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Occasionally, the world foists the term "fat woman" her way.
For one thing, the life-imperiling cliffhanger it foists upon Arya is patently ridiculous.
I figured I had freed myself of the sexist values society foists on all of us.
No matter what appointees he foists on us, there's always another pal who'd have been worse.
It's a "pro-voice" philosophy that shuns the "pro-choice" and "pro-life" labels society foists on this hot-button issue.
But the comedy dies as her new husband foists himself upon her, in the tub and then on the bathroom floor.
Congress, we all know, chooses to exempt itself from many of the same laws it foists on the rest of us.
Ms. Arieff describes the National Association of Home Builders' influence as a top-down system that foists its retrograde and mercenary self-interests on us.
The lawsuit, which the Pacific Legal Foundation filed on behalf of the small business advocacy group, charges that OSHA's rule illegally foists union activists onto non-unionized businesses.
We live in a Christian nation (resist all you want, but three-quarters of us identify as Christian) and I wonder whether that foists a redemption frame on our apologies.
He's uniquely unsuited for the moral dilemma that this week's episode foists upon him, and this hour we see him start to crack under the pressure that one difficult decision causes.
This expansion of the [agreement] continues to prevent legitimate asylum seekers from having their cases heard by the U.S. and foists them upon the Guatemalan system, which has about a dozen staff.
Made by cutting and pasting the glossy, exclusionary images that mass culture foists on women, they retaliate with fantastical concoctions of otherness — racial, cultural, physical — that can stop you in your tracks.
As evidenced by the fact that many scooters have been dumped, as trash, into oceans and waterways, the perceived burden Bird foists on communities isn't the only reason people submit to Bird Graveyard.
The film they see is a depressing one about the Holocaust (his choice), and the kiss he foists upon her before they get drinks is especially unpleasant (he "practically poured his tongue down her throat").
As Congress turns to its own massive infrastructure plan, one that foists more responsibility to the states, Holcomb's long-term initiative in Indiana may become a national model for other staffers — and governors — to follow.
Trump's trade war is bigger than China; it's a multi-front world conflagration in which Trump is the aggressor, picking fights with world leaders and the US Congress as he foists his nationalism onto the rest of the world, sending shock waves through the global economy.
The one dumb thing that Molly ever did was to judge her peers according to categories and appearances, and "Booksmart" gently teaches her a lesson by giving everyone else the same privileges she claims for herself and foists on Amy: to play against type; to be surprising; to change.
Though the NHTSA Federal Automated Vehicle Policy itself has issues worthy of revision, including a problematic mechanism whereby it foists safety standard compliance on the states, the current course, whereby NHTSA articulates performance expectations in a non-binding manner, is a sensible middle-of-the-road approach during this period of transition.
ACP Vikram uses the services of a goon named Shivu to encounter all the gangsters and later foists a false case on him to separate him from his daughter.
Australian women's rights were lampooned in this 1887 Melbourne Punch cartoon: A hypothetical female member foists her baby's care on the House Speaker. South Australian women were to achieve the vote in 1895.
Yet the Turks were unable to sink it through gunfire alone, or close in for the grapple.Monteiro (2011) p.172 At the same time, the Turkish galleys were harassed by the Portuguese foists, which being lighter, did not press with the attack.Monteiro (2011) p.
Meanwhile, Aarumugam's sister is in love with the son of a rich woman Rajarajeswari. When Rajarajeswari learns of this, she foists a false case on her and puts her in jail. It is then that Aarumugam has his first encounter with Rajarajeswari. He then learns that she is none other than Geetha's mother.
At Honavar the Portuguese once more joined forces with Timoji, who informed Albuquerque that Ismail had left a considerable garrison behind, about 8,000–10,000 "whites" (Persian and Turkic mercenaries) supported by native infantry. Timoji could provide 4,000 men and 60 foists (light galleys) of his own, while the king of Honavar proposed to send 15,000 men by land.
Norton continues to visit the island and begins to adopt local abandoned children in great numbers. In 1980 he sees a decrepit man he believes was the boy he had the sexual encounter with when he first came to Ivu'ivu who foists his son on Norton. Norton takes the boy home and names him Victor. As Victor grows older he and Norton develop an increasingly contentious relationship.
