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"We were cocked & loaded to retaliate," tweeted Mr Trump.
Their hips cocked upward, just enough to emphasize their assets.
Tablet cocked close to her face, Noor figuring it out.
At that time I took my pistol and cocked it.
"Holy smokes!" he said, then paused and cocked his head.
My shoulders are cocked this way; I'm not confrontive [sic].
Even the boy's head is cocked to the side. Quizzically?
"We were cocked & loaded to retaliate last night," Trump tweeted.
She cocked her head and picked up a green bean.
Voters should keep an ear cocked for this dangerous phrase.
His half-cocked diplomacy left Britain humiliated and the G7 divided.
I draped my forearms over the railing and cocked my head.
Alisobhani's issue highlights the problem with half-cocked actions like this.
Everything about him is cocked, loaded and ready to kill you.
Your right foot is cocked over the accelerator or brake pedal.
Other police officers sprinted from different directions, their own Kalashnikovs cocked.
" Green cocked his head back and shouted, "I'm ridin' with Biden.
She stands in front of me with her head cocked, listening.
Sometimes, a cocked head will tell you all you need to know.
She changed her title to The Cockiest Cowboy to Have Ever Cocked.
And, it's basically knocked every other Easter egg into a cocked hat.
" Stump folded his hands under his chin and cocked his head. "O.
She cocked her head to the right to look at the girls.
The challenger stood a yard apart and cocked back an open palm.
Ms. Oliver, 13, looked in the mirror, cocked her head and paused.
Christon cocked the ball back and fired — and, improbably, made the shot.
Seconds after a face-off, the two dropped their gloves and cocked fists.
Plenty of intellectuals, with eyebrows cocked, have warned that this reckoning was coming.
Others will be mid-prance with a hand cocked to a jaunty angle.
President Trump said last month the U.S. was "cocked & loaded" to strike Iran.
Fly trembled in strange, berserk motions every time a soldier cocked a gun.
It was later determined that the gun was cocked, with the safety off.
Nicole, who intended to study nursing herself, cocked her head to one side.
The XT mount can also accept older lenses that have manually cocked shutters.
The bottle is clearly cocked on his shoulder in videos of the incident.
This was followed by a cocked eyebrow and a quick exit from the room.
They fail to plan, and charge into their insane schemes overeager and half-cocked.
The "guests" cocked their heads solicitously and inquired after one another's make-believe families.
The boy takes an interest in the thugs, their scarred fists, their cocked weapons.
DEFCON 1, or Cocked Pistol, is the U.S. Armed Forces' highest state of alertness.
She wasn't sitting on it so much as she was cocked, like a slingshot.
At the front, the artist Christian Marclay was standing sentinel, head cocked in concentration.
We drove al lago along the Pan American Highway until the land cocked skyward.
It looks at him, head cocked, turns as it paddles off a few yards.
"I once got too close and a Yorkie cocked his leg over the camera!" 
The gun was allegedly found in his mother's hand but was cocked, the affidavit says.
Not that he wouldn't jump wholeheartedly (and half-cocked) into that, because he totally would.
LAS VEGAS — Vernie considers me with his icy blue yes, an orange eyebrow slightly cocked.
Lang burst out of the room with a pair of grenades cocked in his hands.
They tried to scale the fence, scattering only when he raised and cocked his gun.
He was an unstoppable force while I — arms crossed, eyebrow cocked — remained an immovable object.
In a cross-examination, he stands erect, chest cocked, as if to fill the courtroom.
Susan Collins cocked her head and joined her hands on her chest as she listened.
Sergeant Azaria cocked his rifle and fired a bullet into Mr. Sharif's head, killing him.
Then it cocked its wrist and nudged a button with one of the pad's corners.
Carroll cocked her head at him and pronounced him a dead ringer for George Hamilton.
Somaya Faruqi, the team's mechanical whiz, cocked her head toward the bar, her eyes widening.
A soldier cocked his gun at her mother after they charged in "like monsters," she said.
"We were cocked & loaded to retaliate last night on 3 different sights," Trump tweeted on Friday.
Lynette stood over me, her head cocked to one side, a slight smile on her face.
It will never be a Dali, though it seems to be carefully cocked in his direction.
KISUFIM, Israel (Reuters) - A battalion of soldiers crawls across the desert sand with assault rifles cocked.
No reload, but there's a half-second delay between shots as a new arrow is cocked.
The waitress threw down a menu and stood, one hip cocked, impatiently waiting for my order.
Zakari squared up to his opponent, squatting low with his bound arm cocked at his side.
The film's sound design emphasizes every tired step, desperate breath, every gun cocked and bullet fired.
The poet stands in all his hunky glory, hips slightly cocked, windowpane shirt open to midchest.
His writing voice fell into a distinct rhythm, half-cocked and prone to fits of anger.
He said then that the military had been "cocked and loaded" for a strike against Iran.
But, as is often the case, natural selection knocks humanity's best efforts into a cocked hat.
Take a drink every time a gun is cocked—creative sound design, that's its own drinking game.
Others, maybe seven or eight, had their elbows cocked and held their hands palms up, clearly waving.
The young man bent down and cocked his ear toward the balloon, listening for any major leaks.
Keep your ears cocked for his full length coming out via Votiv this May and listen below.
Mr Mallya is hardly the only embattled Indian tycoon to have cocked a snook at his bankers.
He cocked his head to suggest the other side of the border, meaning VIPs from North Korea.
He bear-hugged her out of the room when Azealia grabbed a glass and cocked it back.
The journalist asked if Diovisalvi often used science in communication with Johnson, and Johnson cocked his head.
This morning on CNN, the former governor of Michigan ... confused "cold cocked" with "cock blocked" http://bit.
The Sass & Bide number was paved in sequins and paired with a hat cocked to one side.
"We're feeling pretty O.K. here that this will not throw everything into a cocked hat," he said.
Unlike most squash players, he doesn't grip his racket with the traditional cocked V in his wrist.
And to show the SEALs' readiness to fight, the pistol's hammer is cocked back, ready to fire.
That's all I could hear, the gun being cocked back and them shoving it against my head.
Then I realized there was this thing that, if I cocked the shutter, it would go like this.
He paused and smiled…and then flashed my phone towards me with a cocked head and a smirk.
His certainly knocks into a cocked hat Boris Johnson's boisterously self-referential effort of a few years ago.
A whole new hairstyle is something you don't go into half-cocked, so we've been doing some research.
They rustled as they moved, and their shady wide-brim hats were cocked at exactly the same angle.
Resist the urge to go off half-cocked at your boss, landlord, or elder relative during this period.
Your solution to this problem will be half cocked no matter what because you are NOT A DOCTOR!
