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Suddenly, I'm being pelted with this barrage of plastic balls.
Gunshots could be heard as rocks were pelted at buildings.
The storm was closing in, and meteors pelted the ground.
Protesters pelted parliament with yoghurt and eggs earlier this week.
A day earlier, students also pelted his ministry with eggs.
In the cafeteria, students pelted a transgender student with food.
We are frequently pelted with rocks, paint and water cannons.
But whenever a story broke, I would be pelted with notifications.
He didn't succeed, because the store's employees pelted him with dildos.
I pray that she will be pelted with farm-fresh vegetables.
From every which way, Trump is being pelted with pardon requests.
Just a couple of paces in, more gunfire pelted the venue.
Mr. Jacquet was encircled and pelted with questions: Who are you?
According to Maerov, Harvey Weinstein pelted the director with abusive language.
The temperature was falling, and a cold drizzle pelted his skin.
Barcelona Journal BARCELONA, Spain — The offending statue was pelted with eggs.
One rowdy group recently pelted passers-by with batteries, they said.
Some protesters pelted a police bus with rocks, the police said.
Large walnuts pelted the ground all around me with audible thuds.
In 1997, India's players were pelted with stones in Karachi, Pakistan.
The Houston metro area will be pelted by thunderstorms Wednesday and Thursday.
Heavy rain has pelted the state, causing flood watches since late May.
We see police being pelted by rocks and firing back at protesters.
Someone recounts being pelted with objects after being told she was ugly.
Some people have pelted Waymo vans with rocks, according to police reports.
Grieving Christians spoke of revenge, and several mosques were pelted with stones.
Also, this happened: Andrew was pelted with a snowball by Steven Mnuchin.
She was being pelted with intense wind, and regularly sprayed with water.
Fans pelted players with stuffed animals from every seat in the stadium.
"That night, we were absolutely pelted by the f—in' things," Harrison recalled.
Officers were pelted with rocks, bottles, concrete, construction materials and fireworks, police said.
Health teams trying to safely bury victims were pelted with rocks last month.
It gets pelted with pollen and pollution and the body responds with inflammation.
As a chorus of voices pelted him with questions, one woman's broke through.
Like, come on, you're screaming for change and getting pelted with pocket change.
While it wasn't quite Suicide getting pelted with bottles, it worked as strange provocation.
He then pays a visit to downtown LA, which is being pelted with snow.
Elvis and Priscilla Presley are pelted with rice on their wedding day in 1967.
Nearby, US vehicles were pelted with rotten potatoes and tomatoes by Syrian-Kurdish people.
During the race, Arabic-shouting protesters pelted Abu Sarah with eggs outside city hall.
They also spray-painted and pelted eggs at the building, while occupying nearby roads.
After the Olympic long program, hundreds of fans pelted the ice with Pooh toys.
Mobs burned a village health center, blocked a highway and pelted cars with stones.
Instead, Mr. Henry pelted him with questions that Mr. Pruitt visibly struggled to answer.
Yet there is comfort in knowing that Klan sympathizers were pelted with Bronx cheers.
On Tuesday, rain pelted the crocuses popping up outside the home on Wareham Place.
At one point, players from the orchestra pelted Mr. Gilbert with wads of newsprint.
"Both sides pelted stones at each other," the ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
Pop was antagonizing the room, and being pelted with beer, whiskey bottles, bras, and shoes.
Eyewitness said the crowd pelted the al-Abadi's car with rocks, shoes and jerry cans.
Maduro and his entourage had been pelted by what some identified as eggs and trash.
Protesters pelted officers with debris, the department said, and at least one person was shot.
The winds pelted cars with pebbles and toppled a metal shed at a nearby winery.
People have pelted the vans with rocks and tried to run them off the road.
The rain lightly pelted my window just as dawn was breaking on the Ionian Sea.
Large hail pelted down in parts of the state, shattering car windows and hammering vehicles.
Revelers, some in costume, pelted each other in a major snowball fight in Dupont Circle.
About two hours north of Franklin, dime-sized hail pelted the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Republicans opposed to his candidacy, after ignoring him for months, have pelted him with attack ads.
As we continue to get pelted with megastorm after megastorm, when do we finally tap out?
Poor Ryan was pelted in a most uncomfortable place, meanwhile Christon was going straight for me!
While he was pelted with stones, two people and a police officer climbed onto the tank.
McCarty's depicted that with a doll dressed in a headscarf and robe being pelted with stones.
The last stragglers emerged, clinging to ropes as heavy raindrops pelted them and slimed the trail.
When the poem was mentioned in a piece on the Guardian, she was pelted with messages.
I went to my sisters' in Southern California and we were pelted with eggs and tomatoes.
Sparks flew, and my face was pelted with bits of ground pork and slicked with brine.
They set fire to some structures, broke fences and pelted police officers with stones, he said.
All day, every day, horizontal sheets of mockingly humid rain pelted down with grimly robotic efficiency.
It almost looks like he got pelted with tennis balls, or attacked by a lamprey eel.
Demonstrators lit fires and pelted riot police with stones, and security forces responded with tear gas.
With Texas still being pelted by rain, a few Republicans were already relitigating that bitter fight.
The color of an aurora depends on which atmospheric gases are being pelted by solar particles.
The skies opened, and as the rain pelted down, the lavender-gray lagoon appeared to boil.
" As he walked past, his friends in the press pool pelted him with mock questions: "Sir!
"I'm used to Wall Street getting pelted," Blankfein said in a wide-ranging interview on CNBC.
In the past Mr Navalny was pelted with eggs and tomatoes in nearly every town he visited.
Some pelted school buses carrying African-American children with bricks and bottles, and angry protesters mobbed schools.
The answer may lie in its turbulent youth, when it was possibly pelted with a large asteroid.
By Saturday evening, days after Hurricane Maria pelted the island, they had yet to hear from them.
Protesters punched rally attendees, snatched and burned pro-Trump gear, and pelted one Trump supporter with eggs.
In the video, a visibly inebriated man exits a brothel only to be pelted with soccer balls.
Protesters set fire to tyres, filling the air with acrid smoke, and pelted the police with stones.
In one, a supporter wearing a football jersey emblazoned with Mr. Trump's name was pelted with eggs.
In an ironic echo of the attacks themselves, the ralliers pelted police with beer bottles and firecrackers.
A woman wearing a pro-Trump jersey was pelted with eggs and water bottles during the fracas.
A white mob formed, the house was pelted with rocks and crosses were burned on the lawn.
Gunfire pelted the truck, and 235 shots from an RPK machine gun left Jan's father halfway-disemboweled.
Protesters also pelted security forces with stones in at least six other towns, the police official said.
Syrian Kurds pelted withdrawing U.S. forces with potatoes in anger over their abandonment by Washington on Monday.
Protesters set fires to tires and pelted police with rocks, gasoline bombs and firecrackers near blocked streets.
On one occasion, Maltese gangsters pelted the 43 Group with razor-encrusted potatoes on the fascists' behalf.
As a woman in power, Isabeau was pelted with rumors: adultery, incest, witchcraft, neglect, you name it.
In 2015, a gay pride march was called off when right-wing activists pelted participants with smoke grenades.
A late spring storm has pelted parts of Colorado and Wyoming with an abnormally large amount of snow.
In 22015, the Indian team left the field during a match in Karachi after being pelted with stones.
Suddenly, he was accosted by a drunken gambler who recognized him and cheerfully pelted him with swear words.
Some protesters have threatened the women and pelted them with stones, causing injuries to some and damaging property.
The men in the car gathered around the bus driver and pelted stones and bricks at the bus.
RWE's ongoing battle with environmentalists, who have pelted its workers with stones and excrement, may soon be over.
However, police said the demonstrators had pelted police with bottles and rocks, and one officer suffered a broken hand.
Syndergaard did not return after heavy rain and winds pelted the field as the Mets batted in the sixth.
In one such instance, a Santa Claus was booed at and pelted with snowballs at a Philadelphia Eagles vs.
Doubt remained all the way to his opening tee time, as rain and strong winds pelted Thursday's early groups.
Her TV toppled off its stand, clothes swirled around her and the wind pelted her with her own books.
But on the day of the planned event, unknown assailants pelted the room where he would have appeared with stones.
