Real went toe-to-toe, bludgeon-to-bludgeon with Atlético in a game that was more about work ethic than beauty, one that was neither won nor lost over 120 minutes.
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The effect is devastating, a rapier to the president's bludgeon.
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Toronto Blue Jays: They don't beat you, they bludgeon you.
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The bludgeon survives as the ceremonial mace that conveys authority.
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With "Walkaway," Doctorow pounds the same nails with the same bludgeon.
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And it's more than happy to bludgeon this point to death.
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"Anything longer is too long to effectively bludgeon someone with," he wrote.
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Prodigy was one of the best writers to ever bludgeon 16 bars.
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Trump has also used the tweet as a bludgeon against his opponents.
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He and the venue security clumsily bludgeon each other about the face.
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So few players can bludgeon a tennis ball the way he can.
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Mr Trump has used sanctions as a bludgeon in high-profile disputes.
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Using a club to bludgeon our trading partners and allies is not negotiating.
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We learn what it's actually like to bludgeon a stranger with a hammer.
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It's also very often invoked disingenuously, as a bludgeon to assert one's will.
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No matter how many bowling balls and candelabras bludgeon her, she keeps sleuthing.
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Even so, Republicans will seek to use the investigation to bludgeon Gillum's campaign.
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For this point, Weinstein is a perfect case study, and bludgeon for the right.
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Tanaka then watched Toronto bludgeon the Yankees' bullpen to complete a three-game sweep.
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Snickers are designed to not just satisfy your craving but bludgeon it into oblivion.
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Besides, some say, regardless of the nominee's position, Mr. Trump will bludgeon Democrats anyway.
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Then, there's trade and finance, where Trump believes he needs to bludgeon China into submission.
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Using the dollar as a bludgeon has already led to capricious and arbitrary decision-making.
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By the side of the road Bundy tried to bludgeon her into submission, DaRonch says.
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But instead of safeguarding the work of artists, Google wields this tool as a bludgeon.
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But that shield has been used to bludgeon those in other states with similar laws.
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Instead, they may be fearful that his bludgeon-force management style will imperil his goals.
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Led by Speaker Newt Gingrich, Republicans seized on impeachment to bludgeon the popular Democratic president.
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But you can see that he wields this privilege in some ways as a rhetorical bludgeon.
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Finding fresh new ways to bludgeon virtual beasts to death is what Monster Hunter's all about.
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The good future is wielded like a club to bludgeon the bad and reward the faithful.
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The museum aims to start conversations about race but not to "bludgeon" visitors, says a curator.
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Games like FIFA or Madden bludgeon you with the same barrage of one-liners on repeat.
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Rights groups say the law has been used by extremists as a bludgeon against religious minorities.
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A lot of the time, this fact is used as a tool to bludgeon Clinton's candidacy.
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These policies have existed for decades, but Mr. Netanyahu has turned them into a political bludgeon.
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The bludgeon is a nasty club and the flail is a nastier club on a chain.
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For a president in polarized times, progress comes not with a bludgeon but with a chisel.
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Guys started arming themselves with any material that would cut, stab, or be used as a bludgeon.
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Cortez Masto and Murphy have used the same playbook, repeatedly attempting to bludgeon their opponents with Trump.
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The Department of Justice is not currently using the CFAA to bludgeon researchers who expose discrimination online.
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Periodically, Trump does raise human rights issues, but only to bludgeon enemies like North Korea or Venezuela.
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One week later, that promise is being used as a bludgeon against smaller ride-hailing rival Lyft.
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Far-right massacres are actually leftist hoaxes, but Antifa will bludgeon any conservatives who dissent into submission.
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Investigators allege Thoresen used a baseball bat to bludgeon David Haiman, a 20-year-old from Hibbing, Minnesota.
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Hyperallergic talks to the directors of the documentary Bludgeon about portraying a subculture without making fun of it.
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And it becomes almost mandatory to make a statement when your opponent uses the decision to bludgeon you.
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Derek had used a baseball bat to bludgeon their sleeping father to death while Alex watched, encouraging him.
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But beginning in 2008, the Palestinian leadership decided to turn water into a political tool to bludgeon Israel.
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You can expect Democrats to bludgeon the president on this issue over and over again until Election Day.
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The same tools that Trump used to bludgeon Republicans on the primary circuit are increasingly handicapping his efforts now.
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Now there is no need to bludgeon health insurers, and there is certainly no need to piecemeal Obamacare repeal.
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This is a statistical bludgeon; it can force even the worst data into the ballpark of an election result.
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That book would have been funny, but I think it would have used humor even more as a bludgeon.
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From the moment he was released from prison last year, he started using Twitter to bludgeon his political opponents.
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And had Twitter been available, Reagan would not have used it as a bludgeon to threaten friends or enemies.
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"I had one camera and one lens, and someone could have used it used to bludgeon me," he added.
