But it was clear that his party and his own career risked being rubbed in the mud.
Don't be so weak as to forget problems which are not constantly being rubbed in your face.
Fans did not have the spectre of millionaires fighting with billionairres at a time of national economic distress rubbed in their faces.
Because even soundly sleeping watchdogs like the Federal Trade Commission tend to wake up once their noses are rubbed in a blatant stinker.
Unlike most films that attempt to re-create this bygone era, signifiers aren't rubbed in your face while "In the Mood" blares from a radio.
Instead, they ran all over the Hoyas and rubbed it in with outrageous dunks and alley-oops.
That rubbed people in Massachusetts where he was a sitting U.S. Senator the wrong way.
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And with the last move of the game a piercing run from Keogh rubbed salt in Ulster's gaping wounds.
Wing James rubbed salt in the wounds with a fifth home try and ensured that the Dragons' losing streak in Cardiff still stretches back to November 2003.
Carter missed a difficult penalty attempt which would have put them in front before the Blues rubbed more salt in their wound - Spencer scoring a length-of-the-field try in the final minute.
In fact, my nose was rubbed into ceteris paribus in the context of our discussion: what happens when the money supply increases.
At a table covered with egg cartons, a frizzy-haired blonde in fingerless gloves rubbed her hands together and lit a cigarette.
That proved to be the end, Welham increasing the home misery when he won a chase with five minutes left, before Murrell's drop-goal merely rubbed Hull's noses in it.
Tarloff, who has a history of courtroom outbursts, shifted in his seat and rubbed his face with his hands but listened quietly.
Salt was rubbed into the Windies' wounds in that match when paceman Kemar Roach and captain Floyd Reifer were called before International Cricket Council officials afterwards.
Frank Silva, the general manager makes the meat just as the deli did in 1928, hand rubbed with herbs and spices, marinated, smoked steamed and hand sliced.
The big cat was a friendly one and rubbed against ye but it stayed in the front room all the time and was down by the window or else on grannie's bed.
That rubbed many the wrong way but especially officials in France.
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In L.A., Siegel rubbed shoulders with the celebrity elite, even dating a few starlets, as he also planned to expand a gambling empire in Las Vegas.
It rubbed them the wrong way at the time, but in a week I predict most will be forgotten, and fanboys will be bowing down to them at E3 in a month.
Standing in front of the mirror, she repeatedly rubbed a white cross on her forehead, an action that she could only have performed by connecting her reflected image with her own body.
Mr Obama and Mr Netanyahu have rubbed each other up the wrong way so many times in the past that it is a wonder that the friction has not started any serious fires.
He had changed policy when told to, rubbed along well enough with opposition leaders, and found coalitions in parliament when they were most needed.
The obsession with America's technology, media and telecoms shares, he argues, has rubbed off on Asia, with investors rushing into similar shares in regional markets.
When Jake rubbed his eye, a chunk of his eyelid would come off in his fingers.
He said that the policemen had splashed soapy water on the floor and walls of the cell, as they usually did, and that the old man, who had not bathed in a week, had yanked his shirt off and rubbed his frail back against the wet floor.
Now, like some prince in faery, he had got the stuff on his fingertips, rubbed it into his eyes and seen the secrets of the universe.
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Ferrari rubbed salt into the wound by finishing first and second, pushing McLaren to third in the constructors' championship.
Because in confronting our deepest racial feelings -- even if emotions are "rubbed raw, " he averred -- we will emerge better and stronger.
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