A Denmark soccer team was fined some serious cheese after fans pelted opposing players with dead rats ... giant dead rats.
Northern Oklahoma could be pelted with hail 2 inches (5 cm) in diameter, or larger, on Wednesday, the NWS tweeted.
Rain pelted the northwest Thursday as the National Weather Service warned of high winds ranging from 30 to 70 mph.
He posted videos on social media that showed wind whipping through trees as heavy rains pelted people on the streets.
Sunday and early Monday saw more chaos, with one officer hospitalized after his squad car was pelted with a rock.
The café was once pelted with eggs; insults and bottles have been thrown at women wearing hijabs in the street.
A woman in Kelowna, Canada contracted pink eye after her car was pelted with human poop from an overhead plane.
After this finger-SNAFU, the two heavyweights pelted each other with slow, mostly ineffective shots until the final bell rang.
As a kid, I was never pelted with tampons or subjected to boob-shaming by my peers after gym class.
So on a 53-day orbit, the vehicle gets pelted with the worst radioactive doses at a much slower rate.
Everyone has a stone to throw, and the feeling is of being pelted with stones in the name of solidarity.
A large crowd of angry young men chanting "One settler, one bullet", surrounded her car and pelted it with stones.
Smaller rallies outside of the capital have ended with clashes and opponents have pelted eggs at Fujimori during campaign events.
"You're just getting pelted," he said of life on his squad's float, where he joined three years' worth of battles.
At a canoeing test event in early September, organizers pelted spectators with fake snow meant to feel like soft flakes.
Classmates, professors, friends, coworkers — I practically pelted them all with candles, crafts, cards, scarves, and other symbols of holiday cheer.
When I awoke my room was dark, and rain pelted the roof — a steady, cooling volley punctuated by rumbling thunder.
But the Leafs were a tire fire, and it wasn't unusual to see Ing pelted with 40 shots in a game.
Washington (CNN)A Donald Trump supporter says she may have been pelted with eggs by protestors because she was taunting them.
When Facebook split Messenger from the main app, it drew an outcry from users, who pelted it with one-star reviews.
After he failed to comply, a fan pelted a water bottle at him, which is not the way to settle things.
He's been thrown on the ground, pelted with rocks, threatened with power tools and knives, and shot at with a rifle.
The kids pelted him with the typical insensitive slurs—sissy, fairy, faggot—and, like most schoolyard bullies, assumed he was weak.
Mr. Obama was pelted with irrational rumors (foreign born, Muslim, Communist), yet his opponents, John McCain and Mitt Romney, were not.
Leslie Jones, a star of the women-dominated "Ghostbusters" reboot, left Twitter after trolls pelted her with slurs, threats and pornography.
US troops are making an humiliating exit from Syria, with videos showing their tanks being pelted with rocks and rotten fruit.
Mr. Londoño was attacked by protesters who pelted his motorcade with rocks, on one occasion doing severe damage to his vehicle.
Guards said hazards of the job include being kicked, bitten, headbutted, pelted with urine and feces, and spit on by prisoners.
Some protesters pelted a police bus with rocks, the police said, and at least four American flags were set on fire.
On several occasions in recent months, hundreds of them have pelted security forces with stones in an effort to shield militants.
They are often pelted with stones as they leave, which witnesses said was what happened on the evening of Aug. 6.
Some of the protesters fired gunshots and pelted arriving police with stones and bricks, according to a hospital doctor, Ashraf Nizami.
The opposing sides even pelted each other with water in a "battle" of opposing flotillas on the River Thames on Wednesday.
Smaller solar leftovers continually pelted baby Earth, heating it up and endowing it with radioactive materials, which further warmed it from within.
My horse cavalry were spooked by the handful of camel archers they encountered, who then mercilessly pelted my infantry with deadly arrows.
Rotunno pelted Mann with questions and accusations with such force that at one point Mann had to ask her to slow down.
Incensed by the sight of people drinking beer outdoors during the Muslim fast of Ramadan, the attackers pelted them with glass bottles.
Specters adopting the names of hip-hop artists like Nicki Minaj and Ñengo Flow, a Puerto Rican singer, pelted him with insults.
Vehicles of aid organizations and the peacekeeping mission were pelted with stones, Radio Okapi, which is supported by the United Nations, reported.
This year, on Palm Sunday, a week before the Easter bombings, Sinhalese pelted stones at a center run by the Methodist church.
Over the next nine weeks, shrapnel pelted Ms. Najjar's legs, a flaming tire burned her, a tear-gas grenade fractured her arm.
One night, while riding motorcycles home from a recording studio, they were pelted with rocks wrapped in paper inscribed with profane messages.
When the college's president, George Bridges, met with them, several of them pelted him with profanity and ordered him to shut up.
At Tuesday's terse briefing, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was pelted with a week's worth of pent-up questions from frustrated reporters.
Police fired tear gas, water cannons and used batons against protesters who pelted stones, vandalized and set fire to buildings and buses.
The Women of the Wall are used to getting spit on, not to mention shoved, scratched, kicked and pelted with dirty diapers.
Rounds two and three, meanwhile, were much closer, as the two flyweights pelted each other with heavy artillery for 10 straight minutes.
In 2014—a full two years before the Brexit vote—a protester pelted Farage because of his right-wing, anti-immigrant policies.
Outlook: Last year was a perfect storm—a bad roster full of players having bad seasons while getting pelted with bad luck.
Esparaza said passengers observed lighting outside their windows during the flight and said it sounded like the plane was being pelted with hail.
Another time, I pelted my neighbor with candy on Halloween because he jumped out of a bush to scare us — I was 7.
While touring the southern state of Santa Catarina over the weekend, Lula's bus was pelted with eggs and stones that broke a window.
Videos posted on social media showed police vehicles being pelted with what O'Neill said were dozens of petrol bombs, bricks, bottles and fireworks.
Two days after the deal, while diplomatic teams in Geneva, Switzerland, worked out finer points of the cessation, bombs pelted a Damascus suburb.
The incident prompted protests in Los Angeles, including a march on Saturday night in which demonstrators pelted Mayor Eric Garcetti's home with eggs.
Almost immediately, Cabrera began writhing around in pain and holding his wrist while kicking his legs as a heavy rain pelted Citi Field.
IN JULY 2008 outraged investors in Karachi, Pakistan's commercial capital, pelted the local stock exchange with stones after a plunge in share prices.
It's June, but showers will probably fall on the city this afternoon and we could be pelted by gusty winds and small hail.
Though most of the protest remained peaceful, some demonstrators pelted the container blockades with rocks and acted violently toward at least five reporters.
Mr. Ngo, who was also pelted with milkshakes, reported the attack in a video live-streamed to his more than 140,000 Twitter followers.
Rodrigo Londoño, their former top commander, was attacked by protesters who pelted his motorcade with rocks, on one occasion practically destroying his vehicle.
As a 1981 New York Times article chronicles, white Rolling Stones fans pelted him with fruit and bottles when he toured with them.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Islamists pelted campaigners with stones, shoes and sticks as they marched through Pakistan's capital on Sunday to mark International Women's Day.
Many Houston streets remain four or more feet underwater after being pelted by 50 or more inches of rain over the past week.
THEY CAME in hi-vis jackets and anoraks, beating drums and blowing whistles as the rain pelted down, defiantly defending their dying industry.
On Wednesday, four days after the draw in which Neymar is said to have been pelted with racist chants, the two teams played again.
Police say four people were arrested and some officers suffered minor injuries from being pelted with rocks and bottles, including some filled with urine.
"Milkshaking" has spread to the US and a right-wing Florida congressman was just pelted with a drink by his political opponent from 2016.
While huddling in celebration, the Barça squad was pelted with a water bottle that appeared to hit both Messi and Neymar in the head.
Police had to pen in the far-right group while members of the counter-protest and Infidels reportedly pelted each other with loose missiles.
Rain, sleet and snow pelted the area, with wind gusts of up to 45 mph and wind chills as low as 15 degrees Fahrenheit.
They sat through a fierce rainstorm that pelted Coors Field with hail and delayed the start of the game for 20153 hours, 41 minutes.
