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She followed up the launch with a tweet: The announcement brought an end to years of speculation over whether Clinton would make a second bid to become the first female US president and secure a place in history by interrupting a line of 44 male commanders in chief.
Related: 'This is not the justice we seek': sorrow in Baltimore as grief turns into riots Occasionally interrupting himself to apologize to the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe, who stood stoically beside him throughout the lecture, Obama said the question of Baltimore went beyond one of who was culpable for the death of Gray, or for the street violence that followed.
A chaotic parade of a dozen different politicians interrupting the host, raising their voices, shouting over each other and leaving the viewers at home feeling frustrated and none the wiser.
Kanye West has apologised for interrupting Taylor Swift's acceptance speech for best female video at the MTV VMA awards in New York last night.
If you look at her left arm in particular, you can see how she uses it to propel herself through the turn, while never interrupting its lyrical flow.
In 2009, Russia cut off gas supplies to Ukraine amid a dispute over Kiev's debt payments, with the dispute interrupting gas deliveries to many EU states.
"All the bloody superstar players who were in the testimonial were all coming in and saying goodbye to him, interrupting our conversation.
Third, and more controversially, the papers argue that crises undercut innovation, and the efficiency with which capital and labour are used, by interrupting the supply of capital to high-growth firms or by reducing spending on research and development.The upshot is a permanent reduction in the path of potential GDP.
Many had given him up for dead when, suddenly, he was caught rummaging through a rubbish bin in tiny Murphy, North Carolina, at 4.30am, by an off-duty patrol officer who thought he was interrupting a burglary.The crimes were sensational enough; the Olympic bomb alone killed two onee indirectly, of a heart attack) and injured more than 100.
Then, in one quick motion, he pressed the green button, mobile phone still at his feet, and gave us a beautiful lesson in multitasking: without interrupting the service, he increased the volume of his chant for the next few seconds to tell his friend on the other end that the bhatji is in the middle of a ceremony and it's not the best time to talk.
She induced expressions of surprise by interrupting concentration with a nonsensical question.Next, with a stamina for detail that would have impressed Darwin himself, Ms Peleg watched the recorded interviews and listed the parts of the face that moved when each volunteer expressed each emotion.
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The primary grammatical function of "interrupting" is that of a present participle or gerund , acting as part of a continuous verb tense or as a noun. Ludwig AI confirms its correctness in written English. It describes an ongoing action that breaks into or disrupts something else.
Expression frequency: Very common
