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People were cowering, they were very fearful for their lives.
He even belittled fellow Republicans for cowering to the NRA.
Afterward, seeing me cowering and bleeding, he'd cry and apologize.
Now Carter and her friends were cowering in a bathroom stall.
Instead of cowering before his father, Jesus stands up for himself.
The elected officials are pretty much universally in a cowering position.
But cowering in the dark places of our minds doesn't help.
We first see her covered in blood and cowering in a bathtub.
Ms. Tynan recounts cowering as crockery is smashed, insults flung, pasta chucked.
Chants of "Becky, Becky" thundered as she stood over a cowering Charlotte.
He also repeated without evidence claims that Baghdadi died cowering in fear.
Cowering students used cellphones to report what they had seen or heard.
When Aleyda saw her mother, she seemed "scared" and "cowering," the clerk alleges.
On Saturday, the army found 60 civilians cowering in a basement in Mesraba.
I will be accused of taking money or cowering for fear of retribution.
Breivik finds Viljar cowering with others on a cliff ledge and opens fire.
They also found two women cowering in one of the home's five bathrooms.
If you limp into battle cowering and afraid, you are destined to lose.
"Didn't I?" he asked his aides who, in cowering unison, confirmed he had.
It's not a cowering, timid fear; it's more a dark, resentful porcupine fear.
Residents on both sides spent the weekend cowering under rocket fire and air strikes.
If they worried then, the politics should have them cowering now — and it does.
Nor do traditional economic indicators, like consumer spending, show evidence of a cowering population.
But President Trump put a stop to this cycle of American cowering and capitulation.
"We're not cowering in fear of what Governor Cuomo will come up with next."
Ron Wyden (D-Ore) accused the president of "cowering" in front of Kim, while Sen.
One internee is seen screaming while lying on her side cowering beneath a wooden bench.
And they hate this cowering before the Democrats in the media over government shut downs.
One video showed officers with guns drawn, rushing into a classroom full of cowering students.
From the beginning, however, they refused to play the role of the cowering sideshow exhibit.
It's all quite odd, this moral impotence, this cowering before the belligerent, would-be king.
He shot patrons on the dance floor and sprayed bullets at others cowering in bathroom stalls.
It'll even decorate the place with cheery landscapes so you can enjoy paradise while cowering underground.
Ray Sefo used this one out of frustration against a cowering Bob Sapp in K-1.
Instead of cowering after a White House scandal broadcast Bill Clinton's infidelities around the world, Mrs.
But, cowering before Mr. Trump, they have been virtually silent as he has undermined America's alliances.
"If everyone else is cowering in a corner, you may have a whole car to yourself."
And it's not a true thing, but Facebook spent the summer cowering from that report. Yes.
The men were cowering on the ground and not offering any resistance to the police, he said.
After Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, Sean Spicer courageously confronted reporters by cowering amongst the bushes.
It depicts a white man tied up, his mouth covered, cowering in a corner of the room.
We were all once wee 22-year-olds, terrified and cowering in fear of our higher-ups.
In a beastly world, you're no safer cowering in a dog carrier than you are behind bars.
Still, I found entire families cowering in their hovels in Alemão as the fighting raged around them.
They did not pause to clear out the dozen children in the daycare cowering beside their teachers.
"The Mouse's Tale" presents male nudes cut out from fitness magazines and arranged into a cowering figure.
Bernie Sanders also accused Trump and McConnell of cowering when faced with the power of the NRA.
He gunned down patrons on the dance floor and sprayed bullets at others cowering in bathroom stalls.
But he's clearly not; he's presented as a struggling, cowering teenager just coming into his own power.
In a subsequent flashback, we see Bernard cowering in a barn with Charlotte Hale (Tessa Thompson) and hosts.
Other cadets spoke of jumping out of windows and cowering under beds as the attackers hunted them down.
The youngest son was cowering on the ground as the father kicked him repeatedly, treating him like trash.
We all know the cliché: The teenage girl suffers through a horror movie, while cowering behind her boyfriend.
So, to vote against his party's cowering congressional caucuses is to affirm the nation's honor while quarantining him.
No duck and cover for him, and no chance that he would end up hitting a cowering bystander.
Now and then there is a frightening roar overhead, the sound of the world, that sends them cowering.
While we're busy cowering over sharks and arachnids, they maul about 20 of us to death each year.
After opening the car, police find the second dog, who is cowering under the seat to avoid direct sunlight.
So, to vote against his party&aposs cowering congressional caucuses is to affirm the nation's honor while quarantining him.
Another, in February, showed a woman cowering on the ground after getting hounded for wearing athletic wear and sneakers.
It became our war, producing iconic pictures of U.S. soldiers kicking down doors and pointing guns at cowering women.
The cast and crew worked long nights, and Hamilton spent much of her role cowering or on the run.
Republicans pounced on the incident, calling it the latest example of Obama cowering in the face of Iranian aggression.
So to vote against his party&aposs cowering congressional caucuses is to affirm the nation&aposs honor while quarantining him.
In fact, even your favorite animated features can have you cowering in utter terror thanks to these fan-made trailers.
David Brooks Members of the Republican governing class are like cowering freshmen at halftime of a high school football game.
In the background, the camera zooms in on a Dease painting of a little boy cowering before an older man.
Rather than cowering in fear however, the kids on board celebrated the occasion with the saving power of the dab.
"Because of him, we starved ... We lived on flour and water for months, cowering in our basements," said Abu Omran.
Bob Corker accused his party of cowering before President Donald Trump in an impassioned speech on the Senate floor Tuesday.
The video showed the 18-year-old cowering in the corner of a room with his mouth bound in plastic.
He fired at two men cowering behind a beverage machine and then went outside, where he fired at several pedestrians.
A partially nude young woman, covering herself with a bright red pillow, is cowering in the corner of a bedroom.
