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  • At the same time, he's conducting an affair with a college groupie who sideswiped him at a lecture and, beyond that, schmoozing a big shot who might get him a better job.
  • MR. MURRAY: Ellen, Clay's book says you can do everything right, you can listen to your customers, you can be very smart about allocating capital to the highest returns, and you can still get sideswiped by disruptive technologies. The Innovator's Solution
  • But Ms. Hance was convinced the pit bull-Labrador mix needed a restraint after a tractor-trailer sideswiped her minivan while Cocoa stood in the front seat, an incident that left both dog and owner shaken but uninjured. Get in the Car, Fasten Your Seat Belt, That's a Good Boy!
  • I believe ‘Foucault's Pendulum’ is Mr Eco's way of poking fun at the overly gullible whilst also having a sideswipe at conspiracy theories and generally showing off his vast knowledge.
  • The rich and the famous are as vulnerable as anybody else to the sideswipes of fate, and perhaps more so since the artificial demands imposed on their lives means they are less authentically connected to the pulse of destiny.
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  • Despite the increasingly hostile sideswipes at him, the Chancellor is secure in his post.
  • The fifth edition of the Oxford Companion to English Literature defined it as "often containing not only fictional but historical people and/or events," adding that "in serious work there is a real attempt at accuracy and credibility" a sideswipe perhaps at bodice- rippers. Mongols on the Moskva
  • A 2007 Nissan Sentra was traveling west on W.Va. 9 and a 2009 Toyota Yaris traveling eastbound struck it in what police described as a sideswipe manner, causing the Toyota to run over an embankment, rolling onto its side against a tree. The Journal
  • How they meet, though, is what changes things for them both, as they manage to sideswipe each other in their cars on a motorway and cause an accident.
  • I guess that broken sword paves the way for the upcoming Sidearm Sideswipe figure. Transformers News - All News
  • As the glaring bright light blinded us for a split second, we heard a sickening metal screech as the semi sideswiped Mom's car and just barely missed doing the same to mine.
  • Isn't that a little sideswipe at him in the first paragraph?
  • A passing bus driver, presumably failing to observe the proximity of the sign, sideswiped it with his external rear-view mirror causing it to fall from its position and strike the plaintiff, injuring her.
  • Despite the increasingly hostile sideswipes at him, the Chancellor is secure in his post.
  • The trumpets sideswiped the trombones, which were hauling a bass-clef harmony out of the eight measure break. Chameleon
  • Sir Kenneth concluded with a sideswipe at his critics.
  • They have always been the ones to promote the air of inevitability about his latest move, and, equally, to make sideswipes at those who might get in his way.
  • Goannas use a sideswipe with their heavy tail as their main weapon of defence and have been known to break the leg of a pursuing dog.
  • This is for all those backstabbing phrases, euphemisms, sideswipes and digs. Mail and Guardian
  • This left O'Neill unable to resist a sideswipe at his title rivals.
  • If you're going to have your picture in GQ, you're going to invite a certain amount of comment, she continued, grinding any notion of sisterhood under her booted-heel to make a sideswipe at her fellow panellist, Tory backbencher Louise Mensch. Committee's solution to attacks on female politicians: 'just get on with it'
  • As Mr. Casey maneuvered the large vehicle through traffic, he said he wouldn't mind having an altercation with another driver: "It would be cool to have a taxi sideswipe us and be at this intersection and have an argument. Storm Chaser and Tank Blow Into Town
  • This may sound like a classic love triangle, but there is little time for romance with all those wry sideswipes at the Western genre.
  • Muhammad fell after the bike was sideswiped by the bus.
  • On Wednesday, John Feinstein's weekly segment on ESPN 980's The Sports Reporters -- one of my favorite weekly segments on any local station -- ended abruptly, with a scream and a profanity, after Feinstein was sideswiped in a minor fender-bender. The perils of sports talk radio interviews
  • Pine held his ribs for the next round of convulsions and dodged Stan's sideswipe. THE MANANA MAN
  • It's so true to the scene that it almost feels like a documentary and comes devoid of moralistic sideswipes: there are no evil dealers or manipulative promoters, no troublemakers showing up with guns or deaths from overdoses.
  • Goannas use a sideswipe with their heavy tail as their main weapon of defence and have been known to break the leg of a pursuing dog.
  • There was some concern that a train on another track could sideswipe the mirror causing damage.
  • sideswiped" by a slowdown of demand in the U.S. and abroad. BusinessWeek.com --
  • She was going too fast and sideswiped a parked car.
  • For fear of being sideswiped he did not park his car by itself.
  • It was a good speech, but he couldn't resist taking a sideswipe at his opponent.
  • These signs of resilience of the euro itself may have sideswiped many currency investors, forcing them to close bearish bets by buying the currency. Mideast Troubles Pressure Euro
  • There was a sideswipe when cars that derailed struck cars on the adjacent track, he said. Freight train derails near Tacoma
  • Earby's parish council clerk for the past 10 years has stepped down with a tear in her eye and a sideswipe at those too quick to criticise the best efforts of their hard working local representatives.
  • The three cars on his tail tried to block his escape routes, but the man drove straight into the first vehicle, pushed past a second and sideswiped a third before driving off.