The film begins with Guru Moorthi (Prakash Raj) who follows Pooja (Easwari Rao) like a mental. Guru Moorthi claims to be Mahendra Boopathi in his past life and he was in love with Alamelu. According to him, Pooja looks like his lover Alamelu and Guru Moorthi finally seduces her. They decide to get married but the day before their wedding, he foists prostitution charges on her and she is arrested.
When Bud foists her upon Pete, he is upset and annoyed with the situation, and resorts to exploiting her illness to keep her under control. Pete eventually hires Manolo, a Spanish nurse recommended to him by Bob Benson. Manolo initially works out quite well, but Dorothy begins implying that they are involved in a satisfying sexual relationship. Pete fires Manolo for sexually assaulting his mother, much to Dorothy's fury.
In 1569, the Viceroy Dom Luís de Ataíde oversaw the takeover of the coastal town of Honavar, where a small fort was built. In the middle of July 1571, during the monsoon, it was attacked by 5,000 men and 400 horse of the neighbouring Queen of Garsopa, instigated by the Adil Shah of Bijapur, who provided 2,000 of those men.Pereira (1617), 1986 edition, p.573 The Viceroy dispatched 200 men to reinforce the fort by sea aboard a galley and eight foists.
One such piece earned from the Portuguese the nickname "Orlando Furioso". In February, a small fleet of 5 half-galleys and 25 smaller craft with 2,000 men from Calicut, commanded by Catiproca Marcá, arrived in Chaul to meet up with the forces of the Nizam, under cover from the night. The Portuguese had five galleys and eleven foists in the harbour, but the Malabarese avoided clashing with the Portuguese galleys.Saturnino Monteiro (2011), Portuguese Sea Battles Volume III - From Brazil to Japan, 1539-1579 pp.
Thrown into disarray, many Turkish sailors and soldiers jumped to sea, where they were cut down by the shallow draught Portuguese foists. Several more caravels arrived to attack the rest of the galleys, that surrendered after a half an hour struggle. Seydi Ali Reis in the meantime, decided to head east across the Arabian Sea to Gujarat with his remaining galleys, hoping to evade the Portuguese as quickly as possible. Dom Fernando de Meneses ordered Dom Jerónimo and the caravels to chase after them.
Mela and Hesia, her daughters, are ignorant to the facts of life which she refuses to impart to them, instead insisting that they practice for their music lessons. Mr. Dulski, battered after years of his ruthless and over- bearing wife, remains neutrally bland. Mrs. Dulska's obsession is with her son, over whom she is wildly possessive. She is so afraid that he will abandon her that she bends to his every whim, especially with his relationship with Hanka that she foists upon them to curb his philandering.
Also included is an old ex-con drunk, "Pop", whom Anderson met in jail, and who is to play concierge while the real one is bound and gagged in the cellar. Less welcome is a man the Mafia foists onto Anderson – the thuggish "Socks". Socks is a psychopath who has become a liability to the mob and, as part of the deal, Anderson must kill him in the course of the robbery. Anderson is not keen on this, since the operation is complicated enough, but is forced to go along.
When Namulith decided to forcefully marry Kushana to form a single empire under his rule she initially feigns acceptance but later rejects him and his proposal. His grand designs start to unravel. In a confrontation with Nausicaä, Namulith spitefully foists a rediscovered god-warrior off on Nausicaä in revenge and shoulders her with the burden of taking care of the reactivated creature and the responsibility for saving the world. The god-warrior is a living weapon, an artifact from the ancient world which led to the Seven Days of Fire.
Dom Luís de Ataíde decided to distribute his forces in 19 critical points along the eastern river banks, where artillery batteries were established, garrisoned with 20 to 80 men and a contingent of lascarins, to keep the colossal army of Bijapur from crossing. Every battery was to have visual contact with the next and their garrisons were not to leave their posts unless ordered to.Pereira (1617), 1986 edition, pg. 348 The deeper waters of the Mandovi and Zuari rivers, to the north and south respectively, were patrolled by four galleys, a half-galley, and twenty small galleys called foists.
Steadfast, Ottoman admiral Seydi Ali ordered his fleet to maintain formation, sailing against the wind towards the Portuguese. As they closed in, the bombards of the forward Portuguese foists and the galleon Santa Cruz began exchanging shots with the leading Turkish galleys. At the last moment, Seydi Ali Reis ordered all of his galleys to turn to starboard towards land at the same time, thus avoiding the Portuguese ships, which were then unable to give chase because of the wind. The Ottomans successfully dodged a disfavourable encounter with the Portuguese and were now on their way towards Muscat.