Inside the company's stockyard, he found an enclosure of baby cows and lambs cowering in the corners of their pens.
The disturbing 30-minute video shows a man tied up and his mouth covered, cowering in the corner of a room.
Instead, Cersei died afraid, cowering under the Red Keep with her brother and lover, Jaime, as the structure crushed them swiftly.
On and on they go: the ceaseless pacing and rocking and screaming, the corner-cowering, self-plucking and broken-record remembrances.
Her roommate is cowering in their shower and reveals that their apartment is plagued by bed bugs, every New Yorker's nightmare.
The video, released by police, shows several people cowering under a bar and couples embracing before a man enters the room.
I'm ready for us to believe in doing things the right way and not being afraid and cowering in the corner.
The episode later comes back to this opening incident in order to track how Celeste ended up cowering on the floor.
Cops just released video showing the deputy who was allegedly cowering outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High when the shots started flying.
If history is any indication, when the moment demands greatness, Trump is cowering under the covers, tweeting about some minor slight.
When we voiced other beliefs, cowering Republicans handed us the condescending, inclusive language they'd adopted to adapt to the Obama era.
Sanaa residents reported intense fighting overnight and into the morning with families cowering in their homes as explosions rocked the city.
Helicopters and drones circled above the hotel for hours while guests hid inside, many cowering under beds or in toilet stalls.
Meanwhile, the public is entirely disempowered, cowering in fear of evil intruders or whipped up into a frenzy by unscrupulous demagogues.
Still cowering under a desk, Aziz thought it was all over, when police stormed in after banging loudly on the doors.
"Understand this," Mr. Hamdo, who said his wife and small daughter were cowering in their apartment with him, wrote on Twitter.
Ninety minutes later, it was in Paradise, and thousands found themselves scrambling to escape, abandoning cars and cowering in lakes to survive.
The video, released by the NYPD, shows several people cowering under a bar and couples embracing before a man enters the room.
Soon after the clashes began, a grimacing and cowering Kumar was escorted onto the court premises on foot by a few policemen.
I'm Jamieson, I'm still your host, and I spent this week cowering in fear of a surprise drop from the 6 God.
At home or internationally, no one wants to be seen as publicly backing down to an ultimatum or cowering before a bully.
The bombings shook the ground, left residents cowering in their homes and made streets impassable, according to anti-government activists in Aleppo.
"If Team U.S.A. was as fearful as Trump," she said, "Michael Phelps and Simone Biles would be cowering in the locker room."
Gary lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired off a volley of shots into the field where his wife was cowering.
Red wasn't Stura's only passenger: the rescuer also discovered three skinny, mange-covered puppies cowering on the side of a North Carolina road.
The cartoon princess greets the "blacksmith with his daughter-wife" and chats gaily with Jews who are cowering for cover in the forest.
Japan, cowering under a mammoth public-debt pile, is weighing raising its consumption tax, though the last rise strangled a tenuous economic recovery.
The kids then start getting rowdy, using Trump to knock down a toy house as their parents look on, cowering, around the corner.
They're often mixed quickly and amateurishly, with DJ drops drowning out entire songs and too-quiet, unmastered beats cowering under the rapper's voice.
A pack of women all taking their tops off in a club, me cowering because they are all sweaty and rubbing against me.
A woman, cowering in a corner with a black eye, would say she fell into a doorknob, while her partner loomed over her.
An Associated Press photograph of the terrified child, cowering as an officer in riot gear points an assault rifle, inflamed passions even more.
His popularity so invincible, he should have a red cape and an "S" on his chest — and the GOP establishment types are cowering.
A survivor told of cowering for hours in a bathroom stall — and hearing two people hiding in the next one being shot dead.
And we have found them cowering in the corner of a delivery box, instead of taking part in our $22 avocado toast orders.
When global warming burns the planet to a crisp and we're left cowering within great underground caves, what's your day-to-day meal?
My mum came back from the theatre to find me on the sofa cowering in fear alone with shitty pants, grandad still asleep.
The murderer and the victim are on opposite sides of the dark hallway, one cowering in fear, the other lifting a bloody hatchet.
When his white classmates accept him into their circle, he sheds his cowering school-nerd persona and gives in to a budding courage.
But later eyewitnesses stated that Harris found her cowering under a table, said "Peekaboo," and then shot her, without Bernall uttering a word.
As scary as extremist anti-abortion terrorism can be, cowering in silence and living in fear just gives the terrorists what they want.
Graphic video Video of the attack shows the victim cowering in a corner of a room, tied up with his mouth bound in plastic.
A hate crime The disturbing 30-minute video shows a man tied up and his mouth covered, cowering in the corner of a room.
Real bold move, by the way, cowering behind "your daughter" because you are too scared or disinterested in understanding another person's point of view.
After the guy stood there for a few minutes cowering and I realized there was no option except murder I just shut it off.
According to Echo Press, Carmel first appeared in Micah and Allyson Radach's Alexandria, Minnesota, backyard, cowering under their trampoline in November of last year.
A bound enemy soldier can be seen cowering behind the victorious Trajan, who strikes a domineering pose with his right arm in the air.
Compare that to Trump followers cowering in terror at violence like last March's in Baltimore, which left a single burned CVS in its wake.
Not even a badass 16-year-old, record-setting explorer can escape the hideousness of men cowering behind avatars from thousands of miles away.
As Harvey's outer bands threatened to douse Louisiana over the coming days, Nolan said many New Orleanians were not cowering or paralyzed by flashbacks.
These fossils underscore that early mammals were not merely cowering at the feet of dinosaurs but boasted a range of body plans and lifestyles.
Hennard began stalking around the store gunning down victims in the restaurant, even dragging cowering customers out from underneath tables, according to Reporting Texas.
Conor McPherson's take on "The Dance of Death," about a marriage that will have couples counselors cowering in terror, is directed by Victoria Clark.
