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"pelting" Definitions
  1. paltry; petty; mean.
"pelting" Synonyms
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"Pelting or no pelting, disruptions or no disruptions, the operations will go on," he said.
Ole Miss fans are pelting the floor with trash. pic.twitter.
Midway through our meal, lightning crackled overhead, followed by pelting rain.
A second later, it was biblical, pelting the umbrellas like punishment.
More rifts emerged and rockets began pelting the island, wreaking havoc.
"There was stone-pelting in some parts of the city," he added.
"There was stone pelting in some parts of the city," he added.
Police charged at the stone pelting mob with sticks to disperse them.
The riots have also been accompanied by arson, stone-pelting, and larceny.
We froze in another pelting downpour and dried out in the sun.
Torres' 17th homer occurred as a heavy downpour began pelting the field.
People were pelting him with milkshakes and eggs, adding literal insult to injury.
Read more:Tropical Storm Dorian is pelting the Caribbean with heavy rain and wind.
The wind-driven flakes appeared to descend sideways, pelting his face and eyes.
He takes cover behind other people's statements, pelting us with distracting, irrelevant quotes.
Both groups induced electrons into Higgs-like activity by pelting their material with neutrons.
He began pelting the car with rocks that were part of the airport landscape.
On the way home the sky darkened and began pelting the sea with hailstones.
An outraged mob attacked Mr. Christopher's limousine, pelting it with eggs, mud and rocks.
"There are young people who have been radicalized who are pelting stones," Rawat said.
"You not only yourself indulge in stone pelting but instigate others," one document said.
And protesters are currently pelting Iceland's parliament building with yogurt and eggs, demanding Gunnlaugsson's resignation.
The storm is expected to start pelting Florida with rain and damaging winds late Thursday.
The police used tear gas on protesters, who were pelting stones at the Indian forces.
The three took turns pelting tennis balls at Corden in a segment called "Target Practice".
A crowd gathered and began pelting the cops with rocks, bottles, and debris after the shooting.
Users began pelting Timehop with 1-star reviews in the App Store and Google Play Store.
The images show people of all ages finding pure joy in pelting each other with tomatoes. 
In the paper they describe how they slow the bead by pelting it with infrared photons.
Madonna was fine, but I wanted to be Courtney Love, pelting Kurt Loder with makeup products.
After the shooting, a crowd gathered and began pelting the cops with rocks, bottles, and debris.
"This is a particularly important part of English political debate — egging and pelting," wrote Reddit user krodders.
Dorian blew past the eastern coast of Florida this week, pelting the area with rain and wind.
"Your average 20-something [Kashmiri] sees stone-pelting as a normal form of political expression," Lalwani says.
When the rain hit, pelting us with huge, warm drops, we sought shelter against the cliff side.
"The police don't want stone-pelting highlighted, and he was highlighting it," said Younis Khaliq, another photographer.
After ripping through the Philippines and Hong Kong, the storm is pelting its way through southern China.
Mr. Bhat said his son was arrested and jailed in 2010 for pelting security forces with stones.
Instead of pelting voters with facts, "we ask open-ended questions and then we listen," Fleischer says.
Instead of pelting voters with facts, "we ask open-ended questions and then we listen," Fleischer told me.
Demanding accountability from New Delhi, protestors have stormed the streets, pelting Indian soldiers and police personnel with stones.
Only two of those instances involved snowballs, but only because folks were pelting cars driving on the road.
Angela Fontenot and her daughter were also injured by flying rocks pelting them in their faces, the report stated.
No one was injured, but footage shows French ships slamming into the British boats and pelting them with rocks.
Then his team starts putting extra players on the court, fouling at will, and pelting your team with refuse.
Still, it's open to anyone with an Amazon account, so fire it up and start pelting Alexa with questions.
A Minneapolis suburb was struck by a hailstorm with colossal chunks of ice pelting down on homes and cars.
After ripping through the Philippines and Hong Kong, pictured above, Typhoon Mangkhut is pelting its way through southern China.
Soon he's alternating between spinning thick twirls of blues, à la Louis Armstrong, and pelting spears like Hugh Masekela.
