Oh, and Clinton is whacking Sanders about his superdelegates plan, too.
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Just prepare yourself for some mild confusion and some solid whacking.
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"The secret ingredient is a lot of whacking," my mother said.
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It was also never entirely clear who was doing the whacking.
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"She said he's interested in it but more in whacking the ball."
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Either way, Fisher really seemed to enjoy whacking him in the dome.
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"Take your list and start whacking it," said Mary Hunt, creator of EverydayCheapskate.com.
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Whacking Assad will get the attention of the mullahs and the Revolutionary Guard.
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Her click-happy cat just couldn't resist whacking the mouse at any opportunity.
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She's persistent and experienced at whacking through health care red tape and confusion.
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Whacking the rich also is an appealing populist stance for a progressive candidate.
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He's sharpening his attacks on Hillary Clinton -- and whacking Wall Street and the rich.
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Oh, and Sanders is whacking Clinton about her past stances on illegal immigrants, too.
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This was the sound of my mother whacking a beef filet with a meat pounder.
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But "Why are they whacking the walls?" wasn't the main question raised by the rehearsal.
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And this was clearer than ever on Saturday night, when he spanked Trump for whacking Bushes.
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Fully charged, these devices last an entire day for weed-whacking, mowing, and everything in between.
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In Big Mac terms, the Mexican peso is undervalued by a whacking 55.9% against the greenback.
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"It is whacking the market when it's already turned," AMP Capital chief economist Shane Oliver said.
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Whacking its seeming protagonist, the principled Ned Stark, was a mission statement made for pay cable.
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As far as family-viewing holiday films go, Thanksgiving is nearly as under-represented as Whacking Day.
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It was one of those goals where if you keep whacking at it, eventually it goes in.
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But mental health professionals question the efficacy of rampaging in a faux cubicle or whacking airborne glasses.
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His role, he wrote, consisted largely of whacking suspects over the head with the Manhattan Yellow Pages.
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Open a wine bottle by standing it in a shoe and whacking the heel against a wall.
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Ms. Julie joins in, picking up a china teacup and rhythmically whacking at it with a spoon.
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I was sleeping, but woken by an angry bouncer whacking the door, telling me the venue was closing.
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Its latest Resident Evil-like game ChaineMan had me running around whacking zombies with whatever I could find.
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In the clip, Kang and Jenner, 65, take turns whacking a ball, with Kang being declared the winner.
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"Your loved ones could be left all alone and distressed and facing a whacking great bill," he warns.
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He was worried, he said, that they might accuse the British prime minister of whacking him in frustration.
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Trump, after whacking the Europeans with steel and aluminum tariffs, has been frustrated by the European Union's retribution.
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"It turned out to be guys whacking the doors with their bats as they walked by," he said.
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It operates a second, more aggressive "War Room" Twitter account that has been busy whacking Trump and Republicans.
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In making its predictions, he said the market was "whacking in some big assumptions like a smooth Brexit".
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Elizabeth McCracken's new novel, "Bowlaway," is a paean to candlepin bowling, a less-whacking variant of the sport.
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Ms. Klobuchar dismissed him as a "local" official a month ago, but he responded by whacking at Washington.
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Or he may prescribe a comparable treatment, Abraxane, costing the government a whacking $22013,700 but netting the doctor $1,000.
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Previously discovered Crispr molecules are very good at whacking apart DNA but don't protect bacteria from an RNA virus.
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The director of Oval Office operations is Keith Schiller, a former Trump bodyguard best known for whacking a protester.
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But it seemed to stop conspicuously short of whacking the company's newer 737 MAX 8, which weighs 45,070 kilograms empty.
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In 2015 the gigantic SSI steelworks closed for good, putting 2,000 people out of work and whacking the local economy.
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Sara is seized by some otherwordly sense of betrayal and anger, and she starts whacking her mother with the Arkangel.
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But today you can watch how different objects respond to a whacking after taking the polar plunge—in slow motion.
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Would whacking that stick over his opponent's head, for instance, have broken his skull, or delivered but a glancing blow?
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The gun physics in Ravenfield feel as good as a baseline as the jumping, whacking, and digging of Minecraft did.
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Replicate that at home by downing three bottles of Lucozade, headbanging for a bit and whacking this on full blast.
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"Maybe they're making the bacterial community more diverse by whacking back anyone that grows out too much," Dr. Bushman said.