According to Prince, what Drake had "cocked and loaded" would've "ended" Kanye, and caused a lot of pain.
In the bit, the third Stephen Colbert wore an American flag button-down and a permanently cocked eye.
He cocked his head as if to better parse the amplified huff and puff of the woman's breath.
He later told NBC News that one of the men had put a cocked gun to his head.
With her drooping tongue, cocked head, and expressive eyes, Marnie racked up nearly 2 million fans on Instagram.
His hand, cocked back signifies the expected aggression that has been forced upon him at a young age.
"We heard someone come to the door, we heard what sounded like a gun being cocked," Abdullah said.
An insouciant Mr. Trump, 40-something, baby-faced, pre-blond-rinse, has one arm cocked, hand on hip.
I asked him how he handled those sweaty-palmed encounters when combatants approached him, guns cocked and pointed.
He sat for Alex Katz in a kind of attentive slouch, head cocked just slightly and shoulders askew.
Instead of "cocked & loaded," Trump probably meant "locked and loaded," which means to prepare a gun for immediate firing.
So I cocked the shutter, took the picture, and now I was at least able to take a photograph.
"She played very low status in some ways with the cocked head and humble," she said of the consort.
If you look up to see someone staring at you with a cocked fist, you expect to be punched.
And because clowns are scary as fuck, Young understandably cocked his fist back and tried to clock the man.
We were cocked & loaded to retaliate last night on 2202 different sights when I asked, how many will die.
We were cocked & loaded to retaliate last night on 6900 different sights when I asked, how many will die.
He said the robber had impersonated a police officer, held a cocked gun to his forehead and demanded money.
She put her hands on pipes, felt for hot spots, peered into gauges, cocked an ear for wrong sounds.
She cocked her head, that look of understanding dogs give, or of wanting to understand, their demand for attention.
He perches daintily on a marble base, his left elbow cocked out, the head of Goliath at his feet.
Watson cocked his head to the side, lifted his eyebrows, and appears to have asked "Who?" as referees intervened.
By the door, the restaurant's maître d' was folding an American flag, and LoBaido cocked an eye at him.
He stands with his head bent, leaning slightly on one foot and his fedora cocked forward on his head.
Without a gun cocked to your forehead, it's really just a story about some guys urinating on a gas station.
But Moore was lethal from 270 paces, armed with nothing more than a cocked eyebrow and a saucy bon mot.
Perched vigilantly atop limestone pedestals by Stanford White, the great cats keep their ears forever cocked for the slightest rustle.
Ricci prefers bespoke suits — the bigger the plaid, the better — and his ever-present trilby is always cocked just so.
Ever since we premiered Totemo's video "Hits" in June​, we've been keeping an ear cocked for this Tel Aviv artist.
Mr. Mamdani likes to imagine her wearing it every now and then, eyebrow cocked, still prowling the streets as Nani.
Another time, Dawson pointed his cocked pistol at Giddings and was prevented from shooting him only when other congressmen intervened.
As he plunged his neck and chest into the water, he cocked his gaping, narrow bill up to the sky.
I'm merely saying that clearly these policies that you say will alleviate crime"—he paused, and cocked an eyebrow—"haven't.
What it is, in typical Lowery fashion, is a longing look backward at a bygone era, with a cocked eyebrow.
His head cocked, there were no outward signs of hard feelings as Donald Trump derided his tenure during his inaugural address.
Ten feet away, in the shadow, Ricky was waiting for him, on the path perhaps, sitting, panting, head cocked, watching intently.
It don't happen by accident that the jeans fall the right way, the hat is cocked to the side just so.
Cosby appeared to listen intently, leaning forward in his seat with his head cocked to the side and pointed toward Constand.
Bros with caps on and their heads cocked to the side with a good ol' cup o' Joe is sooo Bumble.
"We were cocked & loaded to retaliate last night on 3 different sights when I asked, how many will die," Trump wrote.
He has a gun cocked and loaded at his head and it's going off every few seconds until he gets acquired.
The US, according to Trump, was "cocked and loaded to retaliate," but he called off the attack at the last minute.
With her face cocked upward, she discerned her progress by the overhead lights retreating out of sight in a fluorescent blur.
My guide was Mauricio Murillo, or Moe, an amiable Bostonian with gauged earrings, a cocked beanie, and a Williamsburg-ready beard.
And Conor Gillaspie, a backup San Francisco Giants third baseman, cocked his bat and hacked at a sinker that didn't sink.
" All of these male nudes have their elbows cocked out from one hip in that classic exaggerated pose of "se camper.
Vic Brotherson of Scarlet & Violet in London juxtaposes disheveled, swollen-headed roses with pristine arcs of fronds, like a cocked eyebrow.
We were sitting in Liang's modest, unadorned office, drinking tea, and as I spoke he cocked his head in apparent puzzlement.
"There was some argument, so the man just cocked his gun and shot the girl in her back," Abdul told me.
"We were cocked & loaded to retaliate last night on 3 different sights when I asked, how many will die," he tweets.
Yet 11 minutes after the initial attack, he cocked his rifle and shot Mr. Sharif as he lay on the road.
Soon my brain was a jumble of imperatives about the locked-out position, the semi-cocked wrist, and the diamond setup.
" The teenager cocked his head to the side and said "You can jack into one of us if you need to.
On Friday, Trump tweeted that the United States was "cocked & loaded" on Thursday night to strike Iran before deciding to stand down.
"Without a gun cocked at your forehead, it's really just a story about some guys urinating on a gas station," Colbert says.
Since September, Colbert's former time slot has been occupied by Jordan Klepper, another tall, coiffed white guy with a perennially cocked eyebrow.
" Lochte told NBC: "The guy pulled out his gun, he cocked it, put it to my forehead, and he said, 'Get down.
In any case keep your ears cocked for more from Beat Club, but in the meantime listen to "New Age Kid" below:
As an ethereal silence descended, Mr. Kerry cocked his head in the stillness of one of the world's last truly wild places.
"We were cocked & loaded to retaliate last night on 3 different sights," Mr. Trump said in a Twitter post on Friday morning.
One abductee said they didn't understand the language, and the big man cocked his gun, but instead of shooting, he laughed loudly.
Even though the boy is looming over her and has his fist cocked, they both look to him like they're in trouble.
But talking to Lauer on Wednesday, Lochte clarified that the gun was pointed in his general direction but that the weapon was cocked.
At that point, according to the report, one of the robbers put a gun to Lochte's head and cocked it, demanding his wallet.
He held the gun awkwardly, cocked his head hard to the side, squeezed one eye closed to aim and dry-fired the weapon.
" It's worth noting that the president probably should have asked how many casualties there might be before ensuring the military was "cocked & loaded.
