing through it with a battering ram.
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The survey was done while hurricanes were battering Texas then Florida and the greater southeast region, which weighed on sales expectations.
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The Capitals out-hit the Lightning, 39-19, and outshot them, 34-24, bruising and battering them all over the ice.
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To me, the little Civics usually have been noisy cars, prone to battering by high winds and rumbling on rough roads.
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Despite his battering from all sides this week, Mr. Johnson appeared committed to putting his vaunted campaigning skills to the test.
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Trump and the news media are a perfect storm, battering the Latino community with their lack of understanding of these issues.
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In the daily battering of any relationship, Dr. Fonagy said, "if free flow of communication is impaired, the relationship is, too."
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The high premiums are also a result of the battering that biotech stocks took during the market's downturn in late 2018.
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Some residents are returning home in southeast Texas, a week after Harvey began battering a 220-mile stretch of the state.
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The munitions battering Aleppo have escalated to bunker buster bombs, incendiary phosphorous shells, and cluster bomblets, according to eyewitnesses and activists.
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"The ongoing issues on the trade front have been battering markets for the course of this week," ANZ analyst Daniel Hynes said.
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The real trick is doing it without creating the eardrum-battering sonic boom, a key hurdle to reviving supersonic flight for civilians.
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The Worst That Can Happen: For people with bronchitis or some bug that's particularly battering the throat, smoking anything might be uncomfortable.
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The video, shot by Jennie Phillips-Hudson Carr aboard the larger Showboat Branson Belle, showed wind and waves battering the sinking boat.
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In the background lurks climate change, fears of which have grown with the heat and drought battering Europe's wheat crop this summer.
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The world's two largest economies have been locked in a protracted trade war, souring business and consumer sentiment and battering financial markets.
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Many said that witnessing extreme weather events—like the tornadoes, storms and floods battering the Midwest —did most to form their views.
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Wainwright has more losses (10) against the Reds than any other team, including a seven-run battering by Cincinnati in mid-April.
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Evacuations were under way in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina after Matthew, which hammered Haiti and strafed Cuba, began battering the Bahamas.
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It killed hundreds battering through the Caribbean, and knocked out power, forced evacuations, and flooded beaches as it scoured the Florida coastline.
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The film exudes a battering-ram simplicity that, even in its quieter moments, can give the drama a paint-by-numbers crudity.
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Opener "The Devil and his Anarchic Surrealist Retinue" toggles between battering-ram verses and quiet intermissions that sound like mathy R&B.
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The country's tourism sector has taken a battering this year as tensions with Russia and a spate of bombings hit tourist arrivals.
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To elevate his chances, the DCCC's independent arm has spent the final weeks battering the lower tier Republican candidates: Nelson and Huff.
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But despite the allegations battering Moore, the survey found him still leading by about 35 points among white women without a degree.
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The storm is battering Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, with the NOAA saying hurricane conditions are possible in both locations.Gov.
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Officers wear more than 50 pounds of ballistic gear and are heavily armed as they break down the doors with battering rams.
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That has consequences for regular consumers: The financial battering that insurers have suffered portends higher premiums for homeowners in disaster-prone areas.
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Mr. Zuma's nine-year tenure was marked by corruption, mismanagement and numerous scandals, and the country's reputation and economy took a battering.
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A team of DEA agents and Mexican marines was hammering on the front door of their safe house with a battering ram.
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The health crisis is battering the country's economy — the third-largest of the 19 countries using the euro — and threatens instability worldwide.
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The survey showed that France's dominant service sector bore the brunt of the storm battering the economy, while manufacturing retreated less dramatically.
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Using a car as a battering-ram was a tactic that was highly rated by militants because it was lethal, he said.
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They got out of bed, rushed out the door, and found her ex-husband, Jaroslaw, battering the car with a cinder block.
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The founder halo will take another battering when lavishly optioned versions of those tales appear on home screens and in the cinema.
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They lost the popular vote in six of the last seven presidential elections and suffered battering losses in the House in 2165.
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Rose, at his athletic peak, was a slasher, a sharpened wedge; Westbrook is a battering ram that has been set on fire.
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Much like the first fight, McGregor got the better of the first round, battering his foe to the brink of a stoppage.
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Black Thought's battering ram of a Hot 97 freestyle blew up earlier this week, garnering over 800,000 views in a couple days.
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In truth, the generational grudge match has been battering women's prospects for a long time, ever since women won the vote in 1920.
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With a cheap-and-effective bit of Trek-ian stagecraft, the diversified officers driving the USS Discovery simulated punishing turbulence battering their starship.
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Expect bogeymen like migrants and terrorists to get a verbal battering from the 27 leaders - British Prime Minister Theresa May will be absent.
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This will bring the threat of high onshore winds, battering waves, and coastal flooding to the beaches of Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey.
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One group used a makeshift battering-ram, fashioned from a trolley, to break a large glass door on the outside of the building.
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"The battering of stock prices will make share buybacks more appealing," said Joo-Yung Lee, Fitch Ratings' head of North American financial institutions.
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Supposedly she justified this by writing "The only battering anyone need know" beside it in smaller letters, punctuating it with a smiley face.
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By the time the warnings filtered through the media and other networks, however, the storm was already battering parts of the island's coast.
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Cyclone Veronica has been weakening after battering Australia's northwest, while further east, Cyclone Trevor was downgraded to a low pressure system on Sunday.
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Valeant's shares have taken a battering in the last five months and tumbled more than 66 percent from its August high of $2010.70.
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NYPD officers and federal agents, some adorned with helmets and bulletproof vests, entered the buildings with battering rams—and a list of names.
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The summer is traditionally China's storm season, with typhoons battering the east and south coasts and thunderstorms hitting wide swathes of the country.
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Hurricane Hermine is battering the state, dealing a blow to tourism during the holiday weekend and complicating the fight against the Zika virus.
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As battering rams broke down doors and suspects were led away in handcuffs, Green listened carefully as reports of the raids came in.
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Listen, I'm like you: I don't want anyone ripping a plastic chair out of some concrete and battering my head in with it.
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Over the years the term Stockholm syndrome has been used to understand the dynamics of child abuse, spouse battering and pimp-procured prostitutes.
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As well as battering the Fed, Trump has in recent days also accused the media of talking down the economy to hurt him.
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The French will have to get a handle on him; he looks like a battering ram so far, just willing the ball through.
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Trump was a calculated risk the party was willing to take, the battering ram that would make its wildest conservative dreams a reality.
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To be clear: Every traditional predictor of election outcomes suggest Republicans will take a battering in the House and at the governors level.
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She sacrificed herself to perform the epic Holdo Maneuver, which involved using a whole, entire capital ship as a hyperspace-powered battering ram.
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He was accused April 22 of battering his girlfriend, strangling her and threatening her with a Taser, the release said, citing the prosecutor.
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The storm began battering North Carolina and South Carolina on Thursday and made landfall in the Tarheel State's Outer Banks on Friday morning.
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Mnuchin also said the administration would issue another round of checks in six weeks if the crisis is still battering the U.S. economy.
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Between battering from her brother and serious injuries at the old man's junkyard, she taught herself enough to get into Brigham Young University.
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Batman is trying to hijack some Kryptonite, and uses the Batmobile as a speed machine, battering ram, tank, and bulldozer to get it.
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He was taken into custody early Thursday after a woman - identified only as a woman in her 20s - accused Allen of battering her.
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Rafael dos Anjos is already one of the greats and the battering he put on Robbie Lawler this weekend just hammered it home.
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Two of Porter's ex-wives described how he flew into rages during their marriages, bruising and battering them, smashing glass and screaming obscenities.
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And he doesn't know if he has it in him to endure more years of battering while he waits for the technology to mature.
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Ms Koike's battering-ram in her war against the LDP is Kibo no Juku (School of Hope), a private academy for her political acolytes.
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This week, news broke of Palmer Luckey's new battering-ram drone system, and today, the company finally released footage of the drone in action.
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Tropical Storm Harvey's unusually prolonged battering of the Gulf Coast, including a "second landfall" today, is increasing pressure on the region's crucial energy infrastructure.
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"Against this backdrop, even faith in our personal economic fortunes has taken a battering contributing to the overall fall in the numbers," Staton said.
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There have also been public performances, including cheerleaders dancing to a peppy song about recycling and traditional drumming troupes battering away at rubbish bins.
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As such, they are designed to be able to take quite a battering, so the storms of the Arctic Ocean should not trouble them.
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Through investigations, both internal and by New Jersey Democrats, and a battering from local officials and the press, the New Jersey governor remained steadfast.
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On the feet, Nunes has acquired something of a reputation but it largely off the back of her battering Shayna Baszler and Sara McMann.
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Three officers were injured as they came under fire, including the officer who was holding the battering ram used to break into the apartment.
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But Pyongyang's anniversary passed without further tests, and Irma lost strength and was downgraded to a tropical storm after battering Florida over the weekend.
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Women there talked about battering as an evil all women had to fight, not just some weird, awful thing that had happened to Liz.
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Dollar shortages are battering the economy, rocketing inflation is destroying the value of citizens' savings and the government is reacting forcefully to crush dissent.
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It is a model that has seen success in Illinois in decades past but that has grown increasingly tangled in this battering election year.
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But the gradualness of the process—the methodical accumulation of shimmering patterns over organ-like bass tones—saturates the ears instead of battering them.
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Matt Szczur hit two home runs, and the Chicago Cubs won their 11th straight, battering Adam Wainwright to rout visiting St. Louis, 13-2.
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A handful of protesters used a shopping cart as battering ram and others used metal poles and umbrellas to pry open the main entrance.
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WANTED To use Britain as a patsy/battering ram for all the unpleasantness the Danes don't want to throw their own moral weight into.
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Hurricane Dorian on Sunday was slowly making its way towards Florida's coastline after battering the Bahamas with wind gusts of up to 220 mph.
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Malcolm and Angus Young turned a basic blues and boogie riff into a battering ram for a song that became an AC/DC perennial.
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World financial markets have taken a battering in recent months as fears grow that Trump's "America First" policies could derail a global economic revival.
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One group of protesters used makeshift battering rams to destroy the legislature's glass windows and doors as they made their way into the building.
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A new poll shows Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton battering her Republican foe among younger voters by a margin of 56 percent to 20 percent.
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MEXICO CITY — It was about midnight, as Hurricane Maria was battering the Caribbean nation of Dominica, that Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit took to Facebook.
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Clark had speculated, with some solid support from science, that his disease might have been caused by the battering he received as a player.
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Footage taken elsewhere in Cagayan Province on Friday show strong winds and heavy rains battering buildings and bending tree trunks as the storm approached.
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Proud and erect, and with an expression of contempt, he walked toward the police station past the battering mob, his face covered with blood.
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There are many avenues for intervention on behalf of the men who have spent years treating their heads like battering rams for high salaries.
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Airline stocks have taken a battering as carriers, especially those with international routes, have been forced to cancel flights and reduce capacity on routes.
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Residents were left grappling with the wreckage of days of battering, including collapsed bridges, damaged railway lines and entire beaches wiped away by waves.
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And the battering that the Social Democrats have taken in the polls has made some of them wary of joining forces with her again.
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It is a model that has seen success in Illinois in past decades but that has grown increasingly tangled in this battering election year.
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With a warm July wind battering the peninsula, Oomittuk took me on a four-wheeler ride for a glimpse of Point Hope's past glory.
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Or it's the kind of violence that comes from above, like an act of God, a battering of one's chances against the cosmic wheel.
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At six feet and 220 pounds, Robinson is a battering ram, but he's also explosive and has OK lateral moves for a bigger back.
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Global stock markets, however, were subdued after Catalan separatists wanting to break away from Spain won a regional election, battering Spanish stocks and the euro.
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If he or she doesn't answer the door fast enough, SWAT teams may break it down with a battering ram and throw flashbang grenades inside.
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Its track at the moment is somewhat unclear, but its winds are currently battering the Dominican Republic after the storm moved offshore from Puerto Rico.
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In this day and age, an effort to demystify the "aura" of the autonomous art object is an exercise in battering down an open door.
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"The defendant was being escorted out of the business by management due to him battering another employee, and causing a disturbance," the arrest report stated.
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The next morning he awoke another hundred feet above the winesink beside the temple with a battering wall, like the wall a pack looming ominous.
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A strong fourth quarter healed some of the damage but as the year closed and 2016 began, the battering in the market began yet again.
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Indonesia, a large producer, stopped exports because of the damage that mining causes—it requires stripping vast amounts of topsoil and battering the ground beneath.
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That was down from a high of around 2.2 million out Sunday morning when the storm was still battering the North and South Carolina coasts.
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This is not the kind of bull market that we saw in 1999 or even early 1987; investors' confidence has taken a battering since 2008.
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In doing so, the DOJ has aimed a battering ram at the freedom of the press, whether you think Assange is a journalist or not.