Instead of pelting voters with facts, "we ask open-ended questions and then we listen," Fleischer told me in 2016.
It wasn't Thanksgiving unless she was there pelting my sister and I with hot dinner rolls when we weren't looking.
Pelting a material with electrons and detecting the ones that have traveled through produces a detailed image of that material.
Other videos showed protesters pelting an armored police vehicle with rocks before it sped away, and people fleeing the area.
Most Muscovites hurrying through a pelting snowstorm said they considered the ban yet another politicized decision meant to punish Russia.
Just for balance, though, this one also has a group of teenage girls cheerfully pelting a house with blood-soaked tampons.
The convoy moved on, the rain pelting down now and the little road a river of fast-moving water and mud.
A squad of police fire tear gas at a group of youths in Washington, DC, who were pelting the police with rocks.
The police responded with several rounds of tear gas and chili grenades but were beaten back by dozens of stone-pelting men.
"They were stopped by the troops and beaten up and harassed," Dar said, adding that the students were accused of stone-pelting.
People living near Delhi Airport in India claim that poop—human poop, to be exact—has been pelting them from the sky.
During a history class, two classmates started pelting Mr. Cedeno from behind with pencil bits and balled-up paper, the police said.
The radars are in the perfect position to scan its heart as it passes over, pelting the trucks with dirt and vegetation.
The moment the fight began, the two heavyweights met in the center of the Octagon and began pelting each other with heavy artillery.
Videos posted by various media outlets showed Kurds pelting exiting U.S. military vehicles with rotten fruit and stones, accusing America of betraying them.
RUSSONELLO It's easy for Matthew Shipp's pelting, centrifugal piano improvisations — full of hard dashes, often in contradictory directions — to feel strident and strong.
Mr. Zorn spread out wide across this uncertain bed, sometimes moving with an elegiac lyricism, sometimes pelting his compatriots with quick, tremulous tones.
One of them, Steven Mercadante, drove his 2013 Kia Soul nearly 1,000 miles from Southern California through pelting rain to get to Bend.
He previously has defended his store from robbers, pelting one would-be thief with a jar of Vegemite in an incident 10 years ago.
"There have been some isolated incidents of stone-pelting," the Home Ministry said in a statement, but added they were of an "insignificant level".
Local people invariably take the gangsters' side during police raids, forming human barricades, pelting law enforcers with rubbish and setting fire to their cars.
Ganai, a meat shop owner, was previously arrested in 2016 on charges of stone pelting, attacking security forces with rods, and damaging government property.
His puffing cheeks are not so much wafting flowers on Venus as pelting her hard, like rain, as he blows her to the shore.
As the Stardust probe flew past a comet in 2011, it went through a cloud of debris, pelting the probe in dust and gravel.
As she leads her rowing team, Sebastiana Lopez feels the rain pelting her face, soaking her clothes and working its way into her bones.
The Border Patrol has said Hernandez was pelting U.S. agents with rocks from the Mexican side of the Rio Grande when he was shot.
It can be humbling, as Mr. Aranda discovered recently when he arrived drenched from a pelting rainstorm and grumbled about it to his class.
The wobbly video shot on Tsoi's iPhone shows police pelting the street with a jet of water, then pivoting to aim directly at him.
In 2013, another coach, Mike Rice, was fired, after being caught on video berating his players with homophobic slurs and pelting them with basketballs.
"If you land too close to your outpost, it could be like pelting your outpost with gravel traveling like the speed of bullets," says Metzger.
But when she comes up short, Connie spends a long, frantic night pelting around Queens, robbing and cheating anyone unfortunate enough to cross his path.
Like an aggressive Halloween trick-or-treat, a courageous Australian service station attendant has defended himself from would-be robbers by pelting candy at them.
The Border Patrol said at the time Hernandez was pelting U.S. agents with rocks from the Mexican side of the Rio Grande before the shooting.
After Pineda threw his 68th pitch, heavy rains began pelting the field and the tarp was applied with the Yankees holding a 5-0 lead.
Young people have taken to the streets to demonstrate, many by pelting stones at security forces, who have retaliated by firing pellet guns and rifles.