Ha-won reminds her cowering adversary just how many people are driving around South Korea in that moment working to keep affluent customers happy.
Hennard began stalking around the store gunning down victims in the restaurant, even dragging cowering customers out from underneath tables, according to Reporting Texas.
The teenager grew up cowering in fear, doing exactly what her parents ordered and nothing more, which made her escape all the more remarkable.
And as scary as extremist anti-abortion terrorism can be, cowering in silence and living in fear just gives the terrorists what they want.
The surrounding waters are rendered in rounded, rippling blue forms that are very pleasing to the eye and compliment the cowering man's palpable angst.
" As Breitbart wrote ominously in a post on the tour's announcement: "Triggered social justice warriors and cowering college administrators were breathing a sigh of relief.
Instead of cowering in fear, Talespin landed a perfect rocket right in Mcree's face, killing him and denying what could've been a devastating dead eye.
"If Team USA was as fearful as Trump, Michael Phelps and Simone Biles would be cowering in the locker room," she said in Warren, Michigan.
After cowering in the corner Ms. Grundy musters up the courage to end the tense argument by saying she'll quit her job and leave Riverdale.
What it all boils down to is that Mellie decides it's time to stop cowering in the face of this secret organization and push back.
Each time I tried to pick it up, it would dodge my hands, darting around the box and cowering in the corners to avoid me.
An Associated Press photograph of the terrified child, cowering as an officer in riot gear points an assault rifle at him, inflamed passions even more.
An hour later she got a text from her sister saying their roof had been ripped out and the family was cowering in the bathroom.
And I am equally upset at my party cowering to an increasingly tyrannical minority and failing to pass a specific resolution to a specific comment.
The first known footage of comfort women surfaced last month, and it shows, standing next to Chinese soldiers, a half-dozen cowering women, not girls.
At one point, Cole attempted to take Smith's photo with a polaroid camera; she avoided his gaze, cowering in a corner with her arms up.
Does he not, like the rest of his generation, remember cowering under school desks, learning to "duck and cover," and seeing families build fallout shelters?
But what that is, exactly, remains unclear in a trailer that shows David Beckham, Johnny Depp, Dave Chappelle and Arnold Schwarzenegger cringing, cowering and gagging.
And if the pattern of previous offensives is repeated, there will be scant concern for the millions of civilians cowering in the ruins of Idlib.
It then appears in "Part V," during a memory of Cora's where she has a massive bandage around her head and is cowering underneath a bed.
The incentive certainly works on many congressional Democrats, who spend much of their time in a defensive crouch, cowering from anything controversial, including Obamacare and Obama.
There's no shame in simply cowering in a corner and hoping you won't be noticed — in fact, Dark Souls III gives you an item for that.
But no matter, it was a change from the routine of lives in a war zone, where days were often spent cowering in fear of airstrikes.
Instead, you have to snarl, rage, and kick your way out — until you have them cowering in the corner on the other side of the room.
The Trump administration will cast these efforts as a sign of success: immigrants cowering before an American administration finally willing to stand up for its own.
Just days before, storms flooded stations and christened a new subway mascot: Flood Rat, a rodent spotted cowering behind a pillar as water surged around it.
She juxtaposes this background with a full-page drawn copy of Gentileschi's "Susanna and the Elders" (1610), showing a fleshy woman cowering beneath two lecherous men.
A neighbor said she had seen the victim cowering in a bathroom while her husband, Mukesh, brought a bamboo stick down on her, again and again.
Within seconds, he was cowering on the ground surrounded by more than a dozen young men, who began beating him with wooden sticks and metal rods.
Yet, the young unfurled fronds of these edible ferns are really not so different from the common plant cowering in the corner of your office cubicle.
The sight of this frightened pachyderm child — yes, even a fake one— cowering atop a burning building during a clown skit gone wrong drove me to tears.
I give credit to Dean for speaking up against the Iraq War when, in the wake of 9/11, most Democrats were cowering before George W. Bush.
Since the artwork's re-unveiling on Monday, tourists have been posting photos of themselves standing in front of or playfully cowering beneath the towering blob of blackness.
Flight is what comes to mind when we think of anxiety: cowering in the corner, hiding in the bathroom, or making a beeline for...anywhere but here.
While Grace-As-Mary and McDermott were strangling people and shooting them to death, Grace Prime was mentally kneeling in the garden or cowering in a corner.
The 30-minute video, taken by one of the female suspects, depicts a white man tied up, his mouth covered, cowering in a corner of a room.
"But Mister Softee only has two flavors of ice cream and they taste the same," I mumbled while cowering and deflecting the things he threw at me.
The same seems true of sensationalist media narratives about young people in the banlieues—narratives of women cowering before violent (usually Muslim) men who control female sexuality.
GREENVILLE, N.C. — Hurricane Florence made landfall Friday in its brutish slow-motion collision with the Carolina coasts, with beach towns cowering under lashing rain and storm surge.
Ulani Robinson, 19, a freshman, was still recovering from the three-plus hours she said she spent cowering in a dark classroom with other students on Tuesday.
For some United States Army leaders, the imagery was intoxicating: Iraqi soldiers cowering in fear as dozens of American rockets and artillery shells broke open above them.
I do not believe that Trump will follow the Obama policy of cowering in the face of such threats — it would render his foreign policy equally ineffective.
They inspire a crippling fear in their wake that leaves their enemies cowering before them, and they're nearly invincible, unless you have one of the titular dragonlances.
Though the Rwandan army often lobbed grenades into churches and schools and fired on Tutsis cowering there, most murders were carried out by civilians wielding machetes and clubs.
We might think the local elected leaders of states like North Carolina are cowering under pressure from religious groups, but the opposite is more likely to be true.
You sign-up for a month, go once and end your session cowering in the corner like a kid in P.E. picked last, vowing to never return again.
