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Yvette Cooper, shadow home secretary, will criticise other parties for engaging in an "arms race of rhetoric" on the issue, which has been thrust to the centre of political debate by the rise of Ukip.

And its role as the country's most powerful financial regulator, usually a secondary concern to monetary policy, has been thrust to the forefront.Those on the left who blame lax regulation for the financial crisis were incensed by the thought of Mr Summers in charge of the Fed.

Yet he has been thrust to the forefront of the Sisyphean battle for gun safety in a Congress where some N.R.A. puppets are still arguing to allow felons to conceal guns, and to let imbalanced veterans and people who have been locked up in mental institutions bear arms too.

Murray, who has been thrust to the top of the mountain against most expectations but who has earned the honour in the course of an unbeaten run of 19 matches, made his prediction with a sense of regret rather than celebration.

The issue, and the difference of views among the convention's signatories, have been thrust to the fore by Iraq's use of civilians to shield its soldiers.

Yet within hours, the school outing had been thrust to the centre of a delicately poised and increasingly bitter political battle over the future of gay marriage in California.

Living standards have been thrust to the centre of the general election campaign as official figures showed Britain is undergoing the slowest recovery since the 1920s and GDP per head still remains lower than levels before the recession.

But some things remain beyond official control: Human rights concerns have been thrust to prominence by the government's harsh crackdown on the Falun Gong spiritual movement and the persistent protests by believers.

At a base on the West Coast, Vice President Dick Cheney also showed how the book-length report had been thrust to the center of the campaign by invoking it to bolster the administration's case that the invasion of Iraq was an essential part of the fight against terrorists.

During an eve-of-election interview with the Guardian that lasted close to two hours, Arpaio, 83, reflected on how he had been thrust to the centre of both the Republican and Democratic races, and toyed for the first time with the possibility of a role in a Trump administration.

There are places, such as in Cornwall in southwest England, where chunks of ancient Moho have been thrust to the surface, but it remains a key quest for scientists to drill down and retrieve pristine samples of rock from either side of the discontinuity.