Drop scene

a drop curtain on which a scene is painted. See Drop, n., 4. (d).

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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LAHORE -- Spokesman of Chief Minister Punjab Dr Shahbaz Gill has said that Maryam Nawaz Sharif presser ended on drop scene even before passing 24 hours of her presser.
'The drop scene of Maryam's press conference took place within a day.
The drop scene occurred when the incursion by Indian Air Force's best aircraft was not only challenged but India lost two aircraft and a pilot in Pakistan's custody.
LAHORE -- A 'tussle' between the provincial police and home departments over administrative control of the Punjab Safe City Authority (PSCA) witnessed a drop scene on Friday after the provincial cabinet rejected a summary to transfer the authority under the control of the home department.
Referring to the drop scene of yesterday's propaganda in Peshawar, Yousafzai said the conspiracy against the anti-polio drive was foiled by media.
History will judge whether the rowdy scenes and fisticuffs on 12 March 2018, in the once sedate and dignified gallery of the Senate of Pakistan, to which the writer of this article was twice nominated, first by Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in 1975 and on the second occasion, twenty years later by his daughter, Prime Minister Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto as Chairperson of the Pakistan People's Party, it was a tragedy or a farce, to borrow a phrase, from the opening sentence of the 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, an oft quoted satire on politics authored by Karl Marx, to describe the drop scene of the revolutionary fervent in Europe of 1848.
ISLAMABAD: Finally, the fraud of Chinese company Jiangsu Yabaite Technology Co Ltd had a drop scene as the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) blacklisted it forever and awarded the maximum penalties to the company and its owner.On December 17, 2017, the owner of the Chinese company Yabaite published an apology on its official website and confessed that he had defrauded the public and accepted the CSRC decision of penalty and lifetime ban on his entry in the security market.
At the drop scene, Akhtar tells the rich man that all the paintings were made by Niazi who has committed suicide after hearing the news that Akhar has won the prestigious award on his artwork.
KSE-100 Index, which was plunged by 879 points in the last two trading session of the week, apparently lost its bullish momentum with the heightening of political noise and rumors regarding drop scene of Panama case sometime next week keeping the potential investors on the sidelines last week.
This apprehension was strengthened with drop scene of arrest of the opposition leader in Sindh assembly and MQMs stalwart, Khawaja Izharul Hasan, which to many has infused fresh blood into the dying corpse of MQMs Mohajir Card.
Television viewers may have noticed the entranced appearances of some of the young men in Isloo's D Chowk a couple of days ago, their eyes ablaze with fervor, swaying to the rhythm of their demands, as if hypnotizing themselves in preparation for a violent drop scene. A reporter on the spot has revealed that when the maulanas were calling off the protest, and urging everyone to go home peacefully, these young men came out of their trance and hurled abuse at their leaders for "caving in" to the government's pressure.
The dramatic drop scene of the US operation for hunting Osama cast glaring questions on the territorial jurisdiction of Pakistan, the world accusing her of providing safe havens to the most notorious people of the world causing great diplomatic pressure on the already terrorism-stricken country.