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Example sentences for: pulling

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The paper reports that at a closed-door meeting with members, Newt Gingrich seemed irritated by such scruples and won "a huge ovation" after reminding attendees that the House had already voted for full disclosure, and that pulling back now would only lead to news leaks.
Still, the candidates are going to have trouble pulling this off.
The Enquirer also cited the much-publicized scene of Hillary pulling her arm away from Bill during a recent memorial service in Israel for Yitzhak Rabin.
What happened in Iraq is that Saddam Hussein ousted the six Americans on the U.N. weapons inspection team, and the team's leader responded by pulling nearly all of his multi-national team out of the country.
In Ovitz's case, the leverage was compounded, because he had been enjoying a fabulously successful career as Hollywood's top agent; rumor had it he was pulling down between $25 million and $35 million per year.