We've now been inundated with images of victims bravely coming forward and abusers cowering behind legalese, but the role of the bystander still lacks a clear social script.
They left millions of residents cowering in their homes to ride out pounding rains, and left evacuees — hundreds of thousands of them — scattered across Texas and the Southeast.
Between the combat and decapitations, Macbeth's horrified shaking, his cowering in the face of Banquo's ghost and cradling of his wife's corpse, Mr Kinnear's is an all-action turn.
Would expanding the travel ban be the strong thing to do, or would it simply weaken us as a nation and show that we are cowering to the terrorists?
And before long, the grabbing begins, as dozens of menacing human hands plunge down from above to rip cowering, fearful sea life from the protection of their watery homes.
Reuters photographs taken in eastern Ghouta on Wednesday showed men searching through the rubble of smashed buildings, carrying blood-smeared people to hospital and cowering in debris-strewn streets.
"After 11 years of peace, Dhusamareb city today is hell," Halima Farah told Reuters by phone, adding that she and her four children were cowering inside their flimsy house.
Zilpha turns out to be a bit more opaque, however, as she swings from cowering before her husband in one scene to laughing at his empty threats in the next.
They often featured graphic images to make their point — bloody knives, terrified women cowering from an aggressor, a victim shot in the head, and glamour shots of herself with weapons.
Cersei's gotten so used to being the Queen of Terror that, aside from the High Sparrow situation, she just doesn't know how to cope with people not cowering in fear.
The couple was driving back from a Christmas Eve celebration in Indiana when they spotted what they thought was a sick baby deer cowering on the side of the road.
A friend found Pulse through a Google search for popular nightclubs, but two hours after arriving at the club, they ended up cowering on the bathroom floor, desperate to survive.
Esther Atkins was walking her border collie mix, Grace, this week near their Greenville home when they both noticed a sturdy brown and white pup cowering in a mud puddle.
Instead of cowering in the face of threats from those two states, the national parties should look for a reset on the process and take on the top two states.
Why spend a summer cowering under parasols in British beer gardens when you can easyJet over to the continent for a few days of sun, sand, and suspiciously cheap seafood?
The report included closed circuit television footage of two teenage boys scrambling and cowering under bedsheets and a mattress as tear gas is sprayed into an anteroom adjoining their cells.
It was a speech clearly influenced by adviser Stephen Miller, who many presumed had been cowering in some corner of the White House ever since Steve Bannon's ouster in August.
Officers herded naked, cowering men into the middle of the room and began taking photos, some of which — including one of Mr. Handoko — appeared on Indonesian social media within hours.
Her parents, relatives and neighbors had decided to leave their makeshift bomb shelters where they had been cowering for days and run for the safety of the Iraqi Army lines.
Some people, especially those cowering in the back, "were scared sh--less of her," recalled Tracey Conwell, a Houston litigation attorney who took contracts and several other classes with Warren.
They waltzed in the front door, blew through a pair of armed guards I'd kept in reserve, and found me— me—cowering in a back office in my agency's compound.
As Persephone's scared, cowering companion looks on, Hades, a powerful senior Olympian god whose domain is the underworld, violently grabs Persephone by her breast and whisks her away in his chariot.
I guess when given the choice between cowering under the covers or poking fun at the madness, Clevelander's opt for the latter-hence the strong and consistent sales of the shirts.
The army onslaught has captured about half of eastern Ghouta, leaving insurgents in control over a dense sprawl of towns where civilians are left cowering in underground shelters awaiting aid trucks.
They helped evacuate Hayler from the smoke-filled front room and stamp out the fire which had spread from the blazing curtains and found Marmalade the cat cowering in the corner.
It bothered her that one of the most powerful female figures in the epic was left kneeling and cowering before Odysseus, and then takes him to bed as a conciliatory gesture.
Give me the slovenly Cheri who is "shredded by despair," cowering in a "lair of regret" over the Cheri who waxes on about life being a river of tributaries and waterfalls . . .
For starters, party leaders and other Democrats in Congress might get off the back foot and stop cowering every time one of their members is accused of being an anti-Semite.
It caused Voiello to break down in tears, begging for forgiveness in a scene that was exquisitely shot from so low to the ground that Pius positively towered over the cowering Voiello.
"I'm not scared to be seen," Lettie sings, marking a departure from when Barnum had first found her, cowering behind a wall made of sheets in the laundry room where she worked.
Users can shrink themselves for a more realistic walkthrough of the city, or grow taller than a skyscraper if they just want to feel grandiose and tower over the imaginary, cowering citizens.
As much as Trump spoke like a leader over-eager to please, his body language suggested a cowering respect for Putin as the kind of manly man Trump wishes he could be.
A night that left us cowering in fear of our own stomachs the following day, but also refreshed and reassured that there was plenty to still be excited about in the world.
"Today, human encounters with pigeons often more closely resemble Tippi Hedren cowering in Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Birds,' rather than St. Francis of Assisi standing calmly with an outstretched hand," Ms. Rueb writes.
Last February, Ms. Illiza, wearing a black head scarf, strode into the hall where Indonesian Model Hunt, a beauty competition, was underway, interrogating cowering models about the event as news cameras rolled.
This summer, she filed for divorce from her husband of more than a decade and longtime manager, but instead of cowering from tabloid headlines, she has worked them into her live show.
Sherebanu Frosh, who lives in Gurgaon, south of Delhi, said she and her children were "cowering by our air purifiers," which had become overloaded with the concentration of particles in the air.
The experience leaves him cowering in fear from the world, leading him to tentatively enroll in karate classes at a dojo run by the man he learns to call Sensei (Alessandro Nivola).
If there's meant to be an intentional dissonance here between subject matter and stylistic treatment, the film doesn't make it clear, and the result is a film that inspires cringing rather than cowering.
The targets are ISIS fighters, but with each blast comes the reality that in the homes and streets hit -- whether by airstrikes, artillery, or ISIS bombs -- are civilians cowering under staircases, in basements.