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Energy stocks tacked on 0.9 percent, recovering from a battering in the previous session as investors took heart from an overnight recovery in oil prices.
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Twenty police officers smashed down the door of Boyd's parents' home with a battering ram, rifles drawn, and detained the family for hours without charge.
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It further isolates the administration of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who is accused of exacerbating the political, economic and humanitarian crises battering the Andean country.
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Cinner said the study was unable to include all possible factors due to a lack of data, including the battering that reefs get from waves.
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The dollar dropped as much as 0.7 percent to 117.66 yen , a level last seen in late August, battering exporters and other blue chip stocks.
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" In a high-school-era letter to McGovern, Haynes spelled out his own sense of separation: "Tell me our battering ram isn't a pipe cleaner.
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Then, in a decisive moment, Bruno went on the offensive, landing punch after punch on a retreating Lewis, battering his arms with huge swinging blows.
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At nearly 7 feet tall, he has the ball-handling skills of a point guard and the battering ram force of an old school center.
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Editorial It has been a week since Puerto Rico emerged from a double battering by hurricanes, and it is caught in a painful, torpid recovery.
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Armed with clubs, axes, and a battering ram, they smashed into the building and spirited away the prisoner, who, like Shadrach, found refuge in Canada.
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The battering rains on Sunday prompted county fire and emergency medical services to call in swift-water units from as far away as Northern Virginia.
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Videos show enormous dust storms and golf-ball-sized hail battering cars and buildingsCelebrities who donated their time and money to Australia fire relief efforts
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Unless Trump can buck history, he may experience an even more painful defeat, given the multiple political and legal storms already battering his White House.
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They usually stayed in the locker rooms to get last-minute instructions or get pumped up for the battering that was about to take place.
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Days after the tax increase went into effect, Typhoon Hagibis slammed into Japan, battering its main island, causing enormous damage and further suppressing economic activity.
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Oswalt: Like if I'm arguing for the right for a woman to have an abortion, there's a demon battering an angel with a hammer somewhere.
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All those shocks contributed to the environment in which the siege and battering of eastern Aleppo could take place, changing the course of the conflict.
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Rebels took control of eastern Aleppo in 2014, and government forces have besieged the area, battering it from above with the help of Russian air power.
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Hugely helpful!) Castro's battering of Beto O'Rourke on immigration was hard to watch (especially if you were related to O'Rourke), but a clear win for Castro.
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Young, masked protesters used metal bars and trolleys as battering rams to try to break the doors of headquarters as riot police watched from the inside.
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Even as it crossed 100 miles inland, battering the Georgia city of Bainbridge, the storm maintained its Category 3 hurricane classification and its well-formed eye.
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A woman described as a close friend of Jace's first wife said in a sworn statement that she witnessed Jace battering his then-wife in 1997.
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For the Saudis — 70 percent of whom are under 30 — the global glut battering the national budget threatens the cushy jobs that were once a birthright.
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Related: 5 Photographers Who Are Hitting Big in 2016 Technology Gets a Battering In Deep Fried Gadgets See Faces in Food with Klaus Enrique's New Portraits
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" "The U.S. wants greater access to China's market, but it should not use trade actions as a battering ram to force China to open its doors.
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It's a mixture of DFA's familiar clatter—Sebastien Grainger's battering ram drums, Jesse F Keeler's frantic, distorted bass guitar—mixed in with some 1990s house pianos.
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Irma intensified to a Category 2628 storm late Friday, battering Cuba, before weakening back to a Category 28500 early Saturday, according to the National Hurricane Center.
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With sustained winds of 65 mph and centered about 70 miles east of Tallahassee, Irma is carrying its fierce winds and battering rain over southern Georgia.
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After a battering for the lira it could easily breach 12 percent and that would crank up the pressure for action from the country's central bank.
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Body camera video obtained by the Journal-Sentinel showed the officers knocking on the door and breaking it down with a battering ram when nobody answered.
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Looking out the peephole of her door, she said, she saw police officers in helmets and protective vests charge into the building with a battering ram.
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A swarm of armed federal agents wearing bullet proof vests and equipped with battering rams and other riot gear arrested Roger Stone before sunrise Friday morning.
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After battering Dan Henderson and Vitor Belfort, Mousasi seems to have come to the realization that fans like a finisher more than a brilliant, cautious technician.
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As he earned a following battering the president over his relationship with Ms. Daniels, Mr. Avenatti said over the summer that was considering a presidential run.
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Mel Gibson was never kicked out, even after his 2006 anti-Semitic tirade was followed by a 19903 no-contest plea to battering a former girlfriend.
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Federal agents lug battering rams, bolt cutters and heavy weaponry by foot up a hill on a residential California street that's softly aglow from street lamps.
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Video clips taken along a bustling seaside avenue in Palu appear to show two successive waves, battering the coast within a few minutes of each other.
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That some of its storm troopers use shields with "no hate" emblazoned on them as battering rams shows that they have no sense of irony either.
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But the issue has become a political battering ram, and in the process, the definition of fake news has blurred, writes Sabrina Tavernise in this article.
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Climate change, likewise, doesn't cause any one hurricane on its own, but it's central to the story of the storms that are increasingly battering the Atlantic.
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Ms. Noonan basically ignored the unprecedented battering the president has taken in the media as a reason that he might respond to criticism inappropriately at times.
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Or possibly the president's repeated battering of the intelligence agencies is not so different from his attacks on the Environmental Protection Agency or the State Department.
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Jay Inslee, a fellow Democrat, had sent word to the attorney general's staff that he wanted to mount a battering-ram attack on the president's decree.
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In the end, the worst flooding had come not from the ocean's battering but from the stealthy creeping outward of these creeks and channels and wetlands.
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Worsening hurricanes, higher floods and rising seas are battering the coastal areas that house many of our nation's power plants, transmission lines, storage tanks and refineries.
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"The law is being used as a battering ram to break down traditional moral values and to establish moral relativism as a new orthodoxy," he said.
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He was a battering ram on defense policy – the most effective of the field in making the case for a more forceful projection of military power.
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They were in Geneva, notionally at least, for peace talks, but back in Syria, the government and its Russian allies were battering insurgents with scores of airstrikes.
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Though the Affordable Care Act has so far withstood the Trumpcare battering ram, 28 million remain uninsured in the United States, an entirely unacceptable state of affairs.
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This massive cactus species can grow over 40 feet tall, making them ideal symbols of the glory of the American Southwest and, also, very effective battering rams.
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There was no policy consistency, people who were not constitutionally in government were making decisions and even battering the judicial service, firing people left right and center.
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Floods and mega-storms - including two that hit the U.S. East Coast in the past month - are increasingly battering the country, and recovery costs are spiraling upwards.
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Former WWE cruiserweight champ Rich Swann was arrested this weekend for allegedly battering and falsely imprisoning his wife -- who's also a pro wrestler -- and now he's suspended.
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The Turkish lira has taken a battering in recent weeks, in part because of a political spat with America that has resulted in sanctions on Turkish officials.
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The indirect economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak is hitting Africa, with the sharp fall in commodity prices "battering" economies across the continent, according to Capital Economics.
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Pinterest's share price struggled to recover from the battering it took after the company reported a bigger-than-expected quarterly loss and a sales forecast below estimates.
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They can hurt people they dislike, or at the very least damage their property — not to mention their sense of safety — with a publicly funded battering ram.
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On Friday, Asian and European stocks took a battering and safe-haven assets such as the yen, gold and government bonds jumped as investors rushed for cover.
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The indecency of taking a battering ram to our institutions, particularly the free press and the judiciary, for the sole purpose of weakening their ability to resist.
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The Obama administration used that battering ram to try to compel the Catholic Church to toe the line on its view of abortion and same-sex marriage.
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Tear gas and water cannons rained down on protesters, as armored personnel carriers with battering rams raced forward, and troops laid barbed wire coils on the ground.
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BIRMINGHAM, England (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The officers arrived quietly at the house in central England - no need for a battering ram, a knock on the door sufficed.
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After a bad battering, Ed would take Michael's wallet and a few pieces of good jewelry that he loved and hide them, to prevent him from leaving.
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More than 12,800 people, including many self-identified Starbucks workers, have signed an online petition alleging that staffing hour reductions are battering employee morale and hurting service.
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Some market participants worry about a knock-on effect of a higher yen hitting profits, battering stock prices further, and undoing more of the gains of "Abenomics".
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While the fixed income bond market could face a further battering, it is expected that the loan market will continue to push ahead relatively unaffected in comparison.
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Sterling took a battering during morning trade on Wednesday after the British government sent a letter to Brussels formally starting the country's exit from the European Union.
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"I needed time off just to take a minute and just chill and re-heal, get ready," she said after the 33-minute battering of the Pole.
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The storm whose heavy rains have been battering Sri Lanka evolved into a tropical cyclone over the Bay of Bengal, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center.
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In that round, Silva began to turn it on, showing flashes of his former brilliance, battering Bisping with punches and even a front kick to the chin.
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Love is great, obviously, and makes us feel a combination of effervescent and unhinged but is wielded like a battering ram at this time of the year.
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It creates uncertainty over Apple's business in one of its biggest markets at a time when concerns over waning demand for new iPhones are battering its shares.
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Here's what you need to know: • A strong winter storm tore through much of Europe, battering homes with hail and heavy rain, flooding streets and disrupting flights.
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N) shut its 93,500 barrel-per-day (bpd) refinery at Kapolei, Hawaii, on Friday as Hurricane Lane began battering the chain of islands, a company spokesman said.
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And somehow, when I settle into the carroty (or is it cantaloupe?) Moondog-covered chair, it feels toasty and snug against the English rain battering the window.
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In addition to the prohibitions on certain military surplus gear, he added restrictions on transferring some weapons and devices, including explosives, battering rams, riot helmets and shields.
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He denied protesters had disappeared or were being held as political prisoners, and he demanded an end to demonstrations, saying the unrest was battering the nation's economy.
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Unless it closes a deal by March, a gaping balance-sheet hole will prompt automatic delisting of its shares from Tokyo's stock market - further battering its shareholders.
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Such a candidate would likely be someone from outside the party and have to be untarnished by the corruption scandals battering Brazil's political class, the source said.
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On top of the typical storms, floods and fires that we anticipate, this hurricane season made history, with storms battering approximately 8 percent of the U.S. population.
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ET, tropical storm force winds were reported to be battering the Panhandle coastline, with the storm little more than 100 miles south-south-west of Panama City.
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The fragile middle-ground took a battering in the election, with two moderate parties losing all five of their seats, an unmistakable indication that polarisation is becoming deeper.
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"With the very, very strong winds if they just sit there and twirl, it's like a battering ram," Queensland police commissioner Ian Stewart told CNN affiliate 7 News.
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After battering coastal Florida, Hermine is expected to weaken and move across the northern part of the state into Georgia, then southern U.S. coastal regions on the Atlantic.
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Meanwhile, the two world's biggest economies — the United States and China — are locked in a trade war which is threatening to slow global growth and battering investor sentiment.
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Battering waves of up to 30 to 45 feet in height will form off the coast and slam barrier islands, potentially breaking open new channels in between them.
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Arctic sea ice has become more sparse in summer and fall, and weather patterns have grown more erratic, battering coastal villages suffering from extreme amounts of beach erosion.
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And though department stores took a battering in 2017, with a number of stores closing and consumers moving online, they also saw their sales go up this holiday.
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Hyperinflation and widespread shortages of food and medicine are battering the country, and the International Monetary Fund projects inflation could top 2440 million percent by year&aposs end.
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But this theory has taken a battering in recent years, as trial after trial of anti-amyloid drug has failed to slow down the disease in human patients.
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He denied protesters had gone missing or were being held as political prisoners, and he demanded an end to demonstrations, saying the unrest was battering the nation's economy.
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The years spent battering his system had given his body demons that would not be exorcised quickly, and thoughts of getting high continued to race through Larry's head.
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His biggest obstacle is not the renewed clashes between security forces and Kurdish insurgents, which are battering the region's economy; nor even the conservatism of its Muslim majority.
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Italian's faith in the EU took a battering during the recent financial crisis, and both the 5-Star Movement and opposition Northern League are against the euro currency.
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Frahm supplies a magnetic vintage synth line, the ghost in DJ Shadow's machine; he chops it up and makes it dance with an array of battering-ram rhythms.
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Punching bag The battering of the mainstream press hardly began with Trump, points out Gene Policinski, chief operating officer of the Newseum Institute and its First Amendment Center.
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Whatever the trajectory Saipov took, it allegedly culminated in a letter pledging allegiance to ISIS being left behind near the rental truck converted into a human battering ram.
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Instead, they intend to aim Mr. Trump like a battering ram at a small number of targets, to keep delivering his provocative message on trade, terrorism and immigration.
