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"You should try to reform before you yank your way out because inevitably there could be cost to doing so," he argues.

As the criminals angrily described it to the BBC, "they yanked their own plug - tanking sales, burning logistics, and torching shareholder value".

Foreign policy becomes an instrument of naked personal despotism, with favors bestowed on those who burnish the leader’s vanity, and yanked away from those who decline to do so.

McDonald yanked the plane from an upright position and tumbled over into a glide, drawing gasps that transformed into cheers.

“The terror in the kids eyes, them yanking my shirt, begging me to take them with them.”