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  • A client who uses aggressive tactics against you to get their way is a real liability, and you should extricate yourself from the situation as quickly as possible.
  • He had managed to extricate himself from most of his official duties.
  • The car was a wreck of twisted metal, but they could see the driver, still inside, trying to extricate himself from his situation.
  • When pursued he makes directly for his hole, and even if his hinder parts should be caught hold of, is extricated with great difficulty.
  • When they were extricated two or three of them were much bruised about the head and face, but no limbs were broken.
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  • They fired away with wild abandon, but luckily with little accuracy, and he was able to extricate himself.
  • Straightening, Jack extricated a notecase from an inner pocket and withdrew a card. A Lady of Expectations
  • Hundreds of tarred and burning hoops were skilfully quoited around the necks of the soldiers, who struggled in vain to extricate themselves from these fiery ruffs, while as fast as any of the invaders planted foot upon the breach, they were confronted face to face with sword and dagger by the burghers, who hurled them headlong into the moat below. A Wanderer in Holland
  • When they are extricated, one of them is unconscious and has a steel rod sticking into his temple.
  • Desperate to extricate herself from the situation, she ends up at the "Cat Bureau" where she gets help from Baron, a living porcelain cat figurine with refined manners, a Puss-'n'-Boots-style of omnicompetence, and a couple of goofball sidekicks. Archive 2007-09-01
  • The scooterist came back running, asking the crane to stop till his scooter was extricated.
  • Such women are dangerous... But perhaps you'd already reached that conclusion and were wondering how to extricate yourself? ULTIMATE PRIZES
  • Or maybe she was sucked into a maelstrom of organised crime, from which only he could extricate her.
  • If she can extricate them both from this strong hold of irrational machismo, then time's death grip may perhaps weaken.
  • These people will present themselves in a matter of time and we will immediately extricate them from our ranks.
  • Now, the big question is how do they extricate themselves from a theatre of war that daily looks more like a slaughterhouse?
  • He debated with himself whether to continue at all, but he saw no way to extricate himself. FLASH POINT
  • Let us extricate the overweight study burden, along in the athletic field.
  • On Mars, NASA's robot rover Spirit is spinning its wheels on the soft shoulder of planetary exploration, up to its axles in silt millions of miles away from tense engineers who are struggling to extricate it by remote control. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: July 17, 2009
  • Before he could extricate himself, the runners preceding the pageant returning the great god to his shrine, beat the multitude back from the dromos and once again Kenkenes was imprisoned by the hosts. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt
  • It will be interesting to discover how you extricate yourself from that position. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
  • As Ian approached the bus stop, Mad Sam extricated himself from the litter bin and stood in the middle of the pavement, blocking Ian's path.
  • A number of persons rushed to the accident spot and extricated the occupants from the car.
  • They managed to extricate the pilot from the tangled control panel.
  • He coughed again, sounding like a submerged jeep trying to be extricated from a lake of mud.
  • ‘One person was trapped and we extricated them but it has been confirmed as a fatality,’ he said.
  • I tried to extricate myself from the situation but it was impossible.
  • The current squabble is nothing new, but it could herald far-reaching change: The U.K. government has pledged to extricate itself from the unedifying annual spectacle by removing the role of the secretary of state from determining the levy scheme, and there is a sense that this represents an opportunity to remodel the levy with a viable commercial mechanism. Jockeying Over Horseracing Funding
  • They managed to extricate the pilot from the tangled control panel.
  • Whatever were occasionally the triumphs of this daring cateran, they were often exchanged for reverses; and his narrow escapes, rapid flights, and the ingenious stratagems with which he extricated himself from imminent danger, were no less remembered and admired than the exploits in which he had been successful. Chronicles of the Canongate
  • These strike me as slightly schoolboyish--"Well, you say yes, but your friends say no, nyah, nyah"--perhaps reflecting the growing desperation of a government increasingly anxious to extricate itself from what is, in fact, clear involvement in a war crime. Harper's last stand
  • When they are extricated, one of them is unconscious and has a steel rod sticking into his temple.
  • Only with the cunning of the fox can you extricate yourself from these grim precincts.
