• From a man who is one of the most peaceable presences I've lately encountered, a gentle giant of a mind, this car is nothing but a weapon: a very large, very Norse, not-all-that-pretty ax meant to be thrown with staggering force at a great distance.

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  • Even at 30mph, a child can be thrown forward with a potentially lethal force of 30 to 60 times its own body weight.

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  • Some crowdfunding portals contend that free market principles should rule the day, and the floodgates of crowdfunding should be thrown open with no restrictions.

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  • We are certainly beginning to challenge the notion of a classroom that was set up over 100 years ago in the light of an industrial revolution, that required vast numbers of people to be filled up with knowledge to be thrown into the workplace quickly, the smokestack school in more than one sense.

    ECONOMIST: The Economist Debate Series: Education: The Proposition's closing statement | The

  • After each ballot, the candidate with the lowest score will be thrown out of the balloon.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • Bowled from around the wicket, the ball skidded onto his stumps, and Watson and Haddin were thrown together with much still to be done.

    BBC: Australian pair dent Indian hopes

  • And if it never does become any better, then at least its leaders, its institutions, its companies and its nations, should be able to deal with the challenges that are thrown at them in a dynamic fashion.

    BBC: Davos 2013: 'Dynamic resilience' in a volatile world

  • Expect many legal cases testing the boundaries of the birth control mandate over the next couple years, with the possibility that the mandate will be thrown out completely.

    FORBES: The Pill, the Pox and the Limits of Religious Freedom

  • And, again, the President's focus here has been from the beginning on crafting a policy that builds on our existing private insurance system that is most effective and efficient in expanding coverage that ensures that those with preexisting conditions cannot be denied coverage or thrown off their health insurance plans, and provides all the other benefits that I've mentioned.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • This alliance of Guineans and Sierra Leoneans, with a few Liberians thrown in, seems to be responsible for the attacks near Kinda and Forecariah.

    BBC: The Guinea conflict explained

  • Even a seemingly simple business-networking event, such as a baseball game where peanuts are thrown around the stadium, can be a challenge for an employee with food allergies.

    FORBES: Food Allergies in the Workplace are Not Always What They Seem

  • After a few months, the canvases disappeared, though it was unclear to Vivian whether someone had finally bought them or Shelly had just thrown them into the Dumpster behind the ribbon warehouse to be carted away along with the giant spools of badly dyed grosgrain.

    NEWYORKER: Temporary

  • The key: Each divider is imprinted with guidance on what should be filed within, and what should be thrown away.

    FORBES: Organized from Beyond the Grave

  • "With the celebrity factor thrown into the funeral, who'll be there, who'll talk, I would guess tens of millions in the U.S. will watch it on TV, " she said.

    CNN: Jackson spectacle likely a world event

  • For a time, Hanwell Snr made his own reluctance to sit appear quite natural, busying himself with the hot oil and dismissing certain chips as not fit to be thrown in the fryer if his only son was to eat them.

    NEWYORKER: Hanwell Senior

  • Instead a stress on Boston's spirit, with a few jokes thrown in, and an insistence that America cannot be, will not, be cowed.

    BBC: America's mourner in chief

  • Virtue, the Islamic party formed when its predecessor, Welfare, was banned in 1998 after being thrown out of office, has spotted that with a European arm around its shoulder it might be better able to insist, for instance, that females should be allowed, despite current laws, to wear headscarves in state-run schools and government offices.

    ECONOMIST: Is it adieu to Ataturk?

  • But with a growing chorus in the Republican Party demanding an Oval Office shakeup, somebody had to be thrown overboard, the somebody being Andy Card.

    NPR: Andy Card Leaves a Stacked Deck

  • But Mr Yar'Adua's admirers say his deliberative style is right for a country with a feeble infrastructure and an array of problems that cannot be solved simply by having oil cash thrown at them.

    ECONOMIST: Nigeria's president

  • Just metres away from where the coffin was discovered was something else which, if dug up in the garden, would probably be thrown away - a squashed, grey pot, hand-moulded, not made on a wheel, and with a crude decoration of lines and punch-marks.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Bridging London's lost centuries

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