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It has even been used as a makeshift weapon not unlike a spiked medieval bludgeon in some crimes of passion.
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Trump's full-scale cable news assault let him dominate the airwaves during the primary and bludgeon his opponents into submission.
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Ultimately, Strange's opponents used the circumstances of his appointment by Bentley as a bludgeon against him, painting him as corrupt.
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The president, Mr. Bannon told Yahoo News, will "come off the chains" and use the findings to "bludgeon" his opposition.
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They gave him by far the most airtime of any candidate tonight, but also used it to bludgeon him repeatedly.
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Hall would grab at an idea, bludgeon it with deadpan puns, and land a coda that delightfully skewered its dimensions.
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President Donald Trump's economic sanctions, meant to bludgeon Iran into softening its regional policies, have instead made it more belligerent.
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The decision to remove all US troops from Iraq provided Donald Trump with a rhetorical bludgeon during this year's presidential campaign.
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"I think every single person that's not in that world thinks it's that," says Ryan Heron, director of the documentary Bludgeon.
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The biggest bludgeon came from the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, that esteemed bench that regularly handles separation of powers questions.
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You can even pick up a downed skeleton's arm to bludgeon beasts, its fingers still twitching as you swing it about.
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The prime minister will instead try to use an extension, however long, to bludgeon more MPs into backing the current deal.
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Add the census question to a long list of examples Trump will use to bludgeon his opponent on immigration in 2020.
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Thanks to her, Politico observes, "defenders of traditional public education policies have a foil in Washington to bludgeon their reform opponents."
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Democrats, by contrast, where happy to hold fast in front of cameras and bludgeon the president over his legal woes. Sen.
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Do all these toys really need to be wooden, even though my toddler likes to use them to bludgeon her sister?
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" Margot doesn't want to seem spoiled or capricious, so she takes a sip of whiskey to "bludgeon her resistance into submission.
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And on these trips they sometimes bludgeon their passengers to death, take the bodies to their humble home and eat them.
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Even Home Alone makes us wait for an interminably dull hour before we get to see Kevin bludgeon and electrocute Joe Pesci.
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The result has been a monthslong blockade and outright ostracism in an effort to bludgeon Qatar into submission to the Saudis' will.
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"Since the beginning, all they've done is use the virus, politicize the virus to bludgeon President Trump," Hannity said, referring to Democrats.
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De-energizing the electrical grid is a bludgeon: imprecise, with enormous potential for collateral damage as people deal with a darkened world.
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The overall economic numbers are strong enough that he will be able to use them as a bludgeon on the campaign trail.
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Racist thugs will literally bludgeon Lester for refusing to make songs like that one: pop crap for girls, not blues for men.
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The mind is as wonderful as it is wicked; it can choose to save us from our memories or bludgeon us with them.
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But it is a convenient lie, one that riles up a reliable political constituency and serves as a bludgeon in the culture war.
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Although legislative politics sometimes resembles a combat sport, where one side must bludgeon the other for a victory, the two are fundamentally different.
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Rather than reach out to allies, he wants to bludgeon many of them, even as he has shown a disturbing affinity for tyrants.
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And each proof would reveal why a theorem was true; AlphaInfinity wouldn't merely bludgeon you into accepting it with some ugly, difficult argument.
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Wawrinka used his most important weapon, his devastating one-handed backhand, as bludgeon and scalpel through the three-and-a-half-hour match.
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And I think you are going to see (Trump) use this as a political bludgeon," Sims told CNN's Alisyn Camerota on "New Day.
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In fairness to Trump, the immigration bludgeon was effective once — for two reasons that played out in surprising ways across the 2016 campaign.
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Her biggest success, diplomats say, has been to engage with the United Nations system, rather than to bludgeon it, as many had feared.
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According to the police report first obtained by NJ.com, Beckert allegedly used the knife and the heavy wooden drawer to stab and bludgeon Cullinan.
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As a result, the cab industry has doubled down, using local insurance requirements and other regulatory clubs to continue to bludgeon Uber and Lyft.
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Mueller is required to produce a public expense report every six months, giving critics repeated opportunities to bludgeon the special counsel with his budget.
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But while the movement is gaining strength, it has also drawn attention from the right, which has seized on it to bludgeon the Democrats.
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China uses its economic might to bludgeon its way on the world stage, for instance, while Russia has prioritized opportunistic harassment and covert attacks.
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But for now, the President appears content to use Mueller's conclusion that neither he nor his aides cooperated with Russia as a political bludgeon.
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Republicans in the General Assembly would not have to worry about Mr. Cooper using the controversial law to raise money and bludgeon them rhetorically.
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His nuanced approach and self-effacing visual style give you room to breathe and to think; he doesn't try to bludgeon you into feeling.
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"Sometimes if a weapon is used, there's castoff patterns you get as you bludgeon somebody," Ms. Smith continued, illuminating the scene with her flashlight.