  • He also took a sideswipe at the media for ‘hammering’ him in the past week in a hypocritical fashion.
  • The suspect car sideswiped two oncoming vehicles before hitting a third vehicle and coming to a stop.
  • That all came to an end in recent months after a confluence of events sideswiped the industry, causing short sellers to swell. Rare-Earth Firms Prove a Common Focus for Shorts
  • During her lecture on her discoveries, she made/took several sideswipes at the management.
  • He thought of the truck that had sideswiped him, leading to his decision to turn off the highway to wait until morning to continue his journey.
  • Only when she reaches her lowest point do we start to get a sense of her past and see genuine reactions to the sideswipes that she appears to brush off happily.
  • It was a good speech, but he couldn't resist taking a sideswipe at his opponent.
  • When you revenge serious on somebody they got to have wronged you direct and not just sideswipe "Jude said. RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE
  • Goannas use a sideswipe with their heavy tail as their main weapon of defence and have been known to break the leg of a pursuing dog.
  • These are some pretty hardcore vitriolic comments mixed with anger and if you notice, they take a sideswipe at us too for printing them.
  • Bank of France governor Christian Noyer launched an attack on ratings companies Thursday that included a sideswipe at the U.K., continuing the war of words that has raged since last week's U.K. veto of a new European treaty. France's Triple-A War of Words
  • She said a council member asked her to make a presentation, and she got "sideswiped" by the controversy. 2theadvocate.com Latest News
  • But beyond another sideswipe at employment rights this autumn, there was little new from the Treasury. Suddenly the state is back in vogue at Number 10. But for how long? | Will Hutton
  • In one verse he introduced a sideswipe at the repressive legal system of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (again something he criticized in his earlier historical novel, Barnaby Rudge).
  • Despite the increasingly hostile sideswipes at him, the Chancellor is secure in his post.
  • The employers' group also took a sideswipe at rising costs emanating from the sheltered sectors of the economy.
  • Andy Sullivan was driving his GM camper through a stop sign at 21st and Mathers near the top of the hill when the dump truck sideswiped his vehicle.
  • The good thing about Kenny is that you can take a friendly sideswipe at him, and he doesn't take offence.
  • Scotland's leading chef, Andrew Fairlie, has taken a sideswipe at celebrity TV cook culture which, he says, makes him ‘cringe’.
  • This is once again the natterings of those most threatened by the rise of social media, who see their business model being sideswiped by something large and fast-moving, but whose exact shape and dimensions they cannot fathom.
  • Then, last week, someone nearly sideswiped me while executing a left turn through an intersection on a busy, two-lane street.
  • On the legislative front, there has been an increase in the number of bills introduced in Congress targeted specifically on Canadian exports, where previously we were being "sideswiped" by general legislation aimed at other targets. Some Canadian Myths About the U.S.
  • When you revenge serious on somebody they got to have wronged you direct and not just sideswipe "Jude said. RANDOM ACTS OF SENSELESS VIOLENCE
  • A drunk driver failed to see her bright flashing lights, sideswiped her vehicle, and plowed into the back of the truck.
  • Pine held his ribs for the next round of convulsions and dodged Stan's sideswipe. THE MANANA MAN
  • During her lecture on her discoveries, she made/took several sideswipes at the management.
  • But there are few if any satirical sideswipes or caustic commentaries on the people living day to day in his fiction.
  • As they approached on foot, the van backed toward them, knocking one trooper down, hitting the patrol car, and then getting sideswiped as it entered the traffic lane still in reverse.
  • But the recent sideswipe by David Cameron at superinjunctions is pointless. It should be curtains for celebrities with a bedroom secret
  • After a high-speed chase through the still Ohio dawn, Ford sideswiped a tree and came to a halt at the end of a cul-de-sac.
  • And in a sideswipe at some of his peers, many of whom he feels are languishing in the comfort zone, he refused to pull his punches.
  • Despite the increasingly hostile sideswipes at him, the Chancellor is secure in his post.
  • He was now thinking on his feet, his strategy for dealing with what he thought was going to be a straightforward interview had been dealt a sideswipe by this unexpected manoeuvre.
  • But if they dislike something, they should at least use reasoned analysis rather than wild sideswipes of opinion.
  • However, you stray off the reservation by taking a sideswipe at the black-footed ferret, greater sage-grouse, orchids and wild mustangs, not to mention the archeological and paleontological professions. The Main Engineering Problems Used to Be Engineering
  • Tammy Lynn Michaels feels "sideswiped" by her breakup The Velvet Hot Tub | Freshest Stories
  • Debate over whether Michaele could make it on her own, which allows Paul to give the sideswipe that it's easy for Lynda to say -- she married and divorced a very rich man, that's where the lucre's from, not her modeling agency. Last one ever?: D.C. 'Housewives' recap and fact-check (#9, Oct. 7)
  • He nearly sideswiped a mailbox in his determination.
  • As Mr. Casey maneuvered the large vehicle through traffic, he said he wouldn't mind having an altercation with another driver: "It would be cool to have a taxi sideswipe us and be at this intersection and have an argument. Storm Chaser and Tank Blow Into Town

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