And yet the Rangers became aluminum siding in the face of a hailstorm, pelted unrelentingly from all directions until they were dented beyond recognition.
The so-called lava bomb punctured the roof of the boat, as witnesses said that the people on board were getting pelted and screaming.
Brendan Rodgers comes out for his post-match press conference, and is instantly pelted with rotten vegetables by a gaggle of incandescent Glaswegian journalists.
Two years ago, ATRIAS was the subject of a popular video in which the legged robot was pelted with dodgeballs to test its balance.
Especially not one that could handle life on the road, including the abuse of extreme temperatures, potholes, and being pelted with gravel and salt.
The Kilkenny Rose, Clodagh Cassin, dressed Mr. O Se in the protective gear of a hockey goalie and then pelted him with plastic balls.
Nonetheless, residents pelted buses carrying passengers into town with stones and bottles, and police responded with tear gas, the local Imaz Press Réunion reported.
They pulled several Tamil Nadu-registered trucks and motorcycles to the side of the road and pelted them with stones, a Reuters witness said.
A few minutes after boarding, we were in a full-fledged blizzard, pelted with stinging hail and buffeted by 60-mile-an-hour wind.
The scene in question portrays rabbit archenemy Mr McGregor, who is allergic to blackberries, being pelted with the berries by a gang of bunnies.
Dr. Jewitt has calculated that Earth probably gets pelted with an interstellar object like Comet Borisov or Oumuamua about once every 100 million years.
Rusting, dilapidated fishing boats littered the arid landscape, and salt kicked up from the silt of what was once the sea floor pelted surrounding villages.
The risk of too much rain Apart from the snow, flash flood warnings have been hoisted as more rain pelted parts of California Tuesday night.
Protestors pelted officers with paving stones, glass bottles and other pieces of debris; some threw garbage cans, plastic safety barriers and wood from shipping pallets.
Mothers are terrified for their children, the smell is overwhelming, and many residents refuse to leave their houses from fear of being pelted with poo.
The course contained obstacles such as tight turns and steep ramps, but these were nothing compared to getting pelted with water balloons and silly string.
Officials said security forces had been pelted with stones on 47 occasions on Saturday night in the Kashmir Valley, and more than 20 on Sunday.
A U.S. military convoy withdrawing from Syria for Iraq yesterday was pelted sporadically with fruit and stones by Kurdish civilians accusing the U.S of betrayal.
One woman wearing a "Trump" jersey was cornered by the mob and pelted in the face with eggs, spit on and doused with water bottles.
The developments come at a time when Trump is being pelted on television by pro-Clinton forces with virtually no support from outside Republican groups.
Leslie Jones is furious that publisher Simon & Schuster has given a book deal to a controversial conservative activist who pelted her with nasty abuse online.
Andres pelted questions at a quick clip and showed more than a dozen documents to the jury as evidence of Devine and Manafort's Ukrainian work.
When the rain starts — the narrator tells us it "pelted down," but we only see a few drops — they run for cover under a mushroom.
That proved wise at the Gainesville Regional this month when Jonathan India and Wil Dalton pelted Cameron simultaneously after back-to-back homers against Jacksonville.
Activists pelted the statue with eggs, splashed it with paint and eventually knocked it over, only a few days after the start of the show.
Clinton, pelted by a driving rain and seemingly overcome by exhaustion, exhilaration and a swirling wind, lets loose with her hands and relinquishes her script.
Gary Sanchez, Todd Frazier and Didi Gregorius pelted Tepesch for solo home runs, and the Yankees finally pulled away against a depleted Blue Jays bullpen.
As guests settled in for appetizers, Demi Lovato belted out three numbers on stage while a driving rain pelted the soaring windows of the space.
So during the Emmy Awards on Sunday night, my Twitter feed put aside politics and instead pelted reactions to the ceremony we were collectively watching.
Fifteen policemen were wounded after protesters set cars and buses on fire and pelted people with stones, L. Chandrashekar, a senior police officer, told Reuters.
Scuffles broke out after anti-fascists pelted marchers from the right-wing Patriot Prayer group with eggs, water bottles and firecrackers, the Oregonian newspaper reported.
Space is not a hospitable environment—spacecraft exteriors are constantly pelted by micrometeorites, blasted with high energy radiation, and subjected to extreme shifts in temperature.
Amid a desperate situation Friday in which hundred of thousands of ransomware attacks pelted computers in nearly 100 countries, one stroke of good fortune hit, too.
Well, dollar lover and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin gave us a new one Friday, when he literally pelted a journalist with a snowball on Friday morning.
Disney CEO Bob Iger is being pelted with entreaties to run for president in 2020, and is clearly intrigued by the idea, according to industry sources.
The committee members pelted the two Facebook representatives - as well as representatives from Google and Twitter - with questions about how they handle fake news and privacy.
Well, now we know one more thing, at least: Meryl Streep is going to be in it and she's going to get pelted with ice cream.
The officials said security forces had been pelted with stones on 47 occasions on Saturday night in the Kashmir Valley, and more than 20 on Sunday.
Resembling the solitary pigeon on the phone line being pelted with rocks by all the kids in the street, he fended off questions — not always accurately.
Last October, in the Blue Jays' division-series clincher over the Rangers, fans pelted the Rogers Centre field with bottles and debris after a controversial call.
The bus also sustained fairly extensive damage as fans pelted it with so much trash that it broke through the layer of tinting encasing the windows.
A group of Turkish boys played a rowdy game of soccer while children from Iraq, Egypt, Russia and elsewhere pelted one another with fistfuls of gravel.
He was allegedly pelted with eggs, and he and other pledges were forced to play full-contact football inside the frat house near Ohio University's campus.
Before the parade, Ms. Vishneva had been pelted with flowers by the cast of "Onegin," as well as by people in the audience and orchestra pit.
"They pelted stones at us, stones half the size of bricks," said Sucharita Sen, a geography professor, who was struck in the head and needed stitches.
Chief Justice Roberts already is pelted by litigation from conservatives seeking to win victories in court that they have failed to win at the ballot box.
On an overpass at around 0003 pm, police drove an armored vehicle toward a line of protesters, who pelted it with a hail of Molotov cocktails.
Sure, that may be true, but I definitely have the right to not stand in the shit-storm and wonder why I'm getting pelted with shit.
Breaking Bad actor Aaron Paul sent a holiday message to his fans, which turned out to be somewhat difficult for him as he was pelted with snowballs.
"It was scary to go to a GG Allin show because there being a very good chance you would get pelted with feces or assaulted," Hallis recounts.
The scene in the film shows the villainous Mr. McGregor, who suffers a blackberry allergy, being pelted by Peter Rabbit and his furry friends with the fruit.
Gene Gene the Dancing Machine's signature music usually sent the already-unhinged Barris into further paroxysms of laughter, even as Gene was pelted by debris from offstage.
Meanwhile, a barrage of leaks has pelted the White House, as President Trump heads tonight to his golf club in Bedminster, N.J., for a 17-day vacation.
The last time this happened, the street parties of one mid-size Canadian city escalated to a literal riot that torched cars and pelted cops with bottles.
Debris from a Norwegian Air Boeing 787 pelted a village near Rome after a "technical failure," damaging cars and homes as the plane passed over worried residents.
The settlers have hailed that man as a hero, saying he fired into the air to save the children's lives as Palestinian youths pelted them with stones.
The 2016 election has already seen occasional flare-ups of violence, including Trump protesters getting punched at rallies and Trump supporters being pelted with objects at protests.
She was ordered to leave a public beach as a child, and pelted with stones as she walked to school, where white teachers refused to instruct her.
Whitney, 92, recalled during a recent tearful phone interview that emotions ran so high she was pelted by beer cans on the way to the winner's circle.
Mesa, the agent, maintains the group was engaged in an illegal border crossing and had pelted him with rocks in the run-up to the fatal shooting.
JNU staff member Sucharita Sen was pelted with stones, some as large as half a brick, by the assailants, according to a JNU Teachers' Association press briefing.
"The police came under constant attacks by groups of students who pelted them with rocks," he said, adding that several students had been arrested at various universities.
That coast will take the rocket through regions of intense radiation that surround Earth called the Van Allen belts, where it will be pelted by high-energy particles.
