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"smother" Definitions
  1. smother somebody (with something) to kill somebody by covering their face so that they cannot breathe synonym suffocate
  2. smother something/somebody with/in something to cover something/somebody thickly or with too much of something
  3. smother something to prevent something from developing or being expressed synonym stifle
  4. smother somebody to give somebody too much love or protection so that they feel that their freedom is limited
  5. smother something to make a fire stop burning by covering it with something

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"smother" Synonyms
smear cover spread bedaub besmear daub coat plaster apply cake overlay slather overspread layer spread over rub dab paint slop face suffocate asphyxiate choke strangle strangulate stifle throttle garrote(US) garotte garrotte(UK) gag kill drown constrict wring one's neck choke to death burke wring crush the esophagus of surround cocoon envelop shroud trap extinguish dampen dowse snuff douse quench put out snuff out blow out stamp out damp down blanket dampen down beat out dout stub out quell turn out reduce lessen decrease diminish moderate deaden dull weaken blunt check mitigate allay alleviate soften suppress ease curb restrain repress contain control conceal swallow hide muffle restrict sink submerge quash pocket inhibit subdue constrain impede squash hinder silence squelch hamper quelch stop quieten hush mute quiet shush still muzzle settle dumb thrash trounce rout clobber paste drub whip annihilate cream wallop flatten shellac bury skunk whomp smoke whup whop whap dust crowd pressurise(UK) pressurize(US) pressure lean on press bulldoze browbeat dragoon harass torment hassle railroad put the screws on strong-arm pour rain shower heap lavish deluge bestow bestow freely give freely give generously give unstintingly load give scatter go through be generous inundate blow pamper pile pack lade stuff fill stock charge fill up stack cram load up store heap up stow deposit place pile up brim oppress abuse subjugate crush maltreat persecute enslave tyrannise(UK) tyrannize(US) wrong hegemonize ill-treat master overcome overpower overwhelm exploit lambaste castigate chastise upbraid berate censure condemn criticise(UK) criticize(US) rebuke reprimand scold attack harangue rant at reprove revile admonish chide baste murder assassinate dispatch massacre slaughter eliminate execute butcher liquidate hit neutralise(UK) neutralize(US) slay waste do in off terminate croak ice haze mist fog smog cloud murk steam brume vapor(US) reek vapour(UK) gauze miasma fumes soup film ground clouds mistiness condensation More
"smother" Antonyms
allow disperse encourage express free help light loose release scatter start tell uncover let go let out assist aid lose permit liberate fail retreat surrender yield give up forfeit lose to underwhelm praise develop fall behind give in save preserve advance initiate sharpen whet heighten brighten hearten heat incite increase inspirit uplift warm reveal strip disclose show expose divulge bare display uncloak unveil unmask publicize(US) unwrap lay bare publicise(UK) amplify exhibit present convey state articulate communicate voice intimate speak verbalise(UK) verbalize(US) proclaim declare profess say assert indicate intensify compound deepen magnify strengthen reinforce augment boost escalate exacerbate expand extend inflame intensate concentrate aggravate accentuate agitate arouse awaken provoke waken stir up whip up submit succumb capitulate relent bow bend concede cede fold give fall give in to abate wane relax soften weaken slow moderate slacken subside ease off ease up enflame fire ignite kindle bear create please assuage set burn torch enkindle set alight breathe loosen acquit deliver disenthrall rescue clear emancipate extricate rid unburden absolve discharge disengage disentangle disimprison dismiss clean collect gather honor(US) honour(UK) laud purify upgrade cheer comfort guard protect tap be still give birth scrape remove shave graze pare peel scratch undo abstract cleanse eliminate erase excoriate extract scour scrub elate enliven better elevate enrich freshen improve envigorate(UK) invigorate(US) lift stimulate vitalize animate raise spirits give a lift to excavate unbury unearth disinter exhume locate find discover detect ascertain rummage dig out dig up dredge up begrudge conserve economise(UK) economize(US) stint withhold hoard hold limit starve clarity clearness

407 Sentences With "smother"

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Clinton tried to smother Sanders with agreement, Jeet Heer observed.
It can smother reed beds, reefs and other important ecosystems.
Phyllis Schlafly "leaned in" to smother the Equal Rights Amendment.
Behind the scenes, there were efforts to smother the scandal.
I'm gonna find her in her sleep and smother her.
After Target, I pick dog up and smother her with affection.
Too much wood will smother the flame from oxygen as well.
Google couldn't smother competitors by demoting their products on Google Search.
Toast it and smother it in jam and butter for breakfast.
Then you're going to fry it and smother it in onions.
Shrapnel injured ground crew, while smoke billowed out to smother them.
Extreme heat waves would routinely smother large parts of the globe.
I'm going to smother you with my big ol' fat belly.
This is the truth about superfans: they smother what they love.
He had been able to smother and bully everyone he had fought.
I smother everything with balsamic vinegar and toss on toasted coconut chips.
Clinton), and tell increasingly outsized lies to smother pesky truths (Mr. Trump).
It's about how money and power are used to smother sexual misconduct.
He also warns against attempting to smother the device with another material.
Both Republicans and Democrats alike, there's enough blame to smother them in.
She waited for the benzodiazepine blanket to smother her borrowed brain cells.
I hate turkey so much, so am just going to smother it.
Smother it in avocado salsa and you just might believe the tale.
Why should the men who ruled the world smother women's dreams in domesticity?
We carry bougie ketchup and hot sauce that I smother the scramble with.
It's powered by six electric motors and doesn't smother the engine when stowed.
He's like a cuter, younger Michael Bublé you don't secretly want to smother.
Every time Nelson wanted to strike, Story would smother him in the clinch.
The city has also used dry ice to smother rats where they live.
But the third arrives in the nick of time to smother his shot.
Did the smog smother the murders or did the murders obscure the smog?
Early efforts to smother the fire only worsened the damage, irradiating everyone involved.
But I feel like my songwriting was better on either side of Smother.
Would you willingly smother your bare hands in a smorgasbord of potentially harmful bacteria?
The man grabbed a pillow and attempted to smother the woman, the affidavit stated.
The political narrative is simple: Trump said he'd smother ISIS and get troops home.
And it is family, in Hereditary, that threatens to smother its characters to death.
Favors will be called in — favors that will smother the threat in red tape.
People rolled in a field of alfalfa to smother the flames that engulfed them.
I smother it in a mix of vegan mayo and Sriracha and dive in.
I wanted to slit his throat or smother him with a pillow on tour.
How many lives are you going to ruin just to smother your own misery?
In this case, the unanswered questions vastly outnumber, swamp and smother, the answered ones.
Move some dirt onto the fire site and mix thoroughly to fully smother it.
The fire station is exploring alternative means to smother blazes, like sand and foam.
"All we need is one shiny stone," she says, as rainclouds smother the mountains overhead.
It took but a few months for them to smother the Mahabad Republic in 1946.
The obvious solution, from the generals' point of view, is to smother the existing parties.
Angst hovers around defeat, and the Hawks must artificially smother that angst with genuine affection.
Heavy use of drugs and alcohol was one strategy, to smother anxious thoughts with inebriation.
His first memory, he says, is when she tried to smother him with a pillow.
If it wasn't already before, this smother tactic is now the mainstay of the industry.
Umtiti goes down at the other end as Lloris charges left to smother a chance.
He then installed Barr, a partisan loyalist who helped smother special counsel Robert Mueller's findings.
Urchins help keep reefs healthy by munching away at algae that can smother coral polyps.
Mine is eggs, mushrooms and caramelized onions, which I proceed to smother with hot sauce.
When done safely, this can be an effective way to achieve brighter, smother, fuzz-free skin.
