Meanwhile, the real is pulling the rug out from under many Brazilian firms from shoe makers to soy farmers.

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We are pulling the rug out from under the unemployed too soon, to the detriment of unemployed workers and their families.

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The government is under attack by the great, the good and the worthy for pulling the rug from underneath the nation's charities.

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Essentially, Facebook is attempting to gather all the data under its own roof, in effect, pulling the rug out from under these services.

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One way it would do that is by pulling the rug out from under middle-class families who bought property as a safe bet.

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They are pulling the rug from under Yamaguchi before he even lands in China so that when he fails, they can move on and push the shame on Yamaguchi.

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The same month he championed a successful bid by a chaebol-heavy consortium under the aegis of the Korean Electric Power Company to provide nuclear power to Abu Dhabi, pulling the rug from under industry leaders in France and Japan.

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Some of them claimed that Thomas was pulling up the ladder behind him and so they pulled the rug out from under him.

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