Following the debate, both candidates received hostile receptions from the electorate, with Le Pen pelted with eggs as she visited a town in the western region of Brittany.
A spring storm pelted Denver and the surrounding area with heaps of fresh powder Wednesday, bringing with it howling winds, sweeping power outages and swaths of store closures.
Protests during the weekend's general strike briefly turned violent on Sunday when hooded youths pelted the police with firebombs and stones outside the Parliament building in central Athens.
Near Kobani, crowds pelted passing Turkish and Russian armored vehicles of the patrol with stones from a roadside and chanted slogans, footage from local North Press Agency showed.
The elephant's odyssey began in June, when it was caught in the raging Brahmaputra River and Indian villagers pelted it with stones when it tried to come ashore.
So it's not hard to imagine him being pelted with boos while taking the mound at Nationals Park, a scene White House handlers would surely love to avoid.
Their apartment, a duplex penthouse with a floating staircase, private roof and three terraces, is shrouded in scaffolding, damaged by water leaks and has been pelted with debris.
And yes, all in the city that almost 30 years before had pelted him with trash as he opened up for the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band.
At one Fort Myers hotel, the rain pelted the building with such force that it came into rooms around window frames, stains spreading ever wider on the carpet.
The series has seen victims pelted to death by vintage wine bottles, crushed by a giant round of cheese and even burst into flame via sinister science experiment.
On Saturday, as word spread that Mr. Bhat had been killed, protests erupted in most districts in Kashmir, and members of the security forces were pelted with stones.
Protesters in Zeta, outside the capital, Podgorica, pelted police with rocks, injuring four, and used a tree trunk to briefly block the road leading to Montenegro's main airport.
After days of being pelted with criticism, Old Navy pulled the shirts from its site, though they're still available for sale in stores, and responded to Roberts via email.
When Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi came to the scene of the blast Sunday morning, he soon had to flee, his entourage pelted with stones, bottles, shoes and insults.
Abide visited the site of the bombings earlier Sunday and was pelted with stones and bottles by residents, angry at what they felt were false promises of better security.
He tipped his head down to avoid being pelted in the face by rain, but it looked to Grace as if he was trying to hold back his emotions.
He raced back up the slope, scrabbling over low stone walls, and pelted through the sheepfold,past the garden and through the cloister, still gripping his apple branch swords.
The senior officer said that at a second gun battle, also on Wednesday, protesters pelted stones at troops to disrupt an operation in Muhammad Pora village in Kulgam district.
Protests took a turn for the worse when a number of drivers pelted stones at an Uber office in Bangalore and attacked operating cabs, as reported in The Hindu.
Mr. Abadi tried to visit the site of the Karrada bombing a few hours after the attack, but he was pelted with stones and shoes and forced to flee.
In Kibera, the main opposition stronghold in the city, protesters pelted police with stones as officers used tear gas and fired into the air as a warning to disperse.
The authorities in the Karnataka city of Bangalore banned public gatherings and deployed riot police officers as protesters set fire to vehicles and pelted buildings and cars with stones.
Outnumbering the 1,000-odd Pride marchers four-to-one, they assaulted and terrorized them, shouted death threats, and pelted them with firecrackers, cobblestones, and bottles, some filled with urine.
Some of the protesters pelted the migrants in the square with flares, firecrackers and stones broken off sidewalks, and some chanted "burn them alive," according to local news media.
But the strength of Hurricane Irma, which pelted the region with 185-mile-per-hour winds, were unlike anything these particular islands have seen for decades, many residents said.
KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwandan police arrested 23 Congolese refugees after officials visiting their camp were pelted with stones, authorities said after two days of clashes in which one refugee died.
For roughly 23 hours spread out over three days, House impeachment managers pelted the Republican-led Senate with what they said was "overwhelming" and undisputed evidence against the president.
But after being pelted with energized particles in a highly-radiated zone around Earth called the Van Allen belts, the rocket ignited — and performed better than SpaceX engineers envisioned.
He would bring the whole weight of the law down upon their stupid rustic numbskulls—imprisonment, a fine, a day in the stocks being pelted by stones and shit . . .
Opposition demonstrators said urgency was increasing as they set up barricades along main roads in the capital, Caracas, pelted by sheets of rain and teargas canisters fired by police.
A police spokeswoman, Patricia Wessels, told The A.P. that protesters pelted officers with bottles and rocks, and law enforcement officials responded with dogs, baton charges and a water cannon.
However, police said some vandals did manage to enter the Jamia and officers only followed them into the campus after they were pelted with stones from inside the university.
Crowds pelted stones at police in Ferozabad, Muzzafarnagar and Ghaziabad among other cities in Uttar Pradesh and police fired tear gas in the city of Kanpur to scatter protesters.
Trump, as he flew home to a White House being pelted by a later summer storm, had much to brood upon, beginning with the fallout of Cohen's courtroom betrayal.
This tactic was on display in Salvini's response to one high-profile recent attack, when an Italian athlete of Nigerian descent was pelted with an egg, injuring her cornea.
This year's home loss to Oklahoma in Week 2 only amplified the criticism further, and Barrett was pelted by everyone from his own fans to coveted high school recruits.
As news of the 22-year-old's death spread, crowds pelted police with stones in Srinagar, the state's summer capital, and in some southern reaches of the state, officials said.
The test data convinced Clark that the disk sail's top was doomed to become as flat and tight as a snare drum's head when pelted with fantastic amounts of pressure.
Youths have pelted stones at paramilitary police deployed in Srinagar, and the latest detentions took place in parts of the city where such incidents have occurred, a police officer said.
Videos posted on Twitter show one woman wearing a "Trump" jersey being cornered by the mob and pelted in the face with eggs, spit on and doused with water bottles.
Initial accounts of the events also said at least one woman was pelted by an egg after a crowd of demonstrators surrounded her, as seen in video of the incident.
At one point, after not seeing any signs of 5G signal for almost two hours while being pelted with sleet I started to question if the phone was working properly.
We're a little more than halfway through August, so I think it's safe to pose this question without being pelted by virtual tomatoes: is there a Show of the Summer?
They were pelted with gravel and harassed as they went from small town to small town, where they called for an end to segregated seating on buses and in theaters.
Video appears to show a US Army vehicle being pelted with stones and rotten fruit in the Syrian border town of Qamishli during the US troop withdrawal from the country.
Lawmakers pelted Mr. Shkreli with questions about his company's sudden, exorbitant price increases, growing increasingly annoyed as he smiled, fidgeted and invoked his Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination.
Bannon was even more determined than Trump to force an American pullout, and he pelted McMaster with derisive taunts about the futility of throwing more money into Afghanistan's corrupt army.
When the full board gathered later that day at a room at the company's headquarters reserved for sensitive meetings, Mr. Bowles pelted questions at Facebook's founder and second-in-command.
There's a tense scene in the finale in which Arthie steps into the ring and gets pelted with spit, beer and slurs, and the bigotry wrestling exploits suddenly hits home.
In 2017 Ilya Varlamov, a popular blogger who writes about corruption, was attacked in the southern Russian city of Stavropol by men who pelted him with zelyonka, eggs and flour.
Another judge on the panel, Thomas Griffith, also pelted Freeman with questions, reminding him how the courts have released grand jury information related to the President during past impeachment probes.
SUMTER, S.C. — As rain pelted the rooftop of Mount Zion Missionary Baptist church on Monday afternoon, five mothers — united both in their grief and their purpose — came to share their stories.
On Wednesday, a woman police constable was molested by five protesters near Kochi, while a protester was pelted with stones and killed in a southern district of the state, police said.
When South Korea's prime minister, defense minister, and other officials visited the region on Friday, they were surrounded by angry farmers on tractors, who pelted them with eggs and water bottles.
The insurance proved to be more than window dressing, as the Blue Jays stormed back with the ferocity of the thundershowers that had pelted away at the tarp during the delay.
First there's the anger: Rioters pelted the Olympic torch relay with rocks as it approached Rio de Janeiro, while bumper stickers have rearranged the Olympic rings into a four-letter word.
For years — specifically, reunion years like 2006 and 2011 — I imagined that if I dared to show my face at Princeton, I'd be scorned or possibly pelted with microwaveable snack foods.
