In January, House Democrats — with a minority of House Republicans — passed a Senate-White House compromise to avert massive tax increases and sudden across-the-board spending cuts, after House Republicans sunk the speaker's more conservative version of the legislation.
The occasional gunshots are as startling as a sudden crack across the kneecap.
Her eyes, weary and glittering, stare at me as one might stare at a sudden animal across a stream.
A flicker of wind, a sudden gust across the yard, takes the pages out of her hand; she doesn't even have to toss them.
It's not a sudden jump across a great divide between a "proper" or "real" charity job and the supposedly transitory position of being a street fundraiser.
"How many people did you kill in Vietnam?" was her sudden jab across a Park Slope kitchen table at a friend roiled by nightmares after his return from the war.
Glimpsing a mouse or a bug making a sudden dash across the kitchen floor, only to disappear into some otherwise invisible portal, can conjure the idea that vast, secret lifestyles are flourishing just out of sight.
The data add support to the theory that the recent increase in cases of sudden paralysis across Latin America is due to the spreading Zika outbreak.
In other word, there should be a sudden jump across an interface from the side of a larger-viscosity fluid to the side of a smaller-viscosity fluid [20].
At another moment, he grasps and thrusts the salt in deft, sudden motions across his own curled back.
Oxford was a secure town, protected by walls and the River Isis, but Stephen led a sudden attack across the river, leading the charge and swimming part of the way.