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FGW conducted the poll directly after elections in two eastern states on Sunday, where Merkel's conservatives and their Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners weathered a far-right battering.
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She has documented domestic violence — including her own battering at the hands of a boyfriend — as well as the scourge of H.I.V. and the death of close friends.
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The full spectrum of gender-based violence also encompasses but is not limited to sexual harassment, domestic battering, sexual exploitation, violation of reproductive rights, "honor" killings and rape.
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Because of the exaggerated coats with battering-ram shoulder pads that triangulated the body in the extreme, and looped with great swaths of scarves tossed around the neck.
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Stock markets around the world took a battering last week, as a confluence of factors — nascent inflation, rising interest rates, tightening fiscal policy and trade tensions — spooked investors.
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Photos and video footage of the protests capture distressing images of fireworks directed at a building, fires lit, buildings and businesses vandalized, and barricades turned into battering rams.
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It's not about power dressing in the old, battering-ram-shoulder sense, but in the sense that when you feel secure and comfortable and protected, you feel stronger.
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Young and old took turns Sunday night, when the Yankees won their seventh game in a row, 210-2212, by battering Adam Wainwright of the St. Louis Cardinals.
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As such, he handled the students' response when law enforcement invaded the building from the roof, basement and front glass doors armed with a battering ram and weapons.
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The U.S. and China have imposed tariffs on billions of dollars' worth of one another's goods since early 2018, battering financial markets and souring business and consumer sentiment.
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Also left unanswered: whether Trump himself believes the women who have accused former staff secretary Rob Porter of emotionally and physically battering them during their marriages to him.
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The afflictions of contemporary womanhood rain down like battering hailstones on the unhappy London of Penelope Skinner's "Linda," which opened on Tuesday night at the Manhattan Theater Club.
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Shevrin Jones posted a video sent to him by his family in the Bahamas which shows Dorian battering the windows and the door of their two-story house.
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The Category 4 storm has reached the Florida Keys and is battering the islands with strong winds and storm surge as it makes its way towards mainland Florida.
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HAVANA — A tornado ripped through eastern Havana late Sunday and early Monday, killing three people, injuring 174 others and battering the capital with powerful winds and heavy rains.
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Many emerging-market currencies have taken a battering since the election in November of Donald Trump raised expectations of faster monetary tightening in America and sent the dollar soaring.
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Equities remained under pressure on Tuesday, with markets in Asia taking a battering, while U.S. S&P futures tumbled by as much as 3 percent to four-month lows.
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The lira, which has taken a battering over concerns that the central bank's independence is under threat from politicians in Turkey agitating for lower interest rates, rallied in response.
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Following his arrest in February 2017, Randle ended up being charged with an additional count of felony aggravated battery after allegedly battering an inmate, according to the Wichita Eagle.
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The intervention by the People's Bank of China (PBoC) helped push metal prices slightly higher, pushing the basic resource sector up sharply, after it took a battering on Monday.
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Standing crops in northern and central Luzon took a battering from winds and floods in what is the biggest region in the Philippines for growing rice, corn and vegetables.
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The sudden and violent G forces battering your body, the noise banging your eardrums, the exaggerated too-much-is-never-enough styling — all of that is muted or transformed.
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The U.S. and China have imposed tariffs on billions of dollars' worth of one another's goods over the past year, battering financial markets and souring business and consumer sentiment.
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The brunt of the blizzard reached the New York City area after battering Washington, where snow piled up outside the White House and famous monuments were frosted with snow.
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Whereas Chandler's domain was distinct, all stone walls and heavy wooden battering rams, Marion was awesomely erosive, slipping into every crack and wearing away at the competition wherever possible.
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Tropical Storm Dorian is battering the British Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, with a maximum sustained wind speed of 60 mph and strong rain, AccuWeather and the NOAA noted.
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" While Agnew noted that the costs from hurricanes battering the southeast were greater than expected, he says "the market should and ultimately will look through noise from the storms.
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Wall Street fell overnight as U.S. stocks took another battering from the rout in technology stocks which has extended on the back of disappointing results from the big players.
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His dad wanted to be in a band, so, inspired by the virtuosity of Rainbow's Ritchie Blackmore and the progressive battering of Rush's Alex Lifeson, Jones began to practice.
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While I'm sure he had suffered from the array of punches he endured, it appeared Walters' heart, will to fight and boxer's ego had taken a battering the worst.
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Washington and Beijing have imposed tariffs on billions of dollars' worth of one another's goods since the start of 3.573, battering financial markets and souring business and consumer sentiment.
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As long as MacDonald can keep Thompson working he stands an excellent chance of getting Thompson to the ground in the later rounds and battering him from half guard.
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A battering wind left people pulling scarves and masks ever higher around their faces and grimacing as they hurried here and there, but Michael Bomba seemed not to notice.
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Millions of residents along the Southeastern U.S. coast are on high alert amid warnings the storm would move northeast after battering the Bahamas, threatening Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas.
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The virus, which originated in China, has spread quickly around the globe, killing more than 8,000 people and battering economic activity, which has raised fears of a global recession.
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It was literally battering the islands while he was supposed to pitch investors, and he used his time instead to ask us to help the victims of the storm.
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The Bok coach says he expects another physical battle, especially as the French have maintained their forward pack that at times gave the home side a battering in Durban.
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Washington imposed sweeping sanctions in April on some of Russia's biggest companies and businessmen to punish Moscow for "malign activities", battering the Russian markets and sending the rouble weakening.
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Speaking just as Irma is about to start battering Florida as a Category 4 storm, Dudley said the initial impact in both human and economic costs will be harmful.
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Shoulders were curved wide to battering-ram proportions, achieved via cut, not padding, or they were narrow; skirts tentlike and mid-calf or skinny and spilling long under tunics.
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The third man on top of him was battering his skull with both fists, but still Alex held on, hoping to buy his teammates, battling around him, breathing space.
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That compared with 241,900 on Wednesday afternoon and a high of about 2.2 million on Sunday morning when the storm was still battering the North and South Carolina coasts.
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The storm had briefly lost some of its strength after battering the Bahamas, but has intensified to maximum sustained winds near 115 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center.
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In four short outbursts over two days, Trump used the call as a battering ram against China, linking it with his critical views on Beijing's trade, currency and military policies.
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Trump's critics fear that the relentless US battering may leave the Iranians little incentive to return to a diplomatic process they accuse the President of betraying by exiting the agreement.
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A British Airways flight on Saturday smashed the record for the fastest subsonic transatlantic passenger flight after a storm battering the UK hugely accelerated wind speeds in the jet stream.
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By midnight, thousands of energy customers in Alabama and Mississippi were without power, and social media posts showed major flooding and heavy winds battering cities like Gulfport, Mississippi, and Biloxi.
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Mr. Comey may not want to be used as anybody's "political battering ram," as one associate put it, but he recognizes that is precisely how his book will be deployed.
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After decades of neglect, many of the board houses are rotting through, the mahogany boards that make up the walls finally succumbing to the relentless battering of successive rainy seasons.
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If Whitaker is ever nominated for a Senate-confirmed post, he should expect Democrats to bring up these comments as evidence the president sees him as a political battering ram.
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The ice storm video uses the same Immersive Mixed Reality technology that we saw in the storm surge graphic The Weather Channel launched as Hurricane Florence began battering the Carolinas.
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Rupert Murdoch called the EPL his "battering ram" for putting Sky boxes into British homes, after the broadcaster bought the exclusive rights to the league when it launched in 1992.
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In the second round, Emelianenko regained his composure—there's that superhuman resilience—and earned an ovation for every knee and kick and hook that landed, battering the titanium-skulled Maldonado.
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Ms Nahles has a battle trying to unite the SPD after its battering at last year's general election and contentious decision to join another grand coalition with the Christian Democrats.
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A new video from The Weather Channel shows in real time the danger of flood waters already rising in parts of the Carolinas as Hurricane Florence starts battering the coast.
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The world's two largest economies have imposed tariffs on billions of dollars' worth of one another's goods over the past year, battering financial markets and souring business and consumer sentiment.
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Former airman Devin P. Kelley had been convicted of domestic violence after battering his wife and and stepson, an offense the Air Force neglected to enter into a federal database.
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Even Florida Governor Rick Scott, who appears to be taking the current weather situation seriously, only seems to be convinced about climate threats when the winds are battering his door.
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At Transition House, everyone believed that battering was a result of male domination in a sexist culture, so the idea that women battered other women was incomprehensible, and therefore ignored.
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That compared with 532,000 at midday on Tuesday and a high of around 2.2 million on Sunday morning when the storm was still battering the North and South Carolina coasts.
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"There was no need to have 29 FBI agents with assault weapons and side arms and hand grenades and a battering ram to smash in my front door," Stone said.
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China and the U.S. have imposed tariffs on billions of dollars' worth of one another's goods since the start of 2018, battering financial markets and souring business and consumer sentiment.
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The political party that invented the term "Borking" is using uncorroborated and unverified sexual misconduct charges made by Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez as a battering ram against Kavanaugh.
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Hard techno can feel like a battering ram, but this is more hopeful—a mix for rolling the windows down and speeding through the countryside on a hot summer night.
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Hurricane Florence is pummeling the Carolinas after making landfall Friday morning, battering the coast with up to 85 mile-an-hour winds and threatening floods at two nuclear power plants.
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But on Wednesday afternoon, the storm began battering the city and the streets all around the hospital, and soon it became evident that the hospital buildings themselves were not safe.
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According to the DA's office, the latter charges stem from an incident on April 22, when Camou is accused of battering Custer, strangling her and threatening her with a Taser.
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Aaron Spaulding, 39, was initially arrested on June 4 and accused of battering his girlfriend and holding her against her will, the Las Cruces Police Department said in a statement.
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As I typed that, the U.S. got four shots off in quick succession, battering the poor Chor Charoenying once again, but she and her defenders gamely fight off each one.
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Scores of the state's residents were injured in landslides and the authorities said nearly 220,000 more have been displaced since heavy rains began battering the southern Indian state last week.
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Days before Friday's World Cup draw at the Kremlin, along with a trial in a New York courtroom further battering its reputation, FIFA could be facing a significant financial shortfall.
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As VICE reported in December, after a battering in the press, Amazon hired high-powered lobbyists to try and quell the tension in New York and ease their path forward.
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Severe weather conditions gripped Australia on Sunday and Monday, with an enormous dust storm hitting New South Wales, and golf ball-sized hail stones battering cars and buildings in Canberra.
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If the former vice president emerged as an overwhelming favorite after Super Tuesday, Mr. Bloomberg would reorient his campaign into an organization dedicated to battering Mr. Trump, the advisers said.
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Spence Jr, who is a few wins away from being anointed the welterweight division's new Floyd Mayweather, won almost every minute of every round in a 2019 battering of Garcia.
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While the Indians were rolling, Texas was limited to two hits in the final six innings after battering Indians ace Corey Kluber for five runs in the first three innings.
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According to a complaint affidavit, SWAT officers knocked several times on the front doors of the mayor's home and tried unsuccessfully to use a battering ram to force them open.
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The same bewitching blend of incisive passing, controlled tempo and technical ability that made Spain a world champion eight years ago, all arraigned behind the battering ram of Diego Costa.
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The CaribbeanHurricanes Irma and Maria delivered a one-two punch to the Caribbean in 2017, battering many islands, including Dominica, Puerto Rico, Saint Martin and the United States Virgin Islands.
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The ombudsman added that such practices also risk fueling the extreme violence already battering the tiny Central American nation where bloodthirsty street gangs control large parts of most major cities.
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As Texas recovers from the battering winds and record-setting rainfall of Hurricane Harvey, Apple and Dell customers elsewhere in the US are learning the storm may have some unforeseen consequences.
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After Australia's Prime Minister was recently yelled at by Trump, the last thing the land Down Under needs is an additional battering from a terrible ad for even more terrible wine.
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The man, Pietro Maso, now 45, wrote to the pope in 2013 begging for forgiveness after spending more than 20 years in jail for battering his mother and father with saucepans.
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For crisis-hit Venezuela, the new year appears to look a lot like the old, with civil strife, food and medicine shortages, and a brutal recession battering the oil-rich economy.
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Because the storm will hit the coast and then stall, storm surge flooding could occur during multiple high tide cycles, subjecting the coast to battering waves that will exacerbate the damage.
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Built in the early 1980s and the only hospital on St. Thomas, the facility was struggling to pay its bills, obtain medication, and refurbish its aging wings before the battering storms.
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Roanu packed a wallop as it made landfall Saturday, battering the south and southeast regions of Barisal and Chittagong especially hard -- damaging hundreds of houses and causing landslides, disaster officials said.
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Hong Kong (CNN)Over 120 flights to and from Hong Kong have been canceled as Typhoon Nida barrels toward the city and southern China, after battering the Philippines over the weekend.