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The UK's requirement is one of the first countrywide attempts at using public transparency and accountability as a bludgeon against the stubborn gender wage gap.
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Animal lovers find trophy hunting horrifying, and the animal-rights movement finds in the grizzly bear a charismatic victim with which to bludgeon hunting generally.
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They bludgeon and stamp on counter-protesters, who scramble and care for the fallen, including Heather Heyer, struck and killed by a white supremacist's car.
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Clinton's supporters desperately wanted her to savage Mr. Trump, over and over, to bludgeon him with his own fallacious words and messy record in business.
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For anyone who actually wants to work to resolve the immigration issue — not just use it to bludgeon the other side — I have a plan.
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The bedrock of this was a sense that those in power do not listen and will bludgeon the electorate until they get their own way.
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It was a variation on one of his favorite themes that he has used to bludgeon rivals, from Ms. Nixon to Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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That could come from the spark of the Apple-FBI standoff over mobile encryption (or that Apple likes to bludgeon its mobile rival about its security).
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His inaugural message seems quaint today, as politicians, operatives, and commentators bludgeon each other and impute the worst possible motives to those on the other side.
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Amin's death squads sometimes forced people to bludgeon each other to death, or shot or dismembered them, according to his obituary in The New York Times.
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Predictably, the promised avalanche of jobs coming back to the U.S. has not materialized, cornering Trump using tariffs as a bludgeon to deliver on his promise.
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The clearest example of this is the invocation of "freedom of speech" as a bludgeon for pushing extreme-right ideology into the center of public discourse.
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The feminists were less concerned with Hill's humiliation than with using her as a bludgeon to block a justice who would be devastating on women's rights.
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It's an effort to burnish her appeal as a can't-be-bought candidate with deep grassroots support, a point of pride she used to bludgeon Buttigieg.
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Those neo-Nazis are a joy to bludgeon—kicking to death a racist, in a junkyard, is as encapsulating a snapshot of Manhunt you could ask for.
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Macho shock and awe can easily be found elsewhere in the culture: too many orchestras these days bludgeon the ears with an approximation of Dolby cineplex sound.
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Every hall is shrouded in darkness, and behind every door could be life saving potions and weaponry, or a gang of emus to bludgeon you to death.
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From Albany to Washington, Republicans pounced on the conviction to bludgeon Mr. Cuomo ahead of this year's re-election campaign and a possible presidential run in 2020.
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Beyond that, it appears that Trump tried to use the threat of auto tariffs to bludgeon European nations into backing him up in his confrontation with Iran.
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Make a token effort to have the report released, then bludgeon the President politically for the next two years by railing against what the administration is hiding.
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Republicans ramped up their rhetoric in Iowa, but Sanders -- who has refused to bludgeon Clinton with the email controversy -- once again took a pass on the issue.
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Bludgeon is an amusing movie thanks to its four main characters, their wit and their stories, but crucially, Deere and Heron approach the actual combat with utmost seriousness.
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In resisting the urge to turn every knob to 11 and bludgeon the audience into aural submission, Gridfailure has conjured up something that is both unpredictable and unnerving.
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Legislators, armed with the crude and injudicious Congressional Review Act, are determined to bludgeon a slate of environmental regulations issued in the final months of the Obama administration.
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He sorted the homicides by type, since he had been told that serial killers often strangle or bludgeon their victims, apparently because they prefer to prolong the encounter.
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There's nothing healthy for society or speech if mainstream platforms sit on their hands while abusive users bludgeon, bully and bend public debate into a peculiarly intolerant shape.
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Ms. Bibi's case has drawn worldwide condemnation and calls for overturning Pakistan's blasphemy law, which in effect has been used by extremists as a bludgeon against religious minorities.
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A settlement might also spark more attacks from the president, who has shown a proclivity to bludgeon companies he does not like, like technology corporations and news organizations.
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" The transformation is remarkable: HANNITY, March 9: "This scaring the living hell out of people -- I see it, again, as like, let's bludgeon Trump with this new hoax.
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Republican budget hawks will need to decide whether they want to stick to the arguments of fiscal responsibility that they used to bludgeon Democrats during the Obama era.
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It&aposs an effort to burnish her appeal as a can&apost-be-bought candidate with deep grassroots support, a point of pride she used to bludgeon Buttigieg.
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As they hack and bludgeon each other in the revamped arena, we can reminisce about the good old days, and shed a tear thinking of times gone by.
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In their drama class at school was Martainn Cuff, who would go on to be one of the main subjects in Bludgeon, and essentially got the whole project going.
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If your favorite wrestler is a Bayley or a Ziggler, if you adore off the wall tag teams like the Bludgeon Brothers or Breezango, they may be in trouble.
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It's true that the President of the United States has used it as a weapon to bludgeon us from the White House, the most powerful purge in the world.