By then the clouds had burst, sheets of rain pelting the field, and everyone scurried back to the safety of the dugout and clubhouse tunnel.
At their team's final game of the 1968 season, feeling irritable, they diverted themselves at halftime by booing Santa Claus and pelting him with snowballs.
Occasional pelting rain that would have been an annoyance in a resort became an entertainingly furious spectacle on the water, followed by a bonus rainbow.
After the match, a clip emerged of home fans kicking and punching a lone Shenhua supporter, while also pelting him with eggs, bottles and rubbish.
Flood insurance has done little to alleviate the anxiety she feels when menacing clouds gather in the sky and start pelting the cement with rain.
In case you're not uneasy enough about the reality that flaming extraterrestrial objects are continuously pelting our fragile planet, they do so with alarming regularity.
Earlier in the week, thousands of stone-pelting protesters battled police, who fired shots in the air and used tear gas, in north east Delhi.
During that time, Trump would often "waste Priebus's time" during briefings about foreign and domestic policy by pelting him with questions about badgers, the book says.
In the late 1960s, Philadelphia Eagles fans famously booed a 19-year-old kid dressed as Santa Claus, right before they started pelting him with snowballs.
In DJI's free-for-all battle mode, we darted around a smallish 2500 x 21-foot arena while pelting each other's bots with hundreds of pellets.
Desperate, Mccomber tore some spark plugs from the boat's motor and started pelting the crocodiles with them, fending them off while he made it to shore.
"The students attempted to set a building on fire and were pelting motorists and police with rocks," said Thulani Zwane, police spokesman for KwaZulu-Natal province.
The witness said forces fired live rounds into the air to disperse residents who were pelting stones at the patrol in an attempt to block it.
Dar's family claims he'd been radicalized in 2016 after being beaten up by Indian troops on his way back from school for pelting stones at them.
Indian police and protesters clashed in the district on Tuesday, with protesters pelting stones and police firing tear gas in the area of Seelampur, Mittal said.
As demolition teams moved forward, a mix of activist protesters (French, Belgian, British and German) and camp residents began pelting the police with debris and rocks.
Anti-Trump protests in Portland were already declared "riots" by police, who arrested 26 people while pelting the crowd with rubber bullets and teargas, as NBC reported.
Some protesters on Sunday directed their ire at China, pelting its office in Hong Kong with eggs, spray-painting a wall and defacing the Chinese national emblem.
A relatively small number have adopted tactics that include kicking in storefront windows, shattering bus stop enclosures, and pelting police with rocks, wine bottles, and Molotov cocktails.
The U.S. Border Patrol said at the time that Hernandez was pelting U.S. agents with rocks from the Mexican side of the Rio Grande before the shooting.
Television footage showed the shots were fired as protesters surrounded traffic police, pelting them with rubbish, bricks and bottles and wrestling one of them to the ground.
Protesters, already fed up with the financial and political elite, have gathered the last three nights in the capital Reykjavik, some pelting parliament with yoghurt and eggs.
Last week, there were reports of unrest with some groups pelting stones in the city of Srinagar after restrictions were relaxed for the Muslim festival of Eid.
I looked up, rain pelting my face, and saw two fuzzy gray shapes chasing each other up the trunk of a tree with light-colored bark. Koalas!
He also chases away addicts trying to steal a grave railing, or shepherd boys whose herds stumble on the graves — pelting them with rocks and cursing them.
One video on social media — it was unclear when it had been filmed — showed a group of men pelting a van with stones and threatening those inside.
With tensions running high, the growing crowd of colonists, led by a black man named Crispus Attucks, surrounded the British troops, pelting them with snow and ice.
On the agenda: Pelting demons with roasted soybeans: Mamemaki is the custom of throwing fuku mame (or "lucky beans"), dating back to the Muromachi period (1333-1568).
If districts choose to participate, young scholars will spend snowy days inside working on writing assignments and math problems, rather than building snowmen and pelting friends with snowballs.
The two characters tear apart an office building as Bullseye shows off his skills by pelting Daredevil with everything he might reasonably find in a series of cubicles.