One of the things that makes 10 Cloverfield Lane such a surprising, satisfying experience is that from the start, Michelle isn't a cowering victim, in spite of the later revelations about her history.
Barriers jut out between lockers and classrooms, providing cover for students cowering from gunfire, and the doors to classrooms lock on demand, allowing children to hide from a gunman peering through their windows.
Forming a spine through the play is the growing to maturity of Ruby (Samira Wiley), who is discovered at the end of the play's first scene cowering by the Dumpster behind the bar.
A badly served Jennifer Hudson, cowering and belting with rivers of tears and snot, plays this mangy-looking stray in furs, who here suggests a Park Avenue pet terminally down on her luck.
Mr. Jean was not seated or cowering when he was shot, he said, but was coming toward Ms. Guyger; he was about 13 feet away from her when she opened fire, he said.
This poll was asked before information came out on the possible responsibility on the part of the local sheriff's department in failing to respond to multiple calls and cowering outside with the school.
It's something we worked really hard to do, because women don't traditionally belong in this genre of British spy fiction, outside of the cowering prostitute in the shower, or the one who got away.
Graves, the president and founder at the The Haley Graves Foundation, shared a photo of a dog cowering in the corner of a kennel at a shelter and it compelled her to speak out.
Sanders isn't a critic of a single, massive policy error, or of liberalism cowering briefly to neoconservatism in the wake of a national panic, but of the very foundation of the American political economy.
Did he think his power so vast and unopposed that he could threaten, blackmail, or intimidate the entire national media, not to mention everyone he's ever stepped on along the way, into cowering silence?
"I feel like a draft dodger from the army in which so many of my friends are serving—just lolling about in the country they are making, cowering at home, a coward," Heti writes.
Oh, and in case it's hard for you to listen to Trump say those horrible things over and over again, I've provided a gif of just the tackle and cowering for you: You're welcome.
Even the most northern pockets in Tallahassee, the capital, and the small towns along the Florida-Georgia line, were cowering with the rest of the state for a thorough pummeling from tropical-force winds.
So less than a week later, after President Trump on Thursday warned the Freedom Caucus that he would "fight them" when they face re-election next year, Mr. Sanford was hardly cowering in fear.
This guy is like six-foot-three, built like a brick shit house, and all I have to protect myself with is my weedy friend Joe, who is cowering on the side of my sofa.
" Clinton accused Trump of being afraid to stack American workers up against the competition, saying: "If Team USA was as fearful as Trump, Michael Phelps and Simone Biles would be cowering in the locker room.
The 20-second video, widely circulated on social media last year, shows Mlotshwa cowering inside a coffin as one man pushes the lid down and the other threatens to put petrol and a snake inside.
If she spent her entire childhood cowering like a frightened animal, her threat detection systems on permanent high alert, how, in adulthood, was she supposed to trust, to feel joy, to plan for the future?
Graphic video drew outrage and stunned the nation The disturbing 30-minute video of the attack shows the 18-year-old victim cowering in a corner of a room, tied with his mouth bound in plastic.
We never know which plotline is authentic: We see Grace and James in the cellar; Grace is strangling Nancy; now she's cowering in a corner; now she's watching in horror as James chops Nancy to bits.
For as long as 45 minutes after the shooting stopped, some students were still cowering behind locked doors, unsure if the person banging on their door was a police officer or the gunman, according to students.
But things changed after his death, and when the fire base at Con Thien was under attack in the fall of that year Time ran a cover story with a Marine cowering in a fox hole.
The entire chain of events — from the first crashing of the glass doors to the removal of a suspect by the authorities — lasted only minutes, but left five newspaper employees dead and others cowering beneath desks.
" Pennington alleged that upon entering the apartment, she saw Heard cowering while Depp screamed at her, so she attempted to block him with her hands, before covering the actress with her body "to protect her from him.
The woman, Geeta, was cowering in a neighbor's bathroom, a U-shaped enclosure used for showering, while her husband brought a bamboo stick down on her, again and again, she told my colleague Suhasini, who was translating.
Amina Suleimanly, a 46-year-old teacher from the village of Akhmetagaly, said since Saturday residents had been cowering in the internal courtyards of their homes to shelter from shells coming from separatist positions a few kilometres away.
A part of a new generation of what the writer Max Read termed "busybody" journalists, Ngo at rallies practices a kind of participant reporting that alternates freely between mocking the far left, anthropologizing it, and cowering from it.
Daraya's surrender came after two months of the heaviest bombing raids since it fell from government control in 2012, the start of an unrelenting siege that left civilians eating grass and cowering from incendiary barrel bombs, residents said.
The 20-second video, widely circulated on social media last year, shows the victim, Victor Mlotshwa, cowering inside a coffin as one man pushes the lid down and the other threatens to put petrol and a snake inside.
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Brutal images of a woman cowering as a man beats her and of a terrified girl in chains sprayed on the walls of Kenya's Mathare slum bring a hidden crime into view - human trafficking.
Their younger daughter, Jane, who spent critical hours on the night in question cowering in a closet, has grown up (or at least gotten older) and departed for college, a mass of rebellion, resentment and caustic self-loathing.
There is, too, an overarching sense of the phenomenal success that is to come, which casts a backwards glow even on those moments when Chan was at his lowest, cowering by the garbage bags in that lonely shed.
These are extreme manifestations of the unequal power relations between men and women — real-life, concrete expressions of a social dynamic that forces women to stay in a subordinate position, always speaking at a low volume and cowering.
It lifts elements wholesale from its predecessors, including characters like Andre the blacksmith, but its combat feels crisper, more varied, and after spiritual successor Bloodborne did away with shields, less reliant on cowering behind a giant plank of wood.
In that context, the ironically titled Week of Kindness, with its lion-headed men brandishing guillotined heads and savagely caning cowering women, looks less like Hughes's "revenge on childhood repression" and more like a premonition of the Nazi terror.