Later, when he was in the commentary booth, he could have a laugh about it, saying, "I was cocked and ready," Young said.
He smiles stiffly, gun already cocked as his elevator's doors open onto the very same murderer who kidnapped his son five years ago.
The prosecutor said Scott's DNA was found on his gun, which was cocked with the safety off and a round in the chamber.
Before San Jose, Brookline, where the little sister came to them in a tiny blanket of blue and pink stripes, a cocked hat.
Mr. Blackwell, dressed in a slate-colored business shirt and black pants, sat silently during the summations, his head cocked to one side.
He was raw and upright, his head cocked far to the right as he sprinted, which was in part because of his scoliosis.
Another seemed to be dozing; his head was cocked backward onto a companion's arm, and his mouth and eyes were both wide open.
Hudson paints his partner wearing a cocked fur hat, holding a brush and palette, resting an empty canvas in front of his torso.
When asked if he had spoken to Kassai after the game, if he had made his unhappiness known, he simply cocked an eyebrow.
"We were cocked and loaded to retailate [sic] last night on 3 different sites when I asked, how many will die," Trump tweeted.
But present them to Isle of Dogs, and it can only respond with a cocked head and a blank stare that says, "Who, me?" 
Then she cocked her head in dismay: Two seats away, a nattily-dressed tenor in a black suit and tie had begun snoring gently.
When he refused, one of the men cocked a pistol and placed it against the swimmer's head, and he then handed over his wallet.
Trump said the U.S. was "cocked and loaded to retaliate" against Iran on Thursday, but he changed his mind 10 minutes before planned strikes.
Weight balanced, feet aligned, deep knee bend, stick-straight torso, elbows cocked, sweeping follow-through, wrist bent, hold it ... hold it ... hold it ... bottom.
Trump tweeted earlier Friday that the U.S. military was "cocked and loaded" and that he gave the green light to launch strikes against Iran.
" — JIMMY FALLON "'Cocked and loaded' sounds like the name of a Tom Green movie where a guy takes a road trip with a rooster.
But she is a friend of Mr. Trump's and has met privately with him and his top advisers to sell her half-cocked theories.
An elbow cocked at 90 degrees, finger pointing skyward and looping, she noted, could mean either to close the tab or bring another round.
"He changed it again to get this new thing a lot of people are teaching: getting in this loaded, cocked position," Clay Bellinger said.
Asked if she had a message for the President, Daniels put her hands on her hips, cocked her head, pursed her lips and smiled.
Trump said Friday that the military was "cocked and loaded" to fire on Iran in retaliation for shooting down a US drone earlier this week.
" (The word "poppers" is slang for the recreational drug alkyl nitrite.) Walters cocked her head to the side and looked shocked as she asked, "Grope…?
President Trump confirmed Friday that the U.S. was "cocked & loaded" to strike Iran last night, a move that could have accelerated the path to war.
He looked like any other laid-back young tourist, except for the intense focus—all senses cocked—with which he takes in a new environment.
On his side on the floor with his elbow cocked and his palm supporting his head lay George C. Wolfe, whose idea this production was.
A photo of him getting cold-cocked in the mouth has become a popular meme, as has this photo: Remember hip-hop expert Bill O'Reilly?
As Ruiz cocked his arm, Baez made a quick calculus — there was no way he could get back to third before the throw got there.
Now let's address why the president is considerably more dangerous when he mouths off half-cocked about the government's response to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
The likes of Erick Erickson jamming a cocked finger into his jacket pocket and pointing it at democracy may not strike terror in your heart.
" A shrieking, faintly feral neighbor who calls Drew a "baby-cocked bitch" reminded me of a terrific scene from the Staten Island episode of "Girls.
When another fan yelled out right as Raonic cocked his arm to serve in the second set on Friday, Hetherington shook his head in disgust.
Bolt's victory pose is also known as bolting, and involves him pointing both index fingers toward the sky with one arm cocked and the other outstretched.
I practiced with the rifle unloaded first—the gun has no external safety, so once a round's in the chamber, it's cocked and ready to fire.
But it also curves into soft folds in other places, like above his narrow hips, which are permanently cocked in an impossibly angled, now iconic contrapposto.
Let the old guard complain that he ducked and dipped too much, held his hands too low and his chin cocked too high; he won fights.
He gave it the Chief Executive once-over, cocked his head, looked at the reporters in front of him, and jutted his jaw toward them slightly.
In the picture Werdum is standing in a gym, with a fist all cocked and ready, dressed in fight shorts and an Akhmat MMA T-shirt.
Recall that Michael Jordan once cold-cocked Steve Kerr in practice, and Kerr later hit the game-winning shot that brought the Chicago Bulls another championship.
You'd get a lot of cocked eyebrows and double entendres, delivered with panache by master winkers like Miriam Hopkins, Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert and Jeanette MacDonald.
In case you missed it ... William Wolf's black opponent cold-cocked him after he used the term in front of a room fool of black folks.
On Saturday morning, a woman in a maroon shirt that reads "BRIDE'S LAST RIDE" poses with one leg tucked behind her, her head cocked to the side.
Trump tweeted saying that the U.S. had been "cocked & loaded to retaliate" but that he called off a military strike after learning that 150 people would die.
We cocked our heads askance, wondering if this grotesquely sanguine moment would be cut abruptly short by some sort of heart-clenching announcement by the Kim regime.
Record the press scrum, then edit it down to salient points (if any), or just report that the POTUS went off half-cocked (again) with B.S. & lies.
Scott uses the word with a barely cocked eyebrow, taking herself down along with her father, and its understated precision characterizes this family history as a whole.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, Azaria arrived at the scene about 11 minutes after the attack, cocked his rifle and shot Sharif in the head, killing him.
They say that she cocked her glass back, at which point Crowe took action by wrapping her in a bear hug and escorting her out of the room.
The boy in his mother's arms in the earlier street painting, with his head cocked parallel to the only other preschooler in sight, had eyes just for her.
Even 25 years after it blazed into theaters on May 24, 1991, guns drawn and smirks defiantly cocked, there are still precious few movies like Thelma and Louise.
Like any sensible person who's ever had their heart broken, you probably have a folder of half-cocked texts you've considered sending your ex but held back on.
Think about the moments people have cocked their heads to one side and said, "oh you'll find someone" or "he's out there" when you tell them you're single.
After a few more sentences, something shifted in Violet and she cocked her head toward the man, Ricky Gitt, for a few seconds: a brief moment of connection.
"Police Officer 1 appeared to be angry, ran towards the victim, and cocked his right arm as though he was going to punch the victim," the complaint says.
Now, your headappears from the surf, The siren ascendingthrough layers of hair, Whip of cocked traps,scars across your sternum And nail beds wrinkling toazure, turquoise, cyanotic blue.