Some have even taken to pelting aid trucks with rocks, furious that they have been ignored and at an apparent lack of coordination in distributing food and water.
After Hindus celebrating a festival set off firecrackers near a mosque, several dozen Muslim men converged on a nearby Hindu temple, pelting it with stones, the police said.
The last time I'd used my fists was on my younger brother, during a tussle in our early teens; he retaliated by pelting me with a boom box.
An Indian TV station reported Wednesday night that a mob had attacked a school bus, pelting it with stones as children and teachers took cover in the aisle.
"The howling winds are pelting you with ice and you are seeing people strewn all over the mountain and you are wondering is anyone going to survive," he describes.
Near the Jama Masjid, which has long been the centre of protests in Srinagar, bricks and rocks from recent stone-pelting incidents were strewn in at least three locations.
Near the Jama Masjid, which has long been the centre of protests in Srinagar, bricks and rocks from recent stone pelting incidents were strewn in at least three locations.
Near the Jama Masjid, which has long been the center of protests in Srinagar, bricks and rocks from recent stone-pelting incidents were strewn in at least three locations.
This explainer video, for instance, is chock full of otherworldly imagery, including an animation of the magnetosphere taking a veritable pelting from the solar wind, starting at 49 seconds.
Run as fast as you possibly can, and—if the opportunity presents itself—try spraying that clown with battery acid or pelting it in the head with a slingshot.
The hunt for him intensified but more civilians were rallying to the defense of militants, often barricading the roads as the police closed in and pelting officers with rocks.
Instead of pelting voters with facts, "we ask open-ended questions and then we listen," Dave Fleischer, the LGBTQ rights organizer who developed the technique, told me in 220.
Another now-infamous video shows a young man strapped to the front of an army jeep and paraded around villages in the region, a caution to stone-pelting protesters.
Sitting or standing for hours is hard enough on a nice day, but it can feel like torture when the sky is pelting you with snow, sleet, or rain.
Pelting rain greeted us as we entered Kandy, once its own independent kingdom on the island until it fell victim to British colonial power in the early 303th century.
A howling storm starts the second I close the door, but even with the rain pelting down it's not all that cold, so I decide to stick to my plan.
PELTING STONES Reuters reported at least 10,000 people were involved in Friday's protest in Soura, based on an estimate provided by a police source and backed up by two eyewitnesses.
He was executed by lethal injection in 1984 as a crowd of demonstrators stood outside the prison and shouted "Trick or Treat!" while pelting anti-death penalty protestors with candy.
"There has been stone pelting by protesters in at least 40 places," said a senior police officer who sought anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the media.
The killing of Mr. Wani touched off four months of violence, including bombings, shootouts and attacks by stone-pelting youths, as well as protests by tens of thousands of people.
Thousands of stone-pelting locals take to the streets almost every day in the protests, led largely by young people without an obvious leader, complicating Indian efforts to tackle them.
To many of us, watching the 2020 race unfold has felt less like a celebration of rah-rah feminism and more like a daily, live-tweeted, televised pelting by the patriarchy.
Security forces killed four civilians in a village in Kashmir in April when they opened fire on protesters pelting them with stones to stop an operation against militants, police officials said.
As the Black Panther rides on top of the car (which is, of course, the most efficient way to travel as a superhero), the bad guys are pelting him with bullets.
"It was a reaction to stone pelting by these miscreants that one or two rounds of pump action gun was fired," Singh said, adding that four to five men suffered injuries.
"It was a reaction to stone pelting by these miscreants that one or two rounds of pump action gun was fired," Singh said, adding that four to five men suffered injuries.
The man who filmed the footage below in Bournemouth, UK, on Tuesday probably wasn't expecting to capture much more than a bit of pelting rain when he turned his camera on.
When dozens of Trump protesters cornered a woman wearing a Trump jersey and began spitting on her and pelting her with bottles and eggs, can you guess what they were yelling?
Hundreds of protesters gathered on a highway and began pelting officers with stones, demanding police take action over the alleged cattle deaths, Inspector Rajeev Kumar Gupta, of Meerut police, told CNN.