325 The janissaries then attempted to scale the fortress' walls but were repelled with 50 dead. On September 7, a strong storm fell upon Diu, damaging part of the Ottoman fleet (and helping the Portuguese restore their water supplies), after which the Turks began unloading their artillery and a further 1,000 men, and raising a number of defensive and siege works around the fort. It seems by then the Gujarati lords became distrustful of the Ottomans, possibly fearing that they might establish themselves in Diu after expelling the Portuguese, and the following day refused to provide any further supplies. On September 14th, four foists from Goa and Chaul arrived with reinforcements.
Something is amiss in the mining village of Killingworth, in 19th-century England. Miners are being gassed in the washhouse and transformed into thugs and vandals, attacking men and machinery, being perceived as Luddites by other locals. The Sixth Doctor and Peri witness the phenomenon when they arrive in Killingworth looking for the cause of some sort of time distortion, and he also notices one of the rampaging miners has a strange red mark on his neck. With his usual audacity, The Doctor foists himself upon the local landowner, Lord Ravensworth, who is concerned by the ferocity of the local Luddite attacks, with the most passive of men suddenly turning violent and unpredictable.
The Turks landed in Bahrain in July, and promptly attacked the Bahrain fort with artillery pieces. It was defended by the Hormuzi governor Murad Sah (Rax Morado in Portuguese), ahead of 400 Persian mercenaries, who held firm against the Turkish bombardment, and dispatched a fast craft to Hormuz with a distress signal. Upon receiving the distress signal, the captain of Hormuz Dom António de Noronha dispatched his nephew Dom João de Noronha with a reinforcement of 10 light galleys (foists) to Bahrain, and ordered captain Álvaro da Silveira at Muscat to proceed there with his forces aboard a war-caravel and a few light-galleys. Because Dom João was young and inexperienced though, upon reaching Bahrain the Turks scattered his small fleet.Saturnino Monteiro (2011): Portuguese Sea Battles - Volume III - From Brazil to Japan 1531-1579 pp.
He was ordered to link up his galleys with those in Suez to better fight the Portuguese, but such a task meant sailing through Portuguese controlled waters in the Persian Gulf. In February 1554, the Portuguese dispatched from Goa six galleons, six caravels, 25 foists, and 1200 Portuguese soldiers under the command of Dom Fernando de Meneses, son of the Viceroy, tasked to blockade the mouth of the Red Sea and collect information on any Ottoman movements. Throughout the month of March the Portuguese sighted not a single merchant ship crossing the Bab-el-Mandeb, presumably because the presence of the Portuguese fleet had discouraged any voyages that season. In April the expedition sailed to Muscat, where part of the fleet was left to spend the winter ("winter" meaning the monsoon season) while Dom Fernando took the oarships, a galleon, and several merchantships to Hormuz, to replace Dom Antão de Noronha with Bernardim de Sousa as the captain of that fortress.
According to the Tarikh al-Shihri, Ottoman forces amounted to 80 vessels and 40,000 men.Tarikh al-Shihri, in SERJEANT, Robert Bertram (1963). The Portuguese off the South Arabian Coast Clarendon Press, p. 79 Gaspar Correia provides a more specific account, claiming that the Turks assembled at Suez an armada composed of 15 "bastard galleys" (it), 40 "royal galleys", 6 galliots, 5 galleons "with four masts each" that were "dangerous ships to sail, for they were shallow with no keel"; five smaller craft, six foists from Gujarat, and two brigs. It carried over 400 artillery pieces in total, over 10,000 sailors and rowers (of which 1,500 were Christian) and 6,000 soldiers, of which 1,500 were janissaries. The Pasha employed a Venetian renegade, Francisco, as captain of 10 galleys, plus 800 Christian mercenaries.Gaspar Correia (1558–1563) Lendas da Índia, 1864 edition, Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa, book IV pp. 868–870. Gaspar Correia states to have gotten this information from a "Christian rower that fled to Diu from the galleys" On July 20, 1538, the armada set sail from Jeddah, stopping by Kamaran Island before proceeding to Aden.

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