They are shown scuffling and throwing punches near some vehicles.
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The footage showed them scuffling with Zaman staff inside the offices.
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It's more of a product of him scuffling a little bit.
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All they had to do was beat a scuffling Buffalo team.
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Cabrera has been scuffling recently, with his average dropping to .206.
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They crossed the wooden floor in a chorus of scuffling slippers.
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Even slugger Joey Votto has been scuffling, relative to his career.
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They hope it will give their scuffling team the kick it needs.
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The video shows the two scuffling as onlookers, including other guards, look on.
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There's a bar, reclining seats, and waiters scuffling in and out during the previews.
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The 49ers took exception to the hit and players from both teams started scuffling.
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He had been ejected with about twelve minutes left for scuffling with Mishako Korkia.
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The American speedskaters were scuffling and would ultimately fail to win a single medal.
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The Astros have dropped five of their past six games behind their scuffling offense.
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He also hired a scuffling young Kris Kristofferson to work as the studio's custodian.
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Friday and scuffling with student activists who appeared to have been caught off guard inside.
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" After loud scuffling noises are heard, Gianforte repeatedly yells: "Get the hell out of here.
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Adding to the pressure, the trade tensions are rising when many farmers are already scuffling.
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The video, taken by a passerby, begins with the two men scuffling in a nearby lot.
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Yet while Clemson is averaging 33.5 points through four games, it is considered to be scuffling.
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"He hasn't had a day off and he's been scuffling lately," Detroit manager Brad Ausmus said.
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Video later showed police scuffling with a few protesters but it wasn't known if anybody was arrested.
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The final minutes were interrupted by some scuffling in the stands but nothing could dampen Chelsea's joy.
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Miller has pitched very badly this year, to the point that he's now scuffling in Triple-A.
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Soon after, the two sides began scuffling and the police called in about 100 officers as reinforcements.
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But partisan scuffling over whether different proposals would preempt existent state data security regulations have stymied progress.
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O'Rourke is scuffling badly at the moment, and needs to find a way to show signs of life.
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It was a bad time for a bad game with the team scuffling and we had a lead.
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The space had a gamy smell, and there was a terrific amount of noise: barking, scuffling, scratching, squealing.
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That's hard enough when you are scuffling along at 1% but are guaranteed a slot in the debate.
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When the referee told them to leave, the women backed off, causing confusion and scuffling around the patient.
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But Williams, who had been scuffling on the San Francisco and Los Angeles comedy circuits, was a revelation.
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In May, someone at an apartment complex saw a man scuffling around in the parking lot, under a car.
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"We've talked about the offense scuffling, but we did get some good at-bats," Twins manager Paul Molitor said.
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He admits he doesn't really "deal with baseball anymore" ... but thinks the Yanks are only scuffling 'cause of injuries.
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Four others scored in double figures, but the Jazz mustered only 211 percent shooting against the Rockets' scuffling defense.
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Reflecting on his team's scuffling start, Girardi said, "There's too much experience in that room, and I'm somewhat surprised."
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Duchene has been mentioned in trade rumors for the scuffling Avalanche, who are last in the league with 28 points.
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Shortly after that, the 23-year-old was on the ground in the dirt, scuffling with one of the officers.
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Dallas' starters made just 6 of 214 212-pointers (222 percent), scuffling mightily for points without forward Dirk Nowitzki (illness).
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The Chicago Bulls had been scuffling along with six losses in eight games before dominating the Cleveland Cavaliers on Saturday.
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About 10 minutes into the call, he heard a woman scream, scuffling, a second scream, then a third, he testified.
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Tempers are flaring once again as Wilmar Barrios head-butts Jordan Henderson in the chest while scuffling around the wall.
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Irish wrestling (Gleacaíocht or Coraíocht in Gaelic) had several distinct styles, including Collar and Elbow, Square Hold, Scuffling, and Backhold wrestling.
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Suddenly, scuffling noises are heard, and the officers repeatedly order Lyles to "get back," as a child cries in the background.
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The local man who planned the rally still walks around town, scuffling with people who scream "murderer" when they see him.
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The university said surveillance videos showed the men acting "provocatively" for six minutes before the scuffling -- but didn't release the footage.
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Most recently, the company has been scuffling in Tasmania, where the state government has proposed a cap on unlicensed short term rentals.