They assume that chemical agents that had leached into the topsoil and sand were kicked up by the helicopters' rotor wash, pelting their skin and permeating the air they were breathing.
At the time, he was down by 84,000 votes to the Republican, Ron DeSantis, and hundreds of his disappointed supporters were standing in a pelting rain outside his headquarters in Tallahassee.
But the celebrations turned sour this year, with scuffles breaking out on Monday and Tuesday between Dalits and far-right Hindu protesters, who started pelting stones at people leaving the event.
Then the power went out, the pelting rain and howling wind began, and she could hear debris crashing into things around her house and see tree branches falling into the streets.
A mob of people showed up outside the bar on 12th Street and started pelting the police with bottles and bricks, the start of multiple days of unrest, looting and violence.
Videos circulating on social media showed homes and shops burning, and mobs pelting each other with stones, and a man firing a handgun as he approached police officers trying to intervene.
Howling planets, whistling plasma waves, and pelting space rocks: the sounds of space are spooky — and NASA compiled a list of them to make your Halloween party a little bit more nerdy.
Who's next: Rain is pelting Florida, and forecasts put the hurricane "dangerously close" to the coast in coming hours, where it is expected to move slowly northward along Georgia and South Carolina.
"The forces have been given flexibility to impose prohibitory orders with minimum force and maximum compassion," Kumar said, adding there had been only a few cases of stone pelting in parts of Srinagar.
If you really think for a second about the game dodgeball, for example, what jerk decided that pelting balls at your friends and bullies was a good way to teach agility and throwing?
But that ice-cream pelting scene — which we can assume is nothing short of iconic — can be seen eventually, as Streep revealed to Entertainment Tonight during the show's season two premiere in May.
Reaper's Death Blossom ultimate — in which he spins around pelting nearby enemies with lethal shotguns — is one of the loudest shouts, the masked killer snarling "die, die, DIE" as he starts the move.
Several Indian government officials Reuters spoke to said that unarmed separatist groups were responsible for funding mobs of stone-pelting youths that often confront security forces trying to maintain order in the region.
About halfway through the Telfar show/happening, held Sunday at the Blade heliport on East 34th Street, the plastic tarp that had been protecting the audience from the rain pelting down blew away.
Riding in the back of an Uber in the pelting rain (which punctuated much of my trip), I was positive that we were lost: I couldn't see any businesses, just quiet residential streets.
Bumble recently planned and paid for a proposal in Brooklyn that involved bringing the woman into a winter-themed warehouse and pelting her with fake snowballs from behind trees planted for the event.
But hundreds of makeshift tents have been set up outside for months to accommodate an overflow of asylum seekers — first under the beating Greek sun, and now under the pelting snow and rain.
That doesn't mean pelting the app's hapless fans with a torrent of new ads, but rather finding the right mix of advertising, in-app purchases and other money-making means to keep everyone happy.
Imagine sitting there on a dark and quiet night, the rain pelting against the windows, and a malevolent, synthetic whisper starts crackling at you in Latin through the shell of your old analogue radio.
"He was reportedly injured with a blunt object in a law and order situation where a violent crowd was indulging in stone pelting," Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police Dilbag Singh told Reuters.
The second leg, originally scheduled for Saturday, was postponed after River Plate fans attacked the Boca Juniors team bus near River's stadium, pelting it with rocks, bottles and wood, shattering some of its windows.
Then there is the infamous incident in December 1968 when a man dressed as Santa Claus was sent on the field during halftime and the crowd responded with boos and pelting him with snowballs.
Most protests across the country came off peacefully, but some turned violent, including in Mangaluru where stone-pelting mobs ignoring a temporary ban on public gatherings were repelled by police, a government official said.
Most protests across the country came off peacefully, but some turned violent, including in Mangaluru where stone-pelting mobs ignoring a temporary ban on public gatherings were repelled by police, a government official said.
"These arrests have been made in the areas where there has been intensifying stone pelting in the last few days," the officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.
Several workers outside the six-storey building of Mukul's Adams Apparel in Dhaka told Reuters they would continue to press for higher wages but were not involved in stone pelting that smashed windows on Monday.
