The late night broadcasts were a low budget law unto themselves, with reluctant professors thrust uncomfortably in front of the camera.

BBC: Patrick Moore to Brian Cox - A history of TV science

One day, not long after she had endured yet another session under the surgeon's knife, he took a mirror from her dressing table and thrust it in front of her face to reflect the livid scars and the bruising under her eyes.

CNN: Books - Excerpt: 'Flint'

He grabbed an iron crowbar that was lying on the ballast and, with precise aim, thrust it between the spokes of one of the rapidly revolving front wheels.

NEWYORKER: Among Animals and Plants

His main thrust seems to be keeping the Shiites united in a common front politically, but he refuses to get involved in the day-to-day political infighting that characterizes Iraqi politics.

NPR: Sectarian Violence Erodes Sistani's Influence in Iraq

Mr Mitchell - whose job was to maintain discipline on the Conservative benches - was thrust into the spotlight when The Sun accused him in a front page story of calling police "plebs".

BBC: Andrew Mitchell

Such scenes are the front lines of U.S.-based web consulting companies, thrust into global expansion by design--or by circumstances they couldn't control.

FORBES: Innocents Abroad

In its two recent series, especially against Pakistan, England played a brand of cricket from the days before DRS. The batsmen were repeatedly pinned on their crease, playing back in an attempt not to thrust their pads forward and pop a catch to a nearby fielder, but instead getting trapped in front of the stumps.

WSJ: Why Test Cricket Is All In a Spin