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Rangers capitalize on Padres' mistakes in 21-24 win ARLINGTON, Texas — The scuffling Texas Rangers need all the help they can get.
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Despite scuffling from 3-point range, Harris put together consecutive baskets to cut Cleveland's lead to 97-96 with 1:36 remaining.
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With the Yankees scuffling, average attendance has fallen to over 8,000 below their mark for 2010, when the Yankees were defending champions.
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This Athens-born, Los Angeles-based painter's work often includes monochrome slashes and drips scuffling with waves of smeared or overlapping text.
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A canvas by Ludwig Meidner shows two men scuffling and is graced with the wonderful title "The Incident in the Suburbs" (1915).
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In July 2016, a 37-year-old black man, Alton Sterling, was killed while scuffling with two police officers outside a convenience store.
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We all know the silly scene of a dog, deep in slumber, energetically scuffling its paws in the mime of a fast run.
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But that hardly was the end of it as the White Sox awoke a once-scuffling attack behind savvy baserunning and timely hitting.
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Being in the Knicks' locker room might not impress too many people these days — its regular denizens are scuffling through another forgettable season.
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Our guide, wearing the red jacket that identifies Sagrada Familia doyennes, could barely be heard above the cacophony of voices and scuffling feet.
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"We were scuffling pretty bad the last time we played these guys, right in the middle of that pretty terrible stretch," Descalso said.
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Ji-Man Choi drove in two runs for the Rays, who also received their own pinch hit from a player scuffling at the plate.
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"On a night where we're scuffling to get anything going offensively, that's unfortunately looking like a big lead — a 4-0 lead," Farrell said.
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Christian Vital finished with 15 points and Josh Carlton nearly logged a double-double with 13 points and nine boards for the scuffling Huskies.
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The two fought a brief border war in 1962; each still claims territories the other holds, and this remains a cause of periodic scuffling.
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Devin Robinson is shooting around 50 percent for the season but is scuffling to the tune of 33.3 percent over his last five games.
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The televised scenes of people scuffling inside the arena were the most vivid images yet of the way Mr. Trump has polarized the campaign.
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He had struck out eight times in Monday's doubleheader in Detroit and had generally been scuffling at the plate in the past few weeks.
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Yassine Bouzrou, Mr. Saïdi's lawyer, said that his client had intervened "firmly, but without violence" when he saw the princess scuffling with the contractor.
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"I like the floor show," one retired sergeant remarked as he peered through the glass elevator doors to see on-duty cops scuffling with protestors.
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They pulled 14 games ahead of scuffling St. Louis in the National League Central and improved the best record in the majors to 73-41.
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The video footage, which was shared with Reuters, showed police armed with shields and helmets bursting into the activists' accommodation and scuffling with the occupants.
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At one point on Saturday, scuffling broke out in the Fortress Hill neighborhood of Hong Kong Island near the site of a vandalized Lennon Wall.
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"We were scuffling and I managed to get on him and I put one hand on the gun ... and threw it over the countertop," he said.
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Video footage of the scene in the restaurant showed members of Mr. Saakashvili's lunch party scuffling with security agents, and unidentified men rolling about the floor.
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Three Palestinians were arrested at the Damascus Gate to the Old City in East Jerusalem after scuffling with the police, Micky Rosenfeld, a police spokesman, said.
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Opinionated and outspoken, he occasionally got into trouble for scuffling with a competitor or hurling rocks, sand and even a muffin at judges and surf officials.
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He counts down from 10, and suddenly the room is filled with the scuffling sounds of women grunting and circling like teenage crabs at a school dance.
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But as Jacobsson finished addressing the crowd, a few "provocateurs"—as local papers referred to them at the time—among the demonstrators began scuffling with the police.
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One video posted online showed protesters scuffling with police in full riot gear at a square where official celebrations of the Unity Day holiday were taking place.
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In the clip, a male attendee is seen scuffling with a security guard on the ground when another assailant steps up and kicks the guard in the head.
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In his youth, he found himself in the headlines for under-age drinking, wearing a Nazi outfit to a costume party and scuffling with photographers outside London nightclubs.
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In his youth, Harry found himself in the headlines for under-age drinking, wearing a Nazi outfit to a costume party and scuffling with photographers outside London nightclubs.