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They get down after dinner, dancing as if there'd never been a Bonnie or a Hapstall Mansion or a trophy used to bludgeon her husband to death last year.
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But it has also offered tools with which to bludgeon his business adversaries or — as he is accused of doing during the 2016 presidential campaign — to bury unflattering stories.
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The Trump administration is already attempting to use the federal courts as a bludgeon to invalidate popular progressive laws that could not be repealed through the normal legislative process.
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Former Housing Secretary Julián Castro, who is also competing for the party's nomination in 2020, had seized on the quote to bludgeon Buttigieg online, but retracted his attack Monday.
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It seems facts don't matter, or more precisely, facts are inconvenient if they can use the story as a political bludgeon to smear all conservatives and Republicans as racists.
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Artists who ritually engage with cruelty see that engagement as a form of truthfulness — a way to be frank; a way to honor the reader, not to bludgeon her.
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The ideal of neutrality, he shows, has been used both by the center to marginalize radical voices and by the right as a bludgeon to quiet and discredit its critics.
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But standing in his way is Donald Trump, who now must bludgeon his was to 1,237 locked-down delegates or face an almost certain prospect of being denied the nomination.
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Socialist Party No. 2 Diosdado Cabello always ends his weekly TV show "Bashing With The Bludgeon" with a section broadcasting reports the "patriots" compile about opposition politicians, activists and journalists.
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For Trump, the presidency is a raw tool he has used to achieve political power, and the office is a partisan bludgeon to keep the other side on the defense.
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Reddit likes to talk about the values of free speech — but a lot of times what you see is people using "free speech" as a bludgeon to shout down opposition.
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President Trump's decision to take to Twitter and digitally bludgeon the House Freedom Caucus earlier today was a mistake on numerous levels — but also a clever move in one lone respect.
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We see Cunanan in the days leading up to the murder of Versace, then we see him bludgeon Lee Miglin (Mike Farrell), a prominent Chicago real estate developer, in Miglin's garage.
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GOP lawmakers defended the proposal, arguing that former officials generally keep the security clearance so they can advise current government officials on policy — not to bludgeon the administration with political attacks.
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" Clovis labeled racism as "the most pernicious 'ism,'" and said that then-President Barack Obama "uses his self-identified race as a bludgeon to assault anyone who might disagree with him.
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But the timing, discipline, and altruism within it are exquisite examples of a methodical system that doesn't bludgeon the defense so much as wait for it to deteriorate on its own.
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Though the Republican Party seems to think it can use the Abolish ICE movement against Democrats everywhere, the idea that it will provide a bludgeon in the midterm is a phantom.
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If President Trump's shock-and-awe attack on truth, decorum and liberal sensibilities is intended to bludgeon his opponents into submission, "Saturday Night Live" felt like his latest victim this weekend.
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So if you just compare that, those two things, you realize how the narrative of electability acts as a bludgeon for campaigns who are trying to gain momentum in this environment.
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Washington (CNN)Former White House aide Cliff Sims suggested Monday President Donald Trump may use the findings of special counsel Robert Mueller's report as a "political bludgeon" against Democratic presidential candidates.
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"I went up and down areas with a cosh [a bludgeon], hoping I'd be approached by somebody — I'm ashamed to say that," he told the Independent in an interview published on Monday.
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Railroad spikes aren't meant to be used as an edge tool but it's cool to see Sorrells bludgeon the crude spike into a pretty awesome knife with a coil for a grip.
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New research shows that the ads bankrolled by those outside groups with the vague, patriotic names are an almost foolproof way to bludgeon any opponent without generating any blowback for the candidate.
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You can't, for example, just bludgeon your flatmate to death with an egg-poaching pan because she happened to leave the fridge door open overnight and then claim you're a misunderstood genius.
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If he can cut down on turnovers, continue to bludgeon the offensive glass, and keep opposing big men in foul trouble, Monroe may have use after all in an unexpected postseason run.
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And they will fail to remove President Trump from office when all is said and done, instead delivering him to a perch of exoneration from which he will bludgeon them for weeks.
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Their only other option is to risk another shutdown dragging out and Republicans continuing to bludgeon them for holding the government hostage over what the GOP has repeatedly claimed is an unrelated issue.
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"You could just bludgeon back in the day and get high volleys," Bob Bryan, who together with his twin brother Mike Bryan has won 16 grand slam titles including three Wimbledons, told Reuters.
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Round three, finally, saw the two blood-crazed light heavyweights meet in the center of the Octagon and bludgeon each other with looping hooks, rocket-fuelled uppercuts and even a few spinning attacks.
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Diallo, who was released from police custody on Wednesday, allegedly used a tire iron to bludgeon 43-year-old Earl Nash in the hallway of his Washington Avenue apartment building in the Bronx.
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Keuchel stays perfect, Astros bludgeon Rangers ARLINGTON, Texas — Things are going so well for the Houston Astros right now that they're making things look easy even in places where they've had no success.