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Brittany Ann Ingrassi, 31, stood accused of battering Aiden Lopez around his head and chest on the morning of March 22, 2016, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.
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The National Hurricane Center said it may produce disastrous rainfall, flooding and landslides over much of the island chain, in addition to battering surf, coastal flooding and high winds through Saturday.
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The Turkish leader, whose image in Western capitals has taken a battering over the past decade, appears increasingly eager to placate foreign critics, especially with the Turkish economy now facing recession.
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They had tracked El Chapo to a safe house in the city of Culiacán, and the raid began when the marines started hammering on his front door with a battering ram.
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And though 50 Cent's public persona has taken a battering in recent years—beaten down by bankruptcy and downright foolishness—it remains a fact that, at one time, he was untouchable.
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Well these majestic beasts are making the most out of their wintery day, thanks to a massive snowstorm that is currently battering the East Coast of the United States with snow.
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Armed with little more than a sampler she started playing these absolutely punishing beats, battering the assembled crowd until a strange smell started seeping into the room, and then a haze.
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The one big Roman exhibit—a thrillingly spiky battering-ram from the decisive naval defeat of Carthage in 241BC—is followed by nothing much until some Byzantine jewellery of 500-700AD.
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The SDF lost roughly 11,000 fighters as it served as America's battering ram against ISIS, while the US lost four service members in Syria in the fight against the terror group.
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Read more: Videos show Hurricane Dorian battering North and South Carolina before the storm made landfallThe damage comes less than a week after the storm surprised Bahamians by devastating several areas.
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The videos shared by Trump purported to show a group of people who were Muslims beating a teenage boy to death, battering a boy on crutches and destroying a Christian statue.
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Again, there's also the Wenger-Mourinho dynamic to worry about, so don't be surprised if the visitors take a relative battering and get sent home with their tails between their legs.
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But if all an up-and-coming artist can hope for is a foot in the door, his first single and subsequent output are a veritable battering-ram through said door.
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Apparently, I'm not the only one, or the Public Theater would not bother to hang a warning outside its Martinson Hall, where Julia Cho's battering "Office Hour" opened on Wednesday night.
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Hong Kong (CNN Business)Weeks of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong are battering shares in the city's property developers and pushing its benchmark stock index closer to a bear market.
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Footage of the raids in 15 different Russian regions showed armed men wearing balaclavas using battering rams to gain access to properties and handcuffed men later being unloaded from a van.
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And now, as the Islamic State takes a battering on the battlefields of Syria and Iraq, the country is at odds over what to do if and when they come home.
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He notes the unusualness of intense November heat, or of battering rainstorms: observations that ring eerily familiar even for readers who are neither Amish farmers nor survivors of global power outages.
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They cannot die; the coral joy and battering ceramic, the peach bones and scotch bonnet seeds; the sorrel, and foil mask she then puts on to belt her savage choir. ♦
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The world's two largest economies have imposed tariffs on billions of dollars' worth of one another's goods since the start of 63, battering financial markets and souring business and consumer sentiment.
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A Reuters photographer said he saw police using a battering ram to break down a door and enter a former court building that was used by Extinction Rebellion to store equipment.
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Several democratic lawmakers tried to stop the protesters by positioning themselves between the demonstrators and the building, even physically blocking the makeshift battering rams at times — but were eventually pushed aside.
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The entire action—from the battering ram to the door and windows of the vacant house being boarded up—was caught in front of the TV cameras and broadcast on Twitter.
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Videos show enormous dust storms and golf-ball-sized hail battering cars and buildingsDevastating images of burned koalas and wallabies are emerging from Australia as 1 billion animals are feared dead
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A hero worker, I guessed — some disciple of the stupendously industrious Aleksei G. Stakhanov, a Ukrainian coal miner who lent his fabled name to a national drive for quota-battering productivity.
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The world's two largest economies have imposed tariffs on billions of dollars' worth of one another's goods since the start of 23, battering financial markets and souring business and consumer sentiment.
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Apart from the domestic political storms that are battering the White House, the news conference and Merkel's visit to the White House are coming at a crucial moment for US-German relations.
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More heavy rain later While there was a lull in the heavy rain Friday morning, CNN meteorologist Gene Norman said, another round of battering storms was expected Friday night going into Saturday.
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While a majority of analysts expect a quarter-point raise, some analysts said they would not be surprised if there's a 27.73 bps increase, given surging oil prices and the rupee's battering.
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Over the course of the last two rounds, the TUF winner was soundly in control of the fight, repeatedly taking her foe's back and battering her with ground-and-pound wherever possible.
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The slowdown in oil and gas has radiated deep into the economy and huge cuts by heavy equipment and farm machinery manufacturers are battering thousands of smaller suppliers across the industrial belt.
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Santander, which had built retail and commercial banking businesses in a number of countries, from Chile to Britain, was well placed to withstand the storm, even though its homeland took a battering.
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Even though we flew over the Alps across Europe, and landed during Storm Ciara that was battering the UK and causing havoc for some planes and airports, we didn't encounter any turbulence.
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Wedges of various sizes, some of which show signs of battering on their butt-ends, would have been hammered into narrow joins between the pillars to loosen them from the rock face.
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Although this is bad news for Christie — who is leading GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump's transition team and who has faced a political battering from the scandal — it's a very preliminary ruling.
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After traveling across the Atlantic Ocean, it stewed for more than a week in the Caribbean, fluctuating between a Category 3 and 5 storm while battering Jamaica, Cuba, and other vulnerable islands.
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Markets have taken a battering recently and European stocks were trading near a two-year low on Tuesday, down 253.2 percent from their peak, but the index rose 253.0 percent on Wednesday.
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Since then, Zimbabweans have seen a familiar pattern of dollar shortages battering the economy, rocketing inflation that is destroying the value of their savings and the government reacting forcefully to crush dissent.
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The planets have aligned for Stephens and he has managed three of the most impressive performances of his lengthy UFC career, battering Gilbert Melendez, Dooho Choi and Josh Emmett back-to-back.
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Editorial Videos of police officers battering or even killing unarmed black civilians have given the wider society a view of the world in which African-Americans have lived for a long time.
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That was the Black Eyed Peas' frontman's inspiration for creating a 90-minute VR comic book that moves at your pace and lets emotion sink in instead of battering you with visuals.
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The toilet revelations were only among the latest in a series of battering claims — over taxes, race, wealth, labor unions, and oversight of a state-run veterans home — in a bruising campaign.
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There's been a lot of protective clothing around this season, a lot of battering-ram shoulders and storm trooper boots and swaddling duvets for when you just can't take it any more.
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All I could dream when I was next in, serving two and a half years for battering that kid's brother, all I could think about was, Fuck me, I cannot fucking wait.
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Heavy rain and battering winds were reported in that province, with Manuel Mamba, the provincial governor, describing the capital as being "pummeled" during an telephone interview with the ABS-CBN News Channel.
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" Finley also claims Dawson helped her mother and "sat down on top of Mr. Finley, actively restraining him while he was on the ground to ensure that her mother could continue battering.
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It's important because it shows that a strategy of regarding corporations as people, deliberately disenfranchising voters and battering the First Amendment is working, but it's working to the detriment of us all.
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He was charged with killing Tanya Furlan, a mother of three living in Auckland, battering her to death in her home and abducting one of her children, who was later released unharmed.
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Others in Mosul, such as 31-year-old Ali Fares, say they could never vote for the leaders they blame for recklessly battering their city in the battle to oust Islamic State.
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They can also be accelerated, allowing Lyndra's scientists to observe in just a few hours how well the star form will hold up to a week's worth of real-world peristaltic battering.
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Conservative attorneys general in states including Texas, Virginia and Florida have sued the Obama administration dozens of times, systematically battering Mr. Obama's signature health care, environmental and immigration policies in the courts.
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Daniels turned her case from a side show muffled by multiple controversies battering the administration into a West Wing headache using methods that Trump, the high priest of self publicity, would recognize.
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Hurricane Harvey is currently battering the state of Texas, leaving thousands stranded in unprecedented flooding, but that hasn't stopped President Trump from making lemonade out of the suffering — to bolster his own ratings.
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Hurricanes are battering our shores, the West is on fire, that poor 2 percent of remaining scientific skeptics has been refuted, and here's Rush Limbaugh, telling people in Miami not to believe meteorologists.
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After taking a battering in foreign-exchange markets the Turkish lira stabilised as the government brought in measures to stop short-selling of the currency and trumpeted a pledge of investment from Qatar.
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The National Weather Service is warning of "widespread deep inundation, with storm surge flooding greatly accentuated by powerful battering waves," at the coast, and winds strong enough to cause structural damage to buildings.
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Which brings us to James Alex Fields, the 20 year-old Ohio native who is accused by Virginia of transforming his Dodge Challenger into a battering ram, killing one woman and injuring others.
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EditorsNote: rewords sixth graf DeMarcus Cousins served as a facilitator before thriving as a battering ram, leading the Golden State Warriors to a 133-104 victory over the host Houston Rockets on Wednesday.
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As Europe clamps down on Iran's sanction-busting activity and the US refuses to let up on harsh sanctions battering its economy, the risk of conflict between Iran and the world dangerously persists.
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This comes just two weeks after record-breaking Hurricane Dorian stalled over the Bahamas, devastating the islands and killing at least 23 people before battering the coasts of Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas.
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He may be wilting in the heat—I can relate—or slowly picking himself up after the emotional battering of seeing so few people in the Forum obviously rooting for his new game.
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At least 50 archaeological sites in Peru have been damaged by the intense rains that are battering northern Peru, resulting in a drastic drop in related tourism, said archaeologist and explorer Walter Alva.
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For anyone who wants to understand the complex dynamic between environmental battering and the sort of inner strength that often goes by the name of resilience, this is the book to turn to.
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Hurricane Dorian briefly made landfall on the Outer Banks of North Carolina on Friday, hitting the beach resort with powerful winds and battering waves days after reducing parts of the Bahamas to rubble.
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Top-20 recruit and Mississippi State signee Jeffery Simmons was caught on tape battering a woman on the ground, and issued an apology for his actions yesterday, according to Columbus, Mississippi station WCBI.
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" He complained that the news media were ignoring his wife's many charitable initiatives and trying to use the newly surfaced recording as "a battering ram in the ongoing attempt to overthrow the government.
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LONDON — The winter storm Eleanor tore through Europe on Wednesday with winds of up to 100 miles per hour, bringing lightning and heavy rain, battering houses with hail, flooding streets and uprooting trees.
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Boeing Co gained 219% in premarket trading after four days of battering in the face of a complete collapse in the aerospace sector as the coronavirus pandemic brings global travel to a halt.
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CreditCreditRogelio Baez-Vega, via Gallery Km 0.2 When Hurricane Maria began battering Puerto Rico last September, the actor Modesto Lacén was at his house in Rio Grande, near the El Yunque rain forest.
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MADRID — A powerful winter storm in Spain has killed at least 10 people after battering the country for days, destroying bridges, cutting off roads and railway lines and flooding vast swaths of farmland.
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Earlier, Cody Garbrandt (11-0) won the men's bantamweight title, battering the champion Dominick Cruz (22-2) to earn a surprising decision victory in the U.F.C.'s traditional end-of-the-year show.
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New York Fed President William Dudley, in an interview with CNBC on Friday when Irma was poised to begin battering Florida, acknowledged that the two hurricanes could impact the timing of rate hikes.
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The deadly coronavirus, whose spread accelerated around the globe, is battering the stock market, and some U.S. companies are particularly vulnerable to the disease as their growth has been driven by Chinese consumers.
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No stranger to the very specific art of cooking food on live television, Martha handles the dredging and the battering of the chicken with ease, and Wiz proves to be a capable sous chef.
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It floods the screen with a horde of minions, and within moments, my four teammates and I are battering it with power, fireworks, and concussive blasts of energy and gunpowder everywhere, all at once.
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U.S. equity markets have taken a battering in recent months amid trade war tensions, fears of an economic slowdown and Fed rate hikes – not to mention ongoing political uncertainty with the U.S. government shutdown.
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Chinese stocks have also taken a battering, with the Shanghai bourse hitting over two-year lows in an ominous start to July, days before U.S. tariffs on Chinese exports are due to take effect.
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Huawei's reputation in the US took a serious battering in 29, a year bookended by major carriers shelving high-profile phone launches and the arrest of the company's chief financial officer on fraud charges.
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Nor does he want to be in a position where he has burned his bridges with an incoming Trump White House at the exact moment united government could become a battering ram against liberalism.
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Mitsubishi Motors' president, Tetsuro Aikawa, said on Wednesday he would step down over that scandal, becoming the first senior departure since it broke, battering the company's reputation and wiping billions off its market value.
