Sentences with phrase «become nooses»

(Tying your dog into the truck bed is not a safe option; ropes and leashes become nooses when a dog is jolted into the air.)

Sometimes theses strings become a noose.

Many are making a career out of it.Once promoted as strategic to control Afghan has become a noose around their neck, it is certainly a strategic pit where they have to eventually surrender.

Judas, of course, clung to his religious - political beliefs until they became a noose around his neck.

It's a substantial holding, and what first appears a blessing threatens to become a noose around Bathsheba's neck when she struggles to manage the farm.

Student loans are becoming a noose around the neck of consumers and poise a risk of stalling a fragile future economy.

Not exact matches

What I had hoped would be a safe, inviting forum for people to express their questions, concerns, doubts, fears, or even disgust and disappointment became instead my own noose.

- Daniel Torday, author of The Last Flight of Poxl West «Like absolutely nothing I've read before, Levinson's brilliantly unsettling, fiercely funny novel takes on both dangerous intolerance in the near - future world, and in the confines of one wildly destructive family, where ties tighten like nooses and kith and kin can become like warring political systems.

Becoming more common are restraint systems consisting of grooming arms or poles that extend over the table, designed to hold the dog in place by means of a ring on a noose or head halter that can be attached to the post.

Starting, at the entrance, with a quiet, undated Malevich black rectangle (a delicate little thing almost small enough to put in your pocket), this crowded, clamorous exhibition shows how fertile Malevich's modest painting became — as lifeline, noose, tombstone, and picture of perpetual immanence.

The executioners become indifferent, but executing is their job, so they keep retying the noose.

South Korea has tightened the noose around the blockchain community by banning initial coin offerings (ICOs), becoming the second Asian country in a month to prohibit...

South Korea has tightened the noose around the blockchain community by banning initial coin offerings (ICOs), becoming the second Asian country in a month to prohibit the new crowdfunding model.