If Mr. Trump's victory in 2016 was when moderate Republicans lost their final battle, then the midterms may be remembered as their apocalyptic era, leaving them cowering in a bunker as once-loyal suburban voters cast ballots for Democrats.
Mammalogists have long thought the earliest shared ancestor of all mammals was nocturnal, and now a study published Monday provides a potential date for when the furry creatures stopped cowering in the shadows and started venturing into the daylight.
A shocking video, widely circulated last week on social media in India, shows a man in one attack covered in blood, cowering on the ground and begging for his life before a mob kicks and beats him to death.
Video of the attack showed throngs of people screaming in horror and cowering on the open ground as extended bursts of gunfire strafed the crowd from above, from a distance police estimated at more than 500 yards (460 meters).
The killing, the first inside a city school building in more than two decades, according to the mayor, set off a lockdown that left hundreds of children cowering in their classrooms, the older ones frantically texting parents for help.
Setting Native American objects beside 19th-century paintings of European colonists with Indians cowering at their feet serves as a reminder — no label needed — that racial violence was a New World tradition here far in advance of African slavery.
When she arrived Frida was still there cowering on the median with a broken leg and no food or water, so Coelho and California Highway Patrol shut down part of the freeway and went to bring the dog to safety.
Maybe he took some of those supplements for low T because he is now actively pursuing the important work we need the Justice Department to pursue to stop the leaks instead of cowering in the corner to the deep state.
"One of the things that a campaign could do is encourage people to think about the opportunities that are on offer rather than cowering in a corner feeling fearful, and I hope that (the campaign) will do that," she added.
And Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand) is there to show the audience that no matter how cool and witty Deadpool thinks he is, all teenage girls have the innate ability to reduce anyone to a cowering pile of nebulous vapor.
During the gathering, Trump seemed to endorse a number of gun controls — including expanded background checks and an increase in the age to buy a rifle — while accusing the Republicans of cowering to the NRA at the expense of public safety.
Think of it: He is denounced in Pravda, he lives in fear for his own life, the life of his family, the lives of anyone who ever supported him or performed his music; he looks forward only to decades of cowering.
Among them are old French and Mexican mug shots of criminal suspects, and a 1942 shot by the Bowery habitué Arthur Fellig, known as Weegee, of two drunk-and-disorderly swells cowering behind face-hiding hats in a paddy wagon.
He discovers a talent for rapping and uses it to vent his anger about poverty and the chasm between rich and poor, writing lines about babies cowering next to skyscrapers and wealthy people's cars being big as poor people's homes.
The 20-second video, which was widely circulated on social media, shows Victor Rethabile cowering inside a coffin as one man pushes a lid on his head and the other threatens to put petrol and a snake inside the casket.
Video footage shot by a student inside the library and reviewed by Reuters shows dozens of young students - including several women - scrambling for cover, cowering beneath desks, and jumping over metal and broken glass dividers as they attempted to flee.
Prince Bader splurged on this controversial and decidedly un-Islamic portrait of Christ at a time when most members of the Saudi elite, including some in the royal family, are cowering under a sweeping crackdown against corruption and self-enrichment.
Walker is the epitome of white male privilege, colonizing images of us that are either painful or sexual — both tantalizing to his audience — and then, when confronted, cowering and hiding behind artistic expression and his right as an artist to not be censored.
This means eating rubbish from bin bags as an urban fox would do, living in a sett as a badger, cowering naked on a moor as a red deer and launching himself fully clothed into a river pretending to be an otter.
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Four people in Chicago were charged with felonies Thursday for the beating of a man with mental health issues who, on a Facebook Live video shot by his assailants, was shown cowering in a corner with his mouth taped shut.
To the Editor: I remember where I was during the Clarence Thomas hearings: in an elevator cowering from the abusive comments of a couple of company executives who found it really important to tell me just what they thought of Anita Hill.
There are in fact many ways to combat the Trump project of creating a tiny America, isolated from the world, cowering in fear behind walls while pursuing the Paul Ryan-style domestic policies that represent the most savage wing of the Republican establishment.
Yet lawmakers can't get it together to pass this before Christmas, despite the fact that this transparent villainy should have never been allowed to take root, let alone become a matter requiring months of deliberation—and cowering from expensive lobbying campaigns—to address.
In the first Fantastic Beasts film, we meet Ezra Miller's Credence, a cowering, terrified orphan who's been abused all his life by his witch-fearing guardian — at least until he becomes aware of his own intense magical powers after meeting a disguised Grindelwald.
In my opinion it's always positive to show snobby teens cowering in fear from a fun dude who dances like this: Lizzie: I think in general Rae Sremmurd are talented in the art of having a good time while the rest of us are not.
You're given only about two magazines of ammo, but you need no more than two or three bullets for each of the house's armed inhabitants, which are typically middle-aged and nondescript Middle Eastern men found in rooms adjacent to cowering women and children.
Old Grand Dad cheerfully offered up a patriotic image of Donald Trump in colonial garb holding up the Liberty Bell and fighting "against the foreign hordes," with caricatures of the Jew, the American Indian, the Mexican, the Chinese and the Irish cowering at his feet.
"People who see this video will feel a stab of pain: officers wearing law enforcement uniforms brandishing clubs, striking women and children cowering at the foot of a wall, the scene filled with cries," read a commentary published on Monday by The Beijing News.
Equally as shocking is the reasonable theory that just as he slouched before Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un on the global stage, our president now completes a trifecta of cowering to murderous nondemocracies, his cowardice likely in service of his personal financial ties.
Alias Grace suggests what Grace mentally experienced while her alter-ego took over her "earthly shell:" Grace kneeling in the garden, Grace cowering in the cellar corner while McDermott choked Nancy alone, Grace standing upstairs in the Kinnear house next to the cellar trap door.