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Evidence of higher wages was "whacking" global markets last week, while higher bond yields threatened to "topple" a multiyear rally.
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The opening of the tubed slide was small, and I thought I should lie down to avoid whacking my head.
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That platforming, crucially, feels good, with plenty of augmentable powers on top of the more typical running, jumping, whacking and diving.
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THE median real household income grew by a whacking 213.5%, or $21999,22000, in 20043, according to figures released on September 22004th.
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Mats Zuccarello picked up a slashing penalty by whacking Pittsburgh defenseman Ian Cole's stick out of his hands, sending it flying.
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An early skit involved a family at a funeral home whacking the swollen corpse of its patriarch with a Wiffle bat.
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And finally, as an old old person, ready to die, you spend your final years whacking golf balls into the sun.
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I planted my paddle right between his eyes and held my distance and kept pushing off and kind of whacking him.
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After the settlement, she heard that the SWAT team had pinned her photo to a piñata and took turns whacking it.
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You'll spend hours whacking your way through the weeds with a machete and you won&apost be able to escape the marsh.
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Whacking tariffs on malt, potatoes and dairy products would cause Idaho's exports to Mexico to incur an average levy of nearly 15%.
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Starting late last year, investors moved from growth mode to a focus on profitability, whacking most SaaS companies with cash-burning operations.
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Whacking the ball over the boundary rope yields four runs if it bounces on the field, and six if it does not.
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If they're hitting us through cyber-enabled means to do an attack, why aren't we whacking them back through cyber-enabled means?
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"He manhandled me in rehearsals from the start, pushing me, whacking my stomach, bending my arms roughly," Solo wrote in her book.
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But it's rare at Hollywood awards ceremonies, possibly because movie stars holding statuettes don't want to risk whacking themselves in the thorax.
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There is inherently something old-fashioned about living along a constructed environment meant for whacking balls for five hours at a time.
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He displayed one, a large blue ring topped with a diamond — and began whacking it aggressively against the wooden coffee table. Bang!
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CreditCreditHeritage Auctions DALLAS — In the summer of 1969, Rick Armstrong was 12 and whacking the baseball in the Houston-area Little League.
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I still can't post an serious tweet without deleting it two minutes later, or whacking a self-deprecating lol on the end. Lol.
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And the symbolism of a man or a woman whacking a ball across a luxurious green is 100% American: individualism, abundance, good humor.
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What's not to like about 18 holes of dudes occasionally whacking lil' balls on stunning pastoral landscapes while announcers mumble in hushed tones?
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"The first few innings he was throwing everything in the middle of the plate and they were whacking it," manager Terry Francona said.
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Retail shares, under pressure all year, took another whacking after Amazon announced it was buying the Whole Foods Markets grocery chain last month.
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His wife responds — not by taking a plane alone to West Palm Beach but by whacking him on the head with an umbrella.
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Impressed and inspired, droves of young people were twirling the weapons in their backyards and trying to avoid whacking themselves in the face.
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Each whacking move is a blow, a bang, seeming to strike rather than respond to the gunshot or hammer beats in the soundtrack.
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While European stock markets recovered slightly following Trump's comments, sentiment remained fragile with investors scrambling into government bonds and whacking emerging market currencies.
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She is taking on Pete Buttigieg directly, whacking at Mike Bloomberg and emphasizing her gender as the top woman left in the race.
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Is it gross or flattering to think about men whacking one out to the very special and private act of two women making love?
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You might think that with all those Nintendo boxes and LeapPad tablets, button-whacking would be pretty boring to children, but it is not.
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The couple's PDA tour's been all over the place lately -- Bahamas, NYC, Miami, whacking some golf balls in Georgia ... and now back in Miami.
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If you've spent years whacking a home button you're not going to be able to break down those memetics in a couple of hours.
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Now all you have to do is buy yourself some whacking great RAF pilot's gloves and you'll be set to take to the skies.
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But whacking the mole in Macau has made it pop up elsewhere, where China's writ doesn't run; in Saipan, the Philippines, Cambodia and Australia.
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You can break your space helmet, and so tumbling down a surface on Mars and whacking your head into a rock is not recommended.
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Be smart: Trump has been whacking social media, on social media, to shift next week's hearings to how he's a victim of social media.
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Another uncle and cousin, both named Ken, operate a sister store in Long Island, where Bobby Baccalieri's fateful whacking in "The Sopranos" was filmed.