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Instead, the year featured consumers mostly hanging onto their gas savings, weak capital expenditures (including a decline of 1.8 percent in the fourth quarter) and slumping oil prices battering investment instead of lifting spending.
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" Scanlon wrote in another post: "In standing up for yourself and for others sometimes you take a little battering but the encouragement and love I have received helps pick me up and keep going.
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What are your thoughts on the dismantling of toxic masculinity and toxic language that harms the trans community, and how do we all show up for people who experience this daily battering and violence?
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But with commodity prices low, a large gold and copper mine recently closing and drought battering the country's farms, growth has decreased markedly: the Asian Development Bank predicts a rate of 4.3% this year.
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I live in a flood-prone area that might see high waters, but nothing like what's battering the coast, where the storm surge might put up to nine feet of water in the street.
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I think about long marriages between men and women where there's a bit of battering going on, on both sides, but you see them both at 80 and they're smiling before they eventually die.
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He claimed the film was damaging to his reputation—and to add insult to injury, Max Baer had a role in it, playing out a fictionalised version of the battering he had given Primo.
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Following Wednesday night's debate—in the midst of the general melee of the spin area, where TV technicians wield cameras like battering rams—I briefly caught up with Tom Perez, who chairs the DNC.
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Fast-forward to October and Trump abruptly stepped aside to allow Erdogan to target a group that lost 11,000 fighters as they served as America's battering ram in the effort that crushed ISIS's caliphate.
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Foreman knocked Stewart down twice in the second round of a scheduled 10-round bout and was battering him in the third when Foreman motioned to the referee, Richard Steele, to stop the fight.
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Some of the nightclub places, they'll just have two or three nights a week where they want to use this furniture, so it takes a real battering when they store it and reassemble it.
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The closure comes as cases of the novel coronavirus rack up around the world, rattling major industries -- notably travel and tourism -- battering financial markets and prompting major US sporting leagues to suspend their seasons.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Measures of Australian business and consumer sentiment took a battering in February as a coronavirus outbreak threatens to severely impede growth, raising the risk of the country's first recession in three decades.
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As a tactical team of Mexican marines used a battering ram on his front door, the kingpin known as El Chapo disappeared into the tunnel's humid darkness — and into the annals of criminal myth.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Measures of Australian business and consumer sentiment took a battering in February as a coronavirus outbreak threatens to severely impede growth, raising the risk of the country's first recession in three decades.
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President Trump, who has been battering China over trade, turned to a new front last week, accusing Beijing of interfering in the approaching midterm elections by buying major advertising space in an Iowa newspaper.
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Dorian was downgraded to a Category 85033 hurricane on Tuesday and began moving toward the Florida coast after coming to a standstill over the Bahamas, battering the island and killing at least five people.
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Dorian was downgraded to a Category 2 hurricane on Tuesday and began moving toward the Florida coast after coming to a standstill over the Bahamas, battering the island and killing at least five people.
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Trudeau also said the federal government would offer an additional C$13 billion ($3.4 billion) line of credit for farmers and agricultural producers to help them through a crisis that is battering the economy.
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"This is a harder life in terms of being away from home and putting up with the pace and the public battering that one sometimes must endure," said Representative Tom Cole, Republican of Oklahoma.
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The coastal winds blew incessantly, weathering the cedar shingles and battering the cypress trees surrounding the house into a permanent tilt inland, concealing it from cars on the Pacific Coast Highway to the east.
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Meanwhile, the rain battering Tokyo — and the notion of a young woman who can cause the sun to come out — alludes to the real-life climate crisis, although the film never mentions it explicitly.
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As Florence has approached, Trump has switched between two extremes, expressing wonderment at the scale of the storm and boasting that the United States has never been better prepared for such an epic battering.
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JOHANNESBURG, March 15 (Reuters) - A powerful tropical storm made landfall in Mozambique on Thursday evening, battering a coastal town with heavy rain and wind at speeds of up to up 170 km an hour.
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Sports Briefing Carlos Correa homered twice and had a career-high five R.B.I. on Sunday as the Houston Astros rolled into the All-Star break by battering the Blue Jays in Toronto, 19-1.
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They'd been taking ketamine and ecstasy practically every day while recording the EP, and soon began to suffer the ill mental health aftereffects of battering their bodies with Class As for two solid months.
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For his study, he consulted screen shots of the station's perimeters, as well as freight-elevator data, eventually determining that poor Stellan traveled about 1.12 miles before he was turned into a human battering ram.
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Casually lobbed by Donald Trump in early August after falling behind in the polls, allegations of vote-rigging in the U.S. elections have gone from political fringes to a mainstream battering ram of the right.
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The pound took another battering in currency markets, at one point falling below $443, as investors reacted negatively to the British government's indication that it is set on a hard exit from the European Union.
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The outcome was also seen as a win for opinions polls, whose reputations had taken a battering in recent months following their drastic failure to predict Donald Trump's election and the Brexit vote last year.
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Leung Yiu-chung, a 66-year-old pro-democracy lawmaker, was literally tackled out of the way as he attempted to prevent a makeshift battering ram being used to smash a door into the building.
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Argentina has been taking measures to fight inflation since last year, when prices rose 47.6%, battering consumers' spending power and dampening President Mauricio Macri's popularity ahead of make-or-break national elections later this year.
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The candidate also wanted the death penalty for the Central Park Five, a group of black and Latino youth wrongfully accusing of battering and raping a white female jogger in a racially charged, explosive case.
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The uphill climb starts with Greg Monroe, a nimble, 6-foot-10 battering ram from a bygone era, a back-to-the-basket dinosaur who's quietly trying to make the best of his abrupt demotion.
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But he also had to face up to questions about how and why fans could have any faith in athletics after the battering it has taken on the doping front in the last 18 months.
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"There are different things happening that seem to be battering the rural economy, particularly in different parts of the Midwest," said Mack Shelley, professor and chair of the Iowa State University's Department of Political Science.
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BLUEFIELDS, Nicaragua (Reuters) - Tropical storm Otto moved out to sea on Friday after battering Nicaragua and Costa Rica with hurricane-force winds and torrential rains, killing at least three people and forcing thousands to evacuate.
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For some reason this hasn't stopped Eminem being able to perform freely across both countries even though his back catalogue includes, among many other things, songs about battering and murdering his very real ex-wife.
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The National Weather Service (NWS) on Wednesday warned that a "historic" high-powered storm is battering the central portion of the United States as hundreds of flights have been canceled because of a bomb cyclone.
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Spirit Airlines – Spirit received a double upgrade to "overweight" from "underweight" at JPMorgan Chase, which noted the battering in Spirit's stock price this year and a more favorable overall cost structure amid rising fuel prices.
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On Wall Street overnight, technology stocks took a battering after U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said forthcoming investment restrictions would apply "to all countries that are trying to steal our technology," not just to China.
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Sports Briefing Manchester United's hopes of Champions League soccer took a battering on Tuesday in a 3-2 loss at West Ham that followed an attack on United's bus as it arrived for the match.
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It's thanks to Turkey's international financing needs that the lira's battering stands out among emerging market currencies, many of which are being squeezed on the back of a strengthening dollar and rising U.S. Treasury yields.
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The President's toxic relationship with the media demands that a press secretary behave, at least publicly, less as a source of information than as a battering ram—especially during a moment of crisis, like now.
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The damage in Mexico, the worst-hit country in the storm's path, was wrought by the remnants of Earl, which had been slowing as it swept west, battering Belize and killing nine in the Caribbean.
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In Act One, Scene Eight, we're treated to a dream of Hagrid battering down the door of the Dursley's Hut-on-the-Rock, chastising Uncle Vernon and then revealing to Harry who he really is.
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One of the first storms to strike the economy with tornado-like force occurred in April, when yields on the U.S. benchmark 33-year Treasury notes reached their highest in four years, battering emerging markets.
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After the battering the state has taken over the past several days, with at least six deaths, severe weather may be on the way again, while the soaking from past storms continues to play havoc.
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Mayfield went on to say that the continuing uncertainty meant that consumer confidence had taken a battering and John Lewis was seeing a reluctance by consumers to make big ticket purchases in its department stores.
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Mayfield went on to say that the continuing uncertainty meant that consumer confidence had taken a battering and John Lewis was seeing a reluctance by consumers to make big ticket purchases in its department stores.
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The San Diego batters gained some confidence Sunday, battering former Padres minor leaguer Joe Ross for 12 hits and five runs in four innings and posting a 03-3 victory against the first-place Nationals.
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The initial Munich investigation was launched in 2016 after the stock took a battering from short-sellers when previously unknown Zatarra Research accused the company of misleading accounting and fraud, charges Wirecard has strongly denied.
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The ANC took a battering in local elections in 2016, mired in scandal, corruption and weak governance, and it hopes that in Ramaphosa, they have a leader to change the narrative for the 2019 vote.
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The Seahawks are dealing with injuries of their own, buoyed by Russell Wilson, who'll probably finish runner-up to Lamar Jackson in MVP voting, and the dramatic return of beloved, battering running back Marshawn Lynch.
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In an interesting twist to this "mixed member online ad industry association vs people who work with ads and data at actual publishers" slugfest, Rothenberg replied to Berjon's thread, literally thanking him for the absolute battering.
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Dyer and Fibiger believed this model more accurately represented the shape and strength of the human skull compared to an animal carcass, and that it was more ethical than battering away at a human donor's corpse.
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"The animal spirits of the corporate sector took a battering in the wake of the referendum and, three months on, Brexit continues to loom large for the UK corporate sector," Deloitte chief economist Ian Stewart said.
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KINSTON, North Carolina — Hours after Hurricane Florence made landfall in North Carolina last month, battering the state with heavy rains and flooding, a group of migrant farmworkers woke up to find themselves in waist-deep water.
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This is a dire scenario for the North Carolina coast, because it would expose them to a prolonged battering from damaging winds, torrential rain and one of the worst storm surge flood events on record there.
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The peso shed nearly 254.6000% last week after Fernandez pulled off a major lead over business-friendly President Mauricio Macri in a primary vote, stoking fears of a return to populist policies and battering emerging markets.
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Despite having already embarked on tightening, the Philippine peso has taken a battering from the recent emerging markets rout, which analysts have blamed partly on weak sentiment and a strong U.S. dollar pushed by rising rates.
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She also took a moment to personally thank Pritzker for helping restore "trust" between the two regions — trust which took a battering after the 2013 Edward Snowden revelations revealed the extent of US mass surveillance programs.
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Stock price gains have come despite worries along the way about rising valuations based on earnings, the U.S. government's deteriorating relationship with Russia, the economic fallout from Brexit in the U.K. and Hurricane Harvey battering Houston.
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BELIZE CITY (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Earl whipped Belize and Mexico's Caribbean coast with wind and heavy rain, battering cars, disrupting transportation and forcing hundreds into shelters as it moved through Guatemala toward southeastern Mexico on Thursday.
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Whether the battering he took will affect his hopes remains to be seen but the race certainly took a toll, as he reckoned the second incident involving Tanui with about 300 meters left had hurt him.
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"Households are being forced to curb growth in spending as a result of weak income growth, and confidence appears to have taken a battering from heightened volatility in financial markets and falling house prices," Hunter said.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Nine people were killed when floods inundated an old people's home in Japan, police said on Wednesday, taking the death toll from a typhoon battering northern parts of the country to at least 11.
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The same was true against Josh Thomson, who Ferguson walked down, battering with front kicks to the body and cutting open with slashing elbows over three frantic rounds, during which Thomson wilted under the constant activity.
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Scientists are still trying to understand how this reverberates throughout the world, but they're already seeing strong waves that would otherwise be tempered by ice cover battering parts of the Alaskan coast and eroding the coastline.
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As "Mad Max: Fury Road" confirmed, she's a natural warrior, but it's interesting here that each exertion and exhalation, each meaty, pulpy thump, also seems to be battering the fortifications that she has built around her.
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But the issue has become a political battering ram, with the left accusing the right of trafficking in disinformation, and the right accusing the left of tarring conservatives as a way to try to censor websites.
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Here's one big change that helps illustrate this fact: In the first game, each Titan had a recharging shield that ensured some degree of longevity, so long as you weren't piloting it like a battering ram.
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Trump said he will introduce the tariffs on June 10 if Mexico does not halt the flow of illegal immigration, largely from Central America, across the U.S.-Mexican border, battering Mexican financial assets and denting global stocks.
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Court records show that Perry, 19, was arraigned in 54B District Court in East Lansing on one count of assaulting, battering, resisting or obstructing an officer, two counts of criminal sexual conduct, and one for underage drinking.
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Trump said he will introduce the tariffs on June 5003 if Mexico does not halt the flow of illegal immigration, largely from Central America, across the U.S.-Mexican border, battering Mexican financial assets and denting global stocks.
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In a dispute over migration, Trump said he would introduce punitive tariffs on June 10 if Mexico does not halt the flow of illegal immigration from Central America, battering the currency of Latin America's second-largest economy.