  • When I extricated myself from her clutches and got back to my seat, she turned to the woman beside me and said, ‘He must really love you.’
  • The bird had to be extricated from the netting.
  • The first care of the two unspilt friends was to extricate their unfortunate companions from their bed of quickset — a process which gave them the unspeakable satisfaction of discovering that they had sustained no injury, beyond sundry rents in their garments, and various lacerations from the brambles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
  • Had she been a little older, and just a little more rotund, one might have suspected her indulging in a treatment; but it required, finally, the combined strength of Cleo and Jennie to extricate the "lost soul" from the meshes into which that roll and a couple of fine silkoline quilts had engulfed her. The Girl Scouts at Bellaire Or Maid Mary's Awakening
  • And how was she going to extricate them from Bellringer's spell without exposing herself as a police officer? THE GOSPEL MAKERS
  • It represents a last ditch attempt by the country to extricate itself from its economic crisis.
  • The first care of the two unspilt friends was to extricate their unfortunate companions from their bed of quickset -- a process which gave them the unspeakable satisfaction of discovering that they had sustained no injury, beyond sundry rents in their garments, and various lacerations from the brambles. The Pickwick Papers
  • It will be interesting to discover how you extricate yourself from that position. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
  • He debated with himself whether to continue at all, but he saw no way to extricate himself. FLASH POINT
  • Mercifully some one arrived upon the scene to extricate him from the dilemma and assume the responsibility.
  • It represents a last ditch attempt by the country to extricate itself from its economic crisis.
  • In February Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys mental health trust announced that it was the first NHS organisation to extricate itself from a PFI agreement. Government must learn from PFI mistakes, says NAO
  • The perfection of the troops' training was revealed when a display of parade-ground drill helped to extricate the army from a trap in the Balkan mountains.
  • She tugged on Hart's arm to extricate him from the circle of men with whom he'd been talking.
  • The first care of the two unspilt friends was to extricate their unfortunate companions from their bed of quickset — a process which gave them the unspeakable satisfaction of discovering that they had sustained no injury, beyond sundry rents in their garments, and various lacerations from the brambles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
  • Bush had confidently predicted that the Iraqi "troops will straggle home with no armor, beaten up, 50,000," but they were more numerous than that, and they had extricated lots of armor. Geoffrey Wawro: Desert Storm Turns Twenty: What Really Happened in 1991, and Why it Matters, Part II of II
  • I didn't want to engage with him, but I was just too weak to extricate myself from the conversation, and, accordingly, got a little snippy.
  • The damage, however , often begins only when a survivor is extricated.
  • But it is time for the illegals of all colors and creeds to be extricated from the welfare rolls, school rolls, pay rolls and hospital corridors. Rubio criticizes controversial Arizona immigration law
  • The Englishmen extricated themselves from their importunity by bestowing, as is usual on such occasions, a donative of small coin upon those who appeared most needy, or most deserving of their charity one tall woman stood on the steps close to the door, and extended her hand to the elder Philipson, who, struck with her appearance, exchanged for a piece of silver the copper coins which he had been distributing amongst others. Anne of Geierstein
  • A complicated story unfolds, with Mitchum desperately trying to extricate himself from the trap.
  • Such women are dangerous... But perhaps you'd already reached that conclusion and were wondering how to extricate yourself? ULTIMATE PRIZES
  • But the princeliness of his disposition was seen most in his behavior to another friend, the writer of this memoir, who is proud to relate that, with money raised with an effort, Shelley once made him a present of fourteen hundred pounds, to extricate him from debt. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850
  • The God, one supposes, didn't "become flesh" in order to extricate our human persons from our bodies, but to infuse (maybe to re-infuse) our mere animality with life-bearing spirit. Scott Cairns: Art and the Meaning of Creation
  • However, when a customer comes up, he extricates those fine-looking mangoes or pomegranates from underneath, to be weighed and handed out.