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To be fair, Barea and Nowitzki bludgeon everyone to death in the pick-and-roll, but the Pacers are still allowing an abysmal 110 points per 100 possessions through their first three games.
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Like the nation as a whole, the State of Mexico has also been wrestling with rising violence and unremitting corruption, which Mr. del Mazo's opponents have used to bludgeon him and his party.
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By rising above partisan politics, we can transform the Antiquities Act from an executive bludgeon into an effective tool for safeguarding the environment, protecting archaeological sites and securing the future of rural communities.
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One doesn't necessarily have to take sides on the companies themselves to wonder whether this is effectively just Facebook being able to use its titanic market share to bludgeon competitors out of the marketplace.
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It's hard to believe I used to wander around this city, subway map in hand, completely unaware that people were using sleek little rectangles to absolutely bludgeon each other with subtle but pointed cruelties.
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But the minority has calculated that it's the best move they have, rather than risk a shutdown dragging out and Republicans continuing to bludgeon them for refusing to approve a six-year CHIP extension.
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In the year since Donald Trump was elected President of the United States of America, he and his cohorts have used "fake news" as the political weapon with which to bludgeon us into submission.
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But people involved in the resolution of the banana wars told me that the Trump administration was drawing the wrong conclusion if it thought it could bludgeon America's allies by unilaterally imposing punishing tariffs.
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The Liberal Democrats have promised to bludgeon the Conservatives with the specter of a "hard Brexit," in which Britain would leave the European Union's single market and customs union without a mitigating trade agreement.
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For most of American history, land was a bludgeon used against the bodies of black people, who were forced to work it to raise tobacco, rice and cotton while being deprived of that bounty.
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Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S. Navy has been able to use its carriers to bludgeon weaker enemies, approaching close enough to launch air strikes, confident that the giant warships are untouchable.
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At the other end of the scale, this broken device is a low-tech assault weapon from the fourth-season episode "Arkangel," where a teenager named Sara uses it to bludgeon her overprotective mother Marie.
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"The dot plot previously called for three hikes in 2018; it is a close call whether this moves to four hikes," he warned, a shift that would likely boost the dollar but could bludgeon bonds.
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But exercising that prerogative makes it easier for mega-wealthy conservatives to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to lethally bludgeon both Clinton's candidacy and the progressive agenda to which Sanders has devoted his career.
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"I think it was used a lot of times by the government as a sort of threat that would be hanging over a defendant's head, to essentially bludgeon them into taking a plea," she said.
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In Puerto Rico, the Harvard study is viewed by the political opposition to the current pro-statehood administration as a blunt instrument with which to bludgeon it with for its lack of transparency and competency.
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Harrison's work for The Podesta Group could further complicate the party's push to resonate with voters wary of Washington insiders — and could eventually be used as a bludgeon by critics if his bid gains steam.
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But while I have my favorites—Nightbeat, Hardhead, Galvatron, Bludgeon, Grimlock, all of whom I feel there's a lot of "me" invested in how they've developed over the years—there are really no bad characters.
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This isn't the passive, solitary grief of classic Beyonce tracks like "Listen" or "Halo" – this is unapologetic rage and destruction: the kind that wants to bludgeon through the straight-faced restraint, unleashing the carnage beneath.
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But interiority remains scant for these handmaids, who are mostly silent figures, important only when the show is poised to bludgeon us with another empty girl-power message like the closing scenes of Episode 4.
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The House had passed a repeal bill in May, and Democrats have used the vote as a bludgeon against vulnerable Republicans by highlighting the millions of people estimated to lose health insurance under the proposal.
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The acknowledgment of a quid pro quo is an explosive shift that threatens to upend claims by the president's allies that military aid was not used as a bludgeon to advance his domestic political interests.
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It is now turning its attention to young campaigners who wave the same Marxist flag as the party, but who use it in defence of society's underdogs rather than as a bludgeon against the party's critics.
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"I'd say the dynamic is to get people to act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest, and there's nobody in a position to bludgeon anybody into changing their behavior right now," the U.S. diplomat said.
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Yet national Democrats running for office seem to cower in fear of the NRA and other pro-gun activists, worrying that support for even modest gun regulations can be used as a bludgeon in red districts.
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Some of Mr. Trump's most ardent defenders in the House sit on the committees and used the investigation as a bludgeon on behalf of the president and to declare the Mueller investigation woefully biased against him.
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Participating in a hate group's hate rally using racial slurs, where people in uniform with white-group insignia target one of the few black male protesters and bludgeon him, have all the elements of hate crimes.
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Trump's "no collusion" assertion now appears to have been confirmed by the special counsel, and it's a message that Trump and congressional Republicans are sure to use to bludgeon Democrats heading into the 2020 campaign season.
