These days, Democrats are enthusiastically pulling the rug out from under Republicans.
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"Nobody's interested in pulling the rug out from under anybody," Mr. Price said.
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Split capitalizes on similar moments of pulling the rug out from under the audience.
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So by insisting instead on January, Trump would be pulling the rug out from under that deal.
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Not reassuring the Europeans would be tantamount to pulling the rug out from under the NATO alliance.
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Tom MacArthur of New Jersey worried about pulling "the rug out from under" people covered by Obamacare, Rep.
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The narrative keeps pulling the rug out from under the characters, and Mr. Icke's casting does the same.
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Metaphor: "Nobody's interested in pulling the rug out from under anybody," Secretary Price said in his confirmation hearing.
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And really, given Facebook's flawless track record of pulling the rug out from under publishers, no one should be surprised.
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Now, the stable footing of adulthood belongs to the über-rich, who are pulling the rug out from under everyone else.
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The Senate majority leader has been trying to lay doggo as Trump thrashes after pulling the rug out from under McConnell.
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That's a separate issue, which is where I'm focused, to make sure we aren't pulling the rug out from under people.
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She loves making people feel at home and then pulling the rug out from under them with a burst of laughter.
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But is this a meta statement on the genre or just a neat way of pulling the rug out from under us?
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Yet Gilman is a writer who enjoys establishing conventional forms and then pulling the rug out from under them, sending conventions toppling.
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" He would do that, he said, "without pulling the rug out from under you and saying that the insurance no longer exists.
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Instead of pulling the rug out from under working-class families, we should recognize that trade has been indispensable to our economic growth.
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"But now the administration is in a tight spot and her inappropriate words and actions are ... pulling the rug out from under it," Takita added.
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Republicans aren't talking about suddenly pulling the rug out from under millions of impoverished children who have grown to rely on the free lunch program.
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At first it seems much more stock than it is—Basic Backstory 101—but that's just Villeneuve slowly pulling the rug out from under you.
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But the film succumbs to a startlingly amateurish construction, pulling the rug out from under the audience in a way that seems calculated to just be annoying.
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Jack Dorsey later apologized for Twitter thrashing developers this way, but after pulling the rug out from under them, the lack of trust in the community hampered Fabric's success.
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Pulling the rug out from under dedicated reporters and punishing the companies that carry their work is the same as ripping the First Amendment right out of the Constitution.
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"One of the important things that we need to convey to the American people is that nobody's interested in pulling the rug out from under anybody," Mr. Price said.
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Pulling the rug out from under the audience — right after the guns-blazing action and sitcom surreality of the previous two episodes delivered seriously visceral entertainment — threatens to cement that impression.
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The last thing we should be doing is pulling the rug out from under jobless workers at a time when our nation faces staggering income inequality and an ever-shrinking middle class.
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Focus. "By sort of pulling the rug out from under myself and going all in on my business I was forced to focus on one thing and to stick with it," Tara remembers.
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The diegetic cues draw viewers into the action, and the score works to lull the audience into a false sense of comfort and nostalgia before pulling the rug out from under their feet.
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If the economy slows down in the coming months, cuts to the social safety net would be a double-whammy for low-income households, pulling the rug out from under millions of families.
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"Pulling the rug out from under refugees and the resettlement program, as is reported, is unfair, inhumane, and strategically flawed for the United States," said Nazanin Ash, a vice president with the group.
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We loved it because it was a show built on pulling the rug out from under us, repeatedly subverting the expectations of its own narrative setups, and then reinventing itself from the leftover aftermath.
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No longer consuming what they produce would mean pulling the rug out from under their feet, and most likely prompt criminal groups to prey on civilians even more aggressively to make up for lost income.
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"A move to amend the plans would be pulling the rug out from under literally hundreds of Western stakeholders from all parts of the political spectrum who came together to protect an entire ecosystem," Mr. Rutledge said.
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"Pulling the rug out from under refugees and the resettlement program, as is reported, is unfair, inhumane and strategically flawed for the United States," said Nazanin Ash, the vice president for global policy and advocacy for the International Rescue Committee.
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"The ACA is not perfect, but pulling the rug out from under the feet of our most vulnerable patients is not the answer," Dr. Bruce Henshaw, a faculty member at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine, told the group of around 600 people.