Furtive nighttime meetings are held in abandoned schools, hospitals and apartments, individual escape routes memorized, every ear cocked for the growl of British armored cars in the street.
"We were cocked & loaded to retaliate last night on 3 different sights (sic) when I asked, how many will die," Trump wrote in a series of morning tweets.
"You can't be tariffing people at the same exact time that you're negotiating a detailed arrangement with them," Mr. Ross said, while describing them as a cocked pistol.
The president said he was "cocked and loaded" for a retaliatory strike but called it off when he learned that 150 people would probably die in the attack.
Mr. Jackson cocked his head back and stared at the ceiling as he stood in handcuffs and a khaki prison jumpsuit next to his defense lawyer, Sam Talkin.
Thursday morning, Trump said U.S. forces were "cocked and loaded," ready to strike Iran in retaliation for shooting down an unmanned drone, but then they were pulled back.
" Incroyable (1789): "Very large satin bows; powdered head tied with a queue; cocked hat, wide lace cravat; cane with gold head, quaint scissor-shaped eye-glass of the period.
Benjamin "then made certain the gun was loaded, cocked the hammer on the gun and shot the victim just above the heart at a downward trajectory," the judge wrote.
I sometimes find human American friends unable to understand me — I see them with their heads cocked to the side, knowing that we're meant to share a common tongue.
On the way home, Niall drove again the way I admired—one-handed, window down, elbow cocked out, the cool night flooding in, brightening his cigarette between his fingers.
It said Azaria handed his helmet to a comrade, cocked his rifle, walked a few steps towards the Palestinian and "fired one bullet at the terrorist's head", killing him.
The best are between Betty and her terrifying mother Alice, mostly because Alice is played by Mädchen Amick (Twin Peaks), who knows the value of a perfectly cocked eyebrow.
"Self-Portrait in Hell," for one, is complemented at Scandinavia House by a nude self-portrait shot that same summer in Asgardstrand, Munch's left arm cocked above his hip.
In June, after Iran downed an American drone conducting surveillance in the area, Trump said the U.S. military was "cocked and loaded," ready to hit Iran hard in retaliation.
Some black residents who are recent arrivals said that when they tell other black people elsewhere in the city where they live, they are met with a cocked eyebrow.
She's the one who cocked a wary eyebrow when Elizabeth told her they don't use sex to get information, before going rogue to pull off her own honeypot scheme.
In this narrow range of ambiguous emotional indicators, the slightly cocked head and pursed lips of "Portrait Bust with Dark Gray Bodice" (2018) registers heightened attentiveness tinged with skepticism.
After taking up the cause on Twitter and creating a solid example of Streisand Effect, Jasper changed the title of her book to The Cockiest Cowboy To Have Ever Cocked.
We're told Azealia reached for her glass, cocked it back ... and that's when Russell had enough -- he grabbed her in a bear hug and carried her out of the suite.
Courtrooms, boardrooms, nicely decorated drawing rooms, and newsrooms furnished with little more than telephones and smoke: they all feel cocked and combat-ready, and every deadline looms like an ambush.
Balancing the puck on his stick as he skated toward the goal, he moved the stick to his right hand, cocked his arm back, and flung everything at the net.
These also happen to be the core aims of Dr. Ganz's audience, members of an unsanctioned "school" created last spring by Harvard graduate students cold-cocked by the Trump victory.
When Anzora was nine years old, he was throwing a football with friends one day when a group of teen-agers spilled out of a car and cocked their guns.
She studied me, she did not speak, she cocked her head, pursed her lips, and pressed a finger to her cheek, in actressy reflection, liking the suspense she was creating.
I was thinking back to that clash this week, which ended three days later as McCain and Obama playfully cocked their fists and mugged for the cameras on Capitol Hill.
There's an unmistakable power imbalance when seeing those two bodies side by side, with Cal's dick so prominently displayed, a cocked gun of sorts that anticipated the violent scene that followed.
And then the guy pulled out his gun, he cocked it, put it to my forehead and he said, 'Get down,' and I put my hands up, I was like 'Whatever.
Additionally, that slight angle that Cejudo takes as he retreats, and having his rear hand cocked and ready to counter, can make him susceptible to the high kick on that side.
The right side of the screen contained a large image of me, also in the same pose: body turned slightly to the side, hips cocked, left arm raised in the air.
In several of the photos, Cuthbert is looking directly at the camera with a self-assured smile and an ever-so-slightly cocked eyebrow, suggesting she knows exactly what she's doing.
Camp, in this sense, is not a pup tent, but a circus tent: not an activity, but a way to see, a gimlet-eyed but eyebrow-cocked gloss on the world.
And then the guy pulled out his gun, he cocked it, put it to my forehead and he said, 'Get down,' and I put my hands up, I was like 'whatever.
Another drill had him yank taut a resistance band tied to a fence with his left hand while shuffling around with his right arm cocked, as if moving around the pocket.
But quarterback Matt Ryan was caught as he cocked his arm to throw, the ball fell loose, the Patriots got it back trailing by 16 points and the rest is history.
Despite the comedy, the Dublin slum-dwellers who populate his plays are fully realized characters, not shabby cartoons, and he had a cocked ear for the absurd poetry of their speech.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads With its head cocked 214 degrees to the side and its eyes opened wide, the owl of Documenta 143's logo is poised for observation.
You gave an interview with Billy Bush that claimed that while you were at a gas station in Rio, a gun was put to your forehead and cocked and you were robbed.
"The guy pulled out his gun, he cocked it, put it to my forehead and he said, 'Get down,' and I put my hands up, I was like 'whatever'," he told NBC.
FLORIDA COUPLE GOES TO TACO BELL FOR POST-WEDDING PHOTOSHOOT Now the cocked-head, wide-mouthed grin has gone viral on Facebook after the photographer, Tony Bendele, posted them to his Facebook.
If you try typing in "Faleena Hopkins" into the Amazon search bar, you'll find both the satirical Cocktales anthology and the defiantly retitled The Cockiest Cowboy That Ever Cocked on page two.
Two weeks before Halloween, in the back room of a deli on 60th Street, she cocked her head to one side, narrowed her eyes, and put a line out to the beyond.
Not only was the old system undemocratic but the elites completely cocked things up, opting for a disastrous war in Iraq and allowing the financial sector to crash the economy in 2008.
McDonagh's ear is cocked, instead, for the noise of human dissonance, and never is the clash more jarring than when Willoughby explains to Mildred that he's dying of cancer, and dying fast.
Taken by a fish-eye lens, the cover shows Styles in a pastel blue and pink room, with his hip cocked, wearing high-waisted ivory trousers and a barely buttoned magenta shirt.