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Rua, who has been scuffling in limited playing time this season, hit his first homer of the season after Rougned Odor was intentionally walked to load the bases.
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Some of the scuffling involves word games, as Trump is demanding a wall and Democrats have made clear they will not appropriate funding for anything labeled a wall.
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In 2014, Saleh and his friend Sheikh Akbar appeared in a viral video purporting to show New York police accosting them for scuffling while dressed in ethnic clothing.
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"To have a real functioning, consistent, performing bullpen, you need six guys throwing the ball well, and you can maybe withstand a couple of guys scuffling," Black said.
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Some relief for Moreno's government came for the government in Guayaquil, where thousands dressed in white held a "peace march", outnumbering protesters scuffling with police and soldiers elsewhere.
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Some relief for Moreno's government came for the government in Guayaquil, where thousands dressed in white held a "peace march", outnumbering protesters scuffling with police and soldiers elsewhere.
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Heroin problems are on the rise on Long Island, as they are across much of America, and Loeb is just one of many people scuffling with the disease.
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The craft-come-to-life is absolutely a walking (or should we say scuffling?) merchandising opportunity, but that obviousness is easy to forgive because he's just so damn funny.
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In the days following the crash, Tesla released two blog posts and ended up scuffling with the National Transportation Safety Board, which had sent investigators to the crash scene.
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Malachi Richardson had scored at least 260 points in nine of his previous 10 games before scuffling to five points on 1-of-8 shooting against the Demon Deacons.
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An eyewitness told Reuters the stampede occurred as police used teargas to disperse the crowds that were scuffling to find seats in the stadium ahead of a football match.
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Late in the period, the Flyers began scuffling in their own zone and it resulted in Montreal tying the game 2-173 when Shaw equalized with 1:11 left.
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Ryu entered the game 2-5 with a 4.28 ERA, but checked a scuffling offense on three hits and a run in six innings, walking one and whiffing four.
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Giles, who breezed through a perfect ninth inning, subsequently allowed two runs in the 10th and needed scuffling right-hander Chris Devenski to bail out both him and the club.
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Witnesses saw police scuffling with migrants and detaining several people during Saturday's protest, in which the mostly male protesters chanted "Freedom", "Give us our money back" and "Stop beating us".
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On Monday, just ahead of the Senate oversight hearing, The Wall Street Journal reported the FTC and DOJ have been scuffling over which agency will take the lead on Facebook.
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Louis Tomlinson and his girlfriend tried to make a quick getaway after scuffling with a photog and bystander ... and video makes it clear, there was chaos right after the incident.
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After scuffling with his command for three consecutive starts, Morton displayed a masterful control of his repertoire, issuing just two walks while surrendering four hits — all singles — and recording 13 strikeouts.
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"It was wrong of the police officer in the incident to try to stop the unreasonable scuffling by the person involved by using crude law enforcement," the public security bureau said.
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TRENTON — Krystal Knapp was 15 minutes from the end of her shift as a volunteer at the entrance to the Art All Night festival in Trenton when she heard some scuffling.
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The company operates out of an old machine warehouse in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood, with its employees scuffling around barefoot or in socks or slippers thanks to a shoeless office policy.
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CUBS ACQUIRE WHITE SOX PITCHER The Chicago Cubs, scuffling and inconsistent since winning the World Series, acquired Jose Quintana from the White Sox in a major trade between the crosstown rivals.
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Boston was scuffling with five losses in seven games before Jackie Bradley Jr. delivered a tiebreaking single in the 143th inning en route to a 7-5 victory over Houston on Sunday.
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Scuffling spilled over into the precincts of the building, Reuters reporters saw, as the lawmakers, clad in their trademark red overalls, continued to push the orderlies ejecting them on the Speaker's orders.
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As Kenyans lined up at polling stations for the nation's second presidential election after the August vote was nullified, there were reports of minor scuffling as protesters tried to block the vote.
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After scuffling through the rest of 2017 in smaller events on the International Tennis Federation circuit, finishing the year ranked a lowly No. 288, she assembled a new support system for 2018.
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When Tsoi saw the squad scuffling with protesters and pulling some teenagers aside to make arrests, he walked up to one of the officers, an intimidating man wearing dark sunglasses and mask.
