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Example sentences for: thrust

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Investigators cautioned that they had few clues to go on, but early speculation focused on: 1) the thrust reverser flaw that downed a similar plane in 1991; 2) recent threats of terrorist attacks against airlines; and 3) inconsistent regulation of foreign carriers' safety.
Then, bursting into the doors, they thrust the heads into their laps, ordering them to make a copy of them in pencil.
The urgent thrust of this year's Lawyers' Campaign for Equal Justice, now at full flood, is to have more private lawyers throw lifelines to the poor, elderly, disabled, unemployed and disadvantaged drowning in the legal surf.
But the central thrust of Bush's "Culture of Achievement" plan, which relates to standards and testing, deploys just the kind of unwieldy regulatory mechanism Bush is elsewhere trying to eliminate.
Indeed, I was slightly bothered by having had the bastard word thrust upon me.