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The naming of Thomas Horton and Lawrence Culp Jr. - top executives known for turning around American Airlines and Danaher Corp - was warmly greeted by investors, helping GE shares recover from an initial battering to rise 1.3 percent.
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The most menacing storm in the Caribbean in nearly a decade, Matthew began battering Haiti late Monday with strong winds and rising sea levels, before barreling ashore some 250 miles west of the capital Port-au-Prince.
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"Although the unique structure of the junk certainly serves multiple functions, our results are consistent with the hypothesis that the structure also evolved to function as a massive battering ram during male-male competition," wrote the researchers.
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Just last month, she set a $10,000 bond for Rafael Orozco, a 24-year-old Taos man accused of battering his girlfriend, his newborn child and a health care worker at Holy Cross Hospital in September 2016.
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Barrie Corne, an analyst at Panmure Gordon, said Lloyd's insurers could face a bill could face a bill between £100 billion and £150 billion if Irma — which is still battering the Florida peninsula — envelops the Florida panhandle.
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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to tear up a trade agreement that underpins Mexico's export model if he cannot renegotiate its terms in his favor, battering the peso currency and fueling uncertainty over foreign investment.
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While Kelly called for a battering ram, the President, from his cramped position on the floor, was indeed feeling around with his one free hand (the other held the cheeseburger) for the nuclear button on his desk.
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Much as his family had been humiliated by insults and jibes when he was a child, he humiliated Robinson in front of his home crowd, battering the Cardiff-born fighter to within an inch of his life.
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Baltimore wasted little time attacking reigning AL Cy Young Award winner Rick Porcello on Friday, battering him for 11 runs - four earned - and nine hits in 4 2/3 innings en route to a 33-3 win.
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Facing critics The President's appearance before a caucus in which he has many vehement critics will be a test of whether his political capital -- and focus -- can survive yet another extraordinary set of controversies battering his administration.
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Analysts at Societe Generale estimate that an "all-out" trade war could shave as much as 0.3% off global GDP and warned the battering it would give to economic confidence could make the situation worse than expected.
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On Wall Street overnight, technology stocks took a battering after U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Monday said forthcoming investment restrictions would apply "to all countries that are trying to steal our technology," not just to China.
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On Tuesday night, Mr. Cuomo spoke of a number of accomplishments in a speech that touched on national themes, decrying partisan division, and battering Mr. Trump, suggesting he had forgotten the words to the Pledge of Allegiance.
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As Mr. Jones has gained ground against Mr. Moore, Democrats have taken measured steps to shore up his candidacy, helping Mr. Jones raise money and battering Republicans who have been slow to denounce their party's embattled nominee.
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Meanwhile, global markets crumbled, with MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan sliding nearly 4% as the global death toll climbed to over 14,000, further battering economic activity, and raising fears of a global recession.
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In South Carolina, Mr. Biden has intensified his Joe-hearts-Barack strategy, weaponizing the president's popularity as a battering ram to punish Mr. Sanders and Mr. Bloomberg for making Mr. Obama sweat for their support in 2012.
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Claudio Marenzi, head of fashion at the industrialist lobby Confindustria, said the textile and clothing sectors were taking a battering, with international buyers pulling their orders out of an irrational fear that the product might be infected.
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It almost felt -- amid the West Wing backbiting and staff turmoil, and with multiple scandals and accusations battering the White House -- that Trump was making the point that he has actually seized control of his own presidency.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Representative Trey Gowdy stepped into a familiar role on Wednesday when President Donald Trump tapped him to join his outside legal team to help battle a Democratic-led impeachment inquiry: conservative battering ram.
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So in a quiet dignified manner, we decided to substitute tired feet for tired souls, and walk the streets of Montgomery until the sagging walls of injustice had been crushed by the battering rams of surging justice.
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Trump said he will introduce the tariffs on June 24 if Mexico does not halt the flow of illegal immigration, largely from Central America, across the U.S.-Mexican border, battering Mexican financial assets and denting global stocks.
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It might be better to view this early period of the Japanese New Wave as a battering ram that broke through the rigid barriers of the studio system, a raw, fevered reaction to the culture at large.
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Red Nose Day put on a special Celebrity Ninja Warrior edition that saw a crowd cheer on the Arrow star as he hurdled through the Fly Wheels, Battering Ram, Warp Wall and — an Arrow favorite — the Salmon Ladder.
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U.S. President Donald Trump says he will introduce punitive tariffs on June 10 if Mexico does not halt the flow of illegal immigration from Central America to the United States, battering Mexican financial assets and hurting stocks worldwide.
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After an adolescence schooled on screamo, nü metal, and Daft Punk stadium shows, he forged bass-drop battering rams, stormed the gates of the pop music establishment, and introduced the American public to a crushing transformation of dubstep.
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In an abrupt move, Argentina's central bank raised its benchmark interest rate from 27.25% to 30.25% in an effort to shore up the peso, which has taken a battering in currency markets amid worries about stubbornly high inflation.
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Boeing is facing a spiraling crisis that has shown no signs of ending, after two crashes of its best-selling new planes — the 737 MAX — and the damaging revelations that have have been battering the company ever since.
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SOCCER LONDON (AP) - Manchester United&aposs hopes of Champions League football took a battering in a 3-2 defeat at West Ham that followed an attack on the visiting team&aposs bus as it arrived for the match.
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Although, hypothetically, if I were to gear up to turn my cart of boxed wine and bread into a battering ram, the biometrics outlined here—grip, heart rate, cart speed—would certainly be useful for a watchful employee.
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For instance, Mars likely lost its atmosphere to space because of the solar wind battering the small planet, so being able to run a specific model of the star could shed some light on how exactly that happened.
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Britain will vote on June 21.15, an event that has weaved in uncertainty across the globe, battering stocks and bond yields for the past week and spiking demand for safe-haven assets such as gold and the yen.
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Read more: An astronaut captured an image of Tropical Storm Barry from space as it bears down on LouisianaThough the hurricane is set to make landfall Saturday and is battering the region with high winds and heavy rains.
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Taking a pummelling come the beginning of the 11th round and with his ability to defend himself all but evaporated, a shattered Klitschko was spared further battering by his trainer Fritz Sdunek, who intervened to stop the fight.
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And, after all, even if there was nothing mentally wrong with a woman to get her into a battering situation in the first place, by the time she got out of it she was sure to be traumatized.
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As Green's bid to become a fixture in the Yankees' rotation took a battering, so did the Yankees' hopes of building on their dramatic series-opening win the night before, as they lost to the Indians, 10-2.
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While this fifth album slots neatly alongside lumbering earlier works like Heathen and Summit, Magus catches listeners off guard once again via Emily McWilliams' ghostly vocals, which add a gentle fragility to Thou's anti-authoritarian sonic battering ram.
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Though Usman is known for his grappling, he flaunted an evolving stand-up game in this fight, battering his foe not only on the mat but also on the feet, en route to a sound, unanimous decision win.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Turkey could end its lira-battering crisis with the United States "instantly" by freeing a detained American pastor, President Donald Trump's national security adviser said, adding that a Qatari cash infusion would not help Ankara's economy.
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In the interview, the president posed the idea that Mr. Farage, the leader of the newly founded Brexit Party who has been a battering ram to traditional conservative politics in Britain and a rival and irritant to Mrs.
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BRASILIA, March 18 (Reuters) - Brazil's central bank on Wednesday slashed its benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points to a record-low 3.75% in an attempt to shield the economy from a likely battering by the coronavirus pandemic.
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In the footage, taken by one of 12 guests who witnessed the charge in a nearby safari Jeep, the rhino can be seen tossing around and battering the car, which is painted in black and white zebra stripes.
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Turkey could end its lira-battering crisis with the United States "instantly" by freeing a detained American pastor, said John Bolton, President Donald Trump's national security advisor, adding that a Qatari cash infusion would not help Ankara's economy.
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At the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, Robert S.C. Munier, the vice president for marine facilities and operations, said that the facility was feeling the effects of climate change already in a battering of the existing dock.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Hurricane Matthew has killed at least 69 people, the death toll in struggling Haiti alone rising to 65, local officials said, as the storm headed northward on Thursday battering the Bahamas en route to Florida.
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China has sometimes been a difficult market for Japanese companies due to historical reasons, with sales in 2012 taking a battering in the wake of diplomatic spats over disputed islets known as Diaoyu in China and Senkaku in Japan.
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The index of 19 commodities is down nearly 7 percent this year after dropping by a quarter in 2015 to hit its lowest level since 2002 in December, as commodities ranging from iron ore to oil took a battering.
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Chrissy's specific, detailed instructions for the battering process—including pouring the batter into a tall drinking glass before dipping, which seems odd at first but works beautifully—are extremely helpful in ensuring the coating adheres to the hot dog.
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There's no doubt that the asteroid catapulted all kinds of hazardous material into Earth's atmosphere, which either ballistically reentered, battering the planet with scattered detritus, or was trapped in the skies, blocking out sunlight and disrupting the global climate.
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Storm surges and violent weather pose an immediate threat: Hurricanes tracking right over shipwrecks can splinter them into oblivion, or at least strip protective coverings and expose timbers, coral-covered cannonballs, and other features to battering currents and wind.
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Britain will vote on June 23, an event that has weaved in uncertainty across the globe, battering stocks and bond yields for the past week and spiking the demand for safe-haven assets such as gold and the yen.
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"It's hard to find any part of the world that is unaffected" by a changing climate, he said, listing Atlantic storms such as Ophelia battering Ireland, wildfires in California, Portugal and Spain, and floods in Nigeria, India and Bangladesh.
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The politics of both Social Security and Medicare are not to make them better or to even work efficiently for those who benefit from them, but rather to use them as political battering rams in order to win votes.
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In the past few weeks as politics took centre stage, concerns about a "hard" Brexit by Britain and a tough stance by the European Union in the negotiations that are likely to start next year gave sterling a battering.
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The pound, which took a battering after the UK voted last month to leave the European Union, was set for a weekly gain of roughly 9 percent against the yen, its best ever against the safe-haven Japanese currency.
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It tied the record for the strongest Atlantic hurricane landfall ever, battering the Bahamas with strong winds and heavy rains that caused flooding so catastrophic that the runway of the main airport in the Bahamas was left completely underwater.
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It tied the record for the strongest Atlantic hurricane landfall ever, battering the Bahamas with strong winds and heavy rains that caused flooding so catastrophic that the runway of the main airport in the Bahamas was left completely underwater.
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If you were running as a battering-ram outsider like Mr. Trump, it would be hard to invent a better contrast than the Secretary of Same; if you were running as a safe and familiar grown-up like Mrs.
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Read more: Photos and videos show Imelda battering Texas with torrential rain and flash floods reminiscent of Hurricane Harvey"The current is really very strong right now so it's kind of pushed them up against the columns," she said.
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But there's repeated, brutal battering at the heart of any story of a mother trying to save her child, particularly when you know that nothing you say or do will make a difference until he or she is ready.
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KITTY HAWK, N.C. (Reuters) - Hurricane Dorian briefly made landfall on the Outer Banks of North Carolina on Friday, hitting the beach-fringed barrier islands with powerful winds and battering waves days after reducing parts of the Bahamas to rubble.
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On Monday, as activists armed with metal bars and makeshift battering rams were on the cusp of breaking down the doors of the Legislative Council, a group of veteran politicians sympathetic to their cause pleaded with them to reconsider.
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Tourism, normally a $103 billion a year industry that employs about half the Keys' work force, took a battering of its own, with dozens of hotels, restaurants, dive shops, fishing charters and other businesses closed for repairs or reconstruction.
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The House passed sweeping legislation Saturday to respond to the coronavirus outbreak battering the nation, an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote to expand access to free testing, provide $1 billion in food aid and extend sick leave benefits to vulnerable Americans.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Hurricane Matthew has killed at least 102 people, the death toll in struggling Haiti alone rising to 98, local officials told Reuters, as the storm headed northward on Thursday battering the Bahamas en route to Florida.
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The NHC said the "core" of Hurricane Irma is "battering the Virgin Islands, " and will cause water levels to rise 24 to 225 feet above ground over most of the islands if the peak surge occurs at high tide.
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After badly battering the Bahamas, Hurricane Dorian is making its way up the Atlantic coast of the US — but President Trump is still inexplicably calling attention inland to Alabama, a state that is nowhere near the hurricane's current path.
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For all the politicization of the issue, it's of limited utility as a battering ram in a primary where most everyone — including the grassroots, party leaders and the candidates — is in agreement on the impropriety of the president's actions.
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Alone onstage battering his totemic drum, and looking the part of an oversize toddler in his waist-high shorts, suspenders and high socks, Mr. Holonics gives a seething, deeply unsettling performance as the stubborn, manipulative and wickedly funny protagonist.
