Sentences with phrase «in noose»

She's a wood sprite who should be free, but has been trapped in a noose and we don't know what her future will be.

The display includes new acquisitions such as Jacobs's The Patriots, a close - up of a head in a noose.

A frightened cat in a noose may actually fight hard enough to break its neck, so it's always a good idea to use some sort of harness instead.

You still need to be in a cinema or watching a home cinema's large screen to register all the details of the horrifying scene in which Chiwetel Ejiofor's Solomon is choking in a noose, his feet barely touching the ground, as fellow slaves go about their business, children play games and captors watch from a distance.

The kaftan you purchased in Noose is very nice, looks very light, cool and easy to wear.

Alexander and Spencer Livermore — another of several top Brown loyalists from whose eyes the scales belatedly fell — had looked at Labour's position, its dire finances and the uncertain state of Cameron's leadership in the summer of 2007 (even the Spectator's page one cartoon had him on a horse with his neck in a noose) and decided a quick dash to the polls would be best.

â $ œNow with Rawlings in the noose, we had plenty of factors to justify action, though it was not 1984 but 1979.

One had an image of the president with his neck in a noose....)

He gave out a wild cry in the Sunday silence as he demonstrated how he got them in a noose and flung them through the air.

Simon Weisenthal thought to himself «He is there in the noose».

Although normally set to catch foxes and rabbits, two out of every three animals caught in these nooses are unintended quarry like dogs and cats.

Not exact matches

So, as we scrambled like M * A * S * H * surgeons on the battlefield to stabilize the patient in real time — finding new financing, negotiating long term contracts with our employees, reversing our pension deficit — and the noose slightly loosened.

While governments in the likes of South Korea, Indonesia and Singapore try to tighten the regulatory noose on cryptocurrencies, they are more amenable to projects on the blockchain than their counterparts in the West.

A hangman's noose in front of every church?

This was not a hangman's gallows like we see in Western movies with the looped noose, but was a large pole stuck into the ground, with the top sharpened to a point.

Their execution of her failed, and in some ways, when you walk away from the hangman's noose, you're more a witch than you were before and there's irony in that, too.

Their daddy wants another Judas noose to hang in the closet with his other Judas nooses.

When Foreman cut between his right guard and tackle, not outside tackle as originally planned, the blocks sprung him for the 62 yards and left the Rams dangling in their self - constructed noose.

These ranged from Trump's sons, The Donald Jr. and Eric - photographed in 2012 sawing off the tails of elephants, hanging 13 - foot crocodiles by a noose off from branches, and clinging gleefully to the carcass of a slumped leopard, to Wells Tower's searing 2014 GQ account of an elephant hunt, to more recent viral outrages, such as the woman who posed with the giraffe she shot and called it a «very dangerous animal» and Walter Palmer, the dentist recently vilified for killing Cecil, a beloved Zimbabwe lion.

Not necessarily player wise, but jeez Arsene, loosen the noose, let Bouldy have a good amount of time to drill the team in the art of defending.

He then turned om everyone and threw a rope with a noose on one end at our feet and said or was it more our speed to Show up with a burning cross at his door to leave him hanging as a warning to the rest of the ni **** in the community.

The polls didn't shift dramatically as a result of the macaca moment, but it did contribute to an overall impression of George Allen as a boor and possibly a racist, and it also opened the door to other stories the portrayed him in a bad light (remember the noose?

A halfpenny depicting George III carries an even stronger message — a noose has been carved in around his neck.

The U.S. Department of Education tightened the noose last week when it announced New York could lose its federal Race to the Top money because it lags behind in complying with the terms of its grant.»

In a typical catch, his friend Mike Easter uses a noose on a pole to snare the animal, which can be 2 meters long or more.

► «The congressional noose around research in the social sciences and the geosciences at [NSF] got pulled a little tighter today as an influential legislator unveiled a new and controversial budget metric as part of his blueprint for the agency,» Mervis wrote Thursday at ScienceInsider.

Naomi Klein argues in her book The Shock Doctrine that whenever we get an eco-catastrophe, capitalism actually tightens the noose around our neck.

«You drive up next to them in the car, put a noose around their neck, and snag»em,» Holleley says.

in October approaches, Beijing is tightening its noose further around.

In «Mr. Death» (1999), he let a foolishly literal - minded Holocaust denier noose himself with his own words.

Well - intentioned, competently shot and put together, solidly acted, especially by tomorrow's superstar Jacob Lofland (who we'd call a revelation if he hadn't already impressed us so much as Neckbone in Jeff Nichols» «Mud»), and unafraid to swim in the traditionally shark - infested thematic waters of the American class system, the film nonetheless can't quite slip the «seen it before» noose.

A valuable screen menace, Costello played such steely - eyed toughies as «Noose» in Red Skelton's Whistling in the Dark (1941).

The plot revolves around a high school production of a play called» The Gallows» which, when premiered in the same auditorium twenty years earlier, ended in disaster when a student accidentally hanged himself on the prop noose.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a tense and dense espionage thriller, that weaves its story like a tightening noose, until the audience is left breathless in the cinema.

«This whole birth certificate thing with Donald Trump is driving me crazy... All this noose imagery, too,» says Christine'a in an early scene.

In case you missed the extraordinarily helpful Cliffs Notes - style recap that aired recently, the town's control freak, Big Jim («Breaking Bad's» Dean Norris) had heroic drifter Dale «Barbie» Barbara (Mike Vogel) noosed - up and ready to hang from the gallows.

But it's often McQueen's penchant for lengthy, one - shot sequences without music that brings out moments of contrast, such as a scene showing Northup, in a hangman's noose, trying to get enough of a footing in the mud underneath him to keep from choking to death.

Suffering short - term memory loss after a head injury, Leonard Shelby embarks on a grim quest to find the lowlife who murdered his wife in this gritty, complex thriller that packs more knots than a hangman's noose.

Thanks to friends in high places, however, Casanova is spared the hangman's noose.

On an island too small for one man, one man (Paul Dano, in a Robinson Crusoe beard) tightens a noose around his neck.

As our book points out, this noose of red tape is especially evident in the often irrational regulations that burden online learning and virtual charter schools.»

Former Philadelphia Mayor Richardson Dilworth, a patrician reformer who helped end the city's rule by a Republican political machine in the 1950s, bluntly described Philadelphia as choked by the «white noose» of the suburbs.

He had a stiff and worn noose that had been used to hang a man in England at the turn of the nineteenth century, Aleister Crowley's...

The 79 bus loops around the housing projects in the East Hills of Pittsburgh all day — «like a noose,» as reluctant resident Brian Broome... more

- 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.

We're up to number 14, «N» Is for Noose, and Kinsey is up to her neck in trouble as she tries to put Selma Newquist's mind at rest.

I suppose that's really the point - this isn't a book to read for the plot so much as for the thoughts that it generates; as John Leonard writing in the New York Times so eloquently puts it, «Cynthia Ozick braids at least three and probably four ghostly glimmers and «phantom eels» of thought into a single luminous lariat — or maybe a hangman's noose.»

Early in The American Revolutionary War, young Tom Andrews has to escape from England or face the hangman s noose.

Long leases were signed to lock in great rates, the way a noose helps lock life out of the brain.

Toss in a wolfdog ban here and a pit bull or Rottweiler ban there and the noose tightens.