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Whacking zombies with a giant sword, I felt the breeze on my face as I drove my Harley toTokyo VR Startups' demo day last week.
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In the Midwest, stuffed full of must-win states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, Mrs Clinton leads Mr Trump by a whacking 15% margin.
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But while Trump's rhetoric sometimes sounds like he's whacking the so-called establishment because it played to his base, Blankenship really seems to mean it.
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A specialty is placing an eight-pound medicine ball a few inches from a padded wall and then whacking away at it with his stick.
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After Dunbar's interception ruined a good Giants scoring chance, Beckham raged by the bench, cursing and yelling and, eventually, whacking himself with the kicking net.
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Instead of whacking on the pit with a knife and nearly slicing your hand open, you can use OXO's 3-in-1 Avocado Slicer ($9.98).
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On the other hand, Trump is eminently distractable and sometimes seems more interested in whacking the Democratic presidential candidates than going after the deep state.
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MH: Right, especially with Trump because so much of it is whacking a golf ball intentionally across the field to get you to chase it.
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In the end, Gizmodo editor-in-chief Kelly Bourdet offered access to her own slightly shaggy backyard, so I had to settle for weed-whacking duty.
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As a child, she was a fixture at the local courts in St. Petersburg, whacking balls off the backboard and hanging around looking for a game.
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"That caused him six weeks of unrelenting pain of Trump whacking him," that person said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss Mr. McConnell's thinking.
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Particularly for kids who don't have language yet, whacking their heads against something is a great way to get mom or dad to come scurrying over.
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The camera takes the audience past row after row of assembly lines in a factory that makes coffeemakers and irons (for clothes, not for whacking golf balls).
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Kassem's inspiration for the cheerful treats stems from the piñatas she grew up whacking in her native Mexico, except way more delicious and no stick is required.
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I had my first ever surfing lesson in the UK last summer, and spent more time whacking myself in the face with my board than anything else.
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The trio's plan to make back that money is worlds away from the standard private-equity playbook of whacking up leverage, slashing costs and flipping the business.
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Meanwhile, Wales fans appear to have celebrated their success without fly kicking anyone in the head, whacking rival fans with nunchucks or firing off potentially lethal flare guns.
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"It's an innocent mistake, but it can still cause trouble if it becomes President," says Colbert, before whacking on his shades and launching into his trademark Biden bit.
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He did so again Friday, whacking George Conway for propagating the rumor that Pence might be replaced as vice president after the "Fox & Friends" hosts brought it up.
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But thanks to a whacking cut to the top rate of tax, from 22028% to 334%, the incomes of the top 1% of earners would surge by 10-20%.
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A sign offered passersby the opportunity to insert a coin in exchange for the privilege of whacking the barrel with a bat, which they'd left conveniently next to it.
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Then he asked them to prepare to be beaten, and strode up and down the row of offenders several times, whacking them loudly on their behinds with a stick.
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Over the course of the meeting I was walked through the process of navigating menu screens, selecting icons and whacking moles in a mini game, all with my eyes.
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So, is it dishonest to leave a book by the wayside after whacking a photo of it on my Insta Story alongside the caption "next up" or "now reading"?
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Some are obscure, like the whacking of a guy named Whispers (not to be confused with a different guy named Whispers) who stuck his beak in the wrong birdbath.
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On Saturday, after Tsonga hit the final ball of the match out wide, he expended some of his unused energy by whacking the ball into the stands in frustration.
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Labelling GDPR a "vague law," McKean said: "It is going to be a slow progress to get the legal certainty regulators need to start whacking companies with higher fines."
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From mild make outs to full-on butt whacking, the unapologetic indulgence of it all was arousing and entertaining—the kink having an almost Carry On aspect to it.
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These principles are now at risk because of President Trump's Federal Communications Commission chief Ajit Pai, who has made "weed whacking" the Obama-era net neutrality protections a personal crusade.
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We set up the camera, set up the lights, and he starts whacking himself like crazy, just beating every part of his body one after another, and just enjoying it.
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Out-of-context teasing is also fair game: Gritty, the Philadelphia Flyers' mascot, lampooned the Astros at a recent game by whacking a trash can with their logo on it.
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I sometimes think that familiarity has something to do with my preference for whacking baddies with a big piece of steel in games rather than riddling them with bullets from afar.
