Newt's a battering ram who'll wind up in splinters, but he can do plenty of damage along the way.

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Yet many cultural conservatives dislike America for exactly the opposite reason because it is a battering ram for popular culture.

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Fernando Llorente, an old-school battering ram of a center forward, has been embroiled in a contractual dispute all season long with Athletic Bilbao.

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Suddenly, instead of the bull, my mascot is the battering ram.

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McConnell has served as a battering ram against the Democratic majority, using the power of the filibuster to hold up appointments and tie the Democrats' agenda into knots.

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The third film in the X-Men franchise would have seen Vaughn reunite with his Lock, Stock co-star Vinnie Jones, who has been cast as "900-pound battering ram" Juggernaut.

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According to Long's attorney, the deputy believed he was being fired upon as the police knocked down the door with a battering ram, and opened fire on the unarmed Strickland based on his law enforcement training.

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When Phillips chooses to spread the play, defenses have to contend with stand-off Rhys Priestland, whose booming kicks can change field position in an instant, or the prospect of attempting to tackle the muscular midfield of Jamie Roberts, a 6-foot-4, 243-pound battering ram, and Jonathan Davies, a bruising 6-foot-1, 227-pound ball carrier with a deceptive turn of speed.

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To recover from its 11 years under the sanctions battering-ram which has crushed the country's industrial and agricultural infrastructure, its water system, education and the middle classes Iraq needs the freedom, and overseas investment, of a huge reconstruction effort.

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