The strength of the choreography flows from its wide and low squats, its whipping hair, its percussive isolation of body parts, sometimes accompanied (aptly) by the sound of a gun being cocked.
"The pace, the variety, the anonymity, the sense of walking on glittering glass eggs, walking in a city like a big-time prostitute with her legs cocked open," Mr. Wright's narrator declares.
By his own account, the president called off the "cocked & loaded" strike on Thursday night with only 10 minutes to spare to avoid the estimated deaths of as many as 163 people.
"I think it's in the tour's best interest to make it as competitive as it can be," said Ogilvy, who cocked his eyebrows when the combined-gender format was suggested to him.
In June, Trump tweeted that U.S. forces were "cocked and loaded" before he called off a strike against Iran at the last moment in response to the downing of an American drone.
She cut a striking figure, with flaming red hair worn in bangs, a cigarette cocked at a jaunty angle and enormous eyes that seemed perpetually on the lookout for the latest thing.
"Meth: We're On It." For the briefest of moments Monday evening, these words managed to drown out impeachment analysis as social media cocked a collective eyebrow in the direction of South Dakota.
After the first series in Sunday's Super Bowl, which ended in an interception, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady angrily cocked his right arm and flung his helmet over a sideline bench.
"This is not the time for anybody - the Railroad Commission, academia, federal or state jurisdictions - to be putting out half-cocked information," Sitton said in an interview on the sidelines of the meeting.
"You know how many reviews praised your sense of humor?" she asked as she cocked her head to look down each row of servers, as if expecting something to leap out at her.
Earlier, the president tweeted that he was "cocked and loaded" to strike several targets in Iran but deemed the loss of life would be disproportionate to the downing of an unmanned U.S. drone.
" He continued: "And then the guy pulled out his gun, he cocked it, put it to my forehead and he said, 'Get down,' and I put my hands up, I was like 'Whatever.
The English Patient auteur Anthony Minghella set his sights on the Civil War in 2003, and the triumvirate of Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, and Renée Zellweger loaded, cocked, and pulled the trigger (respectively).
He immediately hops on stage with his choreographer, Jeremy Strong, and performs a simplified version of the moves to "Tip Toe," thrusting his hips and shuffling with his arms cocked to the side.
The shaggy black head was cocked a little to one side, held so by one horn that had fallen upon an unevenness of the ground; the other horn was broken at the top.
"We were cocked & loaded to retaliate last night on 3 different sights," Trump tweeted Friday morning, adding that after he found out 150 people could die in the process, he called it off.
Reporting from a meticulously designed facsimile of a bunker for the first episode of his new Comedy Central series The Opposition, Jordan Klepper swiveled to face the camera and cocked a skeptical eyebrow.
There are recognizable elements — flexed feet, cocked hips, formations of dancers that tangle and untangle — but for all of its color, courtesy of Eugene Berman's vibrant scenery and costumes, it's a little dull.
One senior civilian official, who keeps a loaded AK-47 near his desk, told me he stood in the middle of his office with a cocked weapon thinking assailants would arrive any minute.
We meet David (Adam Chanler-Berat), a teenager in it for cocked hats and the hope of getting a living history gig, and Larry (Andy Taylor), who plasters his dental office in memorabilia.
Showing off the unique design, McDormand stood with her hips cocked and her hand held aloft to the side as she posed for photographers on the famous steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
"Maybe if you loosened your ponytail..." she started, at which point Betty cocked her eyebrow, Jughead sat upright to make sure he had heard her correctly, and Kevin delivered the line of the night.
If your dog is pacing, howling, panting, and trying to run as far away from the sound as possible; if your cat is hiding, its ears cocked back, its eyes dilated, they need help.
With a cocked head, I stared at the images of Aaliyah, Tupac, and Justin Timberlake, debating whether or not bandana kerchiefs could have their 2016 revival, or if they were just dead and gone.
Rundle, as the high femme to Jones's stone butch, gives an entertainingly arch performance: her head cocked like a blond bird, she's a fragile, melancholic figure, in need of protection, which everyone offers up.
Controlled by an app on your phone, the little ball rolled about at high speeds, cocked its head emotively, spun around in circles, and inevitably careened into your wall, popping its head right off.
It has been five years since they selected in the second round a quarterback (Geno Smith) remembered less for his turnover-prone tenure than for being cold-cocked in the locker room by a teammate.
Trump has said the U.S. military was "cocked & loaded to retaliate," but that he decided not to launch an attack that would kill some 150 Iranians in response to the loss of an unmanned drone.
With one arm cocked behind his head and his nose nearly at the rim, Wilson glided across the paint, his eyes locked on a floater from a Utah Jazz player that seemed out of reach.
In his original account, Mr. Lochte claimed that men claiming to be police officers had pulled over the taxi and that an assailant had put a cocked gun to his forehead before taking his money.
He sat at the front of the glass box with his head cocked slightly back off his shoulders, quietly posturing, it seemed, like both the gangster he'd once been and the Muslim zealot he'd become.
Trump then tweeted Friday morning that the U.S. was "cocked and loaded" to carry out a retaliatory strike against Iran before he pulled back at the last minute upon learning there could be 150 casualties.
Trump then tweeted Friday morning that the U.S. was "cocked and loaded" to carry out a retaliatory strike against Iran before he pulled back at the last minute upon learning there could be 150 casualties.
"As the African-American cold-cocked this guy, and this guy never knew what happened, everybody thought the African-American was against me, and it was the opposite," Mr. Trump said at his rally Friday.
These men love their guns like Donald Trump loves Ivanka, fondling them fulsomely with a half-smile cocked on their face—auto-erotically charged from too many Clint Eastwood movies and episodes of Duck Dynasty.
President Trump said that the U.S. military was "cocked and loaded" for a strike against Iran but that he called it off when told, with just minutes to spare, that 213 people would probably die.
Suddenly she broke off and cocked her head very slightly to listen to a noise coming from behind us, in the Amtrak galley kitchen, where the attendant was doing something with the forks and knives.
Donald Trump and the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un — neither of whom has any aides who can stand up to them — are trading fire and brimstone threats with their fingers cocked on nuclear weapons.
An autumnal sun bathed all in a blond light, goldenrod and desert grasses, and Churro sheep and their guardian dogs, which cocked heads and sniffed at the air, trying to catch a scent of coyotes.
Related: US was 'cocked and loaded' to strike Iran, Trump says For Iran, America's recent withdrawal from the nuclear deal and harsh sanctions (and the expectation that European signatories should follow) already amounts to economic warfare.
He roamed his neighborhood in a daze, he said, with his feeding tube tied in a knot and his hat cocked sideways, revealing his now-lopsided skull, asking people if they knew who had shot him.