John told Parade he'd pick younger men and "smother them with love," and with material gifts.
He was, said Brent Scowcroft, Mr Bush's national security adviser, "trying to smother us with kindness".
The fight unfurled almost entirely on the ground, as Kawajiri relentlessly attempted to smother his foe.
Hunt also showed a willingness to utilize elbows when Overeem was threatened to smother his punches.
Extremely low self-esteem and self-hatred is clearly significant enough to smother happiness and growth.
But she specializes in songs suited for "dance crying," tracks that smother loss in synth supernovas.
Mr. Xi deployed speed, secrecy and intimidation to smother potential opposition inside and outside the party.
Both teams clamped down defensively, sending double-teams to smother each franchise cornerstone, Leonard and Embiid.
There's also a Fire Rover heat-sensitive camera and an automated foam cannon to smother flames.
In contrast, countries like Japan, Iceland and Chile smother their high-threat volcanoes in scientific instruments.
Now it lurches, a zombie system the President is trying to smother without offering a replacement.
Ash and silt flowing into the sea can choke fish's gills and smother seagrasses and seaweed.
The Indian government sent in 38,000 extra troops to smother any signs of dissent, critics say.
He accused Airbus rival Boeing of "ruthlessly surfing" on the US protectionist wave to smother competition.
Revisit childhood pranks with their favorite flower or completely smother them in a sea of petals!
Fat, cosy incumbents hoard cash, invest less, smother new firms that create jobs and keep prices high.
During the course of the crime, Perez allegedly used a pillow to smother the girl into unconsciousness.
These volunteers were asked to remove their shirts and smother some gel onto their chests and shoulders.
They needed approximately 257,000 of them to smother the entire cavernous space of the Gucci show venue.
Smother, where the critical issue is this, we can change that in a way so Smith wins.
Smother it with the remaining queso and garnish with a slice of orange and some cilantro leaves.
They just did everything else to smother No. 3-seeded Texas Tech, 71-59, at TD Garden.
But Uzoho bravely charges and takes one in the face for the team to smother the chance.
" She predicted the plan "would smother vital wild salmon streams with sediment and irreparably harm subsistence hunters.
"As they continue to cover and smother that [the tanks], that's going to take time," Christensen said.
Its branches seemed to grow more gigantic over the decades, threatening to smother the houses around it.
He then threw her down and outraged her, threatening to smother her if she made any noise.
A bureaucracy empowered by a steady erosion of democratic checks and balances can often smother new ideas.
People accuse Apple of wanting to smother the web in favor of a walled-garden App Store.
Instead of shedding light on these crucial questions, the media are trying to smother and dismiss them.
Following a teaser EP released this February, the band is back with a crushing sophomore full-length, Smother.
After dumping Celeste's body in an oil tank, he returned to smother Bella, who begged for her life.
Additionally, he claimed Bella saw him smother Celeste and screamed "Daddy, no!" at him before he killed her.
Stock market crashes and "Bernie Madoffs" set off mental alarms that often smother their interest in financial literacy.
To serve, fill a bowl with white rice, top with chicken, and "smother it" with sauce, Damon suggests.
After dumping Celeste's body in an old field, he returned to smother Bella, who begged for her life.
You know how you love to smother your ice cream in syrupy walnuts and cherries (the real kind)?
It was another in a string of mornings when I'd woken wanting to smother myself with a pillow.
I tried to convince myself that Ross was using them to smother my response to his bloated portfolio.
Vikings (5-383) smother Texans, 31-13 MINNEAPOLIS — The road has been unkind to the Houston Texans this season.
The danger is that this strain of conservatism threatens to smother the radical roots of dance music culture entirely.
Fry up your patties, pile them on some pillowy hamburger buns, and smother them with your impromptu tartar sauce.
Among other benefits, fishing bans may foster species of fish that graze on algae that could otherwise smother coral.
The commission will be happy to smother the pipeline in bureaucracy, should the EU's governments give it a chance.
When he strolls through his church, past the chipping balustrades, small children run up and smother him with hugs.
The roster is stocked with long-limbed athletes of the kind that should be able to smother teams defensively.
Then they'd smother the drug package in the coffee mixture, wrap it up with more cling-film and repeat.
The creators of "Content" wanted to ensure that the phone format would aid their storytelling rather than smother it.
I had to smother his wants and even his needs—feed his desire, enrich and pacify, but not provoke.
Sherry Huestis testified about watching a nun smother a baby that another nun had given birth to the night before.
America's cold warriors feared that Mr Gorbachev was trying to smother them with kindness and lure them into a trap.
That is perhaps why President Nicolás Maduro is so eager to smother what little is left of democracy in Venezuela.
Randle's strong and crafty, but his height (222'9'') and short arms mean taller defenders can smother him in the post.
Her plan was to put rubbing alcohol on her crotch, which she would lite and then immediately smother the flames.
I want it to become so big that it will consume all of our smallnesses, invalidate them, smother them out.
And yet, amid the party's decisive shift leftward, pragmatism threatens once again to smother ambitious new policies in the crib.
The real's strength had worried some investors who fretted it could smother the country's nascent economic recovery by curtailing exports.
Go deeper: California wildfires smother state in hazardous smoke Commerce orders NOAA to prioritize water for firefighting over endangered species
But Halak was able to smother the high-flying Jets, who have one of the best records in the league.
They're a really good team, really skilled and we did a good job of kind of trying to smother them.
Whether the increased number of troops can help President Mohamed's new government successfully smother an insurgency remains to be seen.
Too many Democrats, meanwhile, don't trust markets and want the state to smother them in red tape, which hurts new entrants.
But, I'm transgender, so you are not going to let it smother your life, so you have to fight against it.
There are many ways to enjoy your fries: smother them in cheese, top them with chili or turn them into poutine.
Next, make a melted butter infused with crushed garlic to bathe in—er, to smother the smoked turkey once it's done.
Calling their bluff, he noticed his children ran as fast as ever — and looked smother than they did in running shoes.
"There's no need to smother fresh beans with tons of gravy," says the chef and author of Carla Hall's Soul Food.
Ward appeared to be measuring opportunities to hit Kovalev and then get inside and smother him before he could return fire.
Hundreds of people work at a so-called troll farm in Riyadh to smother the voices of dissidents like Mr. Khashoggi.
But Mr. Sessions — a devout reactionary on matters of criminal justice — never met a reform effort he didn't want to smother.
Under the right conditions, ivy can be found trailing along the ground where it forms thick mats that smother native vegetation.
But Hezbollah, the Islamist militia and political party, and its ally, the Amal Movement, have tried to smother demonstrations by Shiites.
In the World War I era, Louisiana tried to smother its French heritage by assimilating Cajuns into the broader American culture.
As snow began to smother regions of the South, school closings were announced Monday in parts of West Virginia and Tennessee.
Ever since Smother, people had us pegged as a clever art band and I think we got sick of being pigeonholed.
LeBron James completely ignored Jaylen Brown in the weakside corner and sprinted to smother Horford at the top of the key.
With less stringent rules in place in MMA, Penn himself used to like using his free hand to smother the opponent's mouth.
He'd smother the hands and leap in with a left hook to the body, then grab his man and start fighting rough.
She's trying to recapture the spontaneity that too much training tends to smother, drawing to get a line that doesn't look drawn.
While he claimed to reveal liberal bias within the company and attempts to smother conservative voices, he actually found pretty much nothing.
I don't know that it will smother innovation, but I can tell you, I would think twice before starting a company again.
I'm not saying I expected him to go to intensive care and smother her with a pillow—but, yeah, I absolutely did.