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So understand that the N.B.A. work environment Stern entered in the 1970s — as counsel for a professional basketball league with an increasingly black player base, scuffling for respect — was not unfamiliar to him.
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That simple sentence is the culmination of a year of partisan scuffling that erupted into a game-changing showdown in the Senate, and a definitive win for the Republicans and for Mr. Trump.
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The Buckeyes' next step toward the postseason takes them to Nebraska on Saturday night to face a Cornhuskers squad that has lost sixtimes at home this season and is scuffling to stay above .500.
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Blessed with the brilliant all-around point guard John Wall and burgeoning guard Bradley Beal, a team once considered playoff-ready comes out of the All-Star break scuffling and five games under .500.
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Reds 218, Mets 20 | 22 innings On Wednesday afternoon in Cincinnati, the scuffling Mets came out in the first inning hoping to shake off their recent woes with a good start against the Reds.
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Footage from that night shows a scene of confusion, as some concertgoers can be seen scuffling with the police, and others can be heard yelling, "There is water behind" as riot police walk forward.
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After scuffling through four innings in his second career start on Saturday at Boston, Martin recorded only 10 outs in his first home outing since winning his big-league debut against Texas on May 12.
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In February it helped organise a rally at which monks were filmed scuffling with soldiers (the same day troops also loitered outside Dhammakaya temple, lest any of its clergy were tempted to join the fray).
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Three congressional committees are scuffling over a former British spy's reports that are central to investigations into U.S. allegations that Russia tried to help Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, people involved in the inquiries said.
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Although there have been multiple instances caught on video of Trump supporters punching or scuffling with protestors including that very day, and his own campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, is currently facing charges that he manhandled breitbart.
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While they're certainly not above messing around in the politics and day-to-day scuffling of the rest of us down here, our plutocrats spend their days in a sort of VIP room of the mind.
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Still, after weeks of legal scuffling, Missouri declined to renew Planned Parenthood's license — but a judge ruled that the clinic could keep offering abortions anyway and asked the Administrative Hearing Commission to weigh in on the case.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three congressional committees are scuffling over a former British spy's reports that are central to investigations into U.S. allegations that Russia tried to help Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, people involved in the inquiries said.
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MLB Team Report - Arizona Diamondbacks - INSIDE PITCH HOUSTON — For the second time in three starts, Arizona right-hander Zack Greinke looked vintage and that qualifies as a positive development for a rotation that's scuffling and seeking answers.
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Hundreds of angry parents gathered on Friday outside the county government office, some of them scuffling with police officers, according to the police in Jinhu and videos that went viral on WeChat, a popular social media tool.
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The fight has spilled into the open: On Monday, just ahead of the Senate oversight hearing, The Wall Street Journal reported the FTC and DOJ have been scuffling over which agency will take the lead on Facebook.
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ET, ACC Network Extra ABOUT ST. BONAVENTURE (9-2): Matt Mobley had 23 points in Wednesday's 19-point win against Northeastern on Wednesday after scuffling to three points in a narrow win over Vermont four days earlier.
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Video showed protesters, sometimes with children in tow, scuffling with police in the northern port city of Rasht and calling for the end of the regime in Qom, the city that educated most of the country's clerical leadership.
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Perhaps the Phillies' scuffling offense will offer a soft landing spot for Shelby Miller, who was activated from the disabled list Sunday in hopes he can rebound for a miserable 10-game start to his tenure with Arizona.
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It's often true in politics that things that look very smooth and unified from a distance are actually, up close, the result of a lot of scuffling and scratching: a coalition held together with athletic tape and bruises.
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Within thickly outlined frames of black, he painted comic-like tableaus of soldiers scuffling with bearded hippies, of looming mushroom clouds, and of a skeleton wearing a military uniform and beating a cartoonish red heart with a truncheon.
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Though the demonstrations have so far been mostly free from violence, there was some scuffling between protesters and riot police during a march in an eastern town last week and the government has started arresting more opposition figures.
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The five starters for North Carolina State shot a combined 211-of-266 from the floor with Allerik Freeman, who poured in 264 points the previous day against Arizona, scuffling to 11 points on 3-of-12 shooting.
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Yes, it's about wresting death from the one-size-fits-all approach of hospitals, but it's also about puncturing a competing impulse, the one I was scuffling with now: our need for death to be a hypertranscendent experience.
