Sentences with phrase «noose around one's neck»

The obsession with numbers and tying nooses around the necks of women, yanking them up from the top, has taken us way off beam and we have lost our focus.

The figures of two women with nooses around their necks are joined in Migrant.

So on behalf of the oppressed tie - wearers of the world, here is my appeal to those corporate despots who still force their male staff to daily put nooses around their necks: please think again.

Where was that determination and will and why had it deserted her until after she had put the extension cord noose around her neck and kicked over the chair?

For those people, college becomes a massive financial noose around their neck.

Without the debt noose around your neck, you now feel like that putting money aside for emergencies, saving up your down payment for a new home, contributing into RRSPs are all possible again.

Higher salaries with a tight noose around their necks.

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.

One student acquired a promotional life - sized cardboard cutout of Will Smith, placed it in his dormitory and hung a noose around its neck.

But faith will make it easier for our enemies to subdue us, and easier to get their noose around our necks.

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

Wenger puts an arm round his players and they respect him for it, while Mourinho seems to put a knife to their throat and a noose around their neck.

And as always, remember that your schedule is your guideline, not a noose around your neck.

In 2013, he was found dead with a noose around his neck; the coroner could not say whether it was a suicide.

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

He gets a noose around its neck.

Titus, the local congresswoman, says she was once pictured on the cover of a construction trade magazine with a noose around her neck after she pushed for growth restrictions and then passed a bill as a state senator that restricted re-zoning rural land for high - density construction.

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

It gets under your skin and envelops your brain, like a demon distracting you with a knife while it slips a noose around your neck.

The unfortunate understudy, a last - minute replacement for the suddenly - indisposed star, was somehow hanged when the noose around his neck actually functioned when the trapdoor under his feet gave way.

The year's most harrowing movie scene begins with Solomon Northup standing on his tiptoes in mud, a noose around his neck tied over the end of a limb almost tall enough to hang him.

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

Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald threatens to tighten the noose around the necks of Milwaukee's children if their grown ups won't lie down and shut up.

Meanwhile, Big Publishing has been busily fitting a noose around its neck by continuing business as usual.

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

The borrower can have resentments, too, if both benefit from the loan, but only one has the noose around their neck.

Credit card debt can sometimes feel like a noose around your neck.

It is made in reaction to the circumference of saccharine sentimentality and repressive rage that persists in culturally mediated visions of the mother, a circumference that tightens like a noose around the necks of actual women.

The beginning of the trail was outfitted with a stage for dance performances as well as a line of would - be guards standing sentry with animal heads on sticks (Rachel Frank's Deep Time Rewilding) and an arresting piece by Nile Harris, A Monkey on His Back (Love Laboratory), for which the artist assumed a position inside a mass of bananas with a noose around his neck.

Good Boy (2012) is a small - scale nightmarish scene of a naked man, noose around his neck, surrounded by and tied to various dogs.

In early 2014 Canada implemented the previously announced tightening of the noose around the necks of Canadian taxpayers with unreported offshore accounts in the form of the Offshore Tax Informant Program enacted by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA).

If you rope yourself into purchasing a new car every time you earn a small promotion at work, you're tying a noose around your neck financially.

Probably many Realtors have found themselves in this situation and invariably ended up with a noose around their neck (supplied courtesy of the business practices committee or some similar hearing panel).

A noose around my neck.