You'll usually use it to smother noodles or fill ravioli, but this holy trinity of ingredients also fits in beautifully for breakfast.
Yet each time Cerrone wanted to go on the lead, Diaz would duck in on a clinch or smother the kickboxer's hands.
Because not only are goaltenders bigger than ever, but they can move two feet outside the crease to stop and smother shots.
I respect a monster that makes people stockpile food and smother themselves in elk piss in consistent failed bids to capture it.
I used to smother everything in butter and cheese and drink a pint of milk before bed—no wonder I had spots.
If a tick is embedded, "do not paint it with nail polish, burn it or try to smother it," Dr. Wiley said.
But Hezbollah, the Islamist militia and political party that is invested in the status quo, has worked to smother demonstrations by Shiites.
"You have to smother everything with doubt, and conspiracy is very effective in creating that," Mr. Pomerantsev said in a telephone interview.
"You have to smother everything with doubt, and conspiracy is very effective in creating that," Mr. Pomerantsev said in a telephone interview.
McConnell, who has near total control over what comes up for a vote, sits on things he doesn't like until they smother.
Hangovers that didn't exist in your 20s are suddenly so painful that you ask your significant other to smother you with a pillow.
It has four elements: know the enemy; prepare for them to attack; smother them with sincerity; and make concessions if you have to.
Just prior to the Correa homer, shortstop Francisco Lindor produced a wondrous defensive effort to smother a grounder and retire the speedy Altuve.
But that's cold comfort when every other change seems tailor-made to smother the joyful collecting and experimenting that Destiny's original customization fostered.
"You have to smother your eyelid with eyelash glue and then pat eyeshadow on top to create a really defined line," she explains.
He remembers not having a bed for the baby girl and being scared he would smother her that first night in his home.
The European Central Bank can smother symptoms of anxiety by buying government bonds, but cannot do much more to cure the underlying problems.
How about if we smother a diamond in a layer of ultra-black carbon nanotubes, Ms. Strebe suggested, and watch its facets disappear?
If you have big, leafy trees that are going to smother your yard, you can rake away some leaves and leave the rest.
Wondering how long they had till it would blow, a cloud of smoke so great it would smother them less than 30 seconds.
Merely by interpreting Casey to allow increasingly restrictive laws, the Supreme Court can stealthily smother choice without appearing to deliver a death blow.
Smother it in bechamel, cheddar cheese, and a half pack of rolos for parmo, the most deliciously bizarre drunk food you'll ever eat.
We meet "masc" bros with deeply internalized homophobia and self-hatred that they smother in wine and MDMA (and Xanax, Ambien, coke, Klonopin).
"Sometimes we argue and negotiate among ourselves to the point where we absolutely smother our aspirations," said Mr. Bernstein, Mr. Biden's former adviser.
If you want to kill my free speech, man up and slit my throat with a knife, don't smother me with a pillow.
Amazon is expanding in the nation's two major centers of power, because it intends to envelope, smother, and usurp that power for itself.
Even on the occasions that he got caught out, Sanchez would pivot, move his head, change direction or move in to smother Lopez.
What&aposs more, wet clippings are a pain to clean up, Milotte says, and  clumps of grass on your lawn could smother new sprouts.
Before the scandal broke, Dávila and a number of other journalists claim to have been wiretapped by police officers looking to smother the story.
Condon saved Hamilton's shot from the point but couldn't smother the puck, and Monahan picked up the rebound to lift it into the net.
Raheem Sterling causing trouble down the right now, twice, but Subasic is out to smother the second one to the left of his goal.
The overharvesting of reef fish removes the natural consumers of some seaweed-like algae, allowing it to grow to levels that can smother reefs.
Unfortunately, the sneaker companies who run basketball, and whose vile products smother one of our best-loved body parts, will never let this happen.
Bobrovsky could not smother the puck after a pair of Anders Lee shots, and Tavares swooped in and nudged the puck over the goal line.
The fast casual Mexican chain is offering customers the chance to smother their burritos with either hatch green chile, red chile or mole starting Tuesday.
There are now charcoal-enhanced smoothies, chai teas, cocktails and even charcoal-infused tequila to smother any optimism that might've been served with that margarita.
When there are fantastic earnings from individual companies like Facebook or Google, it can smother oil as long as it's not in total free-fall.
Muhammed explains that sometimes they use explosives to starve the fire of oxygen, sometimes chemicals are injected directly into the pipe to smother the flames.
There are so many different versions of Joan Rivers in this book that it's hard to keep track: the smother-mother, the widow, the survivor.
Hillary Clinton's plan would smother them with regulations, drive up their electricity bills, and then raise their taxes to as much as almost fifty percent.
One of their more popular options, the "Smother Fudger Peanut Butter," has 12 grams of protein, 9 grams of fat, and 10 grams of sugar.
Add the wood gradually, a couple of chunks or handfuls of chips every hour: You want to kiss the meat with smoke, not smother it.
As the subplots surrounding Claire's presidency fight for air, the "convenience" of Frank Underwood's death continues to smother them at the start of the season.
The price of this toleration is that we must constantly put up with hearing speech that we consider wrong; we must smother our moral instincts.
Many factories are afraid to restart operations in case their workers are carrying the virus, raising concerns that the government's controls could smother the economy.
Moving on to another favorite way to make eating eggplant less of a gray, mushy disaster—smother it in garlic, tomato sauce, mozzarella, and breadcrumbs.
Ultimately, Uruguay were able to tempt Portugal into taking shots from distance and then smother them, blocking eight of the 20 Portuguese efforts on goal.
It was that Olympic organizing types did their hamfisted utmost to smother and leverage and wash out everything that should have been fun about it.
Jim JordanJames (Jim) Daniel JordanGraham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony The Memo: White House rolls the dice on impeachment GOP, Trump look to smother impeachment inquiry MORE (R-Ohio) and Scott PerryScott Gordon PerryGOP, Trump look to smother impeachment inquiry The Hill's Morning Report — DOJ's planned executions stir new debate Conservatives call on Pelosi to cancel August recess MORE (R-Pa.).
"  This may be Hillary's take on Ted Cruz's strategy against Donald Trump and Ben Carson: "to bear hug both of them, and smother them with love.
But you don't have to go back even that far to see how much the recent comments being batted around the NBA smother and squelch history.
The image is a pop art parody of what many South Asian girls experience—being told to avoid the sun and smother yourself in bleaching products.
Malil continued to stab her with a broken wine glass and another knife he took from her kitchen, and attempted to smother her with a pillow.
Once the pork chili gets meltingly tender, just smother it on top of your fries and add some fresh green onion, sour cream and Cotija cheese.
Leonard's length, strength, comprehensive knowledge of angles and tendencies, and ability to smother his man without fouling make him the perfect foil to KD's slithery exploits.
Late in the first half, Marie Laure Delie broke in alone on Solo's left and fired a shot that Solo managed to smother between her legs.
It's no wonder that Marnie seems like a smother-mother who's one 911 call away from a restraining order; no wonder too that she seems lonely.
The celebrity and entertainment spheres seem to be colliding to ensure our hearts don't harden, that cynicism and anxiety don't completely smother our capacity for romance.
Perhaps they are suggesting it was used to smother the justice, or to cover his face to make it look as though he were only sleeping.
And though we still scanned the sky above his tree as we drove past, we could not smother the hawkish rumble of winter in our bones.
That senseless hope is hard to smother, the off-chance that someday I may see her face in a crowd, as familiar as my own reflection.
And she, in turn, passes those bindings along to her children, telling them over and over to be selfless, to smother their anger, to be good.
I warm up the leftover fried rice from lunch with veggies and a fried egg, smother the whole thing in garlic chili sauce, and chow down.
