The country even threatened to pull out of the tournament, but eventually gave in to FIFA's demands that they attend.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

The kidnappings, most observers believe, were designed to pressure Mr.Tsvangirai to pull out of the political agreement.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

Therefore,we would not be committed to any of this." A hardline Iranian member of parliament,Mohammed Karamirad, warned Saturday that Tehran could pull out of negotiations with the International Atomic Energy Agency or stop it from inspecting Iran's nuclear facilities.

VOA: standard.2009.11.28

News reports said Adair used about three hundred forty kilograms of nitroglycerine explosive material to pull the oxygen out of the fire.

VOA: special.2009.03.22

He was trying to pull them out of the granite wall.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

And sadly, you cannot pull money out of a hat.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

Fifty-two percent of those recently polled by the Independent newspaper support an immediate pull-out of British troops from Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.08.02

You're using a lot of power out of your legs and bringing it up through your torso as you pull through.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

Flournoy says the withdrawal date is not arbitrary and Mr.Obama did not, as she put it,pull the timeline "out of a hat."

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

A majority would like to see all British forces withdrawn by the end of the year while 42 percent favor an immediate pull-out.

VOA: standard.2009.07.13

Geithner argues that major exporting nations can no longer look to the United States as an engine that will pull their economies out of recession.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

An enormous bulldozer was trying to pull out some of the rubble.

VOA: standard.2010.01.14

"We're not willing to pull the hand back yet, because we think there's still some opportunity, but I think concerns out here of some kind of a grand bargain are completely unrealistic."

VOA: standard.2009.05.05

The foreign ministers had expected to take up the question of how Europe and Asia could cooperate to pull the world's economy out of the downturn it has fallen into since the global financial crisis began.

VOA: standard.2009.05.25