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Mind you, Thor is about a Norse god whacking monsters with a magical hammer, so science might seem like the last topic on a storyteller's mind—but not so with Marvel.
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Well, what better way to celebrate an influx of cheap bread and the destitute state of your nearest island neighbour than with a whacking great mound of pastry, meat, and gravy?
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A video taken by a drone in Canada's remote Arctic Ocean has captured narwhals using their massive tusks, which are actually enlarged, protruding teeth, to hunt fish by whacking them first.
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We wanted to take the style of these typically banal images and use them to tell a story of sorts, instead of just whacking them up on the club's official Facebook page.
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Don't make it harder by converting all of your savings into the form of gold coins, going over to the edge of the woods, and then whacking each coin into the woods.
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The euro, as a currency, would likely plummet, strengthening the dollar and making American products sold abroad much more expensive, potentially whacking the US trade balance and jobs in export-oriented companies.
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No, hopping behind the ol' 2-stroke isn't a lie in the sense that the grass isn't actually too tall, or that the clover in back doesn't truly need a good whacking.
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" One of the region's top linguists, Bernd Saur, also had advice for the students, according to the BBC: "I urge the pupils to await their results — nobody's going to get a whacking.
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When America marched into Iraq with our big stick and whacked that giant hornets' nest, we did not pause to contemplate what comes after the heroic and satisfying act of whacking something.
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"To some extent, we are playing whack-a-mole, but we are whacking a lot of moles right now, and we're putting out individual guidances that relate to individual abuses," Gottlieb said.
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Their friendship was a paradigm of neighbordom, which inspires envy in this writer, whose interactions with her neighbors are limited to whacking the wall with a Swiffer when their music is too loud.
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The best attendee at the White House's National Military Spouse Appreciation Day event was a tenacious child who refused to let Vice President Mike Pence get away with whacking him in the face.
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A new study by the Evidence-Driven Drug Pricing Project finds that the average margin on cancer drugs, including Medicare and private sales, is 16% for doctors and a whacking 140% for hospitals.
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The new promo, which is less than a minute long, promises to reveal A.D. — and then shows Mona (Janel Parrish) whacking Spencer in the head, while wearing A's favorite outfit, the black hoodie.
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For the project, CSAIL PhD student Andrew Owens and postgrad Phillip Isola recorded videos of themselves whacking a bunch of things with drumsticks: stumps, tables, chairs, puddles, banisters, dead leaves, the dirty ground.
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Frank soon graduates from fixing to whacking, with Scorsese, as so often, eschewing grandeur for the downbeat detail—a gun handed over in a brown paper bag, with no more fuss than a sandwich.
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But people like Pearl can fall back on the certainty that if nothing else, at least whacking the little bastards on their asses makes kids knock off whatever mischief they were up to, right?
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Perhaps you're entirely new to the series and feel like the prospect of whacking giant beasts with improbably sized weapons isn't enough to sustain a game for a prolonged period of time (you're wrong).
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Simultaneously whacking and embracing as many stereotypes as possible — the German-raised student is organized and polite; the Mexican is a skirt-chasing hedonist — Mr. Lee paves a boisterous road to amity and understanding.
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But when Tyler, the Creator started self-directing his own videos and created a new, fun and color-saturated visual aesthetic, plenty of acts followed suit and began whacking their names on their work.
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By the end, all had congregated at a single drum kit at the front of the stage, whacking out hard-driving patterns in a scene that seemed to speak simultaneously of competition and cohesion.
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OK.'" When I mention my daughter's first season of T-ball, she remembers her own: "Whacking the stick more than the ball and then it just drops and you're like, 'OK, let's try this again.
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"They didn't think she'd participate but she proved them all wrong by picking up a bat, which was nearly her own height, whacking the ball really hard and racing to first base with a triumphant smile."
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Nicks, who introduced herself as "Stephanie" and joked that she was a "struggling singer" who was "reborn" in San Francisco, has a knack for baton-twirling, despite accidentally whacking herself in the head at one point.
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In his previous game, Colon had homered for the first time in his 234-year career, and on Wednesday, Noah Syndergaard had reinforced the notion of Mets pitchers as dangerous hitters by whacking two home runs.
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A seasoned politician, Vestager knows that the payoffs of whacking a tech platform are immense in a continent rife with popular distrust against corporate bigness, U.S.-style capitalism and tech platforms' permission-less attitude toward innovation.