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"It would certainly be catastrophic for sterling, because speculation of that rate hike has provided a floor for sterling and stopped it from sliding lower ... You take away that support and it's like pulling the rug out from under sterling's feet," he added.
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An overlooked favorite of mine that similarly upsets gaming's usual sense of the natural is Ian Endsley and Carter Lodwick's A Good Gardener, a game that at first looks like a lovely gardening sim, before pulling the rug out from under you.
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In 2015, after 10 straight years where it never ranked higher than third among its competitors, Universal Pictures shocked the industry by pulling the rug out from under Disney to take the domestic box office crown, earning a jaw-dropping $23 billion.
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Not only can they be isolated from others and end up working seven days a week, but their livelihoods (or at least part of it) is totally dependent on an algorithm that can change whenever, pulling the rug out from under them.
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The story is too convoluted and has at least two too many climaxes (which are distinct from endings; I'm not convinced this movie actually does end, since it's so intent on pulling the rug out from under the audience over and over again).
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But SEX, an exhibition in one of those places I've been since I left San Diego — Chicago's Lawrence & Clark gallery — features works that struck me as laughably brash before they slowly revealed their intimacy, pulling the rug out from under my feet.
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The brilliance of this work is that it lulls you into a false sense of calm before pulling the rug out from under you with hard truths about the ways a document designed to protect our freedoms has failed everyone but rich white men.
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"You are completely pulling the rug out from under the feet of women to be in safe spaces or to feel that they have a right to be in a safe space," said Isla McGregor, a member of Women Speak Tasmania, a self-described "radical feminist" group.
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"You are completely pulling the rug out from under the feet of women to be in safe spaces or to feel that they have a right to be in a safe space," said Isla McGregor, a member of Women Speak Tasmania, a self-described "radical feminist" group.
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"I hope that the turbulence will soon end, reason prevails and Riyadh and Tehran focus on what's really important - defusing the military conflicts, fostering political solutions in Syria, Yemen and elsewhere and thus pulling the rug out from under ISIS," he told Bild in an interview published on Tuesday.
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Director Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense) really gets his mitts on you with this one: It's wild and suspenseful, and without his trademark trick of pulling the rug out from under you at the end with such a vigorous tug that you end up on your backside and not terribly amused.
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VP of Athlete Health & Performance Jeff Novitzky speaks to MMA trainers and coaches during a UFC Performance Summit It's been a little over a year since the UFC partnered with United States Anti-Doping Agency and, along with pulling the plug on IVs and pulling the rug out from under fighters who take banned substances, the last 13 months have given rise to a new sub-genre on social media: fighters making surprise-out-of-competition-drug-test posts.
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The unifying factors are a constantly shifting, fluttering, hissing bed of mechanical rhythm that's always pulling the rug out from under you, forcing your ears to readjust, and occasional spoken-word samples that make the music's political mission explicit in so many words, as in the fraught personal collections played under the synth shimmer in Tygapaw's "Black Womxn Experience," or the entirety of Laurel Halo's "Excerpt From An Open Letter to John Paul II," which juxtaposes a reading of former Black Liberation Army member Assata Shakur's eponymous letter resisting her extradition to the US from Cuba against starkly dramatic keyboard chords.
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Sen. Chuck GrassleyCharles (Chuck) Ernest GrassleyWhite House denies exploring payroll tax cut to offset worsening economy Schumer joins Pelosi in opposition to post-Brexit trade deal that risks Northern Ireland accord GOP senators call for Barr to release full results of Epstein investigation MORE (R-Iowa) on Monday urged 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 not to dismiss any additional Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials, saying that Trump is "pulling the rug out from" under his immigration officials.
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Porky finally gets a piece of candy, winks at the audience, and then finds out that Fluffnums ate it. He eventually tries to propose to Petunia, but as he is starting to do so, Fluffnums pulls a mean- spirited trick on Porky by pulling the rug out from under him. The fickle and selfish Petunia laughs at him, causing Porky to leave the house and walk off in shame. He proceeds to write a suicide note and tries to hang himself from a tree, but the branch the rope is on snaps due to Porky's weight, knocking him out and causing him to go into a dreamlike state.
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