WASHINGTON ― While much of the political world was watching the fallout from former FBI Director James Comey's Senate testimony Thursday, House Republicans were jamming through a bill that would largely gut the financial regulations in Dodd-Frank, the landmark banking legislation passed in 2010 after the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
When I arrived, classroom chairs were jammed through barred gates, a bristling symbol of occupied secondary schools throughout Chile.
A proposed homeless shelter in Venice faced a legal challenge Monday from a homeowner and business group that claims the controversial project was "jammed through" with insufficient review of the environmental effects on nearby schools and residences.
Lyor Cohen, co-president of the Island/Def Jam Music Group of Vivendi Universal, said, "Some of these huge companies haven't done the proper engineering to understand that there is only X amount of product that can be jammed through their tube".
The size of the hole would have been comical if my mother hadn't been jammed through it, the kind of hole left by the Roadrunner in Looney Tunes.
The blacklist shows all the phone numbers to the Congresspersons who voted to "fast track" the TPP, so that American citizens can urge them to vote NO to prevent it from being jammed through during this Thanksgiving to New Year's holiday season.
Republicans have been braying, ever since reconciliation began to be seen as a serious option, that "Democrats are jamming through legislation using a trick in order to change one-sixth of the American economy".
Up to 100,000 fans were jamming through the evening at the nine-hour free concert called Africa Unite - after one of Marley's best known songs - as Ethiopia, the symbolic homeland of Rastafarianism, hosted his birthday tribute for the first time.
At one refinery office, a broken control-room machine has a hole where an object has been jammed through the glass to stop a dial from turning.
A 22-year-old medical student from Russia's predominantly Muslim republic of Dagestan has been accused of recruiting men to fight for an Islamic State-linked group in Syria — but he may never be able to tell his own side of the story, because a pen was jammed through his eye and into his brain while in custody.