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NAPLES, Italy (Reuters) - Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos performed another rescue act to wreck Napoli's brave comeback attempt and take the Champions League title-holders into the quarter-finals on Tuesday after they had taken a first-half battering.
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Jayda Fransen, deputy leader of the anti-immigration Britain First group, posted the videos which she said showed a group of people who were Muslims beating a teenage boy to death, battering a boy on crutches and destroying a Christian statue.
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Investors have punished Chinese stocks and the yuan currency since the trade dispute intensified over the last month, with the yuan taking a battering against the dollar in June and domestic stocks tumbling the most in a month since January 2016.
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Several — though not all — other banks also say they are seeing higher application levels and improved retention rates despite the battering the industry's reputation has taken for everything from long hours to causing a crisis that inflicted poverty on a generation.
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With the Super Tuesday primaries next week, Senators Ted Cruz of Texas and Marco Rubio of Florida finally laced into Mr. Trump, battering him for his business deals, his thin knowledge of policy and what they characterized as his political opportunism.
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And with the battering technology stocks have suffered in the past couple of weeks, and the dismal performance of technology IPOs in the past couple of years, any idea of a springtime busy with technology offerings may also be wishful thinking.
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But the rationale for such investment took a battering in the years after 2009-2010, when deflation was more a concern than inflation, commodities moved in close correlation with other risk assets and most experienced significant and prolonged price falls.
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Big-name hedge funds favored by pension funds and the ultra-wealthy for their track record of stellar returns took a battering in the first quarter of 2016, with some posting their worst ever start to a year on record.
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Lying on my back in a tent at an old summer camp in upstate New York, I was 36 hours deep into the self-elected brain-battering of a low-key techno festival that takes place in September each year.
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The Times Britain's department stores suffered another battering yesterday as Sports Direct announced the closure of four more House of Fraser stores while shares in Debenhams Plc slumped by more than a fifth amid fresh fears for the company's future. bit.
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In 2008, lurid reports emerged about the "SNEEP" sex trafficking case, which involved a small group of Turkish men who had been forcing women into prostitution, battering, and raping them, as well as making them have breast enlargement surgery and abortions.
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And as for the retail real estate space, they've taken a battering from the rise of online shopping — an industry that has been climbing steadily, with profits predicted to rise to $370 billion in 2017 from $231 billion in 2012.
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The solidifying Democratic decision to focus their local messaging more on health care and taxes than the ethical and legal storms constantly battering Trump represents an attempt to learn distinct lessons from the experience of both Bill and Hillary Clinton.
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"One of the women came in with bruises because her partner was throwing rocks at her on the beach at P-town, but we didn't think this was battering, because women don't do that to each other," Carole Sousa says.
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A fifth title success in the last six years was already secured last weekend and the All Blacks are expected to underline their dominance against one of their traditional foes, who have come in for a heavy battering of late.
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Scientists in Peru now expect the localized version of El Nino that appeared suddenly off of Peru's coast this year to stretch into May, though April rains should not be as intense as the downpours still battering the northern coast.
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Once the workshops were under way, Matt was generally able to block out things that particular women had said about why they were there, sacrificing whole Saturdays like this one—a warm, clear day in May—to battering bulwarked men.
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And nine hours later, the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump plans to tell Kim his country must take concrete steps to scrap its programs before the US lifts any of the sanctions that have been battering its economy for years.
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BEIJING — At least 14 people were killed and nearly 150 wounded when a blast tore apart a neighborhood in a small town in northwestern China on Monday, battering nearby homes, shattering windows and sending residents streaming from the smoking ruins.
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The announcement is part of Mitsubishi Motor's efforts to rebuild its management system after it admitted last year that it had overstated the mileage on a number of its cars sold in Japan, battering domestic sales and tarnishing its brand image.
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The peso rise gives some relief to Macri, after a shock primary election battering last month sparked a sharp crash in the country's bonds, equities and the peso, which lost around 26% of its value against the greenback in August alone.
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That, and a handful of developments in Italian and UK politics this week, have brought some relief to the market, which took a battering in August on signs that Germany and other major economies were at risk of sliding into recession.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and their Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners turned their sights with some relief on new hurdles months down the road after withstanding a far-right battering in two eastern regional elections on Sunday.
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The push to change the bank's role comes from a left-wing camp within the ANC that wants Ramaphosa to change tack on a range of policies and is using the mandate issue as a battering ram, some ANC members say.
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Johnson saw the new immigration law as of a piece with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — all of them battering rams against a system of discrimination that had harmed so many people.
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Still, even those bullish about defeating Mr. Cuomo admit that it would be a difficult task, considering his bankroll and powerful allies in labor and other industries, as well as the state party, which has already taken to battering potential opponents.
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"He will use Breitbart as a battering ram," said Ben Shapiro, a conservative writer and commentator who used to work for Mr. Bannon when he was the executive chairman of the website, before he went to work for Mr. Trump.
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New Delhi (CNN)Police in eastern India have arrested six men accused of battering a woman and her four young children to death and dumping the bodies down a village well because they suspected she was a witch casting spells.
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The safe-haven yen meanwhile surged to its highest level in three years against both sterling and the euro as investors sought shelter in the Japanese currency with sentiment taking a further battering following the mass shooting in the United States.
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Which, especially on Labor Day, was a startling contrast; cable TV networks showing the massive storm battering the Bahamas and inching its way toward the southeastern coast of the United States while Trump took some swings on his course in Virginia.
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The policy, developed in the wake of the #MeToo movement, removed the work of R. Kelly , the R&B singer who has been dogged by accusations of statutory rape, as well as XXXTentacion, a rapper charged with battering a pregnant woman, from playlists.
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MAPUTO (Reuters) - Tropical storm Dineo, which has been building along the east coast of southern Africa, made landfall in Mozambique on Wednesday evening, battering two coastal towns with heavy rain and wind at speeds of up to 160 km (100 miles) an hour.
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The weeks between the conference championship games and the Super Bowl should be the eye of the storm for Las Vegas sports books—a much-needed lull after the steady battering of the NFL season and before the coming Super Bowl tsunami.
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But his battering of the career military and his statement that those who worked on these issues in the Obama administration had been "reduced to rubble" was hardly the kind of sentiment that a commander in chief wants to engender in the military.
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Reuters photographer Thomas Peter, down from Beijing, chronicled the protesters as they took turns in the heat and humidity to pound at the thick, tempered glass of the building with makeshift battering rams and hammers, like miners at an urban coal face.
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" A clearly shocked Matthews added, "I was in there picking up this vintage piece that I've been waiting for, for ages and these guys drive a scooter through the glass and start battering the shop with hammers, with huge hammers, wearing helmets.
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Even with close air support, aerial surveillance and precision weapons supplied by Western allies, Iraqi security forces in Mosul (not to mention a civilian population held hostage by IS) took a terrible battering to defeat just a few thousand well-prepared insurgents.
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And those expectations took a battering early last month, when reports surfaced that G-III, the design company that actually manages Ivanka's lifestyle brand, offers their pregnant associates the barest maternity benefit required by U.S. law: 12 weeks of unpaid maternity leave.
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A federal jury in Manhattan found Marshall, 32, not liable for assaulting and battering Christin Myles, 28, who said she suffered a black eye and bruised face following the run-in with the football star while she was out celebrating her birthday.
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The storm is likely to inflict its greatest damage to the communities along its southeastern shore, including Yabucoa, where inundation of 6 to 9 feet above normally dry ground is likely from the combination of storm surge flooding and high, battering waves.
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Beterbiev was behind on the scorecards at the time of the 10th round stoppage, with ringside judges seeing Gvozdyk a slim 87-83, 86-85, 83-87 winner, but Beterbiev swung the fight fully in his favor, battering Gvozdyk with damaging blows.
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It tied the record for the strongest Atlantic hurricane landfall ever, battering the Caribbean nation for three days with strong winds and heavy rains that caused flooding so catastrophic that the runway of the main airport in the Bahamas was left completely underwater.
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The mean girls, having peaked early, stumble from their lofty perches; and the misfits, having grown sturdy and resilient from years of battering and loneliness (and the enduring solace of literature), go on to conquer in arenas that value brains more than brawn.
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On his way to becoming the first man in 66 years to win back-to-back Olympic golds on Saturday, he overcame not only the typical battering of a skater's body but one of the world's worst natural disasters in his native Japan.
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It tied the record for the strongest Atlantic hurricane landfall ever, battering the Caribbean nation for three days with strong winds and heavy rains that caused flooding so catastrophic that the runway of the main airport in the Bahamas was left completely underwater.
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" And then, of course, there are the quotes from Joni, herself, like when she says, "For the most part, producers are spirit-bruisers," or "In America, wife-battering is a national pastime," or "The anatomy of the love crime is my favorite subject.
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"Government should not be a battering ram used to hold us back, deny our rights, and tear us down," said Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, to a crowd of more than 500 supporters following the State of the Union.
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The Cylon lineup was built around just battering me down with waves of missiles, while my fleet was about getting in close with gun turrets and heavy artillery, maneuvering into the Cylon ships' blind spots, and shattering them with a few salvos.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Big-name hedge funds favoured by pension funds and the ultra-wealthy for their track record of stellar returns took a battering in the first quarter of 2100, with some posting their worst-ever start to a year on record.
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But while the Qataris, Turks and other Islamists have all but cheered the battering of Prince Mohammed, the Iranians and their allies have largely watched quietly, taking a longer term strategic view, said Randa Slim, an analyst with the Middle East Institute.
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Chinese growth has been challenged by its protected trade conflict with the U.S. Beijing and Washington have imposed tariffs on billions of dollars' worth of one another's goods since the start of 2018, battering financial markets and souring business sentiment across the globe.
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Singapore has won global plaudits in its two-month long battle with the virus, but a recent surge in infections has forced authorities to close its borders and entertainment venues in moves that are battering firms across the travel and finance hub.
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President Donald Trump sought to project tough competence in the face of the biggest natural disaster of his presidency, describing the hurricane battering Texas over the weekend as an epic storm on social media and announcing he will visit the state on Tuesday.
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McDaniel learned to boot doors by practicing at the F.B.I. Academy in Quantico, Va. He did most of his real-world kicking in the late 1980s and early '90s in Texas, before agents were regularly equipped with ballistic shields and battering rams.
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ATMEH, Syria (Reuters) - When Hassan Mighlaj's family ran from the bombs battering their village in northwest Syria, they came up against a wall: an imposing gray concrete wall, crowned with barbed wire and spanning the border with Turkey to block their way in.
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It's a big, blunt, battering ram of a movie, but it's not dumb: The stunts are sharply executed, the actors (including Sienna Miller and J.K. Simmons) unimpeachable and Paul Cameron's lively camera turns the streets of Philadelphia into a credible-enough Manhattan.
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Mulheres Rodadas — a slang term meaning women who've been around — was formed just over a year ago with the aim of battering down what members say is Brazil's "silencing" type of sexism that appears to celebrate feminine freedom, but often means anything but.
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But in the meantime, it has showered Mr. Netanyahu with priceless political gifts — from last year's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital to last month's recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights — while battering the Palestinians with aid cuts and public scoldings.
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Other speakers at today's press conference, which coincided with a major snowstorm battering the East Coast, included New York City Council members Jimmy Van Bramer and Keith Powers, and Fred Dixon, the president and CEO of NYC & Company, the city's marketing branch.
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Police in Macedonia have fired tear gas to disperse hundreds of migrants and refugees who stormed the border from Greece on Monday, smashing through a gate with a makeshift battering ram as frustrations boiled over at restrictions imposed on people moving through the Balkans.
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Chipotle's new Chief Executive Brian Niccol, the former Taco Bell CEO, starts his new job on March 5 and is tasked with turning around business at the burrito seller, which has struggled to fully recover from sales and reputation-battering food safety lapses in 2015.
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He already has nine goals and four assists from 11 starts (that's a goal scored or created every 77 minutes), and his best game of the season was his remarkable three-goal display in the 5-1 battering of Real Madrid in October's El Clásico.
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Reliance Jio, backed by India's richest man Mukesh Ambani, has shaken India's telecoms industry since it was launched a year ago by offering months of free services and sharply discounted plans, battering the fortunes of established rivals such as Bharti Airtel and Idea Cellular.
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American warplanes and artillery are also battering ISIS targets throughout the city, and the Pentagon says US and allied forces had, as of November 1, launched 2,2003 precision bombs, artillery rounds, missiles, and rockets into the Mosul area since the campaign began on October 17.
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More than 1,800 gas stations - more than a quarter of the state's total - were without fuel late Thursday, up from 1,200 Wednesday, ahead of Irma, which is battering the Caribbean with winds at speeds of around 453 miles per hour (300 km per hour).