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His final WWE appearance -- assuming he doesn't mount a post-politics comeback -- was an Extreme Rules SmackDown Live tag team championship match, which he and partner Daniel Bryan lost to the Bludgeon Brothers, according to Bleacher Report.
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Mueller is required to produce a public expense report every six months — the first report is currently winding its way through a Justice Department review — giving critics repeated opportunities to bludgeon the special counsel with his budget.
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But that is not our president: His rhetoric is a bludgeon, and what we saw last night was just an attempt to club his enemies and critics with the same arguments he's made a thousand times before.
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The problem is a lot of folks, they have an issue with the style in which Trump is doing it and some of the tactics that he&aposs using, that he&aposs just using tariffs as a bludgeon.
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Shaw's homer, 24-run fifth propel Brewers past Mets MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Brewers' offense can bludgeon opponents with home runs or they can run up a pitcher's pitch count with a string of singles, doubles and small-ball.
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Less than a week after delivering a State of the Union address extending an olive branch, the president of the United States has used it to try to bludgeon an opponent, this time tweeting a smear against Rep.
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But his chances for national office were viewed as diminished by his decision, after leaving office, to work for Bain Capital, the same firm that Democrats used to bludgeon Romney in his own bid for president in 2012.
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Like many things Johnson did, the goal was to bludgeon a political opponent, in this case a rival in a primary who had the backing of nonprofit groups that were campaigning against him by suggesting he was a communist.
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While Mr. Bush raised less money for his campaign in the last quarter of 2015, the super PAC supporting him, Right to Rise, had $59 million on hand at year's end, and likely has enough remaining to bludgeon other Republicans.
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There were a few outliers—notably Gorgeous George, whose use of "Pomp and Circumstance" served to bludgeon the 1950s audience over the head with the idea that his character was effete, snooty, and maybe gay—but they really were outliers.
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Instead, he's telling us how great a job he is doing; how he would bludgeon business into doing what he wants; and how, if certain governors don't play nice with him, it will be a problem (which he denies he said).
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The first movement, which reflects Mr. Corigliano's anguish over the death of a pianist friend, begins with a nasal-twanged, persistent note that drives itself into your head, until slashing percussion and steely brass bludgeon it, if only for a moment.
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Several winners received cash prizes in dollars for showing the president in the white robes of the Ku Klux Klan, sharing a Time magazine cover with Adolf Hitler, or as Captain America wielding the Statue of Liberty as a bludgeon.
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But they insisted that to truly exploit it, Mr. Trump needed to do something he had been incapable of in the past: strictly follow instructions, let a story unfold on its own and resist the urge to endlessly bludgeon his rival.
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House passage alone of H.R.1 did not necessarily put them much closer to tighter ethics rules or less corporate money in politics; it mostly meant creating the first really big bludgeon that Democrats could use to attack Republicans as obstructionists.
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A recent broadside in The Chronicle of Higher Education called "The Digital-Humanities Bust" took a bludgeon to the field's revolutionary rhetoric, with Mr. Moretti among those accused of issuing a stream of vague "promissory notes" for results that never arrive.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hunter Biden, son of former vice president and leading Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, defended his overseas work in his first television interview after months of political attacks, but expressed regret over how it has been used to bludgeon his father.
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" Neeson continued, "I went up and down areas with a cosh [bludgeon], hoping I'd be approached by somebody — I'm ashamed to say that … hoping some 'black bastard' would come out of a pub and have a go at me about something, you know?
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They're paired with a "safety lanyard," although if the Gear VR (which is quite heavy) somehow slips off my head on a fast-moving object under tremendous centripetal force, I might rather see it fall than have a high-tech bludgeon whipping around.
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Where other fantasy series attempt to bludgeon the audience into enjoyment with showy visual effects and epic set pieces bankrolled by massive budgets, The Magicians, stuck on basic cable as it is, relies on ingenuity and emotional adroitness to save the day.
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Democrats are trying to "use the shutdown to bludgeon, once again, President Trump and the Republicans politically — even though, when you look at the facts and the truth, they have nothing to do with this," Fox's Sean Hannity (falsely) claimed on his show.
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"The First Amendment right of free speech does not entitle a speaker to use that right repeatedly to bludgeon, for weeks and years at a time, in the same location," the 85-page lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for Eastern Michigan states.
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If Cambodians go abroad and do not fulfill their obligations to their host state, they would face the same action, he said, quoted by Fresh News -- a media outlet branded "a bludgeon for the ruling party" by The Phnom Penh Post, another English daily.
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From the beginning of the 2016 presidential campaign season back in the summer of 85033, when Trump announced his run for the Oval Office, he used the issue of immigration and border security as a blunt object with which to bludgeon his own Republican counterparts.
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Knowing he has the authority to impose these tariffs, Trump has decided to use them as a tool to bludgeon our trading partners with; in this case, to coerce them into doing what we want on non-trade policies, such as migration and drug smuggling.
