Sentence examples for managed to puncture from inspiring English sources

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Over the years, courts and government investigators have occasionally managed to puncture Mossack Fonseca's shield of secrecy.

Most notably, the Taliban have managed to puncture the main narrative of the Afghan government: that although violence may have spread in the countryside, the insurgency lacked the strength to threaten cities.

With a front cover that featured just three words – "Woman has baby" – it managed to puncture the media's wall-to-wall coverage of the birth of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's son George.

But there were distinct points of nervousness among investors, even in the banking sector, that managed to puncture any hopes of erasing the trading losses from Monday and Tuesday.

Now that Silver has managed to puncture the once pundit-dominated news cycle with statistical prudence, he's on a mission to rekindle our collective faith in statistics by making nuance and uncertainty sexy with his new book, The Signal and the Noise.

A man I knew was murdered over a debt of two packs of Newports because his assailant didn't know anatomy, and managed to puncture both lungs from behind.

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A peccary, a South American pig, puts up a better fight, even manages to puncture the smallest jaguar, but in a pen the odds are always against the prey, and the peccary is soon an ex-peccary too.

7.16pm GMT 15th over: West Indies 63-4 (Samuels 13, Ramdin 7) A fine stop in the covers denies Samuels runs as Tredwell strays a little wide, but he does manage to puncture the field from the last and the pair jog/amble two.

Despite this the animal still managed to inflict puncture wounds on his head and neck.

She had already managed to repair the puncture, she said, but was just stuck trying to get the tyre fitted back on to the rim - which is not easy to do with small hands and frozen fingers.

Since the sclera and cornea are interconnected and the sclera helps maintain the shape of the eyeball, even if you manage to avoid puncturing the cornea, damaging or injecting something such as ink or microorganisms into the sclera could end up affecting the cornea.

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