We may be the ones being shaken down on the highway, but from an Afghan perspective we are, by aligning ourselves with and propping up Hamid Karzai, also deploying the bandits.
The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.
He often portrayed the human ability to turn even the slightest incident or natural detail to emotional profit, seen at its most economical form in "Dust of Snow": The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.
The LED flash mob shakes down on June 27.
Members of the northwestern Detroit outfit, among them men nicknamed Trick, Bam, and Gwopp, are accused of committing a laundry list of crimes, including selling drugs, owning machine guns, shaking down kids on their way home from school, and attempted murder.
Kalashnikovs slung over their shoulders, they search, harass, shake down or wave on, at whim.
Communications between the cities were interrupted, official envoys were shaken down and ships on the rivers were captured.
Nowadays, such is the demand for ever rarer rarities and none-more-niche genres, almost every secondhand record shop has been 'picked' – shaken down for treasure to put on eBay.
Usher also appeared on the track "Shake Down" on American singer-songwriter Mary J. Blige's 2007 album Growing Pains.
In Darfur, warlords formerly allied with the regime — among them the infamous "Janjaweed" militias of an earlier era — have taken to raiding markets, shaking down merchants and preying on defenseless civilians.