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And not use the art form as some kind of political bludgeon, but also not be naïve and pretend that these aren't issues that are affecting people's lives in very real ways, and that they aren't looking to their heroes to make a stand.
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News Analysis WASHINGTON — As the United States reimposes severe economic sanctions on Iran early Monday, President Trump is placing a series of bets that he can not only change Iran's behavior, but also use American economic power to bludgeon reluctant allies into joining him.
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Hannity, who hosts the top-rated television program on cable news, told his millions of viewers on Wednesday night that Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was using the possibility of a coronavirus outbreak in the United States as a way to "bludgeon" Trump.
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But the past is filled with examples of ISPs wielding their advantage as network gatekeepers as a bludgeon, and critics say it won't take long before they use that power to reduce choice, raise rates, and bully their way to the top of the streaming heap.
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Facebook's enormous reach and privacy-related issues have prompted regulators to bludgeon Facebook with questions on compliance with laws and regulations; Binance, which was founded in China but has since moved to Malta, probably won't have to deal with such issues — at least not right away.
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The mistress of Patrick Frazee became pregnant and then aborted his child more than two years before he pressured her to clean up a bloody scene where he allegedly used a baseball bat to bludgeon to death his still-missing fiancée Kelsey Berreth, the woman testified Wednesday.
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Many internet policy experts, including Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, call such fear-based claims blatantly false, but that hasn't stopped Cruz and his allies from using the issue as a political weapon to bludgeon President Obama, who supports the transition.
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As a word, "caravan" is a politically expedient bludgeon, part of a decades-long project started by anti-immigrant groups (NumbersUSA, Center for Immigration Studies and Federation for American Immigration Reform, to name a few) using dehumanizing vocabulary to describe immigrants in nefarious, fear-inducing ways.
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Shapovalov, who earned a spot in the Open main draw through qualifying, has a strong serve and a rock-solid one-handed backhand, but he looks to dominate points with his best shot, an inside-out lefty forehand that he used to bludgeon the Nadal backhand.
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Amusingly set to the tune of War's 1975 hit "Why Can't We Be Friends?" the trailer contrasts the styles of the American Hobbs, who declares, "I'm an ice-cold can of whup-ass," and the British Shaw, who uses a champagne bottle to bludgeon bad guys.
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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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It's as if SNL is unable to see the real woman, whose need to bludgeon everything that pops up in front of her with talking points and demonstrable falsities is genuinely, unnervingly hilarious, because to see the real her might require pretending all of this is really happening.
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Kafka's contradictory striving for and disavowal of collective belonging, what he called his "we-weakness," makes for instructive reading in our own era of renewed tribal polarization — in which group identity is frequently defined in axiomatic and exclusionary terms, the better to be used as a bludgeon against others.
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Kendall, Roman, Shiv — all of these characters want so badly to be loved by a man who is only capable of trying to bludgeon them (occasionally literally) into a form that is more pleasing to him, which is to say a form that is more subservient to him.
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Meanwhile, the Trump administration will spend its first months on trade policy attempting to bludgeon Mexico and Canada into "updating" the North American Free Trade Agreement, all the while ignoring the fact that the U.S. had already achieved a 21st-century, state-of-the-art North American agreement in the TPP.
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"This scaring the living hell out of people — I see it, again, as like, let's bludgeon Trump with this new hoax," Hannity said during his March 227 broadcast, during a segment in which he downplayed the risk of coronavirus to everyone except for people with compromised immune systems and older individuals.
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WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Hunter Biden, son of former vice president and leading Democratic contender in the 2020 race for the White House Joe Biden, defended his overseas work in his first television interview after months of political attacks, but expressed regret over how it has been used to bludgeon his father.
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They are now seeing, as millions of Trump voters did two years ago, that these institutions and so many others have been captured and completely hollowed out by the political left, so that they can be used to advance progressive desires and weaponized to bludgeon any person who gets in their way.
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Democrats' threat to shut down the government — the sort of intransigence adopted by Republicans in the recent past — indicates their willingness to use the few tools available to them to block legislation next year, when possible, and to bludgeon Republicans with populist issues on which they share common ground with Mr. Trump.
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Victoria Scalisi's vocals bridged a gap between grindcore, punk, doom and sludge in a way that few singers could hope to do, precisely because she didn't give a thought to bending to the conventions of genre so much as tearing holes in them to bludgeon DAMAD audience and/or general listenership as directly as possible.
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Mr. Trump's decision to use trade as a bludgeon against Mexico was driven in part by his obsession with stopping what he falsely calls an invasion of the country and in part by a desire to satisfy his core supporters, many of who have grown angry at his inability to build his promised border wall.
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With subpoena power and a demonstrated distaste for all things Clinton, the Republican Congress could use this issue as a political bludgeon for several more years and divert attention away from Clinton's legislative agenda, and there is nothing the Democrats can do to stop it, short of winning control of both houses of Congress, which is unlikely.