"Running down a mountain pelted by rocks, dodging burning boulders and boiling steam - not an experience I ever ever want to repeat," the BBC's science correspondent Rebecca Morelle wrote on Twitter.
Monday, as Dorian churned toward Florida and Mr. Trump's boarded-up Mar-a-Lago resort, the president had golfed twice and since Saturday morning pelted the American public with 122 tweets.
Its players were pelted with shoes and other objects thrown from the Emirati crowd in their semifinal victory, and they endured other difficulties linked to the political dispute throughout the event.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Israeli military shot dead a Palestinian during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, saying a soldier fired back after a man pelted him with a rock.
Last Wednesday, two days after the Mangle incident, a teenager suffered "life-changing" burns on his face and neck after he and a female friend were pelted with acid in west London.
Earth's magnetic field is currently being pelted with particles streaming from the sun, sparking a geomagnetic storm that is increasing aurora activity in the high latitudes of the southern and northern hemispheres.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo also turned up alongside Estanguet, with the two of them taking to the Seine in a kayak, not far from where sprinters pelted along a floating athletics track.
Video of the confrontation shows Ngo surrounded by many black-clad protesters, being pelted by eggs and silly string, when one runs up to him, throws a punch, and another kicks him.
Jenner was pelted with insults via Twitter for baring her backside in the daring number, which, if we're going to give the Internet credit for remembering things, has actually been done before.
The crowd was getting riled up, and subdued moshpits start to form on the arena floor; a woman sitting a few seats over pelted a pair of black panties toward the stage.
For three, hectic rounds, the crafty American veteran and torpedo-fisted South Korean prospect pelted each other with heavy artillery, each putting the other on roller skates on more than one occasion.
It's the cold of freshly applied face-paint, popcorn being pelted at you from an air cannon, and a DJ screaming shout-outs into the dark while the sun still glares outside.
The story goes that when Prince came out the first night, wearing little more than a trench coat, underwear, and suspenders, the rock-loving fans pelted him and his band with garbage.
Years of roving the country in junk cars, foraging for food in school trash bins, being pelted with rocks by bullies and being eyed with contempt by neighbors have left her wary.
All this may have been particularly hurtful to a boy who, on the day of his bar mitzvah, sat on the roof of his house and pelted his parents' guests with oranges.
When Mr. Nézet-Séguin appeared onstage for a curtain call, the players nearly pelted him with dozens of flowers, a gesture that caused him to smile with gratitude while ducking for cover.
Here is the opening of "2011": On the last bus from Dublin to Limerick Raindrops pelted the landscape And held little photos Of aluminum crutches in each drop Rolling down the glass.
If this guy isn't just pelted with some Portuguese pastries on stage then marched outside and told wait in the car, I'll lose all faith in this competition and democracy more broadly.
According to the lawsuit, which seeks unspecified compensation, one Trump backer was pelted with eggs and spat on, while another, a 71-year-old woman, had her hair pulled and her glasses broken.
The Weather Channel reported that the storms that ripped through the Gulf Coast also pelted Little Rock, Arkansas, with hail and generated winds as high as 62 mph that howled across western Tennessee.
Dozens of protesters were injured, two of them critically with gunshot wounds, as a large number of youths gathered in Kilora village in South Kashmir's Shopian district and pelted Indian troops with stones.
BEIJING — Visitors to a zoo in southeast China, apparently hoping for a livelier show, pelted kangaroos with rocks, ultimately killing one, injuring another and setting off a wave of public disgust and anger.
PARIS (Reuters) - France's economy minister was pelted with eggs on Monday as a strike against planned labor reforms disrupted rail services for a sixth day but appeared to be running out of steam.
A convoy carrying Abadi who had come to tour the site of the bombings was pelted with stones and bottles by residents, angry at what they felt were false promises of better security.
KAMPALA, Uganda – A prominent opposition figure in Uganda has been detained following violent clashes Monday night that allegedly started when the president&aposs motorcade was pelted with stones, a military official said Tuesday.
Republican leaders have spent the early days of their Obamacare repeal effort pelted with questions about why they announced a 13-man working group last week that didn't include a single female senator.
A group of masked pro-separatists held back by riot police pelted them with eggs and hurled powder paint, creating dark clouds of dust in streets that would usually be thronged with tourists.
In Australia, a Pokémon-resource-rich playground is reportedly drawing hundreds of people every night, creating a rowdy scene so annoying that neighborhood residents pelted the Ash wannabes with water balloons and eggs.
I remember hearing the news on the radio that he had been pelted offstage with coins at Madness' Madstock reunion gig in Finsbury Park, just a couple of miles from where I lived.
TIRANA (Reuters) - A big crowd angered by new charges on the main artery linking 7Albania to Kosovo pelted police with stones and set the toll booths on fire on Saturday, television images showed.
Video appears to show US troops on the Syrian border being pelted with stones by local men during their withdrawal from the country after US President Donald Trump's abrupt decision to pull out.
Ford spent eight days on the witness stand as Tribune lawyers pelted him with questions in an attempt to prove Ford was an ignorant man, and the press wrote up every juicy exchange.
A medical team from Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel's emergency response service, was pelted with rocks in the same neighborhood while trying to carry out a coronavirus test, a spokesman from MDA said.
In Kerala, after the women entered the temple, protesters forced shops to close, blocked traffic, pelted stones at the police, who fired tear gas canisters, and vandalized a government office in one district.
BEIRUT, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Lebanese security forces fired tear gas to disperse protesters outside the country's central bank on Tuesday evening, clashing with dozens of people who pelted them with stones and fireworks.
The fires are not the only extreme weather the country has experienced in the past few months, as giant storms pelted Sydney, Melbourne and the capital, Canberra, with hail the size of baseballs.
In February, a speech by the incendiary right-wing writer Milo Yiannopoulos, also sponsored by the College Republicans, was canceled after masked protesters smashed windows, set fires and pelted the police with rocks.
At Dan Nichols's ranch, about 20 miles from the refuge, rains pelted down on a recent afternoon as 500 pregnant cows prepared to give birth in the pastures outside his century-old farmhouse.
Ministers (including Mr Muscat) have been pelted with eggs, MPs from rival parties have almost come to blows, and on December 2nd the opposition boycotted Parliament as Mr Muscat gave a farewell speech.
The rain that pelted the teams stopped after the first half, helping the game turn into an offensive show as the teams combined for 39 points and 394 yards in the third quarter.
Security forces used teargas, water cannon and rubber bullets to push protesters, who pelted them with rocks and firecrackers, away from the main sit-in site and government buildings in the capital city.
Sure, her misdeeds get exposed and she gets pelted with floral corsages at prom, but that seems pretty mild compared to Heather Chandler's death by bleach, or Regina George getting hit by a bus.
The Warriors won easily, 130-114, but there were multiple (albeit minor) on-court confrontations between Durant and his former teammates as the Thunder crowd pelted him with boos and insults all night long.
In Houston and Austin — where upward of 6 inches of rain fell late Thursday and early Friday after golf ball-sized hail pelted the region — areas were still experiencing high water conditions on Sunday.
I want to hang out in that cozy caravan Danny shares with his father as it's gently pelted by an apple tree, and eat roast pheasant (the food of kings, according to Danny's father).
And let's not forget her lead role in Alexander McQueen's legendary spring 1999 show when she stood on a spinning platform as spray gun-wielding robots pelted her with lime green and black paint.
A U.S. military convoy withdrawing from Syria for Iraq today was pelted with fruit and stones by Kurdish civilians who accuse the superpower they once saw as their protector of leaving them in peril.
Right after his lengthy evisceration of Graham-Cassidy, he illustrated the bill's purportedly dangerous trajectory with a slow-motion video of a New York Yankees batter pelted in the groin by an errant pitch.
Nine shots pelted Craig Anderson in the first nine minutes, with still others skittering wide, and they were superb chances: one-timers from the slot, wristers from the circle and rebounds near the crease.
The previous parade in October 2018 drew crowds of protestors who pelted parade participants with rocks, flares and tomatoes as they progressed from the steps of Lublin castle up through the city's old town.
The doctors said they were afraid of getting pelted with rocks, so one of the attorneys stuffed a sweater under her coat to feign a pregnancy in case they were stopped by anti-abortion protesters.