That's when Zeus decided to lay down on the snake, using his body weight to smother the deadly predator and prevent it from harming the boys.
UTAH: At Pie and Fry in Ogen, Utah patrons can choose to smother their fries in everything from gravy to alfredo sauce, bacon, veggies, and more.
Wanton destruction of the personal privacy of any person who has ever come near a political organization is a vicious but effective means to smother dissent.
But critics point to recent incidents including the barring of young activists from elections, disqualifications of pro-democracy lawmakers and mainland-style tactics to smother dissent.
To not put in place a mechanism where abuse and untruths smother science and factual reporting is to put at stake any progression in innovation and entrepreneurialism.
According to the court records, the women allegedly planned to smother the 14-year-old and then stage the overdose death of her mother and her boyfriend.
Could this whole thing just be another example of the ever-pervasive fake news that has crept like English Ivy to smother the façade of our democracy?
I make an egg white and veggie scramble, smother it with cheese, top it with salsa, spend too long eating it, and have to speedwalk to work.
The protests did not match last week's in number or size, at least partly a result of how fiercely the Egyptian government had moved to smother them.
Like its other party food cousins, there are only three ingredients: cheap white bread, slightly burnt beef sausages and tomato or barbecue sauce to smother on the top.
That would probably mean many more policies designed to smother, rather than solve, Thailand's problems—such as the suspension of local elections, which are seen to foment discord.
Pominville notched his 15th of the season at 6:00, going to the backhand after pouncing on a loose puck in the crease that Andersen neglected to smother.
As many of us work to smother out discrimination and inequality, many others are working to breathe new life into a system of unearned and undisputed male power.
This last is delivered by his sister, Maggie (Anjelica Huston), though she's not the only relative who wishes him ill: another tries to smother him with a pillow.
The Tide's overall breadth of talent plays a role here, certainly, but mostly the line reflects confidence in Alabama's ability to smother opposing innovation with relentless, overpowering convention.
Brutal giveaway from Mascherano — that's twice now — but he scrambles back to smother Iheanacho on the first chance and is bailed out by a teammate on the second.
Kill Claudius the first chance you get, don't listen to Lady Macbeth, don't smother your wife without hearing her side of the story, and don't appease Donald Trump.
Then there's Margaret White, the mother of Carrie, and Norma Bates, the mother of Norman, two obsessive, sexually obsessed Christian parents who smother their children to a fault.
They taxed Santana early and loaded the bases against Duffey with two outs in the seventh, but Rogers induced an inning-ending ground ball to smother that threat.
Halloween gives you an excuse to dress up as your favorite Taco Bell sauces, while Thanksgiving gives you an excuse to smother your food with the real thing!
Democrats backed by doctors, hospitals, and patients' groups mustered an all-out effort to finally smother the GOP drive, warning of millions losing coverage and others facing skimpier policies.
And what the brothers wanted was to smother any person, Native or not, that would ever dare reenact the Standing Rock protests when the pipelines inevitably came for them.
Mr Quick prescribes seven things, none of them new or surprising: systems that can rapidly detect and smother an outbreak, accurate and timely information about threats, and so on.
Any impeachment would take at least six months, generating further uncertainty that could smother an incipient recovery in Brazil's $2 trillion economy, according to economists, government officials and lawmakers.
Alternatively picking Hunt off at range and moving away, and stepping in to smother him, Overeem was not only able to stifle Hunt's blows but also to frustrate him.
In a perfect world, there would be a purchasable version of smoked butterscotch sauce that I can use to smother vanilla ice cream with in the very near future.
In truth, it was goalkeeper's head and heart that denied the chance, as Hart was determined to smother the opportunity and block Pepe's scuffed shot at point-blank range.
"People are honoring me, and that's because I've worked my a–– off to let people know that my voice is important, and you will not smother me," she said.
The concept is simple: Cook the fries until they're golden and crispy, then smother them in indulgent toppings like Buffalo ranch chicken, or his best-selling lemon garlic shrimp.
What we'll do is we'll take our lamb, we'll brine it the night before we cook it, then we smother it in yogurt whisked with a certain spice blend.
But Subasic, a few yards out after trying to punch the ball away, takes it right in the chest and is able to smother it and end the danger.
Hospitals could input patients' details into a computer and instantly notify government health authorities in Beijing, where officers are trained to spot and smother contagious outbreaks before they spread.
This is a brazen attempt to smother truth in order to advance the career of a man who would spend the rest of his life tasked with discerning truth.
And rather than smother Shelley with soft cushions of antiquarian cultural prestige, the director, Haifaa al-Mansour, and the screenwriter, Emma Jensen, sharpen the sense of their subject's modernity.
More importantly, if the goal is to slowly smother private insurance, why promise that people can keep their plans that they like—plans that you intend to ultimately kill?
Even if you're cooking only for a couple of people this year, there's no reason not to go all out with it and smother yourself in copious amounts of turkey.
The foam is typically used in facilities where there are highly flammable liquids, as it helps to smother mixtures like fuels so that oxygen can't reach and feed a fire.
He won't smother his own punches or step in too far, and if he can crank out two or three one-twos in a row, he's more than happy to.
Of course, we'd need lots of water to smother Mars in clouds, and the best way to get all that water might be to nuke the icy poles, after all.
The language may vary, but the restrictions have a specific purpose: to smother scandal and protect schools from financial liability when they are accused of using fraudulent or deceptive practices.
His mother, the former Jeanne Baer, suffered from rheumatic heart disease and a temperament that sometimes led her to punish young Jerry angrily and then smother him with regretful kisses.
"At its core these biases smother innovation by blocking access to funding, exposure, and consumers that could take brands and products to the next level," the Lora DiCarlo team wrote.
Until then, at 6'10" with a 7'1" wingspan, Isaac is good enough on the perimeter to reach in, get crossed over, then recover back to smother his man from behind.
But with my son, I worry that I'll be too cold to him—that I'll treat him too much like I treat the prisoners—so I shelter and smother him.
While few are going to be able to smother Nelson as Maia did, a more obvious shortcoming in Nelson's game is the gap between the stand up and the mat.
Every time I tried to smother it, it came back stronger, and now I would not be surfing unless I paid it dark tribute by puking forth these idiot questions.
Select Waffle House locations across the country are now taking Valentine&aposs Day reservations for those that want to smother their significant other with love (and syrup) on February 14.
They're close to repealing three unpopular tax measures related to the Affordable Care Act, even as Trump tries to smother the underlying law and Pelosi tries to prop it up.
At least 180 people — and possibly hundreds more — were killed in the government's unbridled attempts to smother the worst unrest in the country since the Islamic Revolution 21980 years ago.
When he got there, he said, he used a blanket to smother Celeste, who was nicknamed "Cece," and dropped her in an oil tank, before doing the same to Bella.
His impromptu calls into cable news studios may have been enough to smother his Republican primary opponents, but the general election has Trump buying TV ads like any other candidate.
Taking a look at Foreman in the Olympic finals you will see him begin to smother his opponent's lead hand and points, but also drop his right hand whenever he jabs.
Guys know jiu jitsu now, they know how to stop the sloppy takedowns he utilized, they know how to smother the meat and potatoes set ups he used from his guard.
Whether you use it as a veggie dip, smother it on your wings and pizza, and/or everything in between, you can now have a much greater amount at your disposal.
The essential insight is one often overlooked when we talk about climate change: The element that threatens to smother civilization is also, in different forms, the fundamental building block of life.
Brunson came out with his trademark aggression, attempting to smother Adesanya along the fence, but with less of the all-out recklessness of his fights with Robert Whittaker or Sam Alvey.
