Knock
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Some blame an unfair world trading system, in which wealthy nations
knock
down all trade barriers except their own.
The Bild revelations
knock
a gaping hole in the Russian argument, so the Kremlin can be expected to challenge the authenticity of the document or argue that it has been misinterpreted.
And, as for the wider mandate to protect civilians, the resolution allows airborne attacks to
knock
out tanks or troop columns advancing on Benghazi or other rebel-held towns, and – should they exist – concentrations of forces within those areas that pose a direct and immediate threat to Qaddafi’s opponents.
The enduring legacy of the Berlin Wall is not the inspiring notion that freedom and the will of the people can
knock
down any barrier.
Educational voucher programs, for example, took a
knock
when careful analysis of a Chilean program found no positive effect on students’ performance.
At night--husband into the douche , daughter--out, here is Greek Max -- knock,
knock
, then sex , cake, bucks, kreks, feks, peks .
There is an almost embattled culture among many senior officials, who fear that fanning the flames of dissent among Europe’s voters could one day
knock
European unity off course.
Defining a Chinese hard landing as a halving of the current 6.7% growth rate, the combined direct and indirect effects of such an outcome would consequently
knock
about one percentage point off overall global growth.
Droughts may not
knock
down buildings, but they carry high social and economic costs.
These cuts, along with the tax increases agreed to in January, would
knock
about 1.25 percentage points off 2013 GDP growth, consigning the economy to another year of tepid recovery and disappointing job gains.
People were sick of his "unpredictability", of his inability to control his temper or
knock
sense-- if not integrity--into the Kremlin’s corrupt gang.
The IMF program may also help
knock
down roadblocks to privatizing Turk Telecom, and the whiff of instability may inspire Europe to push Turkey's membership in the EU ahead.
Germany did not
knock
out France and then conquer Russia.
A China implosion could easily
knock
at least one percentage point off their combined growth rate.
Troubled countries
knock
on the Fund's door for financial assistance only when all other creditors have turned their backs.
We abolished censorship; so, too, the midnight
knock
at the door.
Or consider a pandemic accompanied by cyberwarfare, the kind that can
knock
out critical infrastructure with a click.
But the FSB also warns that cross-subsidization may allow Big Tech firms to gain market share rapidly and
knock
out existing providers.
As the Bahamas and other countries across the region have demonstrated over the past few years, solar- and battery-powered microgrids can provide critical services for island communities during and after severe weather events that otherwise would
knock
traditional energy sources offline.
But under Trump, with his unilateral and erratic trade wars, America’s competitors and even its allies are now stepping up efforts to
knock
the dollar off its pedestal and develop an alternative reserve currency.
When you have passed that bend turn to the left, and go right down the drive and you'll
knock
up straight against it.
'I don't know, my lad.''There, you see, when you've turned to the left you'll
knock
straight up against it,' said the peasant, evidently unwilling to let them go, and wishing to talk.
"You must let your grandfather sleep; you must watch that Estelle does not
knock
her head; and if she wakes, or if she howls too much, here!
Then he saw one by one the voluptuous noses of all the girls of Montsou rising up around him, while he had to be careful not to
knock
against the limbs stretched out level with the paths.
At first he had been about to
knock
her down; then, after having wiped his face with the movement of a man who is recovering from intoxication, he said to Chaval, in the midst of deep silence:"She is right; that's enough.
They know nothing, you can only
knock
them down."
If a man's got a wife like that, he ought to
knock
her ribs in.
She left Montsou, then retraced her steps, but dared neither to call from the pathway nor to
knock
at the door.
He would sooner
knock
their brains out.
As soon as he had gone ten paces he must come back and
knock
up against this man.
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