If this year's Academy Awards were pelted by critics for being "Oscars so white," the 2016 Primetime Emmy Awards may earn the catchphrase "Emmys so colorful," based on the diversity of the nominees and winners.
Around the 25th-century Arc de Triomphe at the top of the Champs Elysees boulevard, riot police fired water cannon and tear gas at militant protesters after being pelted with stones and paint, witnesses said.
According to The Telegraph, the former One Direction has been "pelted" with kiwis by fans, in a very literal interpretation of the song, which makes no actual mention of kiwis, other than in the title.
The man killed Friday was among a group of residents who had chased and pelted a joint Russian-Turkey convoy with shoes and stones, prompting Turkish troops to fire tear gas to disperse the protesters.
After fans pelted the ice with souvenir wristbands in the previous game, Neuvirth had 31 saves and helped Philadelphia stave off a sweep with a 2-1 win over the Washington Capitals on Wednesday night.
Speaking to CNN at the 22nd International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam this week, she recalled an evening when she walked home through her village and was pelted with bottles by a group of local men.
In the annals of audience restlessness, these evenings rival the opening night of Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring," in 1913, when Parisians in osprey and tails reportedly brandished their canes and pelted the dancers with objects.
The November Times story describes board member Erskine Bowles, who heads Facebook's Oversight & Risk Committee, as having "pelted questions" at Zuckerberg and Sandberg over their knowledge of Russian interference, indicating some unrest on the board.
ATHENS — Rioting broke out here and in Thessaloniki late Thursday, as masked youths at barricades pelted the police with homemade firebombs after rallies for the 10th anniversary of a fatal police shooting of a teenager.
Minnesota did not announce the official attendance, but the game was played with roughly half of the arena's seats unoccupied due to heavy snow that pelted the Twin Cities much of the day on Monday.
Witnesses and medical officials said al-Hadad was shot as he took part in a protest in Hebron, a Palestinian city with Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, where Israeli troops were pelted with rocks.
MUMBAI (Reuters) - Protests disrupted business in India's financial hub of Mumbai for a second day on Wednesday as lower-caste Dalits pelted buses, blocked rail lines and shut malls after a clash with right-wing Hindus.
Palaniswami issued a statement saying that police were "compelled to take preventative measures to bring the violence under control" after protesters pelted officers with stones and set fire to police vehicles and other vehicles parked nearby.
Thursday's disaster in Missouri came just four days after passengers aboard a regular tour boat off Hawaii's Big Island were pelted with "lava bombs" that left several with third-degree burns and a woman's leg broken.
Sure, he gets pelted with snacks by Tom and fails to secure a spot in the good panic room (he's susceptible to "attack children" in the Cheezits room), but he pulls it out in the end!
Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee pelted Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the Russia investigation, with accusations of obfuscation, even as the House itself passed a nonbinding measure demanding related documents within seven days.
With nine days to go before Thanksgiving, rain pelted the hoods, hats and heads of volunteers unloading boxes of turkeys donated by the Cataneses from a truck outside Resurrection-Ascension Catholic Church in Rego Park, Queens.
Witnesses said that a crowd pelted the driver with stones, and that when he tried to crawl into a sleeping area at the front of the truck to escape, members of the crowd dragged him out.
The dramatic entrance came with ceremonial guns booming, a flyover by military planes and an elaborate parade during which he was pelted with roses by tens of thousands of cheering Cubans assembled on streets, balconies and roofs.
So were her loyal readers, who ignored the griping reviews (Angela Carter once described reading one of her novels as like being "sealed inside a luxury shopping mall whilst being softly pelted with scented sex-technique manuals").
NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli police said on Saturday they were investigating the death of a Palestinian woman in the occupied West Bank, after her husband said he suspected Israeli settlers had pelted their car with rocks.
Per Philadelphia's ABC affiliate station, at one point during the game, the Phillies mascot Phillie Phanatic brought out a massive hot dog launcher and pelted food at the crowd, accidentally hitting McVay in the face with one.
The team's heroics in the group stage had inspired Mexico's horde of traveling fans to sing his name from the stands — a remarkable turnaround for a coach pelted with criticism in the weeks heading into the tournament.
Japan's Kyodo News agency described similar incidents of anti-Asian bigotry wherever the coronavirus has struck: Asian students pelted with eggs in Leicestershire, England, or people in Egypt yelling out "corona" when passing Asians in the street.
The calm came after a week of intense airstrikes and shelling that killed more than 500 people in eastern Ghouta and left dozens dead or wounded in the government-held Damascus, which rebels pelted with mortar shells.
Supporters were pelted with multiple emails assuring them that Mr. Trump was overseeing an "aggressive coronavirus response," and that the "full weight of the U.S. government" was working to safeguard Americans from illness, according to one message.
Many Americans of a certain age experienced fears of a redux when the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad was surrounded last week by Iran-backed militias, who pelted the fortress with rocks and flaming gasoline bombs before retreating.
Trace McSorley passed for two touchdowns and ran for another as No. 13 Penn State drubbed in-state rival and host Pitt 51-6 Saturday on a soggy field pelted by the remnants of Tropical Storm Gordon.
Residents in the Eldorado Park and Ennerdale townships in South Africa's economic hub pelted police cars with stones and blocked a highway with burning tires and rocks, prompting riot police in protective gear to fire back at them.
According to Fox 2 Detroit, a group of Eastern Michigan University students in 2015 berated him with racist slurs and pelted him with a beer can while they were dressed up as Native Americans for a theme party.
Washington (CNN)Two days after world powers agreed to a "cessation of hostilities" in Syria, prospects for its success are already being met with skepticism as bombs pelted Damascus suburbs Friday and officials involved acknowledged the difficulties ahead.
Reds LH John Lamb (23-603, 260) Friedrich's four-start unbeaten streak came to a crashing halt against Washington in his last outing, when he was pelted for six runs and nine hits - including a pair of homers.
But before we start making intergalactic vacation plans, let's pump the space-brakes: half the planet is locked in darkness, it's pelted by radiation from close proximity to its sun, and the rock is 25 trillion miles away.
Mr. Sanders, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, was deeply unpopular for many of his 16 years in the House of Representatives, where he bucked his own leadership and pelted bills with amendments, many of the gadfly variety.
The rain pelted down, and then, with a slap-slap-slap of wet running shoes, the runners emerged again, with heaving breath, going at full tilt down the hillside, arms flailing to keep balance on the sodden ground.
Still, the match ended amicably enough, a far cry from an Asian Cup tilt in January, when the victorious Qatari squad was pelted with shoes and bottles by the crowd in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE.
Some, given the chance, might make the producers re-enact the "walk of shame" suffered by Cersei Lannister, a key character, in season five (she was made to pass through a crowd naked while being pelted with rotten fruit).
Because the planet has no ozone layer and a weak magnetic field, any humans on the surface would be pelted with both cosmic rays and UV rays from the sun — at far higher doses than they'd get on Earth.
" The 37-year-old says the moment was fueled by his initial reaction to "one or two" bras being pelted at the band, explaining, "I got to laughing, and it was like the whole entire venue started throwing them.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Outlying Japanese islands were pelted by intense rain on Friday as a powerful typhoon bore down, threatening the main islands with heavy rain at the weekend and putting areas already ravaged by deadly floods at risk again.
The woman's husband, Aykube al-Rawbi, 52, said he was driving by a settlement late on Friday after dark along a main road near the Palestinian city of Nablus and that he could not see who pelted the car.
" Referring to city whose—ahem—exuberant sports fans memorably pelted Santa Claus with snowballs, he said, "Whatever I've got in my career now, I would have had a great deal more if I played in Los Angeles or Chicago.
The anonymous cop says he and his fellow officers were first pelted by full bottles, looted from a Circle K -- and when the water ran out, someone picked up a piece of concrete ... or a rock ... and chucked it.
His breakthrough movie, "The Lobster" (2015), deployed a deadpan calm, but there's nothing remotely subtle about the fat man in "The Favourite," naked and giggling, who is pelted with oranges by a braying bunch of aristocrats, in slow motion.
After many years in prison, then rehab, Fred now lives in a group home in Illinois that is only occasionally pelted with rocks or shot at by locals who are unhappy to have men like him in the neighborhood.