More importantly, perhaps, his combination of size (he's seven-feet, 255 pounds) and nimbleness has allowed the Thunder to smother a Warriors squad that typically rides quickness and movement to victory.
If it were to froth over, as scientists think it has in the distant past, it could generate huge explosions and smother towns and villages in dense clouds of carbon dioxide.
There is no better use for leftover tortillas or tortilla chips than to smother them in salsa, make them into chilaquiles, and then top them with a sunny-side-up egg.
Most of the time, she's afraid to leave her bed, afraid even to hold her son, for fear that she might drop him or hug him too tightly and smother him.
The men told officials they put some rocks on the fire to put it out, and though they discussed whether they should do more to smother it, they decided not to.
Politicians would search for excuses, such as the proposition that advancing technology will lead to faster productivity growth, and the resulting faster economic growth will boost revenues and smother the deficit.
Knowing the shot clock is at three and that the ball will have to go up soon, Ibaka hustles out to smother Smith Jr. and force a drive right towards Valanciunas.
A piece of cloth will never be as good as a manufactured filter, but it can still smother the brunt of a cough or sneeze and impede other people's respiratory droplets.
So far, Hezbollah and Amal have mobilized to protect the status quo, and the protests in majority-Shiite areas have visibly shrunk as the parties have moved to smother the uprising.
Davis fell into the lap of the Hollywood superstar Kevin Hart just before the halftime buzzer, prompting James to promptly head over to Hart's courtside seat location and smother him, too.
One party official said they knew that when it landed it would break any campaign momentum and smother Trudeau in scandal for several days — and perhaps even fatally damage his campaign.
Elizabeth's plan would help ensure tech giants do not crowd out potential competitors, smother the next generation of great tech companies, and wield so much power that they can undermine our democracy.
Policymakers will likely need to balance safety and security, while avoiding overregulation that might smother a technology that could improve billions of lives and greatly contribute to a new era of innovation.
Every so often, even this lowly hack gets a lathering in their slime as they seek to smother healthy discourse, using democracies' brightest tools to shade the world to an autocratic twilight.
This time, police fired tear gas on protesters and hosed pepper spray into crowds; demonstrators armed themselves with bricks and umbrellas, using bottles of water to smother the smoking tear gas canisters.
PG: That reminds me of the character in your new movie, "The Meddler": a "smother mother" whose little acts of kindness change her life after her daughter tells her to back off.
For Claire (Caitriona Balfe), pregnant with Jamie's baby and trapped in another era that's trying to smother her, it's the struggle to shake the past and start again with Frank (Tobias Menzies).
"We grabbed buckets, Justin turned the sprinklers on, and I grabbed blankets to smother and trap it - before it could spread any more into the neighbors yard," Parson wrote in her post.
Since then, Texas Republicans have tried to smother the brush fire lit by Dorrie O'Brien, who cast the lone vote against him and who began to agitate for his removal soon afterward.
Non-fiction's extended run will proffer a perspective that many will attempt to repress and smother, providing a necessary reminder of what to fight for and against in the devastating weeks ahead.
If Rigondeaux's footwork and counter punches—along with the odd clinch entry to smother Lomachenko mid flurry—can prevent Lomachenko from working a pace effectively, Rigondeaux stands a great chance of outpointing Lomachenko.
He said his wife Shanann "may have been" praying as he strangled her to death, and said Bella saw him smother Celeste and screamed "Daddy, no!" to her father before he killed her.
Cooks here smother pigs in a secret combination of herbs and spices, baste them with coconut milk, and allow them to rest over smoldering coconut husks to infuse them with still more smoke.
Whether you're in bed or lounging on the couch watching Netflix, this versatile 72-inch by 48-inch blanket evenly distributes its 15-pound weight that so it's soothing, but doesn't smother you.
But as often happens in Russia, grandiose hopes and plans have run far ahead of the reality on the ground, where bureaucrats, appalling weather and immense distances conspire to smother the Kremlin's ambitions.
Some of Gottlieb's proposals, such as charging exorbitant prices for F.D.A. approvals of new products, seem intended to smother the small businesses that fuel the vape industry rather than to improve public health.
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This is just one more day in a wrecked life, and ultimately the show wrings little out of John as a theatrical creation, proving that drinking can smother drama as well as people.
Mark MeadowsMark Randall MeadowsGOP, Trump look to smother impeachment inquiry Both sides dig in after marathon Trump-Ukraine briefing Schiff: Trump requests to China, Ukraine are 'fundamental breach' of office MORE (R-N.C.).
The runoff carries fertilizer rich in phosphorus, which even in tiny amounts can fuel explosions of growth—of algae and, especially, of invasive plants like cattails, which smother native plants and animal life.
My name is Ser Pounce, and I am gathering an army -- an army so cute and so powerful pretends to cough up furball... excuse me... that we will smother the entire world to death.
"We must ensure that today's tech giants do not crowd out potential competitors, smother the next generation of great tech companies, and wield so much power that they can undermine our democracy," Warren wrote.
A Tennessee mom is charged with attempted murder of her infant son after a lengthy investigation revealed she allegedly tried to smother him to death on multiple occasions while he was hospitalized, PEOPLE confirms.
In the nature of not yucking someone else's yum, there probably is a market for salad dressing that covers up the flavor of veggies entirely (isn't that why some people smother broccoli with cheese?).
But U.S. and European reaction to Saudi Arabia's account of the death of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi is threatening to smother some of the enthusiasm among some Western banks for opportunities in the kingdom.
He said his wife Shanann "may have been" praying as he strangled her to death, and said Bella saw him smother Celeste and screamed "Daddy, no!" to her father before he then killed her.
Facebook actually worked with a professional cinematographer there, to ensure smother transitions, panning the camera to track and zooming in an out (up to 10x) to fit as many people in frame as possible.
But excesses of Sargassum like the recent explosion cause some problems for marine life, as dead Sargassum sinks to the ocean floor and can "smother corals and seagrasses", according to the university's press release.
Stuff the fish with the aforementioned accoutrements, smother it in a sand made of salt and egg whites, and pop it in a hot oven for about the length of an episode of Seinfeld.
Why else would we smother it in gravy, stuff it with all kinds of flavorful bits and bites, or risk setting our homes on fire just to impart a bit more flavor to it?
He would check and smother his opponents' hands as Sandy Saddler had, he had the stiffest jab in the division, and he was fast learning to cut the ring with on best of them.
During the many times I would visit her, I was always looking at the nurses warily, and looking for cameras, thinking that today will be the day I smother my mom with her pillow.
In 73, Mr. Gui became a symbol of the Chinese government's determination to smother criticism from abroad when he and four other Hong Kong booksellers disappeared and later resurfaced in China in police custody.
Dude strolled into the ring and it was no contest ... 'cause after feeling out his opponent in the first 18 seconds, Abel unleashed his vicious jab and strong left hook to smother his opponent.
None more so than a homage to the "Pink Panther" movies, a sequence that the filmmakers smother so thoroughly in explanation that even the marvelous Keegan-Michael Key is unable to bring about resuscitation.
When the DJ cranks up a mellow dance track mixed especially for this system, sound waves rain down from above you, creep up from below you, spin around your head, and smother you in audio.
Out at the McMurdo ice runway, firefighters stand by for every incoming flight with special deicing foam made with ethylene glycol and "purple K" or potassium bicarbonate—that are smother engine fires or dripping oil.
One of the most difficult things for a show to do is to realize the serendipity of a successful dynamic — say, between Quinn and Rachel — and tend its growth without letting self-consciousness smother it.
He has the power and the chin to win even the most even of exchanges, he uses his hands to parry, push and smother, and directly fights off takedowns by lowering his hands and sprawling.