Her heart-shaped face — delicately dotted with a paper plane tattoo — is cocked to the side, and her nude-glossed lips fall into a pout when she admits she's tired from all the recent travel. Sexy.
Taken by a fish-eye lens, the cover shows Styles in a pastel blue and pink room, with his hip cocked, wearing an ostentatious outfit of high-waisted ivory trousers, and a barely-buttoned magenta shirt.
Lauer said that Lochte had altered his story to say a gun had been pointed in his general direction, and was cocked, not held to his head and ready to fire, as he had told Bush.
First, that camp begins with the invention of the contrapposto pose — one hip thrust out, elbow cocked — in Greek sculpture, which seems brilliant, as well as apt because of the Greek acceptance of love between men.
There is no sight in baseball more awe inspiring right now than New York Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard on the mound, midway through his delivery, his right arm cocked back behind him, and ready to fire.
There are images of Black Panther Chairman and co-founder Bobby Seale speaking into a microphone, eyes fiercely focused, mouth open, head cocked to the side, one finger pointing upward and away, perhaps beyond the sky.
He wore a cocked top hat, and with salt-and-pepper hair past his shoulders and a beard that reached his chest, created an inscrutable image that was equal parts shaman, tent revival preacher and cosmic ringmaster.
The American West is conceptualized throughout the exhibition according to terms rooted in the events and images of art history, but the show has its head cocked to get a better view of our current cultural climate.
Owens was elated to have just discovered that St. Bartholomew the Great is supposedly haunted by the painter William Hogarth, who was baptized there in 1697 and is said to roam the premises wearing a cocked hat.
Procuring it is another matter; this year's dreadful free-agent market is an unappetizing bazaar of delicate bodies (Rich Hill, Hisashi Iwakuma), rudimentary skills (Jeremy Hellickson), half-cocked reclamation projects (Ivan Nova, Andrew Cashner), and Bartolo Colon.
If the US could somehow signal to Iran that talks will be in its genuine interest and persuade it that escalation is in nobody's interests, then this moment in history can go beyond cocked weapons and threats.
Namely, a GQ article with instructions about how to go down on a woman (admittedly I cocked my head so hard at the seeming delay in this knowledge being imparted to Jay that I gave myself whiplash).
Then comes the painter Patrick Procktor, who appears to have escaped from the eighteen-nineties, and who stands, holding a cigarette in his cocked hand, near Hockney's painting of him, in which he strikes an identical pose.
Hours after he claimed to be robbed at a Rio gas station, Lochte gave a now-infamous interview to Today's Billy Bush, in which he told a dramatic story about having a cocked gun put to his head.
So, when I came across a rash of articles proclaiming this American Giant sweatshirt the "Greatest Hoodie Ever Made" and "America's Best Hoodie," and one worth getting onto a wait list for, I came with one eyebrow cocked.
They struck dramatic poses — an arm flung over an eye, a hand on a cocked hip, a leg held askew — and paused as the singer Janelle Monáe strolled into the room and took her place in the middle.
If an alien whose speed, strength and reflexes were so advanced that he could get to you before you could pull the trigger on a cocked handgun — then smash you through a wall of cinderblocks — you'd die. Instantly.
He towered over me in his iconic pose: back foot flat, front foot tipped, shoulders cocked, left arm raised to hold the sling, huge right hand hanging down by his side, head turned fiercely toward the glorious future.
Oh, I suppose there was an ear half-cocked as LibriVox recordings of "Alice in Wonderland" aired during long car trips for the children, a respite from the Lord God Our iPad, but I was hardly paying attention.
And just three months ago, Mr Trump revealed America had also been "cocked and loaded" when he aborted an air-raid against Iran just ten minutes before it was due to strike, because of the likely civilian casualties.
In a series of tweets posted Friday morning, Mr. Trump said that American forces were "cocked and loaded" to strike three targets in Iran, but that he had called off the military action with 10 minutes to spare.
There is even an artificiality to the way the four bodyguards' left arms are cocked back so that the viewer can see their badges as well as the court order tucked into the lead marshal's side jacket pocket.
Once the gears in Washington get going, once the military-industrial complex is "cocked & loaded," once the hawks around you begin Iago-whispering that if you don't go forward, you'll be unmanned, it's awfully hard to reverse course.
"We were cocked & loaded to retaliate last night on 3 different sights when I asked, how many will die," wrote Trump, an outspoken supporter of gun rights and the beneficiary of $30 million in National Rifle Association campaign spending.
When I found out that a movie about the writing of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye was coming out, I rubbed my hands together demonically, cocked my eyebrows, and threw my head back in a villainous laugh.
After all, we all know that was the iPhone that changed everything in mobile, it was the iPhone that made all those other companies launch half-cocked jerry-rigged products as a stopgap before remaking their platforms later on.
I heard a gun being cocked, and suddenly all eight cops poured around the corner, racing out after this guy—the last of whom was a giant, seven-foot-tall black guy carrying the largest shotgun I've ever seen.
Yes, he had the half-cocked show on HBO that bombed and he can occasionally be too high-and-mighty but Buck, unlike some of his (CBS corporate shilling) peers, is also willing to be a three-dimensional human.
One was in a Chicago Bulls bomber jacket, the other had a frayed cast on his wrist and a round, ugly, floridly freckled face, their heads cocked back with their mouths open, contemplating the overhead screens of the menu.
What heart-racing joy it is to be immersed in the archers' theatrics, the group functioning as a kind of single, singular, heteromorphic creature, kneeling and sprinting and flying, its many cocked and outstretched arms engaged in synchronized flapping.
For the designer Elsa Schiaparelli, Penn pulled back the camera to reveal slices of the studio, while Schiaparelli cocked one gloved hand on her hip and extended the other up the wall, as if waiting to be handed castanets.
For Cruz the gameplan should be simple: do the same as last time without the attempts to hit step up knees and other things which give Faber the right hand that he has cocked and ready at all times.
Trump said Friday that he called off the attack on Iran -- with the US "cocked & loaded"-- ten minutes before the strike because he decided there would be too many deaths for a proportionate response to the downing of an American drone.
Trump said Friday that he called off the attack on Iran -- with the US "cocked & loaded"-- 10 minutes before the strike because he decided there would be too many deaths for a proportionate response to the downing of an American drone.
Coincidentally or not, Trump is ramping up to use the military as a blunt force instrument against Iran; he was "cocked and loaded" Thursday before changing his mind about a strike to make Tehran pay for a downed US drone.
Just hours after he claimed to be robbed at a Rio gas station, Lochte gave a now-infamous interview to the Today Show's Billy Bush in which he told a dramatic story about having a cocked gun put to his head.