She chases Annie through the living room and down the hallway, pelting her with the last of the rolls until, with one final scream, Annie locks herself in the bathroom and the excitement is over.
Maybe it was the steady rain pelting our group during this outdoor tour, but beyond a few nice personal anecdotes, I wasn't terribly impressed with the ghost stories and peeled off after about 100 minutes.
They then reportedly created dummy websites that looked like the login pages for Burisma subsidiaries and have since been pelting Burisma&aposs employees with emails that look like they&aposre coming from within the company.
Protesters, already fed up with the financial and political elite after the 2008 banking crisis wrecked their economy, have gathered the last three nights in the capital Reykjavik, some pelting parliament with yoghurt and eggs.
National Guard soldiers were pelting the building in this highland town near Caracas with tear gas canisters as they searched for opposition activists who had been protesting against unpopular President Nicolas Maduro for over three months.
McCarthy's reappearance as Spicer couldn't be better timed, coinciding with the beleaguered press secretary's recent reported attempt to hide in the bushes from journalists pelting him with questions about Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey.
It was, for both quarterbacks and their teams, a slog of a game, much of it contested in a pelting rain, and Luck's absence at the end of it was at once conspicuous and altogether reasonable.
Hundreds of people supporting the new law clashed with those opposing it, with the two groups pelting each other with stones in the Maujpur area in the northeastern part of the city, according to television footage.
La Coca Trail, for instance, rises and falls on its meandering path to the big payoff: a roaring waterfall and pool that beckon you for a dip and, if you can tolerate the pelting, a shower.
On Tuesday night, Patricia Hampton, 48, went to sleep because she wasn't feeling well and woke to the sound of helicopters and what sounded like rain pelting the roof of her single-story home in Ventura.
Dilbag Singh, the Jammu and Kashmir director general of police, told Reuters on Sunday that between 1,000 and 1,500 people were returning from praying at mosques on Friday when "some miscreants" started pelting stones at security officials.
Dilbag Singh, the Jammu and Kashmir director general of police, told Reuters on Sunday that between 1,000 and 1,500 people were returning from praying at mosques on Friday when "some miscreants" started pelting stones at security officials.
As Mr. Mottor's case inched along in Massachusetts, a parallel legal fight was playing out: Lawyers representing hundreds of drunken-driving defendants were pelting the state's courts with requests for more information on the Dräger Alcotest 9510.
And it's impossible to fault them for doing only what millions of years of evolution have taught them to do, in their impossibly tiny fierceness, to survive a world of high winds and pelting rains and predators.
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Indian security forces killed four civilians in a village in Kashmir on Wednesday when they opened fire on protesters pelting them with stones to stop an operation against suspected militants, senior police officials said.
BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Palestinian protesters disrupted a meeting between American officials and a Palestinian trade group in the West Bank on Tuesday, shouting at the American participants and pelting their vehicles with tomatoes as they departed abruptly.
The call for a general strike across the western state of Maharashtra led to largely peaceful protests, but life in many parts of Mumbai was disrupted with Dalits pelting buses with stones and deflating tyres in some areas.
His John, by turns petty, aggressive, and self-pitying, looms a head above Radcliffe's Jim, pouring whiskey and slinging insults, plus the occasional fist, as the younger man stands his ground, piously pelting him with inaccuracy after inaccuracy.
For more than 21970 hours last week, Cody Lee Miller perched in a giant sequoia tree in downtown Seattle, pelting people and cars with pine cones and tearing off branches to throw like spears into the street below.
Police have yet to pinpoint what triggered the violence, which began on Sunday when protesters armed with makeshift weapons roamed the streets of Pretoria's business district pelting shops with rocks and petrol bombs and running off with goods.
But the question remains: Having grown up absorbing the racism that is endemic in his culture — its omnipresence is subtly symbolized by the rain we hear pelting down throughout the play — what kind of man can he become?
Stoning was an antiquated Islamic punishment, usually for adultery, that involved burying a married woman and her lover in pits, with their hands tied behind their backs, and pelting their heads and torsos with rocks until they died.
