He was as clear and robust in defending the Human Rights Act in Wednesday's speech, a welcome challenge not only to the Conservative party, which would rip the act up, but also to those on Labour's side who run scared of tabloid headlines.
Two reasons: the first is that because justice taken to its logical end here would likely require bringing George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and other senior officials to trial, which would rip our country apart; and the other is that Al Qaeda truly was a unique enemy, and the post-9/11 era a deeply confounding war in a variety of ways.
Cable floats & buoys are equipped with long, sharp, steel spiked which would have ripped the bottom or sides any vessels.
Before me was a laptop and a printer from which Ms. Amanpour would rip the freshly typed transcript as she dashed off to catch a flight back to London, editing en route.
The accompanying video, which some feared would rip off Beyoncé's 2016 visual album, "Lemonade," after its teaser was released, was similarly polarizing.
The junk-yard German shepherd — which looks as if it would rip your throat out — and the German-shepherd guide dog are the same breed.
When victims did go to police, they were labelled mosers, or "informers", a charge so serious they were threatened with exclusion so severe it was akin to being excommunication, which would mean being ripped away from a culture, identity, religion and community.
Lehman's reputed $40 billion loss at the time of its filing would have paled compared to the losses which would have been ripped from Morgan Stanley's tottering $1 trillion balance sheet.
Each morning, the Romney campaign held a teleconference during which one of its surrogates (John McCain, Marco Rubio, Chris Christie) would rip into Gingrich; each day, the press reports from Gingrich's events emphasized Chaffetz's attacks.
"With the old-fashioned screened porch, you had wooden frames, which could rot, and the stapled-on screens that would rip," he said.
Then, I would rip from Napster "American Pie" soundtrack selections (which is the best soundtrack since "The Graduate's," by the way).
