get out from under
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"The moment you find out that the worst thing in the world has happened to someone that you truly love with all your heart, you feel like you're drowning and can't get out from under it," Sheeran said.
From Salon
Those instances set back the city in its efforts to get out from under federal oversight, local authorities have said.
From Washington Post
But five projects that had received funding from the city’s $1.2-billion Proposition HHH bond were plagued by delays, and the trust handed two of them to other developers to get out from under their holding costs.
From Los Angeles Times
And I wonder if you could just walk us through that argument because I think it helps us understand how you can be in a red state that simultaneously—I’m thinking of Kentucky or Kansas—renounces abortion by ballot initiative, but cannot get out from under complete red state control.
From Slate
Harris Simmons, the chief executive of Zions Bancorporation in Utah, was another trying to get out from under what he viewed as onerous federal supervision.
From New York Times
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