Or, at least, they will not pull the rug from under the coalition.
As state legislatures confront the toughest challenges of welfare reform, Congress is proposing to pull the rug from under them.
It may grumble about the dollar's dominance in the global trading system, but it has no desire to pull the rug from under America's economy.
There must be doubt about the willingness of some local agencies to pull the rug from under one of India's big banks or business houses if it got into trouble.
But hawks led by Madeleine Albright, the secretary of state, believe that he has caused so much mayhem in the Balkans that it is time to pull the rug from under him in Kosovo, and say good riddance to his presidency as well as to Serbian rule over the province.
They pull the rug out from under the status quo and expand customer choice.
There's a chance that congress will pull the rug out from under this whole debate before the court can act.
Yet instead of rolling out the red carpet for it, the authorities seem to be trying to pull the rug out from under it.
Last Friday's disappointing jobs report, which showed far fewer jobs added in March than forecast, seemed like it could pull the rug out from under the rally.
Would it really pull the rug out from under a country that fails to comply with conditions, given that this would exacerbate its plight and revive fears of euro-zone fragmentation?
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Brazil equity funds have managed to outperform the MSCI Emerging Markets index so far this year, but data like this and possible rate hikes promise to pull the rug out from under them.
So why pull the rug out from under our plans to deploy missile defense assets in Europe, thereby alienating two of our best allies Poland and the Czech Republic in the war against terrorists?
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