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But as I read the transcript of the oral argument on the injunction, the Justice Department believes the executive order was little more than political grandstanding - and that the executive branch doesn't have a constitutional right to wield Congress-approved federal funding to states and cities as a bludgeon to beat them into compliance with its policies.
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It was part of an exhaustive revisiting of evidence that took place in 2002, when Matias Reyes, a murderer and serial rapist serving 33 years to life for other crimes, got word to the district attorney's office that he — and he alone — had struck the jogger as she ran, and dragged her off the road to rape and bludgeon.
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CHIP has become a political football in the shutdown showdown: House Republicans attached a six-year extension of the funding bill after Congress had left the program without long-term funding for four months, in an attempt to win over Democrats — or to bludgeon them for failing to support the bill over other issues like immigration.
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The post-election, pre-presidential Donald Trump has used social media with the same abandon as his campaign self -- yes, to get his message out, unfiltered by the media he loathes, but also as a bludgeon against critics, a tool for disseminating misinformation and, as he nears the inaugural, an outlet for breeding confusion in business and international relations, purposefully or not.
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By deploying tariffs as a bludgeon against whatever he doesn't like, Trump is returning America to the kind of irresponsibility it displayed after World War I — irresponsibility that, while obviously not the sole or even the main cause of the Great Depression, the rise of fascism and the eventual coming of World War II, helped create the environment for these disasters.
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In fact, most of the scenes involving sexual humor — like one in which silly string is a stand-in for an enormous quantity of a certain ejaculatory bodily fluid — seem to have been edited with the knowledge that this situation is way less funny than it should be, and therefore the scene has to be extended as long as possible to bludgeon us into finally laughing.
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Oh, Meryl, here you were celebrating Hollywood, which not even a year ago was trying to explain to the world why all 20 of the actors nominated for Academy Awards that year were white, and you chose to use MMA as the cultural bludgeon to prove your point, when all along MMA has been exemplifying the very values and virtues you were exhorting us to celebrate.
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The company's development workflow involves finding a programmer writing exactly the right code for a project, planting cameras in their apartment to capture their typing, sending one of NURV's own employees to bludgeon the programmer to death, framing a local gang, storing camera footage of the murder on a database secretly located in a day care center, then passing the deeply suspicious code to another employee that it recruited through a months-long honeypot operation.
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Sondland, a key witness in the impeachment inquiry, has revised his testimony to reveal that he told a top Ukrainian official that hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to the U.S. ally would "likely" be held up unless the country's government announced the investigations — an explosive shift that threatens to upend claims by the president's allies that military aid was not used as a bludgeon to advance his domestic political interests.
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" Fairstein also alleges that many additional victims were injured in the park riot that night, "including two men who were beaten so savagely that they required hospitalization for head injuries," and that one of the five teens (Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, Korey Wise and Antron McCray) arrested for Meili's rape was carrying a "14-inch metal pipe — the same type of weapon that was used to bludgeon both a male schoolteacher and Ms. Meili.
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Click here to view original GIFFrom Sam O'Nella, here's an amusing look at some of the weird, creative, and deeply sinister weapons used during the Medieval period, when castles and knights and dragons existed (oh wait): the six-story tall super giant Warwolf trebuchet, used to bludgeon castles to bits; Greek Fire flamethrowers that basically burned everyone and everything; and a terrible use of pigeons and sparrows and their nests to light an entire city on fire.
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Supporters say that change would prevent a small group of detractors from using threats to "vacate the chair" as a bludgeon to keep certain bills — even popular bipartisan ones — from being considered, as the far-right House Freedom Caucus has done under both Ryan and his predecessor, John BoehnerJohn Andrew BoehnerLobbyists race to cash in on cannabis boom Rising star Ratcliffe faces battle to become Trump's intel chief This little engine delivers results for DC children MORE (R-Ohio).
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It's all worth it though if you've got that sweet sweet campaign cash ready to be deployed to bludgeon poor unsuspecting Iowans just trying to watch Sean SpicerSean Michael SpicerEx-Trump officials met with Zelensky campaign aides at Trump hotel earlier this year: report Krystal Ball: Biden's third quarter fundraising numbers are 'pathetic' White House press secretary defends lack of daily briefings: Trump 'is the most accessible president in history' MORE humiliate himself on Dancing with the Stars.
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Either Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerMueller report fades from political conversation Trump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony MORE has the case of the century, tons of incriminating emails, and is now close to unveiling the collusion with the Russians that has been so widely repeated, or the special counsel investigation has come up empty handed, and he is now trying to bludgeon peripheral figures into plea deals to give the appearance of collusion.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE is likely to use special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerMueller report fades from political conversation Trump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony MORE's report as a "political bludgeon" against Democrats in the 2020 election, a former White House aide told CNN on Monday.
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