Trump said Friday that officials had been "cocked and loaded" to retaliate against Iran after he learned an Iranian missile system shot down a U.S. military drone that Iranian officials argued entered the country's airspace, a claim U.S. officials have refuted.
After one too many brews and following a tough loss, the now player-coach cold-cocked rookie center Milo Komenich, a former standout at University of Wyoming, as the team's train sped home from two tough losses to Syracuse and Rochester.
President Trump said today that the U.S. military had been "cocked and loaded" for a strike against Iran on Thursday, but that he had called it off when told that 150 people would be likely to die in the attack.
" And so he does, killing one grease monkey by pulling out the jack holding up a car he's working underneath and buying a gun from a busty blond who winks at him and coos, "You're cocked, locked and ready to rock.
Trump approved airstrikes against Iran following the drone incident but said he called them off at the last minute after being told it would lead to more than 85033 casualties, saying the U.S. had been "cocked and loaded" to retaliate.
In the Murfreesboro case, Williams alleges that he was retaliated against when he tried to report abuse, like when one of his white colleagues cocked a loaded gun and pointed it at him when they were walking into a meeting.
Trump approved airstrikes against Iran following the drone incident but said he called them off at the last minute after being told it would lead to more than 100 casualties, saying the U.S. had been "cocked and loaded" to retaliate.
The straw hat with ribbon and a silk flower slid easily on Zina Burton-Myrick's head as she looked in the mirror, cocked her head to the side and then dipped her knees a bit to view herself from various angles.
He then went inside, cocked a gun with his right hand near the trigger and his left hand next to the barrel, which was pointed to the side, and said, "do you think I won't do it?" the woman told the police.
Mixed messages After last month's downing of a American drone, Trump said that he called off a retaliatory strike on Iran just as the US was "cocked & loaded" to strike because he decided there would be too many deaths for a proportionate response.
While I hadn't adopted a British accent during my time in England, I had adopted words, phrases, and pronunciations that raised eyebrows and cocked heads in the U.S. Often I found myself hesitating before speaking, trying to remember how I pronounced certain words.
"I picked him up just to see if a startle reflex would kick in, which it usually would, but his head was kind of cocked to the side and his arms and legs were really limp and he wouldn't move," Bongard said.
On an old mobile phone that she used as a photo album, she scrolled through pictures of her daughter in Damascus: Samar grinning in a park, her hip cocked and her hand on her waist, a glossy black bob wig on her head.
In the end, two models came out in glistening evening columns, torsos encased in stiff ruffled organza shells; each woman had one arm supporting her opposite elbow, which was cocked up and out to the side as if holding a cigarette en pose.
And the fact that someone who was at Amazon for 20 years, you could hardly describe this person as a flake or someone who just kind of goes off half-cocked, leaves Snap after six months, is a very negative forward-looking indicator.
On this particular August afternoon, some 40-odd Israeli soldiers, in full riot gear with guns cocked, appeared suddenly on the street as I waited to enter the Silwan Club; surveillance cameras perched atop the settlement clocked every move happening on the street below.
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In one of the images, Jenner gazed down at the camera while perching on what appeared to be a furry white chair, while in another she stood in front of it, with her hands in her hair and her hip cocked to one side.
Whatever Soup Subway Is Serving That Day If you're someone who eats at Subway you already don't give a fuck, so some of that energy is immediately transferred into that bowl of chicken noodle or whatever by the time you've cocked back your arm.
Washington (CNN)Fresh fury flying between President Donald Trump and Iran shows why the threat of a disastrous war was not averted by his last minute decision to call off "cocked and loaded" US air strikes to avenge the downing of a US drone last week.
In an interview with TODAY's Billy Bush on Sunday, just hours after the alleged robbery, Lochte had said the gun was put against his forehead — but said in Wednesday's telephone conversation that the gun was pointed in his general direction but the weapon was cocked, Lauer reported.
One of his works, the "obscene figure" - a massive, metal statue of a crude humanoid creature on all fours with a leg cocked in the air like a dog marking its territory - caused such a stir in the city of Colima the local government relocated it.
Huth grappled Fellaini around the chest from behind, then Fellaini cocked his elbow back as Huth grabbed his hair and tugged, gently, slowly, then, while Fellaini moaned in agony, he slapped Huth in the face and Huth dropped to his knees... ok, did someone touch the thermostat?
When Jane first appears as a young girl — played by Breanne Granlund on the night I saw the production — she dances with her elbows cocked aggressively out at the world, reacting in fury to the wicked and wealthy Reed relations who raise her and abuse her.
But it's also common to carry double/single-action semiautomatic pistols in "cocked and locked" mode: A round is in the chamber, the slide is racked and the round is ready to fire, but a safety is engaged to prevent the round from being fired accidentally.
Trump used similar language in June when he announced he had called off an attack on Iran just as the US was "cocked & loaded" to strike, because he decided it would cause too many deaths to be a proportionate response to Tehran's downing of a US drone.
While traders kept one eye on hurricane-related developments this week, they also cocked an ear to murmurings from Russia's energy minister and Iran's oil minister who suggested informal discussions to extend the agreement between both OPEC and non-OPEC members to cut production could be extended.
We groaned as we went through the usual baptism of fire for any new immigrant, the cocked-eyebrow and puzzled look as you struggle to get your words across, the constant sniggers and cries of "sorry, I didn't get that," little snipes at the outwardly different and the distinctive.
Alves then reversed course and sent a curling cross back over to Suarez, who was all alone—this is what happens when Messi and Neymar are also lurking around on the same turf—and he cocked back and hit a scissoring finish that all but ended Arsenal's day.
The way she cocked her hip out, rested her hand on the bone (quel intuition), turned out (there's the dancer), and lifted her chin ever so slightly to catch the natural light...or, my personal favorite, when she'd cackle directly to the camera, head-on and teeth first.
One of the table tennis players tried to slap a boxer with his paddle only to get cold-cocked in the jaw, who then got hit in the eye by a series of rapid fire volleys from another table tennis player, playing the ball off the wrestler's cornea.
WASHINGTON — President Trump said Friday morning that the United States military had been "cocked and loaded" for a strike against Iran on Thursday night, but that he called it off with 10 minutes to spare when a general told him that 150 people would probably die in the attack.
Because the show is mostly wordless and largely low-risk (poor Austin Bradley appears as a lion tamer without a lion), the focus is on the athleticism of the troupe and the precision of the tricks, with attention given to every cocked hip, angled wrist and pointed toe.
" When Barris was finished speaking, Black-ish star and recent Emmy nominee Tracee Ellis Ross cocked her head at the reporter who had asked the inciting question and posed one of her own: "Is that a question that you've asked other shows that are not predominantly of a certain color?