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He'd head for an undeveloped sliver of land, start whacking his way through the bushes, and pretty soon he would find himself in front of a stream or creek that did not exist on Google Maps.
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"What more do you need?" he says, smirking, as if creating such sprawling, evolving soundscapes is as simple as… well, whacking a few sentences about getting pinged in your mate's shed into a Google Doc (sorry mum).
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"It's not unusual at this point in the quarter to have a little bit of a whacking in terms of economic numbers and corporate reports," said Stephen Lee, founding principal at Logan Capital Management in Ardmore, Pennsylvania.
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Rubio, Bush, John Kasich and Chris Christie are whacking each other with increasing ferocity, and they all appear to be pinning their hopes on a strong performance among the more moderate voters in the New Hampshire primary.
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A few seconds later, the Angry Man picks up the keyboard and swings it like a baseball bat at his screen—it's an old PC from the '90s, with a big CRT monitor—whacking it off the desk.
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In the United States, though, the only buzz about women's skating comes from the movies, not the rink, in the form of a mockumentary, "I, Tonya," about the 1994 knee-whacking of Nancy Kerrigan by associates of Harding.
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Whacking off The stigmas around self-pleasure have always led people to concoct bizarre mental blocks around why they might not want to do it, says Debby Herbenick, associate professor at Indiana University and author of The Coregasm Workout.
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If you think this sounds like wild extrapolation—after all, lipsticks are around the same size, and you don't get articles about whacking those up your nether regions—have a look at how some of these phones are sold.
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From intentionally operating without much profit while whacking every retailer, to turning itself into a major force in enterprise computing and simultaneously creating a voice-powered home assistant, Bezos has made it clear that virtually nothing is off limits.
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The room is capacious and will be climate-controlled — a far cry from the cramped and makeshift spaces, sometimes near the boiler room, that make wiring in older buildings vulnerable to overheating or an accidental whacking by a mechanic.
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Rightly or wrongly, drug taking is an integral part of the social experience many students have at university, so it isn't the taking itself that worries, it's what they're whacking up their nostrils and where that is cause for concern.
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Over the course of seven and a half minutes, the company puts the poor robot through hell, shooting it with its own gun and whacking the hell out of it with a wrecking ball, until it finally, mercifully, tips over.
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You can probably get through most of the game by whacking at buttons, but if you want to want to truly take advantage of what it's offering—or survive harder difficulty levels and endgame challenges—you'll need to dig in.
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" The pounding of her crampons into the ice, the scraping of the ax to remove loose snow and the blunt whacking as the ax plunges into the ice: It's the soundtrack of escape and a chance to "climb away from reality.
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Liston's death from a heroin overdose on January 103th, 1971, has long been seen as accidental, but Assael, a two-fisted journalist for ESPN, puts forward the murder theory and identifies four underworld figures with a strong motive for whacking the ex champ.
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While we've seen plenty of meteor strikes, instant justice delivered to bad drivers, and even plane crashes, this clip of a bolt of lighting hitting a bird and whacking it right out of the sky is one for the weird record books.
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Not wanting to look bad in front of the old men, however, I produced the tied-together bunch of birch branches I'd purchased (2200 rubles) and started whacking myself with them, like I'd seen them do: on my legs, arms, back and stomach.
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Jose Bautista, who was born in the Dominican Republic and now plays for the Mets, was slammed a few years ago for having the audacity to flip his bat after whacking a game-winning playoff home run for the Toronto Blue Jays.
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Kinda like a killer whale playing with a seal Axe tells his people to keep going after at the stock, waiting for the "dead cat bounce" – which Google tells us means: "a temporary recovery in share prices after a substantial fall…" -- then whacking bids again.
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The Democratic group Senate Majority PAC poured $1 million in ad buys against Ayotte on TV and digital into New Hampshire in March, with the latest ad whacking her for "abandoning her constitutional duty" by refusing to call for hearings or votes on Garland.
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Mr Trump's speech in Harrisburg was remarkable not for the familiar boasting about his achievements, the ritualistic promises to build his wall, his talk about lawless immigrants and his vow to repeal and replace Obamacare, but for the amount of time he spent whacking the media.
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She felt her headphone jack being exposed, and was tempted to do a quick change of settings, and switch to the British male voice that Steve didn't know, so as to scare him away... Steve started by whacking his penis on the screen of the iPhone.