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Oil crash sends energy stocks plunging The dramatic crash in oil prices has sent energy stocks nosediving, battering a sector that had already been hit hard by shrinking demand due to the coronavirus outbreak and by cooling investor sentiment because of the climate crisis.
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That request coincided with China's realization that Ms. Liu, a talisman of international human rights groups, had become a liability just as China's image was taking a battering in the United States and Europe over what are considered predatory economic policies and increasingly authoritarian rule.
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NEW DELHI, March 17 (Reuters) - An Indian industry body representing thousands of auto dealers said on Tuesday it had asked the Supreme Court to allow sales of vehicles with older emissions technology beyond March as the sector takes a battering from the coronavirus outbreak.
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In the season finale, "And Salt the Earth Behind You," both storylines come to an incoherent climax, with the drug lord menacing Rue's hapless drug dealer friend and Nate breaking down, battering his head against the floor during an argument with his controlling father.
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Nonetheless, in our scandal-soaked past there have also been politicians who withstood a media battering only to find their courage rewarded with the news that the public supported them all along — and that the headlines and headline news did not reflect popular opinion.
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Some nonprofits that mobilized after Typhoon Haiyan hit the country five years ago, killing more than 6,000 people, said they were monitoring conditions in the Philippines while also managing their responses to Florence, the tropical storm battering the East Coast of the United States.
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Earlier this week, Trump used the Department of Justice as a battering ram to continue the effort to collect dirt on Joe Biden and railed against the recommended sentencing for his old friend Roger Stone, who was convicted of witness tampering, perjury and obstruction.
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The rout was compounded by the fact markets had rallied on Thursday having become increasingly convinced that UK voters would opt to stay in the EU. Britain's big banks took a $130 billion battering with Lloyds and Barclays plunging as much as 30 percent.
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On "Boiled Over," the Arizona death metal band wields the opening riff as a battering ram, charging into the biggest, baddest death metal song of the year with fury so potent you can practically see the flamethrowers spewing on the stage of your mind's eye.
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An unusual group of storm systems battering the Pacific Northwest has halted dozens of flights and knocked out power for thousands, hitting Seattle with as much snowfall in one day as it usually receives in a year, according to the National Weather Service. Gov.
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But things get even weirder when he introduces the electronics into his setup—deftly battering different regions of a single drum head he hums and bounces from sound to sound, fluttering like the wings of a pollen-drunk butterfly looping from bud to bud.
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"We wanted to make a challenging game, but a challenging game in which users felt a sense of accomplishment," says Nioh's co-director, Yosuke Hayashi, a self-confessed Dark Souls series fan who loves to take a battering in Lordran after a hard day at the office.
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Using makeshift battering rams and metal bars to smash through reinforced glass, members of the group forced their way into LegCo, where they dubbed anti-extradition bill slogans on the walls, smashed the interior and draped the territory's former colonial flag across the main chamber's central podium.
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The AfD latched onto the issue with a vengeance following the arrival of one million refugees in the last year and turned it into a battering ram against Merkel, who made a lonely decision a year ago to open the gates for people fleeing war and turmoil.
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Shortly after Trump took office, the White House deleted nearly all mentions of climate change from its website, and Trump officials recently declined to comment on whether climate change was strengthening the hurricanes battering the Caribbean and Gulf Coast, even as local officials agreed it was.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British company finance chiefs are their most optimistic in 18 months, but their risk appetite has recovered far less from the battering it took in the run-up to and aftermath of last year's vote to leave the European Union, a survey showed on Monday.
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In another striking moment, a performer stands atop the bier-like structure that runs the length of the gallery; several other performers gather below, steal their colleague away from the architecture and hoist the performer through the space like a crowd-surfer or a battering ram.
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Things became even more peculiar when UFC president Dana White flew into a fury at the post-fight press conference and insisted that while Hendricks was there to take questions, St-Pierre had been carted straight to the hospital due to the battering he had sustained.
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According to inmate information from the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office, Jaffer is being held on charges of child abuse, lewd act upon a child, "oral copulation of a person under 14," assault with a deadly weapon, battering an officer and emergency personnel, and attempted murder.
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The video, which has been viewed more than a million times, shows the police officers in full raid mode, breaking through the dispensary's front door with what looks like battering rams and ordering the half-dozen or so customers and employees inside to get to the ground.
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Apart from objecting to psychology's role in legitimatizing the notion that women were battered because they liked it, the shelter staff believed that battering was not a psychological issue but a political one: women were battered because they lived in a male-dominated society that permitted it.
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Salah, as a hero and symbol, doesn't bring back what we lost when the hopes of the revolution shattered, but he offers an antidote to the political battering the country has taken, and he suggests a sense of possibility even to young Egyptians from backgrounds like his.
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Trevor Greetham, head of multi-asset at Royal London Asset Management (RLAM), said equities had taken a battering since the "melt-up" at the turn of the year, but it was normal for markets to remain edgy for a month or two after such a sharp reversal.
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His aides have indicated that Mr. Bloomberg is not inclined to keep pouring money into an extended contest with Mr. Biden and would instead reorient his campaign into an organization dedicated to battering Mr. Trump, should the former vice president emerge as the leader in the race.
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As some of their conservative colleagues received a battering at town hall meetings back home over issues like their plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Democrats tried not to look too pleased with the consolation prize from a bruising election: It is not their problem anymore.
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Raffel is a crisis-communications vet whose experience has spanned Hollywood and Washington, DC, most recently as deputy communications director at the White House —Vanity Fair called him Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump's "battering ram" — experience that could serve Juul as it faces lawsuits and investigations.
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Although there are so few of us relatively, transgender politics are an easy target for the right to label extreme, making us a useful battering ram to rally "normal" Americans behind—to the right, transgender people are more a symbol of unsettling change than they are people.
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Despite taking a battering over the years, especially during the 1960s and 1970s, the office of presidency still represents what's left of our affinity and allegiance to national symbols and values embodied in an office and in an individual -- the only elected official whom we can all vote for.
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In the first, Ali experienced the worst battering of his life, yet he did not give up; in the second and third, Ali won against an exhausted Frazier, at what cost to his health we can only guess — "The closest thing to dying," Ali said of the last fight.
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Doing so would upend the entire body of anti-discrimination law that protects, for instance, women from sexual harassment in the workplace—but the Trump Court has already shown a willingness to take a battering ram to established law on workers' and voting rights to serve its ideological goals.
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SAIPAN (Reuters) - For evidence of the odds stacked against China's battle to stop the flight of cash battering its currency and draining its reserves, look no further than the tiny Pacific island of Saipan, which has hit the jackpot with a flood of Chinese money at its new casino.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads There's a long history of the defacement of currency as a political act, from the battering and bending of a mid-fourth century Roman coin featuring the face of the emperor Valens to 1970s coins stamped with paramilitary slogans in Northern Ireland.
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SAN JUAN, P.R. — Hurricane Irma struck the northeast Caribbean with terrifying force Wednesday, its battering rain and winds of up to 275 miles per hour leaving a trail of chaos, wreckage and flooding from Barbuda to Puerto Rico, before taking aim at islands farther west and, beyond them, Florida.
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These include the suicidal kangaroos battering themselves against a fence (at least one succeeded), the elephant that spent nine months in a ship's dark hold traveling from India to England by way of China, and an elderly lion poked in the eye by a woman wielding a parasol.
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But at the same time tabloids and gossip websites were insisting that this time, Kim really had hit the glass ceiling of her own celebrity, the sheer force of her following was battering against it, making space for her in places no one had ever thought she'd end up.
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Thinking they had been deliberately trapped in the crowded tunnel so that the guards—the "goon squad"—would be free to retaliate against some of their number, the prisoners quickly found that the gate keeping them out of the yard could be broken with a homemade battering ram.
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The worry is that the push to change the bank's mandate is coming from a left-wing camp within the ANC that wants President Cyril Ramaphosa to change tack on a range of policies - and is using the Reserve Bank as a battering ram, some ANC members say.
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Putin's primary goal in Syria hasn't been destroying ISIS, but rather keeping the Assad regime afloat; battering his non-ISIS Syrian opponents; and making sure that the United States doesn't get a chance to dispatch yet another Russian client and restructure the country in way that's oblivious to Moscow's interests.
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Melissa Miranda, 33, and her boyfriend, Josue Tovias, 28, of Fayetteville, were arrested Saturday and charged with second-degree domestic battering, aggravated assault on a family member, kidnapping, tampering with physical evidence, terroristic threatening and endangering the welfare of a minor, according to online records from the Washington County Sheriff's Office.
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Yet he was there by his side at every press conference, guarding the door to the little office that had become the occupation's headquarters, and standing watch at night—waiting up, imagining federal officers battering down the door, and trying to think of what he would do when they came.
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CSU leader Seehofer had been Merkel's leading critic in the ruling alliance before the election Barley said she wanted to help the SPD, junior partner in Merkel's ruling alliance, after the party suffered a battering in the Bavaria election, at which it won less than 10 percent of the vote.
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The rampage Thursday night at a packed Bastille Day fireworks celebration in the southeastern city of Nice, which unfolded as the assailant used the rented refrigerated truck as a battering ram, was all the more unnerving because it came as a total surprise despite extensive security precautions, French officials acknowledged.
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"Feud: Bette and Joan," starring Jessica Lange and Sarandon as Hollywood rivals Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, is seen by awards pundits in a close race for the limited series Emmy in September with "Big Little Lies," a murder mystery against a backdrop of wife battering, adultery, rape and gossip.
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In the past few weeks when politics took the front seat, concerns about a "hard" Brexit by Britain and a hardline stance by the EU in the negotiations that are likely to start next year saw sterling take a battering and fall to a record low on trade-weighted terms.
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That's how it's worked with his elusive charitable donations; how it worked with "the Star of David is actually a Sheriff's Badge"-gate; how it worked when his old campaign manager Corey Lewandowski denied battering a reporter in front of eye witnesses, and kept denying it until surveillance footage left no doubt.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese stocks took a battering on Monday in an ominous start to July, days before U.S. tariffs on Chinese exports are due to take effect, with the Shanghai bourse hitting over two-year lows and the yuan falling amid worries the trade row could put the economy on the skids.
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HOUSTON — Five days after the pummeling began — a time when big storms have usually blown through, the sun has come out, and evacuees have returned home — Tropical Storm Harvey refused to go away, battering southeast Texas even more on Tuesday, spreading the destruction into Louisiana and shattering records for rainfall and flooding.
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Mr. Putin did not engineer the shift single-handedly, but he has been adept at making his own luck, deploying Orthodox priests, Russian-funded news media outlets like RT, spies and computer hackers to ride and help create the wave of populist anger now battering the foundations of the post-1945 European order.
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Feasting on the laughing-stock the White House spokesman had become, the satirists at "Saturday Night Live" lampooned Mr Spicer as a raging lunatic, prone to battering amazed journalists with his podium, and, what is more, a tragic figure—an example of the chewed-up former collaborator that Mr Trump's career path is strewn with.
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He slowed as a fighter: allowed back in the ring in 1970, his status as a conscientious objector now established, his reflexes were duller and his body forced to absorb blows he could have evaded in his prime; Frazier's defeat of him over 15 rounds the next year was the worst battering of his life.
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President Donald Trump's swift bid to inaccurately paint the Justice Department inspector general's report as proof that special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation is biased is deepening cavernous divides in the nation's capital, giving a fresh battering to bedrock legal institutions and further undermining the notion that a shared objective truth underwrites American political life.
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That Wall, Beal, Gortat, Otto Porter, and Markieff Morris group is a battering ram, but Washington still doesn't get to the free-throw line very often, and the three-point arc is a foreign concept for nearly everyone on the team except Beal, Porter, and Wall, the latter of whom isn't a good outside shooter.
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Having taken a battering last week when a sharp fall in equities and a slide in oil prices to 13-year lows boosted demand for safe havens such as the yen, the dollar had made a solid recovery, gaining around 43 percent versus the Japanese currency since hitting a 15-month trough on Thursday.
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"The question is: Does it appear to people to be simply a poll-driven document offered by a bunch of Washington politicians, or is there a persistent, disciplined attempt to follow through on these issues?" said Mr. Axelrod, noting that Hillary Clinton's myriad economic policy prescriptions failed to overcome Mr. Trump's battering-ram nationalist message.
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She was a founding member of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus, which promotes women's reproductive rights, and she co-authored the Violence Against Women Act, which was signed into law in 1994 as the first comprehensive law to address domestic violence and sexual assault against women, including the first federal criminal law against battering.
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Displays devoted to this period are wisely (perhaps necessarily) divided into clear areas to aid the story; a bronze battering ram dating from the Roman invasion of 241 BCE details campaigns against the resident Greeks and Carthaginians; fine gold jewelry characteristic of Byzantine craftsmen; ceramic work bearing the distinctly linear slipwork associated with Muslim techniques.
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