In Act II, when she has become the kept woman of a wealthy man and tries to smother her unhappiness with pearls and powder puffs, vulnerability trembled beneath the surface of the bored sex kitten.
They remind us that we are made up of more than one being, that we all hear voices – be they our parents, or our friends, or people we want to smother, not necessarily with love.
It started with an epic Dothraki fight scene, then moved on to some dark magic, and finally finished with Daenerys being forced to smother a vegetative Khal Drogo (a pretty big moment in her character's development).
In the Plano incident last week, a man pushed his way into the apartment of a 91-year-old woman and tried to smother her with a pillow in her bed, according to the Morning News.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's comments came as authorities shut down the internet across Iran to smother the protests in some two dozen cities and towns over the rise of government-set prices by 2000% as of Friday.
For months, Victoria Jackson was not considered a suspect in her son Malachi's death, but she is now charged with first-degree murder, accused of using a pillow to smother him to death on May 24.
If the two squared off in an alley ... KP would have to try to smother Loma -- and the challenge for the boxer would be trying to hit Porzingis in a spot that would actually cause damage.
A woman who claimed the devil made her smother her son in the bathroom of a Manhattan restaurant in 30 was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Monday after pleading guilty to first-degree manslaughter.
The Kentucky Republican glories in his ability to smother progressive legislation and would likely view Biden's plan the same way he does Medicare for All -- as a bill with no future in the chamber he controls.
Hezbollah, an Islamist militia that has propped up the government's incompetence since entering Lebanese politics in 2005, also faces a choice: Will it keep trying to smother demonstrations by Shiites, or listen to their economic grievances?
Gilmore had been wanting him to leave his feet to make a play, and in the second quarter Okwara hurdled a running back to smother the quarterback for one of his three sacks in the game.
Syracuse, which returns all five starters from a team that reached the Sweet 533 last season, used its patented 60-214 zone to smother the Eagles' offense, holding Eastern Washington to 22 percent from the floor.
Yet Mr. Xi's demands for unyielding stability could backfire, experts say, as warnings of danger around every turn could smother the initiative and flexibility that Chinese officials need to defuse long-term economic and social dangers.
WASHINGTON — The pair of outside groups tied closely to President Donald Trump has retained the top Republican opposition group in an effort to smother Democrats seeking to challenge him — and perhaps even help pick his 20183 challenger.
He or she must appoint a new czar — empowered by the executive branch and Congress — to root out the mindless rules and regulations conspiring to strangle innovation, smother small businesses and destroy the public's faith in government.
"From the moment ranked choice originally passed, the political class in Maine did everything in its power to smother it," said Cara Brown McCormick, who helped manage both successful campaigns to pass the initiative in the state.
And their team is not satisfied with a tie: Roman Zobnin fizzes a low shot that Subasic scrambles to smother on the left side of the goal Mário Fernandes with a header to save the host nation!
Those two nations may be enemies, but they find common cause in their barbaric treatment of women — and since they are trying to squelch and smother these two women, we should shout their names from the mountaintops.
This "stuck" feeling is perhaps itself characteristic of Lispector's work — in the 20th century, only Beckett self-scrutinized with as much exhaustive intensity — but in "The Chandelier," it tends to smother whatever else she is up to.
And that power remains with opinion leaders who are, at this point, skilled hands at distending their own cultural anxieties into panics that—time and time and time again—smother history, fact, and common sense into irrelevance.
The rollback would allow internet service providers (ISPs) like Verizon and Comcast to favor content from certain companies or websites with faster internet speeds, an outcome that opponents say would hurt consumers and smother open competition between businesses.
Police in Miramar, Florida, say in a statement that Sophia Hines, 40, allegedly told detectives she held a bed sheet over her infant son's mouth, and, when he stopped moving, used the same sheet to smother her daughter.
New York went ahead after Namestnikov helped keep possession of the puck by prying it away from New Jersey goaltender Cory Schneider, who tried to smother the puck after the Rangers moved it out of the right corner.
When Jake happens to see Joey on the street after many years of not speaking, he rushes over to smother him in kisses, while Joey merely tolerates the affection, like a cat being cuddled roughly by a toddler.
The bookseller, Gui Minhai, became a symbol of the Chinese government's determination to smother criticism from abroad when he was one of five Hong Kong booksellers who disappeared in 2015, and then resurfaced in China in police custody.
Kaine and Pence both seem less like food than like some kind of fireproofing, their place at the bottom of each ticket earned by an ability to smother the more combustible qualities of the candidate at the top.
This classically crafted whodunit holds up nicely, but Jonasson's true gift is for describing the daunting beauty of the fierce setting, lashed by blinding snowstorms that smother the village in "a thick, white darkness" that is strangely comforting.
Federer found the target with nearly 70 percent of his first serves and won 83 percent of those points, hit 48 winners and made only 26 unforced errors to smother the sixth seed in two hours and 16 minutes.
In a time plagued by rage-inducing disparities of wealth, and in an art world where exorbitantly expensive MFA programs filter out working class artists or smother their critique of the system in eternal debt, this is a problem.
The Times reported that the alleged efforts appeared to be part of a larger push by the Saudi royal family to use hundreds of people to flood social media with pro-Saudi messaging and smother the voices of dissenters.
Republican and Democrat-controlled legislatures swiftly learned that they could use this power to smother rising third parties like the Populist Party, and gave themselves automatic lines on the ballot while instituting onerous petitioning requirements to hinder other upstarts.
It wasn't the first time during these games that someone tried to do extinguish the flame—one guy tried to smother the flame with a bucket of water on June 26 on a dare, according to the Washington Post.
Kauai, meanwhile, is plagued by feral pigs, rose-ringed parakeets and a new invasive seaweed that arrived either in ballast water or in the dumped contents of aquarium tanks and that has begun to smother the island's reef ecosystem.
But rather than smother Mary Shelley — author of "Frankenstein," daughter of two eminent writers and wife of another — with soft cushions of antiquarian cultural prestige, Ms. al-Mansour and the screenwriter, Emma Jensen, sharpen the sense of Shelley's modernity.
All professional teams act on their own best interests, signing and cutting players without regret, but the N.F.L.'s system is uniquely crafted to smother player power — with a hard salary cap, a franchise tag, a rookie wage scale.
He almost got a second four minutes later but his angled-drive was well saved and Alejandro Bedoya should have done better when Dempsey's pass left him with a shot on goal that Alexander Dominguez got down well to smother.
It made an appearance as the backdrop on the show Smother Brothers' Comedy Hour, for which Williams was a writer, and showed up in the pages of Life magazine, photographed "driving" down Broadway in front of Radio City Music Hall.
Our dating culture is all about protecting and wrapping up the women in protective layers; if you are on your period, men will bring you hot water and pain killers, and smother your legs in plasters if you get hurt.
Jim JordanJames (Jim) Daniel JordanGraham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony The Memo: White House rolls the dice on impeachment GOP, Trump look to smother impeachment inquiry MORE (R-Ohio) requesting Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep.
Many of these items resemble the official merchandise now being sold by Disney, but some have that distinct "this was made by a bot" feel, like this enormous microfiber blanket you can use to literally smother yourself with Baby Yoda's face.
Perhaps it's actually a good thing for the Dems that McConnell is almost certain to smother whatever articles of impeachment reach him, allowing the Dems to say they did their duty but not linger on the topic too long into 2020.
The protected areas recover significantly faster after bleaching events, starfish invasions, disease, and major storms: Scientists have known for a while that certain fish help maintain the health of reefs by clearing away harmful algae that would otherwise smother the coral.
Fager was forced out amid widespread accusations of "boys' club" bad behavior, and last week Oprah Winfrey said she quit the show because it expected her to smother her emotional style — her signature strength as arguably the most successful personality in television history.