The show ends with a big, bold new banner by the Guerrilla Girls, whose handsome, emphatically designed posters have pelted the art world with dismaying facts about the demographics of gallery rosters and museum collections for over four decades.
In Rome, he stayed at the luxurious Raphael hotel, where Bettino Craxi, the face of Italy's corrupt establishment and mentor to Silvio Berlusconi, was pelted with coins in 1993 by an angry mob as he departed the political scene.
David McBride, the owner of Buck Wild Saloon in Smiths Station, told The Ledger-Enquirer that he had ridden out the tornado inside his truck as it was pelted with debris, watching as the winds tore his saloon apart.
Nothing could have prepared us for what lay outside the cozy van: Imagine plunging into a cold lake, then lifting your head out of the water only to have your eyes pelted by a continuous hail of tiny needles.
Its 19 buildings, in one of Beijing's busiest retail areas, house some of the world's biggest brands — Versace, Balenciaga and a two-story Apple store that was once pelted with eggs by customers angry over a botched iPhone launch.
In the spring of 2010, near the end of Alan Gilbert's first season as music director of the New York Philharmonic, the players in the orchestra pelted him with crumpled pieces of paper in the middle of a performance.
In the Senate, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. swore in seven new members and all the incumbents who won their races last year, their colleagues looking on cheerfully, as a cold rain pelted the newly refurbished Capitol dome.
Demonstrators torched cars and pelted police with stones and bottles and police fired tear gas and water cannon in Paris on Saturday as rallies to mark the first anniversary of the anti-government "yellow vest" demonstrations erupted into violence.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Five civilians were killed and more than 50 wounded when Indian troops opened fire on hundreds of people who pelted them with stones as they carried out an operation against militants in Kashmir, a senior police official said.
The rallying cry of the protesters, who have trashed public buildings in the Chinese-ruled city, set street fires and pelted police with petrol bombs, has been "five demands, not one less", meaning the withdrawal of the bill makes no difference.
Sounds of a Comet Encounter: During its February 14th, 2011, flyby of comet Tempel 1, an instrument on the protective shield on NASA's Stardust spacecraft was pelted by dust particles and small rocks, as can be heard in this audio track.
The rallying cry of the protesters, who have trashed public buildings in the Chinese-ruled city, set street fires and pelted police with petrol bombs, has been "five demands, not one less," meaning the withdrawal of the bill makes no difference.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Indian security forces on Tuesday killed five protesters and injured 10 in clashes that erupted after crowds angered by the killing of a separatist militant in disputed Kashmir pelted them with stones and defied a curfew, officials said.
PARIS (Reuters) - Demonstrators torched cars and pelted police with stones and bottles and police fired tear gas and water cannon in Paris on Saturday as rallies to mark the first anniversary of the anti-government "yellow vest" demonstrations erupted into violence.
Read more: Video appears to show US troops being pelted with stones and rotten fruit as they pull out of SyriaThe United Nations is also investigating, after apparent chemical burns were seen on a child caught in clashes between forces.
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea's prime minister was pelted with eggs and water bottles by angry villagers on Friday as he paid a visit to the rural county chosen as the site of a planned United States missile defense system.
Former Anzhi Makhachkala defender Christopher Samba, from Congo, was pelted with a banana peel in 2012 by a fan of Lokomotiv Moscow Nigerian striker Peter Odemwingie, whose mother is Russian, also suffered racism from fans of his former club Lokomotiv Moscow.
In a striking sign of dissent, demonstrators on Tuesday pelted Mr. Maduro with eggs and stones while he rode in a jeep in a military parade in the eastern state of Bolívar, where his party has traditionally enjoyed strong support.
After being relentlessly pelted by the Symbiote's disembodied insults and the ridiculousness of Hardy's internal monologue with a flesh-craving alien whose pleasures are both carnal and anatomical, it's hard not to end up rooting for this strange, mismatched pair.
Ernest had grown less and less responsive as the parties dragged on, soon more likely just to sit in the corner than to pay attention to anyone, one night not even turning around when Frank pelted it with chunks of French bread.
The cascade of negative news seemed to have transformed even some of Valeant's most supportive analysts into skeptics, as they pelted Mr. Pearson with questions, challenging the company's financial statements and even, at one point, asking if his comments could be trusted.
WASHINGTON — In early November, a few days after Senator Kamala Harris's presidential campaign announced widespread layoffs and an intensified focus on Iowa, her senior aides gathered for a staff meeting at their Baltimore headquarters and pelted the campaign manager, Juan Rodriguez, with questions.
Since the plot runs along the broad windows that allow views into the carwash, Mr. Martinez can tend his crops while observing his crew, as well as the cars being squirted with foam and pelted with spinning and dangling brushes and cloths.
But police in Nairobi, sometimes pelted by rocks, have beaten and kicked protesters who have taken to the streets since late April to demand the scrapping of an election oversight body that they accuse of pro-government bias, a charge it denies.
The moments before the violence are captured in the video below: The stones that pelted Excalibur and Spool were turned towards the stands, and a man seen "dancing like a homosexual" during Lasser's set became the straw that broke the camel's back.
"The day before, in the same place, a man had been in the pillory for perjury, and had been pelted with rotten eggs, and almost strangled by blood and guts brought from the slaughter-houses, and flung in his face," Thompson wrote.
As has become the custom when Hanyu performs, as soon as he completed his skate - which left him in the lead in the short program - and the Gangneung Ice Arena was still roaring, fans pelted the ice with flowers and Winnie the Pooh stuffed toys.
Last year, Boston University concluded in its investigation that Marchant had sexually harassed and demeaned Willenbring but did not affirm her allegations that Marchant pelted her with stones, blew volcanic ash in her face, and even pushed her down a rocky slope during the expeditions.
Yankees 212, Giants 238 New York pelted Madison Bumgarner with 210 hits in 28 22/13 innings, then used the no-hit work of four relievers to hold on for a victory over host San Francisco in the opener of a three-game interleague series.
After famously firing Jacobs in 1993 after fashion journalists, including Cathy Horyn and Suzy Menkes, pelted him with criticism (Horyn dubbed grunge as "anathema to fashion") — causing Jacobs to start the namesake label we know today — Ellis is in full support of the move.
Insurer Suncorp Group limited the market's upside, slipping 1.4 percent to an over two-month low after it flagged a A$13 million - A$170 million ($125.73 million - $133.59 million) hit to its half-year earnings due to a hailstorm that pelted Melbourne in December.
As has become the custom when Hanyu performs, as soon as he completed his skate - which left him in the lead in the short programme - and the Gangneung Ice Arena was still roaring, fans pelted the ice with flowers and Winnie the Pooh stuffed toys.
Some protesters pelted eggs at the walls of Beijing's Liaison Office, while others spray-painted graffiti as they kept up pressure on the city's beleaguered government to heed their calls for an independent inquiry into complaints of police brutality during recent demonstrations, among other demands.
Snell's death, and the fatal police shooting on Sunday of a Hispanic male wielding what turned out to be handgun replica, ignited three days of angry rallies in Los Angeles, including a Sunday night protest in which demonstrators pelted Mayor Eric Garcetti's house with eggs.
But Jose remained close, while also wide enough of Fortunate Queen's hindquarters to avoid getting pelted, and settled into the space between the leader and the third-place horse, Miss Pearl, which, each brother knew from his research, was the only other horse with speed.
Vincent Martino—a mustachioed bar manager played by James Franco doing his best blue-collar Brooklyn accent—is assaulted while dropping off the bar's cash take, and pleads for his life at gunpoint before being pelted in the face and left bleeding on the sidewalk.
The 14-story towers, all but abutting the concrete barrier, would offer residents of the upper floors clear, if poignant, views of the defunct Qalandiya-Atarot Airport, which was closed in 2001 after militants pelted the runway with rocks and fired on the control tower.
Troops used tear gas and pellet guns on the crowd, which insisted on carrying on with the procession, one in a series held at this time of the year, and pelted stones at security forces, an Indian official who declined to named told Reuters.
One of the advertisements that introduced the newspaper to the world made Lai's point in the bluntest of ways: By showing Lai sitting in a dark warehouse with a red apple on his scalp, being pelted with incoming arrows fired by a shadowy figure.