  • And how was she going to extricate them from Bellringer's spell without exposing herself as a police officer? THE GOSPEL MAKERS
  • Touchwood had scarcely extricated himself from this impediment, and again commenced his researches after the clergyman, when his course was once more interrupted by a sort of pressgang, headed by Sir Bingo Binks, who, in order to play his character of a drunken boatswain to the life, seemed certainly drunk enough, however little of a seaman. Saint Ronan's Well
  • The meeting seemed to be endless, but I extricated myself by saying I had to catch a plane.
  • If it be ‘case’ (I choose it as Jargon’s dearest child—‘in Heaven yclept Metonomy’) turn to the dictionary, if you will, and seek out what meaning can be derived from casus, its Latin ancestor: then try how, with a little trouble, you can extricate yourself from that case. V. Interlude: On Jargon
  • Soldiers had local residents extricate the bodies and then flattened the house with bulldozers, witnesses said.
  • What is needed is for the G7 nations to extricate themselves from the big bailout business.
  • I cannot extricate myself from this task
  • Firemen had to extricate the driver from the wreckage.
  • The other buffalo also extricated itself from the slime and lolloped away. Burmese Days
  • One part Tutankhamun, one part Marie Antoinette, the collection seemed to be extricated from the catacombs of ancient Rome with plenty of peasant blouses, full skirts, and of course, cleavage. Nicole Berrie: Vivienne Westwood Spring/Summer 2011 - Monster's Ball
  • How was he going to extricate himself from this situation?
  • The meeting seemed to be endless, but I extricated myself by saying I had to catch a plane.
  • Such women are dangerous... But perhaps you'd already reached that conclusion and were wondering how to extricate yourself? ULTIMATE PRIZES
  • Mercifully some one arrived upon the scene to extricate him from the dilemma and assume the responsibility.
  • Thanks in part to the condition of the track ambulance crews took two hours to extricate me and deliver me to hospital.
  • By the time Miss Camilla had been extricated from the débris as lifeless and inert as the other two, the chauffeur had returned at mad speed from the village, bringing with him a doctor and many strange appliances for resuscitation. The Slipper Point Mystery
  • Such women are dangerous... But perhaps you'd already reached that conclusion and were wondering how to extricate yourself? ULTIMATE PRIZES
  • The meeting seemed to be endless, but I extricated myself by saying I had to catch a plane.
  • The pollinia are dislodged and stick to the wasp, who eventually extricates himself and flies off, sadder but apparently no wiser: he goes on to repeat the performance on another hammer orchid, where he and the pollinia he bears are duly dashed against the anvil, so that his cargo finds its destined refuge on the female organs of the flower. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
  • By nightfall all the rifle companies had been over-run; some sections, and platoons from these companies extricated themselves at nightfall.
  • This was the same animal, which had performed exuviation, and extricated itself from the old shell during the night. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852
  • David Mason rather sportingly ended up driving Elaine to Stephen's house, where she extricated him.
  • He debated with himself whether to continue at all, but he saw no way to extricate himself. FLASH POINT
  • The boy extricated the bird from the net.
  • It is his fault, not mine, that he writes "Thus beneath the bearded Jesus is the flesh of Christina," and "It was a lesson in pessimism to complement her memory of the mouse," and "Eventually Maria extricated herself from papistic Longleat," plus a thousand more sentences of the kind. The Rossettis
  • On demand, of course, the highly - polished ‘imported’ apples or pomegranates are deftly extricated from underneath, weighed and handed out.
  • It represents a last ditch attempt by the country to extricate itself from its economic crisis.
  • The meeting seemed to be endless, but I extricated myself by saying I had to catch a plane.
  • And, in 1811, M. Poisson applied Laplace's artifices to the case of two spheres acting upon one another in contact, a case to which many of Coulomb's experiments were referrible; and the agreement of the results of theory and observation, thus extricated from Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
  • Relativity doesn't just want to be a one-shot solution for companies trying to extricate themselves from ailing computer languages.
  • Mercifully some one arrived upon the scene to extricate him from the dilemma and assume the responsibility.
  • Or, if he did not intend to ridicule for the sake of ridicule, then he intended to indicate that Watson's eugenicism cannot be extricated from the moral condemnation that we direct at Hitler's eugenics program, involving as it did, racism, forced marriages, forced sterilisations, and mass murder. A Scientific Worldview?