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The division leaders are safely out of range, clinched or nearly clinched, and with the exception of Boston's later-breaking dominance have spent much of the season playing at a different level than the teams scuffling down below.
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Baggio Leung, 31, and Yau Wai-ching, 26, along with three assistants, were convicted of the unlawful assembly charge last month for attempting to barge into a room and scuffling with security guards at the Legislative Council in 2016.
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The Sacramento Kings are scuffling after a 1-153 homestand and the finale was the worst of the bunch as the team blew a 22-point lead and lost small forward Rudy Gay for the rest of the season.
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CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Cleveland police arrested 18 protesters on Wednesday after scuffling with demonstrators who tried to set an American flag on fire near the crowded entrance to the arena where Republicans made Donald Trump their presidential nominee, officials said.
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As the race between Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump teeters on a razor's edge in Florida, their campaigns are scuffling over business that Mr. Trump may have conducted in Cuba while American companies were barred from operating there.
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The Boston Celtics rallied from double-digit deficits for victories in the last three contests to keep their impressive winning streak alive and can extend it to 183 games when they visit the scuffling Miami Heat on Wednesday night.
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His shifting trans-genre amalgam of funk and rock and pop and R&B was so original that he long pretended he was biracial even though both his hard-working failed-singer mother and his scuffling pianist father were African-American.
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"I was talking to someone who worked on the Obama campaign and he described how that campaign was scuffling in October," candidate Andrew Yang told his followers earlier in the day after Weezer's Rivers Cuomo played a rally for him.
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He became a miscellaneous essayist and translator, scuffling to make a living by writing political pamphlets, philosophical dialogues, and pornographic books—all the while carrying on vigorous romantic liaisons with a variety of partners, from the local washerwoman to aristocratic readers.
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" √ Once had a panic attack at Carnival √ Spends every Christmas with his parents in Dubai and got given £2000,213 [2878,23] for his last birthday √ [Extended montage of scuffling sounds coming from a nightclub smoking area] "I listen to grime, dude!
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But after retiring the first six batters he faced, Greinke surrendered a leadoff home run to Angels catcher Kevan Smith in the third inning before scuffling badly an inning later when the first five batters reached safely to ignite a rally.
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Cards manager Mike Matheny gave 3B Matt Carpenter his first night off Saturday "because he's scuffling" and used 2B Kolten Wong in the lead-off slot for the first time this season while giving former Padre Jedd Gyorko his first start at 3B.
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Tillman, who is constantly changing the name on his Twitter account (Farmer Jah Misery, Feather Jam Ministry, Jon "Trxxxth" Misty), had recently dubbed it "Jazz Imposters," as he and Spencer uploaded some crappy iPhone videos of themselves scuffling on keyboard and drums.
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French TV station BFM showed pictures of riot police scuffling with a group of about 30 protesters at the Gare de Lyon, which is one of the capital's busiest stations and is often used to travel to skiing resorts near the Alps.
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And the bully tactics by Turkey's government were also on display in the United States late last month, when Erdogan's security detail was reported to have manhandled journalists and started scuffling with anti-Erdogan protesters, trying to rip the banners out of their hands.
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DeMar DeRozan scored 16 of his team-high 33 points in the first quarter and LaMarcus Aldridge had 10 of his 28 in the third to lead the visiting San Antonio Spurs to a 112-993 victory over the scuffling Dallas Mavericks on Tuesday night.
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Astros right-hander Justin Verlander surrendered only three hits over six innings, but the Red Sox made him throw 101 pitches, forcing the Astros to rely on their scuffling bullpen to try to secure the final nine outs while protecting a one-run lead.
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The Marlins dropped six of their last seven games, allowing 36 runs combined, and managed two or fewer runs in five of the past six while their top hitters Giancarlo Stanton (1-for-14) and Christian Yelich (1-for-15) are scuffling during a four-game stretch.
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Indian and Chinese troops confronted each other between June and August this year - at one stage even resorting to scuffling and throwing stones - on a remote plateau near the borders of India, its ally Bhutan, and China, in the most serious and prolonged standoff in decades.
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But Mr. Kelly has shown little inclination to curb his own instinct for confrontation, from scuffling with a Chinese official during a visit to Beijing last year to last week's profanity-laced shouting match with John R. Bolton, the national security adviser, after a meeting with the president.
