Even crazier, they used Mike Pence as a battering ram.
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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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He felt political power was a tool, not a battering ram.
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The police finally came with the battering ram in September 22008.
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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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There was a virgin who used his cock like a battering ram.
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For this fighter, the wrap was more battering ram than padded glove.
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Its head resembled a battering ram: dome-shaped and composed of thickened bone.
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Washington sees the YPG as its battering ram against ISIS in northern Syria.
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And Trump will use that against the eventual nominee like a battering ram.
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This serves as a "battering-ram for international extortion", as Mr Eberstadt puts it.
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Tolerance is the battering ram that progressives use to compel compliance of their beliefs.
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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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Clue of the Day for me was "Battery device?" for RAM (as in battering RAM).
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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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The Dutch referendum, held last April, became a battering ram aimed at the European Union.
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"This feels more like a battering ram than a well-thought-out digital program," he said.
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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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Loucks grabbed a foam-filled battering ram and pushed McAdoo around as he drove for dunks.
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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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We asked the sub-contractors for three sports cars and a 4x4 to serve as a battering ram.
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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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But if you use your head and shoulders as a battering ram, you can push the boat through.
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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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Does a movie as battering-ram blunt as Triple 9 have anything profound or fresh to say about urban
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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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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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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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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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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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Michael Beasley A battering ram, to better articulate that there is no team whose defense can withstand such a man.
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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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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 battering ram was now at work on the bolted door, but the President apparently wasn't able to hear it.
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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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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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But the issue has become a political battering ram, and in the process, the definition of fake news has blurred.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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" 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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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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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 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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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" 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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Besides, the very best college recruits are already showcasing their skills in tackle-less 7-on-7 games: Widespread adoption of 7-on-7, be it flag or touch, could create a pipeline to the highest levels of the game that kids can follow without ever donning a helmet—let alone using it as a battering ram.
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On separate composer portraits released by Etcetera, works by Louis Andriessen, Theo Verbey and Otto Ketting benefit from the conductor's fastidious approach, as does Tristan Keuris's Symphony in D. Most bracing is the Norwegian Rolf Wallin's enormously powerful "Act" (Ondine), a 10-minute battering ram recorded with the Oslo Philharmonic that rumbles along with pounding ferocity.
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He has been held up as a figure of disdain across the spectrum: Trump-lovers have remained suspicious of him as a tool of the establishment and are quick to raise Ryan's sacrileges against their hero during the campaign; Democrats, "never Trump" conservatives and — quietly — some elected Republicans wish Ryan would provide a stronger counterbalance to a battering-ram president.
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On the right runs a series of pictures, videos and artifacts designed to shock viewers into clubsterbomb memories–the remnants of a Google bus retrofitted and weaponized into a battering ram, that famous photo of the National Guard standing down at one of the many early BLM standoffs (everyone remembers the photo, never the standoff), a yellowing final print edition of the Washington Post.
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The party's leader, Matteo Salvini, has, in the month since taking office as Italy's interior minister and deputy prime minister, used immigration as a battering ram against the EU. Meanwhile, Lega's coalition partner, the populist and anti-establishment Five Star Movement, has adopted Trump's protectionist views on trade, arguing that Europe should do more to defend goods made in Italy, and that tariffs shouldn't be seen as a taboo.
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It's a systematic style of violence that takes many forms: billboards sprouting around your neighborhood depicting sleek new developments and starting rent rates; the callous shrug of a bank representative who tells you there's nothing they can do; the brutal thud of a battering ram during an eviction; the anxious anticipation of regular sweeps of homeless camps; the slow degradation of daily life as individuals and families spend months, even years, without stable housing.
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While there is certainly a huge sigh of relief coming from Brooklyn headquarters, there's no question that Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE and the Republicans are enraged Comey did not charge Clinton, and that they won't stop trying to use this as a battering ram against her.
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But in the way that the internet can rapidly make and remake something, morphing meaning in real time, Lil Nas X's track became something different almost every few days on its path from SoundCloud obscurity to pop ubiquity: a savvy troll, a manipulator of streaming algorithms, a meme theme, a battering ram to genre barriers, a trigger of music-biz discord, a David suffering at the hands of Goliath, a sociocultural rallying point, and eventually, a site of cross-cultural kumbaya.
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