If Republicans took on this bold agenda, they'd probably lose a handful of votes, but if just once, a party kept their promises and went big in an election year instead of cowering in fear, Americans would take notice — and they'd have unprecedented electoral success.
That the new Suspiria is set among a contemporary dance troupe in a Berlin recovering from a war, grasped by an imposed rule, cowering from terror attacks, and grappling with its own sordid history makes for a perfect place to explore those same motifs.
The spell she was under—the spell everyone was under—broke only in April 1945, when she spent ten days cowering from Soviet artillery in Hitler's bunker, trying to get drunk and stay drunk, gulping cold food out of cans, and numb as a lost soul.
If you want a beastie that's particularly wee, sleekit, cowering and timorous, for example, you could ask for mutations in the Ghrhr gene, which can govern size; Foxq1, which makes coats shiny; and Lypd1 and Atcay—mutations that provide, respectively, a fearful nature and general skittishness.
It is a toss-up as to who has done more damage with the latest UN Middle East fiasco — Arab regimes that continue to deny that the Jewish people has risen from the ashes, or dapper European diplomats who think they can still denigrate cowering Jews.
And I thought, had that happened and had that happened among every group of people or individuals who find themselves cowering behind a wall or putting up a wall to keep somebody out, I think you immediately melt about 50 percent of the aggression and garbage.
"I heard shouting and loud noises all night," said a teenage girl who witnessed the fighting in the lunch hall and said she spent much of the Tuesday cowering under a bed in her dorm after some of her peers tried to make her join the riot.
And if you don't believe that last bit, someone using a pseudonymous Twitter account was kind enough to provide a graphic photograph of the supposed soiling, but not his or her actual name, because it's just so much easier to hurl bile while cowering behind anonymity.
She met two of them on outings with Hughes, and preserved their appearance on the page: in a letter to Hughes's parents, as "stumpy," with a "sweet gentle mousish face," and, to her mother, as a "strange grey clumpish animal," with "stout waddly build," cowering and cornered.
From David Kirkpatrick of the NYT: Prince Bader splurged on this controversial and decidedly un-Islamic portrait of Christ at a time when most members of the Saudi elite, including some in the royal family, are cowering under a sweeping crackdown against corruption and self-enrichment.
Ms. Dingell — whose husband, John D. Dingell Jr., who died this year, served on the N.R.A.'s board of directors — has spoken powerfully of her experiences as a child, cowering in the closet in fear of her father, who struggled with mental illness and had a gun.
As London detectives go, Marcella Backland (Anna Friel) is a mess: violent, unsettled by her husband's abandonment and, when we meet her, cowering in a bathtub and covered in blood — either her own or that of someone she may have killed during one of her blackouts.
The video was posted to Facebook on Saturday and seems to show officers with military-grade weapons kicking or whipping two unarmed men who are seen cowering on the ground in a village, as another officer looks on passively with a cigarette dangling from his mouth.
Watch as Bryant's fantasy goes to the next level and Doug is transformed into Styles, who serenades her in appreciation and is astonishingly committed as he acts out dog-like behavior (like eating out of a garbage can and cowering in fear at a vacuum cleaner).
She had transformed herself from an abused wife, cowering and hunched in the front seat of her husband's car while he slapped her, to an international bureaucrat attempting what no woman had ever done before: winning, by popular vote, the right to lead an African country.
The kind that might leave the inhabitants of two dozen towns cowering in fear, worrying that the next knock will land on their doors, in which there is as much recycling of ancient envy, antipathy and insecurity as there are reports of flying cups and translucent cats.
Tough but fair, then—a slog, some might argue, but for me the balance between offense and cowering behind a magical flame shield (merely guarding can offer limited protection, too, at the expense of some health points—but not against Longfang's biggest attacks) was quite excellently managed.
As well as multiple sharks (I lost count at 25) I saw: a loggerhead turtle soaring over the stern; a pair of stingrays cowering under the hull; and an enormous green moray eel, perhaps six feet long, rising up from the cargo hold with a chilling Medusa's stare.
And for the first time, I glimpsed the boy that would grow into the terrifying Potions Master: ...a hook-nosed man was shouting at a cowering woman, while a small dark-haired boy cried in a corner... It was just a passing image, but my throat clenched, breath caught.
It has to do with the weapons, which were slower to fire and reload, and the battles themselves, which were defined by cowering in muddy trenches and suicidal charges—a far cry from the WWII heroics we saw in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan and the shooters it inspired.
As London detectives go, Marcella Backland (Anna Friel) is a mess: violent, unsettled by her husband's abandonment and, when we first meet her, cowering in a bathtub and covered in blood — either her own or that of someone she may have killed during one of her periodic blackouts.
Gae Polisner struggled to find a publisher for her new young-adult novel, "The Memory of Things," which opens right after the towers fell and follows a teenager named Kyle as he flees downtown Manhattan and rescues a girl who is cowering at the side of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Anna Friel stars as Marcella Backland, a mess of a London detective: violent, unsettled by her husband's abandonment and, when we first meet her, cowering in a bathtub and covered in blood — either her own or that of someone she may have killed during one of her periodic blackouts.
Washington (CNN)The Brett Kavanaugh hearings have been dominated by textbook conversations about the reach of the Second Amendment, but on Friday, that changed with testimony from a student about her own experience cowering under a fellow student's dead body as the Parkland, Florida, shootings played out last February.
And there were earlier reports that Democrats might dilute the resolution, cowering away from calling out anti-Semitism, a profound disappointment to many Jews hoping to see Democrats launch a frontal assault against anti-Semitism in America to prevent matters here from escalating as they have in Europe. Sen.
A mural commissioned by the French city of Grenoble as part of a street art festival caused a stir for its depiction of the allegorical figure of Marianne (a symbol of the French republic) cowering as two police officers in riot gear approach her with their batons raised.
