THERE are policies on the books, unenforced for years, that are suddenly being pulled out and thrust in our faces," a business traveler groused in a recent e-mail message describing the way his company has begun tightening up on travel and entertainment expenses.
Led blinking into the vast expanse of Tiananmen Square in Beijing and thrust in front of a bank of TV cameras and journalists, there was only one question: 'How does it feel to be in Tiananmen, Ken?' It was a loaded question, and the media pack knew it.
Yanked out of school when he is only ten and thrust into a job in a London bottling factory, he knows only that his life is being strangled.
Powerful delicacy and thrust in the strings toward a gallopy finish, but, crucially, not overdone.
Some of them are young and thrusting in standard Tory-type ways – a public-school accent and a way of answering your questions that makes it quite clear that this is something only a thicko would ask – and some are not standard at all.
But in the cut-and-thrust of a crowded train, it can be slightly different.
In only their third season, the London men's wear shows, inspired by Dylan Jones, editor in chief of GQ magazine in Britain, showed the cut and thrust of a digitally savvy generation in clothes for spring/summer 2014.
Right in the cut and thrust of a Test match, but wrong in the midst of a Baa-Baas fun-fest?
When Singapore was expelled from Malaysia in 1965 and thrust into an unwanted independence, it was a typical Third World country.
This underlines their inability to defend themselves in the cut and thrust of a spirited campaign.