A 38-year-old mother who told authorities the devil compelled her to smother her 20-month-old son in the bathroom of a New York City restaurant two years ago was sentenced on Monday to 18 years in prison, PEOPLE confirms.
The Grappling Vannata was considered to be the more rounded fighter than Teymur coming into this fight, and when he found himself in trouble he used the clinch to smother Teymur, attempting to hit on the exit with a sneaker right hand.
Mr. Medina Osório told the magazine Veja that Mr. Temer's government was seeking to "smother" the inquiry, which is popularly known as Car Wash, after a gas station in Brasília that a black-market money dealer used to launder bribes and kickbacks.
In the "60 Minutes" report, well-known Google critics — including antitrust lawyer Gary Reback and Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman — make the case that Google is a monopoly gatekeeper that uses its power over search to promote its own businesses and smother competitors.
You could even muffle New York City if you lie in bed, put two speakers on either side of you, fill them with white noise, pop a Xanax, turn on a fan, jam in earplugs, and smother your head with a pillow.
She can't remember much, but her mouth feels as though it's locked, as if her cheeks and chin are trying to smother it and she can feel her own heartbeat pounding down her jaw-line and the pain makes her eyes go numb.
Andrews's figure in "Did the Bean Sit Under a Tree" (1969) caught within a frame that incarcerates him against a US flag that threatens to unroll and smother him, has his fists balled up in a boxer's pose ready for this fight.
Badu's willowy voice, softened by vibrato, inspired comparisons to Billie Holiday, but she had a rapper's sense of rhythm and restraint: she knew how to stack syllables and deploy slang, and she knew when not to smother the beat with extraneous ad-libs.
" Mr. Trump also targeted Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision to work with him to complete portions of his administration's signature North American trade pact, known as the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, and suggested that she had done so to "smother the impeachment crap.
She's more than happy to let her four-year-old daughter hit the nail salon and put bronzer on her aunts — and perhaps most importantly, she's already taught North why you should always ask if someone is wearing foundation before you smother them in kisses.
His voice trembling at times between sniffles, Watts confessed to strangling Shanann and then loading her body into the bed of his truck before driving it to a remote oil field, where he used one of his girls' own blankets to smother both of them.
But at Gauge they take the opposite tack, turning chicken liver parfait into an early dessert course by adding a flurry of dehydrated raspberry, or making a dense, cakelike bread out of black garlic and inviting you to smother it in burned vanilla brown butter.
Creating 28.3 million jobs would require the economy to grow at 21.6 percent but that can only be achieved with economic shock therapy that in the short term will smother growth to far below the 260 percent achieved in the year to June, economists say.
Jim JordanJames (Jim) Daniel JordanGraham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony The Memo: White House rolls the dice on impeachment GOP, Trump look to smother impeachment inquiry MORE (R-Ohio) was set to appear on ABC's "This Week" opposite Rep.
Mr. Haas has chosen to speak up, both because Ms. Williams-Haas's sexual interests are widely known (her blog, The Perverted Negress, is not shy about kink and bondage) and because he hopes to embolden younger people, particularly composers, not to smother untraditional urges, as he did.
On Monday, the New York Times published a copy of the special science section of the draft 2018 National Climate Assessment, which federal climate researchers had completed but feared Donald Trump's administration and new Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt were plotting to smother in its crib.
Jason Alan Black Black, who pleaded guilty to first-degree felony aggravated murder and attempted murder in October to avoid the death penalty, admitted that he fatally shot Casagrande and then attempted to smother her five-year-old daughter with a throw pillow, according to the Tribune.
And so this was the gameplan boiled down to a single moment—retreat and step off line at distance, smother when necessary: But Hunt showed a little veteran savvy, dropping his head below Overeems and projecting the top of his skull when Overeem stepped in to clinch.
It was especially apparent when James and Durant teamed up to smother Curry and then DeMar DeRozan of the Toronto Raptors to preserve a 222-145 victory, denying both players from getting off a 3-pointer in the final seconds that could have tied the game.
News Analysis WASHINGTON — President Trump's approval ratings have been nudging upward and his party's political standing is improving, but the president's unceasing habit of making inflammatory and insensitive remarks is galvanizing opposition against him — especially from women — that could smother Republican momentum going into the midterm campaign.
"The way virus spreads and the way in which you combat it is a lot like a forest fire … find it early and be able to smother it before it spreads," said Michael Leavitt, former Health and Human Services Secretary during the George W. Bush administration.
Jon Lucas and Scott Moore ("The Hangover") take on the smother mothers of America: the ones who can head the P.T.A., whip up vegan cookies for the bake sale and tote their kids to and from enough activities to pad a college application — all while looking perfect.
Elliott benefited from a quick whistle with 1 minute 14 seconds left when he unsuccessfully tried to smother the puck on a long dump-in by Melker Karlsson, and it slowly slid between his pads and off his stick into the net, just after play had been ruled dead.
Chris Harrison drops by to alert the guys that due to ABC wanting to smother us with steroids this week, that night's cocktail party would now be a pool party with a rose ceremony chaser — provided any brave souls can survive that long in the presence of Chad.
The crisis in Cyprus was a combination of fiscal slippage and a banking system which virtually imploded from heavy exposure to Greek sovereign debt - written down by Athens's international lenders to make that country's debt mountain more sustainable, but subsequently rolling over to smother the Cypriot banking system.
I didn't want her to be cold, and I also didn't want to put my arm around her, or smother her, because I didn't know her that well…Even though I couldn't have articulated it then, I understood that I could keep her warm up to a point.
The veneer of decorum that cloaks the fictional fishing village of Salty Creek, S.C., does little to smother the stink of prejudice in "Sophie and the Rising Sun," a genteel love story set in the autumn of 1941 during the run-up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
This attempt to smother us in examples ends up backfiring, though, and draws our attention to all the recent works of art Douthat does not mention: I found myself wondering what he thought of the apocalyptic film First Reformed, for instance, or Fleabag's "Hot Priest," for that matter.
Headed up by Baz Luhrmann, The Get Down is a Bronx fairy tale about the birth of hip-hop and the zenith of disco; a story about young street poets trying to get by as the borough burns around them and the world slowly conspires to smother their dreams.
Hundreds of people work at a so-called troll farm in Riyadh to smother the voices of dissidents like Khashoggi; the push also appears to include the grooming of a Saudi employee at Twitter whom Western intelligence officials suspected of spying on user accounts to help the Saudi leadership.
On July 8, Brandon Browner, 34, of Pomona, California, broke into his ex-girlfriend's apartment in La Verne and — in front of her two children — chased her down, dragged her and then tried to smother her in a carpet, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said in a statement.
She's good, but the movie belongs to Ms. Kendrick, who takes Stephanie, an Instagram cliché, and turns her into a multitude of women — the sweet smother-mother, the sighingly lonely widow, the wipe-your-feet-on-me doormat — who never think they're good enough, but who of course are exactly right.
As he zeroes in on the day on which he can finally smother net neutrality with a pillow, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai took to Twitter on Tuesday to celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Big Lebowski, a movie that's going to be harder, and more expensive to stream when net neutrality goes away.
Beebe claims Malil is still telling lies about what happened the night of her attack -- in which he stabbed her with a broken wine glass and a kitchen knife and also tried to smother her with a pillow while her 2 kids slept upstairs -- which proves he's not really remorseful or safe.
This is also a very powerful full moon for your sex life, so go pick up a candle (many occult supply stores sell them in the shape of genitals, FYI), smother it in some oil, and light it—it's time to get closer to your lovers and for the intimacy to deepen!
Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, who wrote "The Hangover," take on the smother mothers of America: the ones who can infuriatingly do it all — head the P.T.A., whip up vegan cookies for the bake sale and tote their kids to and from enough activities to pad a college application — all while looking perfect.
To distract you while they smother net neutrality, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai and acting Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Maureen Ohlhausen have offered confident assurances that the FTC can step into the role abdicated by the FCC and protect net neutrality with its antitrust and consumer protection enforcement authority.
Jim JordanJames (Jim) Daniel JordanGraham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony The Memo: White House rolls the dice on impeachment GOP, Trump look to smother impeachment inquiry MORE (R-Ohio), former chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, went a step further while appearing on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday.
Breakfast provides the groundwork for brunch as boy bands precede boy bands, because you need to perfect the art of poaching eggs before you can smother them in Hollandaise, or get your toast to an ideal crispiness before you throw it in the garbage because you totes just remembered that you're trying to not do gluten this weekend.
Together with the Toronto mainstay Lowry and two gems Ujiri recently unearthed from the college game — Siakam and VanVleet — those moves gave Toronto's rookie coach, Nick Nurse, the ability to deploy various athletic and long-limbed combinations to smother the small-ball lineups that have fueled much of Golden State's success over the past half-decade.
The outcomes, in totality, ran so counter to the regular-season standings that it seemed as if it had been decreed that the series would be decided not by the teams themselves but rather by the potency of their mascots: an avalanche should smother flames, so happy trails, Calgary, and welcome to the next round, Colorado.
The most aggressive approach is that of Vladimir PutinVladimir Vladimirovich PutinDemocrats: The 'Do Quite a Lot' Party Rudy Giuliani's reputation will never recover from the impeachment hearings The Hill's Morning Report — Dems and Trump score separate court wins MORE in Russia, who allegedly uses assassination, intimidation and legal punishment to smother political opposition and the press.
But take that same pasta, smother it with fontina and ricotta cheeses, plop it into a casserole dish and bake it until the edges crisp, the top turns golden and the center collapses into a molten mass, and you've turned what was once refined and genteel into a supremely comforting, kid-pleasing dish that's still sophisticated enough to serve to guests.
Playing big, pounding the offensive glass, and trying to smother Golden State's interior offense, Thunder-style, seems like an option—until you remember that the Cavs aren't nearly as long as the Thunder, and that such a strategy would involve going to either a Thompson–Mozgov or Love–Thompson frontcourt, both of which come with serious shortcomings on both ends.
The grapevines are a useful trick from guard to break an opponent's posture, which will allow a fighter to clinch and smother many of the more meaningful strikes, but grapevines can't typically be held for a length of time against good grapplers with an understanding of how to swim their legs free and to deny another attempt at the same.
Jim JordanJames (Jim) Daniel JordanGraham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony The Memo: White House rolls the dice on impeachment GOP, Trump look to smother impeachment inquiry MORE (Ohio), the top Republican on the House Oversight and Reform Committee, one of the panels leading the impeachment inquiry, argued Democrats have not conducted a fair process.
C.) and Jim JordanJames (Jim) Daniel JordanGraham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony The Memo: White House rolls the dice on impeachment GOP, Trump look to smother impeachment inquiry MORE (R-Ohio), were spotted walking into the meeting separately; both are former chairmen of the conservative Freedom Caucus and are senior members of the Oversight and Reform Committee.
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Things between the Lyon king and queen have only gotten worse over the years, after that time Cookie tried to smother Lucious with a pillow, that other time Lucious got Cookie thrown out of Empire, and that other-other time Cookie and Lucious were moments away from getting back together...before he decided to marry Anika (Grace Gealey-Byers) to save his own skin.
Already cynical by nature, I spent 30 years in a business that, if nothing else, taught me to be cynical about the world—I went from there to television, which if you had anything left you would think would smother it, but the fact is I remained committed to certain notions, that there are good guys in the world worth speaking up for, worth supporting if you can.
Y.), Scott PerryScott Gordon PerryEx-Trump aide to tell Congress she objected to Ukrainian ambassador's removal: report Ex-Ukraine ambassador arrives to give testimony GOP, Trump look to smother impeachment inquiry MORE (Pa.) and Jim JordanJames (Jim) Daniel JordanTrump urges GOP to fight for him Trump embarks on Twitter spree amid impeachment inquiry, Syria outrage Testimony from GOP diplomat complicates Trump defense MORE (Ohio), the ranking member of the Oversight panel.
When she was on top, he slapped her thigh and said, "Yeah, yeah, you like that," with an intonation that made it impossible to tell whether he meant it as a question, an observation, or an order, and when he turned her over he growled in her ear, "I always wanted to fuck a girl with nice tits," and she had to smother her face in the pillow to keep from laughing again.
Jim JordanJames (Jim) Daniel JordanGraham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony The Memo: White House rolls the dice on impeachment GOP, Trump look to smother impeachment inquiry MORE (R-Ohio), a key Trump ally, told ABC's George StephanopoulosGeorge Robert StephanopoulosKudlow: 'I don't honestly know' if Trump was joking about China investigating Bidens The Hill's Morning Report - Trump's impeachment woes mount Jordan refuses to say whether Trump asking China for investigation was appropriate MORE on Sunday.
Jim JordanJames (Jim) Daniel JordanGraham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony The Memo: White House rolls the dice on impeachment GOP, Trump look to smother impeachment inquiry MORE (Ohio) and Devin NunesDevin Gerald NunesMeet the lawyer at center of whistleblower case: 'It is an everyday adventure' Intelligence watchdog huddles with members as impeachment push grows Both sides dig in after marathon Trump-Ukraine briefing MORE (R-Calif.), the respective ranking Republicans on the Oversight and Intelligence committees, said in a joint statement.
" (Recorded acceptance speech for the Muslim Public Affairs Council's Voices of Courage and Conscience award for the Parts Unknown Palestine episode) "Already cynical by nature, I spent 30 years in a business that, if nothing else, taught me to be cynical about the world—I went from there to television, which if you had anything left you would think would smother it, but the fact is I remained committed to certain notions, that there are good guys in the world worth speaking up for, worth supporting if you can.
Rep. Jim JordanJames (Jim) Daniel JordanGraham threatens to call Volker to testify if Democrats don't release testimony The Memo: White House rolls the dice on impeachment GOP, Trump look to smother impeachment inquiry MORE (R-Ohio) on Sunday repeatedly refused to say whether he believed it was inappropriate for President TrumpDonald John TrumpDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Trump adviser: 'He should stop saying things that are untrue' US moves British ISIS suspects from Syria amid Turkish invasion MORE to call for Chinese authorities to investigate former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenDemocrats request testimony from Trump's former Russia adviser Pence open to releasing transcripts of call with Ukraine Trey Gowdy joins Trump's legal team MORE and his son Hunter Biden.
Y.), Scott PerryScott Gordon PerryEx-Trump aide to tell Congress she objected to Ukrainian ambassador's removal: report Ex-Ukraine ambassador arrives to give testimony GOP, Trump look to smother impeachment inquiry MORE (R-Pa.), and Jim JordanJames (Jim) Daniel JordanTrump urges GOP to fight for him Trump embarks on Twitter spree amid impeachment inquiry, Syria outrage Testimony from GOP diplomat complicates Trump defense MORE (Ohio), senior Republican on the House Oversight and Reform Committee, spoke with reporters on their way into the room, accusing Intelligence Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffSchiff punches back after GOP censure resolution fails Trump urges GOP to fight for him House rejects GOP measure censuring Schiff MORE (D-Calif.) of conducting an underhanded process by releasing only selected portions of testimony from previous witnesses.

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