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But, while Koizumi successfully knocked out the Tanaka faction within the LDP, many of Tanaka’s adherents ,led by Ozawa, had re-established themselves by colonizing and taking over the DPJ.
Likewise, one wonders whether Fillon’s loyalists see in him anything more than his stamina, his ability to take a beating, or the figure he cut when, after being knocked flat on his back, he got up as if returning to an unfinished fight.
Labor markets have been knocked out of equilibrium as new technology and shifting global supply chains have caused demand in the labor market to change faster than supply can adjust.
Now that Russia has knocked at least some of Assad’s enemies on their heels, the Kremlin has decided that the time has come to discuss forthcoming political arrangements – or, perhaps more accurately, the time has come to tell Assad what will happen next.
Just as we seem to get our bearings, something happens to make us feel as if our legs have been knocked out from under us.
The proud nation with the arrogant leader has been knocked down a peg; it turns out that the French are no different from anyone else.
Incredibly, the lists of symptoms for some disorders were knocked out in minutes.
Nigeria, its largest economy, could be knocked to its knees.
China has rebuffed the landmark ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration, which knocked the bottom out of expansive Chinese territorial claims in the South China Sea and held that some of the country’s practices were in violation of international law.
The dollar has been knocked off its pedestal by the crisis, but any conceivable substitute is obviously even more flawed and more problematical.
Their initial demand – the rebuilding of eight illegally constructed mosques that had been knocked down by Islamabad’s civic administration – became a call for enforcement of Sharia law across Pakistan.
(All of this dismayed Australia’s conservative host government, which had fought to prevent the issue from even being raised; the Australian public, however, was delighted, and promptly knocked down Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s approval rating in post-summit polls for this and other embarrassments.)
Silos must be knocked down and bubbles must be pierced, with bridges being built in their place.
With water and sanitation facilities knocked out, the country is now facing the worst cholera outbreak in modern history.
But when communism collapsed – both as an economic system and as an ideology – it knocked the legs out from under the social-democratic stool.
The electric power grid was knocked out, and the publicly owned electric utility, PREPA, having lost money for years, was unable to muster an adequate response.
As the current decade draws to a close, large parts of the world are mired in conflict, stable democracies have suddenly been knocked off kilter, and societies are increasingly divided by race, religion, and political ideology.
Despite striking out at the nuclear summits in Singapore and Hanoi, Trump continues to boast that has already knocked the ball over the fence.
By operating multiple plants in multiple locations, businesses can minimize the risk of systemic disruption when any one location is knocked offline (such as by a natural disaster).
Iran’s attacks – which knocked out around 5.7 million barrels of Saudi Arabia’s daily production – call into question the Kingdom’s ability to play that role.
For a moment he felt like a man who, receiving a blow from behind, angrily and revengefully turns round to find his assailant and realizes that he has accidentally knocked himself, that there is no one to be angry with and that he must endure and try to still the pain.
As he made this gesture he struck the little table on which the seltzer and a decanter of brandy were standing and almost knocked it over.
Suddenly the horses started, Levin knocked his head against the barrel of some one's gun, and there was a report.
CHAPTER XIVNEXT MORNING AT TEN O'CLOCK Levin, having made the round of his farm, knocked at the door of Vasenka's room.
The Secretary knocked, the door opened and two landowners with flushed faces plunged out past Levin.
None of the workmen knocked themselves; they evidently knew each boss, each knot of wood or swelling in the rock.
stammered Maheude, rubbing her eyes, "I'm so knocked up I could sleep all day.
As Maheude was getting her breath Madame Hennebeau knocked.
The ceiling was so low that the three musicians on their platform, which was about the size of a pulpit, knocked their heads against it.
As she knocked there was sudden silence.
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