But then Congress pulled the rug out from under these insurers.
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Twice, the game pulled the rug out from under the player. Poof.
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Plunging oil prices pulled the rug out from under North Dakota's job market.
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It seemed like the showrunners suddenly pulled the rug out from under me.
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Still, some devs felt like Facebook had pulled the rug out from under them.
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It pulled the rug out from under the Rogers sisters' feet, and left them in terrible financial shape.
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I also think what it did was it pulled the rug out from under the audience a little bit.
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The company really pulled the rug out from under Amazon by blocking access to the service on Echo devices.
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The modest slowdown of Chinese demand has pulled the rug out from under a wide range of commodity markets.
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While the turn towards diplomacy was necessary, the president pulled the rug out from under his own negotiators from day one.
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When Congress approved a phased-in repeal of that provision in 1996, it pulled the rug out from under the economy.
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On Saturday, Apple pulled the rug out from under Chinese iPhone users' feet, by taking down VPN apps from the App Store.
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Just when we thought we had either Teddy Perkins or Glover figured out, he pulled the rug out from under us yet again.
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The drop pulled the rug out from under the dollar, which sank to a three-week low of 100.510 against a basket of currencies.
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In effect, the increase in the resources commandeered by the overclass has pulled the rug out from under the once upwardly mobile white working class.
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The way Improbable told it this morning, Unity changed their Terms of Service last month and then, without warning, pulled the rug out from under them.
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"Neither the North Koreans or anyone else will think Tillerson's words carry any weight after Trump pulled the rug out from under him," Lewis told me.
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STAR We pulled the rug out from under the audience, but there has always been a wife, and we've thought about where she is and what she's doing.
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After spending the first half of the season building up a juicy new case for the Jennings', last week's episode pulled the rug out from under all of us.
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"He got off to a bad start; he kind of pulled the rug out from under McConnell's feet there with that one," said Representative Francis Rooney, Republican of Florida.
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"Trump has pulled the rug out from under our negotiators in both Syria and Afghanistan," said R. Nicholas Burns, a former American diplomat who has been critical of Mr. Trump.
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In other words, thanks to ISDS, an American company that sought to compete and invest overseas was protected when a foreign government pulled the rug out from under that investment.
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The designer had pulled the rug out from under the critics, including this one, who had balked last September at his Celine debut and accused him of not acknowledging his antecedents.
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"He pulled the rug out from under them," said SaMi Chester, a housing organizer at Cooper Square Committee, an advocacy group that represents tenants in properties Mr. Toledano owns in the East Village.
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U.S. debt yields surged over the past two weeks on a sell-off in the bond market, while robust economic data in the United States, pulled the rug out from under riskier asset classes.
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They entered the program and set their rates based on the understanding there was a risk corridor program that was going to take care of them, and Congress pulled the rug out from under them.
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On Monday, just two days after Trump pulled the rug out from under Khalilzad's Taliban negotiations, North Korea's vice foreign minister said that Pyongyang would be willing to engage in working-level talks later this month.
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"Under President Obama, our country was moving in the right direction on guaranteeing an open internet, but the Trump-led FCC pulled the rug out from under the American people by repealing net neutrality protections," Democratic Sen.
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"Under President Obama, our country was moving in the right direction on guaranteeing an open internet, but the Trump-led FCC pulled the rug out from under the American people by repealing net neutrality protections," Democratic state Sen.
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" And at Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, a large and politically divided congregation, Rabbi David Wolpe said Mr. Obama had "pulled the rug out from under people who said the president's intentions toward Israel was positive and strong.
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The Seattle Mariners rallied from a three-run deficit in the eighth inning on Saturday and defeated the Los Angeles Angels 6-4, much the way the Angels pulled the rug out from under the Mariners 24 hours earlier.
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In other words, the President, and Republicans in Congress, deliberately pulled the rug out from under the "group of six" proposal, in the most definitive of ways (with Friday morning's presidential tweets attempting to bury it six feet under for good measure).
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Part of his discomfort could probably be explained by AT&T's last-minute decision to pull out of a deal to sell Huawei's phones in the US. This was supposed to be Huawei's big moment in the American spotlight, and AT&T pulled the rug out from under the Chinese company.
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"Under President Obama, our country was moving in the right direction on guaranteeing an open internet, but the Trump-led FCC pulled the rug out from under the American people by repealing net neutrality protections," Wiener said in a statement last month after the bill passed its final committee vote.
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Part of his discomfort could probably be explained by 's last-minute decision to pull out of a deal to sell Huawei's phones in the US. This was supposed to be Huawei's big moment in the American spotlight, and AT&T pulled the rug out from under the Chinese company.
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But the rise of "tube" sites and easily accessible free porn over the past decade pulled the rug out from under the porn world, allegedly contributing to a drop in industry profits from (by some rough evaluations) about $12 billion annually in the aughts to about $2000 billion by the mid-teens.
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At least until Demna Gvasalia pulled the rug out from under, reasserting the sense of free-floating disorientation that Ms. Kawakubo had identified in a tour de force of a Balenciaga show, held in a "video tube" on the outskirts of Paris, amid the morphing, melting images of morphing, melting civilization in a 360-degree montage directed by the artist Jon Rafman.
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Both departments were ruled by separate Boards of Police Commissioners that were appointed by the Governor. By controlling the Governor, Binaggio hoped to get candidates of his choosing appointed to the Police Boards. With Smith's election, every part of the plan seemed in place. However, to Binaggio's chagrin, Smith pulled the rug out from under him.
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That was how they got the first Environmental Impact Statement investigation! This was ten years before NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) became law under President Nixon. What was found really pulled the rug out from under the project, because it was one of the richest areas in Alaska. As it turned out, AEC was more interested in experimenting with the blasts and with the radioactive fallout than Alaska's economic and social well-being.
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