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  • verb Present participle of strongarm.

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Examples

  • August 5th, 2009 1: 51 pm ET what? no one is inciting me to protest? teh democrat strongarming and forcing this down my throat is what incites me ...

    Democrats say Republicans staging town hall protests 2009

  • But until then to them everything is fine and its strongarming as usual.

    My Big iPhone Break-up 2009

  • While this is not expected to change the fact that United Russia will get the majority in the forthcoming parliamentary elections in December - because United Russia is a party of bureaucrats and is infamous for strongarming teachers, students and millions of public sector workers to vote for them - it is a clear indication to Mr Putin that he has to act.

    Putin: we have lost Russia's trust 2011

  • It reads you dropped the ball in the white house while strongarming the senate to take over healthcare. jules sand-perkins

    Obama to receive CIA update on Christmas terror attack 2010

  • Of course, that is nothing new for Obama – he did afterall become a senator by strongarming all of his opponents (including the democratic incumbent) off the ballot to run unopposed.

    Clinton has double-digit lead in Puerto Rico 2008

  • How is it, in any way, feasible to think that Barack Obama – who's being asked by every democrat in the country to show some toughness, no less, will give in to what amounts to be strongarming?

    Lanny Davis joins VoteBoth 2008

  • I guess the question left unasked is whether the administration should be doing anything to prevent foreclosures, leaving aside the macroeconomic questions (also, the administration has been strongarming industry to renegotiate loan terms as part of the hope alliance, which i think is an awful idea, Barack Obama to his credit hasn't said a peep about preventing foreclosures).

    Archive 2008-03-01 xtra 2008

  • Is the strongarming of the superdelegates working?

    Obama about to clinch victory, aide says 2008

  • I guess the question left unasked is whether the administration should be doing anything to prevent foreclosures, leaving aside the macroeconomic questions (also, the administration has been strongarming industry to renegotiate loan terms as part of the hope alliance, which i think is an awful idea, Barack Obama to his credit hasn't said a peep about preventing foreclosures).

    Foreclosures xtra 2008

  • I vote for a petition to NOT have her blackmailing, strongarming, defiant delusional self on the ticket as Veep.

    Second petition drive launched to make Clinton VP 2008

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