Sentence examples for they were yanked from inspiring English sources

Officials from the county, in east central Florida, said on Tuesday that they would return all 19 copies of the erotic novel "Fifty Shades of Grey" to its libraries after they were yanked from the shelves weeks ago.

After the four were shot, they were yanked from burning vehicles by a jeering mob and dragged to a bridge over the Euphrates River where at least two bodies were strung up by a rope and dangled over the water.

After three successive wins, Bolton Wanderers were dreaming of Premier League security, but they were yanked back to grim reality when Clint Dempsey overwhelmed their flimsy defences to leave them right back in the relegation mire.

Others — like a suggestion that Mr. Obama opposed the USA Patriot Act or supported a ban on handguns — might be subject to dispute by Mr. Obama, who would argue they were yanked out of context or did not take into account the subtleties of shaping legislation.

When they are yanked apart, as in "A Mighty Heart," his own heart quickens its beat.

Parks officials counter that they are more worried about the novices and say that certain plants, like American ginger and ramps, are especially vulnerable since they are yanked out, root and all.

Dissent is not well received; journalists and activists live in fear of what is known as a "white-van abduction," in which they are yanked off the road either to receive physically administered lessons or to vanish altogether.

Then they're yanked from their cages to face a gruesome death: their throats are cut and some may even be boiled alive.

"It feels like they're yanking the rug out from under us just as we're finally starting to get acclimated to this new system," said Dennis Robillard, who lands about 113,000 pounds of cod a year and was offloading about 700 pounds of it the other day at Fisherman's Wharf here.

WASHINGTON, May 29 (Reuters) - Some disappointed activists say they are yanking their support for the Democratic Party after Senate Democrats opposed a proposal in an immigration bill that would have allowed citizens to bring their foreign-born, same-sex spouses to the United States.

Soon after the Civil War, however, American families were yanked into modern times.