In elementary school, Cummings was part of a group of black Americans who helped to integrate swimming pools in Baltimore, an experience that indelibly affected the congressman, who described encountering white mobs pelting African-Americans with rocks and bottles.
The rooms bordered a covered outdoor area replete with hammocks — perfect for reading and watching the neighbors stroll by under their umbrellas (used to ward off the sun, not the rain that was pelting other regions of the country).
With the rain pelting me like a fusillade of insults at a Don Rickles (RIP) performance, I remove the umbrella from its zipper case, wishing that part was automated, too, and press the up-arrow button on the handle.
Even as he faces Kashmiri youth pelting stones at him every day and feels great animosity towards them, Abhay cannot help but be drawn to this young Kashmiri boy who thinks the voice at the other end is God.
In fact, some have taken to arguing the weak turnout was a good thing, while rejoicing in coverage by mainstream outlets like Vox and journalists like CNN's Jake Tapper that suggested counter-protestors were randomly pelting cops and journalists.
The group shares this bill with Liddle, a combo fronted by the alto saxophonist Brian Krock, playing music that draws in equal measure from Charlie Parker, Anthony Braxton and Battles — putting checkered rock rhythms underneath pelting, hard-edge melodies.
Trump's latest comments — prioritizing oil over loyalty to an ally — is only likely to inflame Kurdish anger at their abandonment by the U.S., which boiled over Monday with Kurdish citizens pelting U.S. military vehicles with vegetables as they withdrew to Iraq.
The rains pelting the field could have been mistaken for the tears of loyal supporters who reveled in a stirring fourth-quarter comeback before engaging in the familiar, mournful ritual of leaving the premises infuriated, confused and just plain sad.
But my favorites are of dried up waterfalls that have come back to life as they cascade down mountains, streams that have come alive once again in Cape Town's urban forests and videos of pelting rain shot on mobile phones.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — When she saw the news images of angry white mobs pelting school buses with rocks and bottles, Sherlonda Lewis was glad that she was not among the black students being bused to a school in a white neighborhood.
At least 24 people were killed and hundreds more wounded in the riots, according to hospital officials, with many suffering gunshot wounds, amid incidents of stone-pelting, arson and looting that coincided with U.S. President Donald Trump's first visit to India.
But a youth protest against him, stones pelting one of his delegation's vehicles and a botched grenade attack on French troops hours before his arrival in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou showed the hostility that still lingers after decades of an often tense France-Africa relationship.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish and Russian troops on Tuesday began their second joint patrol in northern Syria near Kobani, under a deal that has forced a Kurdish militia away from Turkey's border, while local media released footage of angry crowds pelting a convoy with stones.
Washington (CNN)As Hurricane Irma began pelting southern Florida with roaring winds and heavy rains on Sunday, White House social media director Dan Scavino tweeted a video of what he said was a waterlogged Miami International Airport, only to be corrected by the airport itself.
The attack began Sunday evening at the bohemian Kiwi Café — a popular spot for foreigners and Georgians alike — when, witnesses say, more than a dozen men carrying slabs of meat on skewers suddenly showed up and began pelting patrons with grilled meat, sausages and fish.
A meeting of local leaders the same day in August last year denounced nearby Roma as criminals and demanded evictions, while a mob circled homes, pelting buildings with rocks and trashing a community where many Roma had lived for a decade, said rights groups.
In some areas in Kashmir — including the Soura region near Srinagar which has witnessed protests in the past against India's decision — people clashed with security forces by pelting stones on Friday night, forcing police to use tear gas to disperse them, said the Indian official.
The country's top legislative body has seen numerous and — let's go with colorful — scuffles over the years, from politicians pelting each other with hardboiled eggs in 2004 to a DPP deputy snatching a written proposal of a bill and shoving it into her mouth in 2006.
Authorities in New Delhi see the removal of activists from communities in the Kashmir Valley as a key aspect of the struggle against the armed militant groups and stone-pelting youths who have been fighting Indian rule, according to interviews with 10 people familiar with the situation.
