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The NBA threw Morey “under the bus” to protect their market access, Senator Marco Rubio added, calling the move “disgusting.”
Yet whatever Trump hopes to achieve with Japan, it will be far less than what he threw away when he abandoned the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in early 2017.
Jeffersonian democracy yielded a one-party state run by Virginia planters;Jacksonian democracy produced a corrupt party system controlled by bosses and professional politicians; the Populist movement lost momentum when, in order to make political progress, it threw in its lot with the Democratic Party.
Given these constraints, the US threw its support behind the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG).
The new socioeconomic cleavages threw the prevailing features of each country’s politics into sharp relief.
Even before COVID-19 threw the world economy into the worst downturn since the Great Depression, Argentina was in debt distress, again.
In fact, European Union member states threw up national barriers at the first sign of the virus.
But just days after the July 4 festivities, Trump threw away another major guardrail by launching a racist tirade against four leftist congresswomen of color: if they don’t like America, he tweeted, they can “go back” to where they came from.
But at a remarkable joint press conference on July 16, the Babariko and Tsepkalo campaigns threw their support behind Tikhanovskaya, with all three represented by women displaying their campaigns’ symbols: a raised fist for Tikhanovskaya, a heart for Mariya Kolesnikova, Babariko’s campaign chief, and a “V” for victory for Tsepkalo’s wife, Veronika.
At last, after a disgraceful miss, he threw his gun, and hat on the ground.
He threw her over and took another.
The house already threw a shadow right across the street; the evening was bright, and the sun still warm.
But she did not take her eyes off the wheels of the approaching second truck, and at the very moment when the midway point between the wheels drew level, she threw away her red bag, and drawing her head down between her shoulders threw herself forward on her hands under the truck, and with a light movement as if preparing to rise again immediately dropped on her knees.
Maheu seemed all at once to hear them, and, in a fury, snatched the little one up from the cradle and threw it on the mother's bed, stammering with rage:"Here, take her; I'll do for her!Damn the child!
Four lanterns were placed there, and the reflectors which threw all the light on to the shaft vividly illuminated the iron rail, the levers of the signals and bars, the joists of the guides along which slid the two cages.
The only lamp threw out the calm rays of a night-light.
And as they at last arrived before the porch, two enormous dogs threw themselves upon them, barking so loudly that the little ones yelled with terror.
Bouteloup began to laugh enormously, and threw a fragment of sauced bread into Achille's mouth.
His white pointed teeth, his thin mouth and nose, with his rosy complexion, gave him a girlish appearance, an air of obstinate gentleness, across which the grey reflection of his steely eyes threw savage gleams.
Zacharie, insulted in his good family feelings, threw himself on the insolent intruder.
Alzire threw herself round her mother's neck, overcome on hearing her weep.
Their lamps danced at their wrists in the deathly silence which had fallen; they rushed in single file along the passages with bent backs, as though they were galloping on all fours; and without slowing this gallop they asked each other questions and threw brief replies.
When they arrived at the chimney passage, they threw themselves into it, tumbling one over the other without troubling about bruises.
They threw themselves on the animal in desperation, and put her back in the basket.
This led to the total reconstruction of the old rotten society; he attacked marriage, the right of bequest, he regulated every one's fortune, he threw down the iniquitous monument of the dead centuries with a great movement of his arm, always the same movement, the movement of the reaper who is cutting down a ripe harvest.
At last they threw handfuls of frozen moss at him, and a woman cried in a shrill voice:"Down with the traitor!"
They threw themselves toward the shaft, they crushed through the narrow door to the ladder passage; while an old groom who had prudently led back the horses to the stable, looked at them with an air of contemptuous indifference, accustomed to spend nights in the pit and certain that he could eventually be drawn out of it.
But he shook his daughter; he was enraged, like his wife; he threw her conduct in her face, and both lost their heads, shouting louder than their mates.
They were already climbing the slope of the Platriéres, beyond the road to Beaugnies, when a voice, no one knew from whom, threw out the idea that the soldiers were, perhaps, down there at Feutry-Cantel.
It was not enough to stop it in the last expiring breath of its steam; they threw themselves on it as on a living person whose life they required.
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