Anyone who has played Receiver will know that a gun might still be loaded even if it has no magazine, that a revolver can still fire even if the hammer is not cocked, and that it's easy to fire a gun by accident if you have your finger on the trigger.
The joke, with Masina, is that she couldn't be further from the voluptuaries who stalk through her husband's tales; with Mastroianni, the joke is that, though forever cast as a seducer, he is visibly hesitant and shy, halfhearted and half-cocked, as if embarrassed by the sway of his own lusts.
By age 2100, immersed in golf lessons, she had begun developing her swing, keeping her wrist cocked as long as possible as she addressed the ball and staying away from an emphasis on arm motion, something that most women of the era used, resulting in relatively short drives and iron play.
But even with an undercurrent of roiling class resentment, the occasional outburst of angry words or droplets of chocolate milk maliciously hurled at a Republican, and no fewer than two neo-Nazis being cold-cocked inside the span of two calendar years, things are pretty stable and subdued here in the USA.
The latest of those shorts, Smash and Grab, just debuted on YouTube, and it may seem a bit familiar to longtime Pixar fans — it features robots with a minor resemblance to the protagonist of Pixar's Wall-E, from the head-cocked expressions and grabby gimbaled hands to the expressive mechanically irising eyes.
These actors all have the advantage of being able to give easy, casual, cheeky performances — the sort in which every smirk, nod and cocked eyebrow telegraphs that something is about to happen that will make the audience feel not so much surprised as assured that the surprises will continue to arrive on schedule.
Ehlers led the rush down the right side, and with everybody in the building expecting him to pass to the Finnish sniper — Laine had his stick cocked from the Stars' blue line in — Ehlers whipped a pass across to Scheifele and his center snapped his eighth behind Kari Lehtonen at 3:06.
At 25 he burst into fashion consciousness as creative director at Balmain, one of the youngest ever at the helm of a major French brand, and began crafting his carefully filtered image; his Instagram profile picture features him, shirtless, head cocked moodily to the side, taking what seems to be a selfie.
A colleague was in a session with a dancehall vocalist, and Barnes pointed out his most recent nonmusical project, a custom-upholstered sofa embroidered with his record label's logo: a dreadlocked Lion of Judah with its tail cocked up aggressively, and a flag displaying a star of David next to the name Wackie's.
In an essay in the exhibit's catalogue, "Assassination by Proxy," Walker keenly juxtaposes the violent image of St. Victoria with a rephotographed Google image of Diamond Reynolds's picture of Philando Castile as he lay dying in a blood-drenched shirt with his head cocked back, a police gun pointed at him through his car window.
It was only when advisers tried to coax him into developing a coherent ideology that he found himself on the back foot—as with the Big Society thingy, a half–cocked attempt to find a mid-way between presenting the public with something conservative-sounding and his more fundamental instincts to drift bumptiously through the center ground.
At the beginning of her group's routine, she struck a defiant pose: Her head was cocked, her steely eyes stared unblinkingly forward and her lips were tightly pursed, forming an expression set somewhere between a smirk and a sneer — the sort of withering glare that adults secretly fear whenever walking past a pack of contemptuous teenagers on the street.
That romantic picture of star-crossed love is the stuff of many a country music video: a quick shot of two lovestruck teenagers skittering past disapproving old Dad and his cocked shotgun, hauling ass in their Sunday best across state lines in the sticky dark heat of a Mississippi summer to say "I do" and find out what the future holds.
"So I think it is absolutely essential that we stay focused on how, in this transitional period, nobody loses their head, nobody goes off half-cocked, people don't start ginning up scatterbrained or revengeful premises, but we look for ways to maintain the strength that will serve the interests and the values that brought us together in the first place," Mr. Kerry said.
President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE on Friday confirmed that the U.S. military was "cocked and loaded" to retaliate against Iran after the drone incident but backed off at the last minute.
These Republicans are queasy over the possibility of Mr. Trump going off half-cocked if a convention moment is not to his liking or rebellious delegates go ahead with a plan to try to block his nomination, while some are concerned that he will be heavy-handed in urging speakers to attack the Clintons, immigrants or others with language that alienates undecided voters.
President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE on Friday confirmed that the U.S. military was "cocked and loaded" to retaliate against Iran after the drone incident, but backed off at the last minute.
For one fluttering instant, he pictured Rosa Hinojosa in police blues with a cap cocked over her eye, a nightstick in one hand and a can of Mace in the other, and then he was pulling his door softly shut and fastening the latch, as if that would save him—but what was he going to do, hide under the bed?
However Carlos Condit has mentioned that the one strike Maia landed in their bout shook his head up—a nice right hand which Maia then established the cross face from in half guard—and Matt Brown had hand fought well with Maia for two and a half rounds when Maia cocked back his right hand and Brown reached for it before realizing that his neck was open.
President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE on Friday confirmed that the U.S. military was "cocked and loaded" to retaliate against Iran after the country shot down a U.S. surveillance drone, but backed off at the last minute.
But even if there wasn't, even if the movie was exactly as problematic as its critics on the right or left assumed, it's still unsettling to think that the president going off half-cocked about a movie he hasn't seen — without even naming the movie so we're sure what he was talking about — would cause a major movie studio to pull that movie's release.
Badu's fashion sense, like her music, has grown less predictable over the years, and on this night she was wearing a painted knee-length robe over denim overalls and about a cubic foot of beads hanging from her neck; in place of the head wraps of two decades ago, she wore a tall black hat with a rounded crown and a flat brim, precisely cocked.
The action of the arm is amplified by the saint's kneeling left leg, which seems to project his body forward, a far more dynamic pose than the seated position that a quick reading might suggest (the robe falling from his left shoulder and draped over his elbow seems to take the shape of a leg in repose, creating a solidity and symmetry that is undercut by the actual leg as it zags backward like a cocked trigger).
By the end of the day, Mr. Lochte had confirmed the account — and added more dramatic detail — and his version of the events had been corroborated by his three teammates in interviews with the U.S.O.C. When Mr. Lochte said in an NBC interview that they had been held up, and that a cocked gun had been held to his forehead, the story preyed on every Olympic visitor's fear that Brazil was not safe and tapped into every Brazilian's defensiveness about the country's lawless reputation.
"The suggestion that you would have an experienced, educated attorney like Mr. Cohen who would run off, half-cocked without any knowledge of his client, that he would negotiate and draft a detailed agreement that included his client as a party, that he would engage in weeks of negotiation, that he would reach agreement, that he would then send $130,000 in connection with that agreement, that he would then later institute an arbitration proceeding without knowledge of his client, all of this to those of us that practice under the law as attorneys, it's ludicrous," Avenatti said on CNN.

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