Turkey then launched a ferocious attack on the Kurds, and by the time a convoy of American troops moved away over the weekend, they were shown in a widely circulated video being pelted by angry Kurds throwing potatoes to express their sense of betrayal.
As Bloomberg was pelted with relentless attacks over his reported insensitive remarks about women, for donating to Republican political candidates, and New York City's controversial policing practices, he failed at every turn to mount a strong or even coherent defense of himself and his record. 
Sometimes when you flip over to the local news channel, you'll hear the familiar words, "We're live from...," and the reporter is standing there being pelted by hail or holding an umbrella in a hurricane — all while remaining calm, cool, and collected in front of the camera.
This produces descending tones dubbed "whistlers," which sound like something the Starship Enterprise's comm system might pick up from the far end of a wormhole:Finally, there are what Meredith calls "chorus" emissions generated within Earth's magnetosphere as it's being pelted with charged particles from the Sun.
And then there was a lucha libre-style scene they experimented with in rehearsal, in which two actors, playing lovelorn academics brawling over a woman, were pelted with sombreros, stuffed animals, paper flowers and other props while mid-'90s Mexican death metal roared over the sound system.
CreditCreditAndrew Testa for The New York Times STOKE-ON-TRENT, England — Rain predictably pelted the windshield on the nearly 40-mile journey down the dark motorway back to his home on the outskirts of Manchester, but Geoff Cameron wasn't about to let a soaking interrupt him.
Members of Congress on Wednesday pelted the chief executive of Mylan, the company behind the EpiPen, the treatment for severe allergy attacks, with questions about steep price increases on the product and accused her of turning her back on families that could no longer afford the lifesaving treatment.
The New York Yankees pelted Madison Bumgarner with 21 hits in 23 23/22 innings, then used the no-hit work of four relievers to hold on for a 23-215 victory over the host San Francisco Giants in the opener of a three-game interleague series Friday night.
I drove off into an afternoon, and, in the space of just five hours, the sky turned purple and spit rain and snowflakes, whipping wind rose and pelted us with hail, numerous sets of double rainbows rose and fell, and finally a surreal golden light bathed the entire world.
Considering the promo for Harington hosting the April 6 episode of Saturday Night Live involves Leslie Jones having him pelted with doughnuts and shamed, Cersei Lannister style, you can bet The Prince That Was Promised will be on the receiving end of at least a few Thrones jokes come airtime.
If snow is perhaps a new phenomenon for you, or you'd like to vicariously the experience of being pelted in the face by millions of tiny ice-bombs as your feet slowly become wet and numb and you lose feeling in your fingers, here are some pictures of the snowstorm.
Lawmakers pelted experts from the Congressional Budget Office, which released a report last month on complex issues Congress would have to consider when designing such a plan, including how it would be financed, how much providers would be reimbursed and how much patients would have to pay out of pocket.
Lurie knew Pederson not only as a brilliant offensive mind but as someone who taught Lurie's son, Julian, how to throw a football, and who, from being pelted with batteries from impatient fans wishing McNabb to start as a rookie in 1999, had the requisite toughness to coach in Philadelphia.
But Ocasek was drawn to musical extremes ("I loved the Velvet Underground and the Carpenters," he once said), and he championed the confrontational New York electronic-terror duo Suicide by producing their second album and perversely anointing them as the Cars' opening act — each night, hostile fans pelted Suicide with garbage.
Watch her straining against a cyclonic wind, to the sound of a Baroque aria, pelted by trash and tipping forward like Buster Keaton in " Steamboat Bill, Jr. " (1928), or sharing a red-lit, imaginary embrace with Orlando during a visit to the crematorium, as though he were still more flesh than ash.
At police headquarters on June 21, a journalist next to me wondered out loud why half a dozen officers had been posted at the top of an escalator outside the building, in front of, rather than behind, a metal curtain, leaving them exposed to the humiliation of being pelted by eggs and tomatoes.
TRUMP SUPPORTERS PELTED BY EGGS, PUNCHES CAN SUE SAN JOSE COPS AFTER ATTACK, COURT SAYS Fearing that the alleged honking and shouting was regarding a problem with his car, the man reportedly got out, at which point, the man said he heard the other motorist shouting about his bumper sticker supporting Trump, according to the report.
The Oxford students do nod to American campuses, but their crusade is in fact a spin-off from a South African campaign at Cape Town University, which saw its own statue of Rhodes pelted with excrement by activists and ultimately removed by school authorities —as some onlookers chanted an old anti-colonial refrain, 'One Settler, One Bullet!
Trump's plans for pulling out of Syria were embarrassingly disrupted by Iraq, which said the US isn't allowed to redeploy on its soilVideo appears to show US troops being pelted with stones and rotten fruit as they pull out of SyriaThe story behind a soldier's act of solidarity with the US allies Trump is leaving behind in Syria
The administrator made the comments before being pelted with questions about recent regulatory rollbacks done under 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 having to do with methane, carbon and car emissions.
The director of "American Juggalo," Sean Dunne, 35, a filmmaker who grew up in the suburbs of New York City, said that he was inspired to make the movie in 2010 after Tila Tequila, a Myspace celebrity who performed at the Gathering of the Juggalos that year, was pelted with rocks and beer bottles before being chased from the stage to her trailer.
I MEAN, THE ONLY THING – THE ODD THING IN THAT COMMERCIAL, I'M USED TO WALL STREET GETTING PELTED, I'M USED TO FIRMS BEING NAMED BUT GOING AFTER SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALS WHO REALLY DIDN'T RAISE THEIR HAND, ARE NOT REALLY THAT ENGAGED IN THE PROCESS LIKE MY FRIEND LEE COOPERMAN AND, YOU KNOW, IT JUST SEEMS TO ME GOSH, IT'S TAKEN A NEW DIRECTION.
The Frequency of Asteroid Impacts Jumped Just Before the Dinosaur Age, New Research Suggests  By comparing the age of impact craters on the Moon to those on Earth, researchers say they have…Read more ReadBy studying these flashes, scientists can acquire better statistics about the rate of lunar impacts, and by consequence the rate at which the Earth's atmosphere is pelted by similarly sized objects.
Read more: A Florida couple's toilet exploded after lightning struck near their septic tankRead more:31 photos show how people have endured blistering heatwaves around the world this summerPink 'watermelon snow' is covering the tops of mountains in Yosemite National ParkA Minneapolis suburb got pelted by massive, baseball-sized hailPhotos show freak summer hailstorm coating roads with 5 feet of ice in Guadalajara, Mexico
In the memoir "Sunny's Nights: Lost and Found at a Bar on the Edge of the World" (Random House, 2016), Tim Sultan sheds light on the illustrious Sunny Balzano(1934-2016), the owner of Sunny's Bar on Conover Street, as well as on the colorful past of the area, where "bootleggers distilled, arsonists lit, nuns crossed, longshoremen hauled, unions agitated, kids pelted, gangs brawled."
Read more:The king of Thailand abruptly stripped all royal titles from his 34-year-old consort, who is accused of plotting against the queen to take her placeVideo appears to show US troops being pelted with stones and rotten fruit as they pull out of SyriaMeghan Markle says her friends warned her not to date Prince Harry because 'the British tabloids will destroy your life'
Read more: Video appears to show US troops being pelted with stones and rotten fruit as they pull out of SyriaThe dispute is the latest in a string of missteps by the Trump administration over its military presence in northeastern Syria, which began when the president gave a green light to a Turkish military operation aimed at clearing Kurdish forces off the shared Syria-Turkey border.
In the news conference, Mr. de Blasio was pelted with questions about the interview and the essay, which was meant to fulfill a pledge he made more than a year ago, while dogged by multiple investigations into his actions on behalf of campaign contributors, to provide examples of what he called "a stunning number" of instances in which donors had not gotten what they asked for.
I'm not naming names, but it's been a long time since I've owned a grill that didn't immediately show signs of wear and tear, let alone last a full year (four seasons in the temperate Northeast of the United States) out in the open, pelted with everything from wind (upwards of 60 mph), rain, hail, snow, salt (it lives less than 100 yards from the sea), and merciless summer sunlight.
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