Pence, on the other hand, seemed less concerned with out-and-out defending his running mate than rope-a-doping away from uncomfortable questions: His standard response was to pucker his face and mock Kaine as "ridiculous" for pelting him with facts, statistics and actual Trump quotes.
As I turned onto a six-acre eastern Long Island garden in pelting rain the other day, the first things I noticed were two gravel tracks, bordered by waterlogged shrubs and the dim silhouette of the landscape designer John Beitel, sheltering in place in his vehicle.
While the rest of the world was either binging or pirating HBO's Game of Thrones over the past few years, Florida senator Marco Rubio was apparently too busy listening to EDM, pelting kids with footballs, and trying to become the next president of the United States.
KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - For the Real Kashmir Football Club, known as the Snow Leopards, this has been a tough week, which is saying something for a team based in one of the most militiarized regions of the world where stone pelting and the sound of gunfire are regular occurrences.
The snow and mud were over ankle deep in the middle of the street, but stout Irish legs encased in triplet solid 'stogies' would unquestionably have essayed this, only for a pitiless pelting rain that set in early and kept up with slight cessation until the after part of the day.
The Mambo ships with the Cannon and Grabber modules, which allow you to annoy friends, family members, and / or pets by pelting them with small plastic balls and pick up and carry small objects, respectively, while a third Illuminator attachment with LED spotlights will be sold separately at launch for $15.
When the rain starts pelting the side of your tent or a big gush of wind blows so hard that the whole side caves in, you'll wish you took the time to pick a good tent, not just the first one you saw on the endcap of a store aisle.
Caught in the rising waters of the Brahmaputra River in late June, the elephant, a fully grown male, tried repeatedly to climb ashore in India, but villagers drove him back into the water, in some cases pelting him with stones, said K. K. Sarma, a government veterinary surgeon from India who visited the animal.
In Australia, residents of a small upscale Sydney neighborhood weren't prepared to deal with what happened when their area became a prime location for certain "rare" Pokémon and was subsequently invaded by thousands of players: Residents in the area reportedly began pelting players with water balloons, trash, and eggs in order to get them off the property.
As expected, all the major touchtone events of L7's career are included: their record label switches, the MTV acceptance of Bricks are Heavy, the founding of their women's rights group, Rock for Choice, and the infamous 1992 Reading Festival incident during which a frustrated Sparks threw a used tampon into a hostile, mud-pelting audience.
BALTIMORE — The sky was still dark, and the rain was still pelting Pimlico Race Course, but by daybreak on Sunday, Team Nyquist had made up its mind: Its previously undefeated colt would head to Belmont Park for a rematch with Exaggerator, who a day earlier had vanquished his nemesis in the slop to win the Preakness Stakes.
When the Handmaids and Martha work together distract the Eyes by pelting them with stones, it's an effective reimagining of the scene in "Night" in which all the Handmaids refuse to stone a prisoner to death — only now their resistance has moved away from a passive refusal to comply into an active push back against the state.
In other words, passing by Gucci to get the rush you achieve from pelting down a ski hill may transfer the sense of rush to Gucci, or passing by "Enigma" merch on the way to seeing your favorite Gaga outfit in the actual cloth may give you a feeling of satisfaction simply from seeing the shirts (or whatever exciting product is on offer).
He said he was "nauseated by the spectacle of prancing punks pelting New York police officers with water and plastic buckets" -- an incident that was captured on camera last month and has led to multiple arrests -- and that "increasing toleration of the notion that it is somehow OK to resist the police" must be met with zero tolerance and prosecution.
"I really felt like we were in danger of death," said Jonathan Bryant, who scrambled out of his car — helping his wife, Diane, their two children and a cat — after they were hit by a wall of water and had to wade a quarter-mile back to their house, through rushing torrents, pelting rain and 60-mile-per-hour wind in the pitch black.
On Friday, the news agency released a video where a reporter went undercover and recorded Paytm's vice president, Ajay Shekhar Sharma, saying how the company had handed over personal data of users in the state of Jammu and Kashmir after Sharma personally received a call from the prime minister's office following incidents of stone-pelting by Kashmiri Muslims against India's armed forces, something that happens frequently in the region.

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