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Placed in elaborate metaphorical forests, seascapes, gardens, transformative celestial planes and ecstatic alternative universes, the characters can be found in various convoluted configurations, biting, gasping, whacking, smacking, glugging, grabbing, grinding, gripping, grunting, scratching, swallowing, squeaking, sucking, stroking, lathering, panting, prodding, moaning, thrusting, tugging, rubbing and rattling.
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Where Mike's policing style is old-school — he extracts information from a civilian informant (DJ Khaled) by whacking the guy's knuckles with a meat tenderizer — AMMO's methodology involves weaponized surveillance drones, cracking cellphone call logs and other, more generally bloodless tools of 21st-century law enforcement.
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"My deepest thanks to the members of the Academy for whacking me with the handsomest bludgeon in town," he said in his acceptance speech, a reference to the dark film's conclusion, which features Day-Lewis' Daniel Plainview beating Paul Dano's Eli Sunday to death with a bowling pin.
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The Colorado trail runner who killed a young mountain lion with his bare hands after it pounced on him survived by whacking the animal with a rock, wrestling the cat to the ground, and using his whole body to choke it to death, state park and wildlife officials said.
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There is also a lesson, I think, for many other causes, from the environment to women's empowerment to global health: The best way for nonprofits to get large-scale results is sometimes to work with corporations to change behavior and supply lines — while whacking them when they resist.
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Perhaps this is because of the antler-whacking nature of today's hyper-driven culture, as illustrated in the situations of women like Susan J. Fowler, who set the executive dominoes cascading at Uber earlier this year with a blog post detailing overt and unchecked sexual harassment by her male manager.
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While whacking a furry yellow ball across manicured lawns remains a priority for most players — maybe with the exception of Bernard Tomic who was fined 45,000 pounds after organizers deemed he had 'tanked' his first-round match — Ash Barty and Sloane Stephens are also having a ball away from the courts.
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He also told Action News Jax that he had no clue where the gator came from—but in yet another video from the extremely well-documented fiasco, you can see Stratton holding the thing with a lit cig in his mouth, describing how his friend caught the beast while he was weed whacking.
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This is a great guest room for people you hate, because the bed is also black and so are the sheets and the bedside tables have all been painted with Vantablack and basically anyone staying in BR2 will have to blunder around whacking their shins on things... because the paint is just too dark.
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Whacking up your old, ultra rare box logo tee onto Grailed (a high-end eBay) doesn't make you a "reseller"—people who buy hype items purely to sell them on for maximum profit—it simply means you can go on funding your obsession without having to rely on the bank of mom and dad.
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I've been whacking at them in the New York Times in my opinion column and stuff like that, but this really brought together a lot of stuff, and included some facts and details that were so disturbing in terms of deflection and trying to push blame elsewhere that even I, who have been really critical of Facebook, was astonished by it.
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It is a pilot's watch, a watch with a large face and huge numerals used by old-timey fighter pilots during World War II. Designed with a huge crown which, as William Gibson wrote, "is rather more than usually prominent, so that you can do it without removing your whacking great RAF pilot's gloves," the pilot's watch is the ultimate in utilitarian wrist-wear.
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He had a reputation as a playboy — a fringe benefit of those so-called "amateur" days.) The star power at Forest Hills grew with the women in the postwar era: Althea Gibson, Maureen Connolly, Darlene Hard, Maria Bueno and later Virginia Wade, and young Billie Jean Moffitt (now King), on a side court, berating herself for a bad shot by whacking herself on the leg with her racket and shouting, "Come on, Billie Jean!" and waking up dozing patrons.
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His approach to repressive regimes is more nudging and needling than whacking, and when he's addressed the people directly on trips like this—in his speech in Nairobi last July, for example, facing a government there that's known for its own crackdowns and control (though to a much lesser degree)—he tends to lean on talk about American values exemplifying the kind of freedom and openness that leads to the economic and life opportunities that they want.
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They thought they'd got Trump to agree to a sequence: first impose tariffs on solar panels and washing machines (already done); then impose tariffs on hundreds of Chinese products to punish China for stealing American intellectual property (this action was imminent); then only impose the steel and aluminum tariffs after that (though in their minds hopefully Trump would be satisfied after whacking China so hard and wouldn't feel the need to go further.) Lastly, they were considering an investigation into unfair foreign treatment of American car companies.
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