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" As scenes of chaos played out on television of protesters and riot police scuffling at Hong Kong International Airport, Trump also told reporters in New Jersey that his wish is for the situation to work out "for liberty," adding, "I hope nobody gets hurt, I hope nobody gets killed.
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But he quickly became busy, and his résumé from that time includes a stint as a producer for the Discovery Channel in Washington and a scuffling period as a freelance video journalist before he landed a full-time job with the BBC, which took him all around the world.
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Staked to an early lead and armed with an unorthodox and deceptive slingshot delivery that Philadelphia Manager Gabe Kapler called a "crossfire," De Los Santos (1-0) cruised for most of the night against a scuffling Mets lineup that has managed only eight runs over its last five games.
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Case in point: A few years from now, it's not likely that people are still going to be excited about that one episode of Complex Media's online series, Everyday Struggle, where Migos and the host, Joe Budden, come really close to scuffling on the carpet at the 2017 BET Awards.
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If he were to win, he would be given the unenviable task of rebuilding the suddenly scuffling Democratic Party, which is without a clear path forward after it failed not only to win the White House but also a majority in the Senate, both of which were anticipated before Election Day.
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Beyond the grazing and the bramble bank where on another day I might lie down and press my ear against the trampled earth to hear the rabbits scuffling underground, a headland round the Ashgrove leads me on past wheat fields which still show the buffeting of last night's storm, toward the Blackwater.
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Verlander (9-123) pitched no-hit ball through five innings and allowed just two hits in the eight innings he worked while Justin Upton smacked a two-run home run to cap a four-run sixth that helped the scuffling Detroit Tigers end the Los Angeles Dodgers' six-game winning streak with a 6-1 victory.
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Merle Haggard, one of the most successful singers in the history of country music, a contrarian populist whose songs about his scuffling early life and his time in prison made him the closest thing that the genre had to a real-life outlaw hero, died at his ranch in Northern California on Wednesday, his 79th birthday.
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Almonte's gift was a welcome one not only for Ellsbury, who despite his $153 million contract has lost his starting job to the rookie Clint Frazier, but also for a Yankees offense that has floundered for much of the last week and that lost its scuffling designated hitter, Matt Holliday, to the disabled list on Sunday because of a sore back.
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Less than a decade ago, this fiery supermodel was one of the industry's most notorious bad girls, an Azzedine Alaïa-clad diva on the verge of becoming a tabloid joke after pleading guilty to aggravated assault twice in 20163 months, first in New York for lobbing a BlackBerry at her housekeeper and second for scuffling with two British police officers at Heathrow Airport when her luggage went missing.
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"He's been scuffling for the last 10 days, two weeks, and I just thought for us to get him on track, maybe the best way would be to move him around a little bit until he gets going," said Girardi, who could not afford to let Chapman, who has blown two saves against the Red Sox since the All-Star break, remain in his usual role as he tries to work his way through his difficulties.
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Were gui parasites any more or less than those six or so trees, behind us now, scuffling for nourishment from sky, ground, neighboring trees, rain, stars, those trees feeding on birds, mice, cows, insects, microbes feeding on them, up and down the food chain, Great Chain of Being, the latter chain a concept originating in the fifteenth century, popular through the eighteenth, that I had come across when I studied the birth of the English novel, both chains signifying the same grand plan and interconnection and infinite coupling and interdependencies and eating and being eaten necessary to create and sustain each moment, everyone, everything large and small, past, present, and future, Mr. Jackson, all of us parasiting our way through.
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To love a narcissist you have to believe, & reader, I did— for a time, I loved him, I believed in his cruelty & beauty—buds in silver birch, sparrows scuffling in the gravel by the basketball court where I watched him play Sunday pickup— his brute musculature twisting beneath his T-shirt, the springtime itch of him—O, I believed as he shoved & dodged his way up to dunk, I believed as he spun that pebbled orange leather in his fingertips like a cartographer turning the first terrestrial globe, its oceans gathered at the poles like the curtains of a diorama, its continents warped & stretched— I believed the swish I heard was the susurrus of reeds on the bank of a blessed body of water, I believed in his first principles & precepts— & what I remember best is how the ball slipped over the lip then hung there a second— a midair moon in the shredded net.
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