  • Yet, funny, but they produce a Governor Jesse Ventura and can't extricate themselves from the continuing farce with Al Franken, known as their senatorial race. Patrick Takahashi: A Pandemic Worse than the Swine Flu
  • She tugged on Hart's arm to extricate him from the circle of men with whom he'd been talking.
  • He would have to be a very smooth talker to extricate himself from this tangle.
  • My guess is that the so-called Democratic 'king makers' in Michigan will accept just about anything to extricate themselves from their stupid, ill considered rush to show what they thought would be a sure bet that they were her super supporters and win some browny points with the incoming Washington power structure. Obama Campaign Calls For 50-50 Split Of Michigan Delegates
  • The list is culled from the letters received by fixed-penalty units in which motorists attempt to extricate themselves from copping a fine for speeding.
  • He exasperates his servant Sganarelle and must constantly be extricated from sticky situations by his disapproving father. Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World
  • And how was she going to extricate them from Bellringer's spell without exposing herself as a police officer? THE GOSPEL MAKERS
  • It took hours to extricate the car from the sand.
  • I tried to extricate myself from the situation but it was impossible.
  • The secret police at the station looked on indifferently as I extricated myself from my Ostyak fur coats. My Life
  • How was he going to extricate himself from this situation?
  • So does Cardinal Connell have the capacity to extricate the church from this mess and instil confidence in ordinary Catholics?
  • And how was she going to extricate them from Bellringer's spell without exposing herself as a police officer? THE GOSPEL MAKERS
  • It will be interesting to discover how you extricate yourself from that position. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
  • It represents a last ditch attempt by the country to extricate itself from its economic crisis.
  • I tried to extricate myself from the situation but it was impossible.
  • Three bullets were extricated from Gurcharan's body.
  • It represents a last ditch attempt by the country to extricate itself from its economic crisis.
  • They fired away with wild abandon, but luckily with little accuracy, and he was able to extricate himself.
  • In short, capitalist states were becoming thoroughly entangled in a set of conflicts from which they could not easily extricate themselves.
  • But my guess is that they were extricated some time ago to some safe-haven.
  • It is not known when Napoleon managed to extricate himself from this chaos.
  • William extricated himself from his difficulty with considerable address.
  • The ship was extricated after being stuck for three hours.
  • When a bhikkhu meditated on the Chain and saw it yogically, becoming mindful of the way each thought and sensa­tion rose and fell away, he acquired a “direct knowledge” ofthe Truth that nothing could be relied upon, that everything was impermanent (anicca), and would be inspired to redouble his efforts to extricate himself from this endless Chain of cause and effect. Buddha
  • The entire region plunged into deep chaos and a nation was caught up in a deep quag, that it is still finding itself difficult to extricate from.
  • The embarrassing struggle to extricate him from Spain, where he was fighting for the Republicans, was the extent of Spender's Spanish civil war - and the beginning of his disillusion with communism.
  • She was impatient herself for the important conference she was planning, and felt, with increasing solicitude, that all her life's happiness hung upon her power to extricate herself honourably from the terrible embarrassment in which she was involved. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
  • A Gorcum friend extricated him; and, disguised as a carpenter armed with a footrule, he set forth on his travels to Antwerp. A Wanderer in Holland
  • Let us extricate the overweight study burden, along in the athletic field.
  • It will be interesting to discover how you extricate yourself from that position. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
  • Officials said the driver's body remained on the bus after the survivors escaped or were extricated from the vehicle. Tour bus carrying children crashes through guardrail in Bethesda; driver killed
  • He debated with himself whether to continue at all, but he saw no way to extricate himself. FLASH POINT
  • Now, the big question is how do they extricate themselves from a theatre of war that daily looks more like a slaughterhouse?
  • These strike me as slightly schoolboyish -- "Well, you say yes, but your friends say no, nyah, nyah" -- perhaps reflecting the growing desperation of a government increasingly anxious to extricate itself from what is, in fact, clear involvement in a war crime. Archive 2009-11-01

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