Sentences with phrase «if under the cosh»
Membership of political parties is both historically and currently low as a proportion of the population but membership of trade unions, if under the cosh from the anti-union laws and an unfavourable economy, still takes in one third of the working population.
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If you get a lucky break away from home on a saunday afternoon when it's pissing down with rain and you're under the cosh then you defend that lead.
Liverpool may have passed up an opportunity to really put Spurs and Arsenal under the cosh in the Champions League qualification challenge, but a 1 - 0 defeat in a game which if replayed, and ceteris paribus, Liverpool would likely win, even if it would be a dull affair is hardly something to get exceedingly concerned about.