Coming at her subject matter from so many different angles allows Machado to move in and pan out as needed, so that she can document the immediate agony of cowering in the bathroom while her girlfriend pounds on the door, but can also look at the relationship from an intellectual remove.
Indeed, very close to the essence of all the monotheistic faiths is the proposition that fear of God (not cowering terror but awe, reverence, a sense of humanity's smallness) is the only fear worth feeling; and that to live, appropriately, in that sort of fear can drive away all other kinds.
Her testimony conflicted with prosecution witnesses, including neighbors who said they did not hear verbal commands and a medical examiner, who testified that the bullet had a downward trajectory, indicating that Mr. Jean was either getting up from a seated position or was "in a cowering position" when he was shot.
A French-born jihadi named Larossi Abballa had murdered a police officer and his wife in a town west of Paris and then delivered a macabre speech on Facebook Live — with the couple's 3-year-old child cowering nearby — in which he called for the killing of seven public figures.
" Instead of cowering in your closet in fear of what today may bring, Spriggs suggests celebrating Venus, the goddess of love, and all the good energy Friday the 13th can offer: "Wear pink—it could be pink underwear—buy pink flowers, light a pink candle, drink rose petal tea, or carry rose quartz.
Chapman, the newly acquired star reliever, is known mostly for two things: a crackling fastball that can reach 212 miles per hour and a domestic violence episode last year in which he fired eight gunshots into a garage wall after an argument with his girlfriend, who was cowering in the bushes outside.
It's Trump who has set a new low bar on transpacific diplomacy, referring to China's trade policies as "theft" and "rape" (it's odd and unsettling how frequently the metaphor of rape surfaces in his speech) while using a crude broken English accent to depict Asian trade negotiators as cowering before his deal-making prowess.
While only Tlaib won, both Saad and El-Sayed are in their 30s and are part of the next generation of American Muslims who respond to hate not by cowering in fear, but by becoming more visible in an effort to better define who Muslims are and what they can contribute to our nation.
The film even includes a fantastical re-enactment of the crime, which became popularly known as the "whack heard round the world," in which Harding stands over Kerrigan's cowering body, baton raised high above her head, striking her bloody knee until Harding turns back toward the camera — her face defiant and splattered with Kerrigan's blood.
And that is how, weeks after being promoted to full professor and having a book on the Danish best-seller list, I ended up cowering in the middle of my kitchen with my 7-year-old son, hoping that the two police officers pounding on the door of our Copenhagen apartment would not see us.
As such, Mitchell is a classic mid-century white antihero, the kind that can be found, in works ranging from "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" to "Portnoy's Complaint," exuding professional mediocrity, evading responsibility, humiliating himself sexually, and cowering in the face of his supposed inferiors: women, children, household help, members of all kinds of the putative lower classes.
Dianne Feinstein as she urged debate on an assault weapons ban, called out Republicans for cowering to the National Rifle Association and gave the House's Majority Whip Steve Scalise a dose of political reality that his idea to attach a background check fix bill to a conceal-carry reciprosity bill didn't stand a chance in the US Senate.
Yes, it's a story about rabbits—rabbits tearing chunks out of other rabbits, rabbits cowering in ditches and burrows under siege, rabbits getting smashed to pieces by trains, dead rabbits being led away from this realm and their meat by The Black Rabbit of Inlé, a phantom rabbit whose job it is to reap souls for the rabbit afterlife.
The characters have spent a long time cowering at their leader's feet like dogs expecting to get kicked, laughing at his jokes and agreeing with his arguments and hoping not to get banished (or worse), but without any more noble endgame than jockeying to take his place — to become the one who inspires dread as opposed to the ones feeling it.
Basically—you know that kid you knew in junior high who, over a three-year period, you took to 20 consecutive parties, and every time he just sort of sulked in one corner, occasionally playing Snake on his phone or moaning about dance music, but mostly just sort of cowering there, his posture slowly curling in on itself with sheer grumpiness?
But Donald Trump is far from the only concern among Western officials, who are anxious not just about the short-term threat Russian machinations pose to their own increasingly polarized societies, but also the more insidious danger posed by an emerging Chinese superpower whose true intentions are under suspicion everywhere — from cowering nearby countries to corporate supply chains to far-flung Arctic outposts.
If that has you cowering in fear, you may long for a lost epoch when robots firmly knew their place: not stealing our jobs or winning Chinese super-chess tournaments, but smashing the shit out of one another on early evening television—a time when the nation would gather 'round as one to watch cobbled-together weaponized shoeboxes slam into each for 45 minutes.
Black male figures tower above or thrust daggers or swords into the cowering or pleading bodies of white ones: White females tied with rope are hung up as if lynched, or run-through with phallic swords in the hands of their black attackers: "Black people running for their lives," Jafa had said more than once in describing black life in America, but here on the second floor, it's whites who are begging for theirs.
POOL: Yes, mixed martial arts, so I think -- you know one thing we have seen action from Antifa overseas, right, in the UK and it&aposs funny you mention the punch thing because there was this viral photo of this personality named Carl Benjamin, Antifa raided a college talk he was giving and this photo was viral because you see him perfect form when he threw that punch and the Antifa guy is cowering up against the wall... (CROSSTALK) WATTERS: Yes, these guys aren&apost that tough, you know, they pick on people, but why was this group being heckled here?
Many of the paintings look as if they could have been made yesterday: Jean Foos's swirling forms that split the difference between the tangible and the abstract; the bearded and naked man cowering under a table (and a turkey) by Michael Ottersen; the awkwardly slapstick figures running across a sheet of shaped paper by Judy Glantzman; the bluntly articulated, boldly colored heads of Keith Davis; and the painted silhouettes on vinyl LPs made by Jane Bauman between 1981 and '82, one of which evokes the 2053 attempt by John Hinckley, Jr., on the life of Ronald Reagan.

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