Nothing remarkable there, except that they had been last in the league in runs scored, mostly because of a barrage of injuries.
In a way, the activities of the ISI in the United States reflect the paranoia among officials in Islamabad that Pakistan's influence in the United States has been eroding steadily because of a barrage of negative news accounts about Pakistan's military and efforts by India to jockey for influence in Washington.
But since then there has barely been a clear week in which Romney has been able to get his message across, either because of a barrage of ads on his record as chief executive of Bain Capital and his unwillingness to release more than two years' worth of tax records, or because of gaffes on his own side.
-- If some voters question her trustworthiness, Hillary Clinton says in an interview, it's because of a barrage of attacks from the right.
Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis yanked Joe Medwick of the St . Louis Cardinalsout of a game in the 1934 World Series — "for his own safety" — because Detroit fans unleashed a barrage of fruit and other garbage at him after he slid roughly into third base.
He was not surprised by the finding that the more television people watched, the more weight they gained, most likely because they are influenced by a barrage of food ads and snack in front of the TV.
In remarks late Tuesday night, Mr. Santorum argued that his victories in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri were the first true test of Republican intentions because they were not influenced by a barrage of negative ads like those aired in Iowa, Florida and South Carolina.
He recounts, for example, a conversation with a top television network editor who was reluctant to run stories about global warming because a previous story had "triggered a barrage of complaints from the Global Climate Coalition" -- a fossil fuel industry lobbying group -- "to our top executives at the network".
Performance on tough notebook PCs has typically strayed behind the majority of the commercial notebook PC market, in part because they take a lot longer to design and build than standard notebooks, and also because they must stand up to a barrage of product testing to ensure their ability to survive being dropped, spilled on and otherwise abused.
Because they can fight back with a barrage of ridicule, a flood of humor.
