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Example sentences for: rump

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Ackerman focuses on the de facto transformation of government wrought by the Fourteenth Amendment, enacted by a rump Congress in violation of the express language of the Constitution.
Over time, the policy should try to weaken and eliminate the network's infrastructure in order to reduce it to a "rump group" like other formerly feared but now largely defunct terrorist organizations of the 1980s.
Wild hog/quenk can be very aggressive, especially in a group of five or six [ 5 ] . They live in swampy parts of the forest and will cross water during the day [ 5 ] . The bristles on the mid-dorsal line from crown to rump of the quenk raise when the animal is excited and the musk glands emit a musky odour [ 5 ] . Quenks eat succulent tubers and fallen fruits and nuts [ 5 ] . The bravery dogs need to hunt quenk has been documented [ 27 ] . Of an original pack of nine 'native curs' trained in quenk and lappe hunting, two received deep flesh wounds inflicted by the tusks of two quenks during a hunt.
This "lumbering and clumsy" alliance, incapable of "managing such brush fires as Kosovo," could "lose the Kosovo war in a month against the ruin of a rump state," warned columnist Charles Krauthammer.
A clue for COCK might thus come to read: number one in the pecking order dominates hens and crows (a quizzical statement, unless the word crows is read as a verb) or even: creature with a cow's head and a bullock's rump found in a coop (first letter of cow plus last three letters of bullock ).