Sentences with phrase «pincer movement»

There's a sort of pincer movement from the parents who want their kids to go to Harvard and the policymakers who want to demonstrate that early childhood education has good bang for the buck.

Use of pincer movements, flanking and other battlefield basics rarely seem to make a difference often leading me to just throwing everything at the enemy until they die.

Opposition finds Labour trapped in a vicious pincer movement between the Tory attack and the bluster of a motley crew of small parties, parliament being the focus of gladiatorial battles.

The government is caught in a four - way pincer movement on the customs union, each part of which gains confidence from the resilience of the others.

Today, that pincer movement strikes again, with the intelligence committee warning it isn't enough.

Then, when John Major replaced Margaret Thatcher, everyone said that Ashdown's party would be squeezed from that direction, too, in a cruel pincer movement.

One senior Tory said the party faces a «devastating pincer movement» from Ukip in a string of marginal seats where Conservatives won in 2010 with narrow majorities over Labour: «If more Tory votes are siphoned off to Ukip, and Lib Dems switch to Labour, we will be done for in those seats and our position in the north of England will be terrible.

That's despite it being caught in something of a petrol pincer movement, with a considerably more powerful S - badged petrol on offer for precisely the same money, and a four - cylinder turbo petrol, cheaper to buy and cheaper on company car tax, available via special order.

Both the left and the right effectively enact a pincer movement in which local associations and groups are engulfed by an expanding state and by the market, each moving toward singularity in each realm: one state and one market.

In Wright's view, the way to get at the historical Jesus is by means of a pincer movement — forward from the picture of early Judaism and backward from the portrait in the Gospels.

Their pincer movement is pretty good now, so toys with moving parts, such as wheels, levers, or doors that open and close will be a big hit.

Therefore a pincer movement using the two together can often work well and cover all angles.

John Bercow faces a pincer movement from female MPs who are demanding he apologise over his alleged «stupid woman» jibe at a senior Tory Minister.

They had expected this pincer movement but it is the scale of the battering that astonished them.

He was caught in a pincer movement between the new leader of the Tory Party, Boris Johnson, who had accused Ed Miliband of complete surrender to Brussels and the Green and Justice Party which said that Europe had become too enslaved to monetary orthodoxy and austerity to be supportable.

Less coverage has been given to the left - wing side of the pincer movement against Ed Miliband's leadership.

However, the biggest threat to the project comes in a pincer movement from Labour's front bench and the Treasury.

For the past 50 years, scientists have attacked the question of how life began in a pincer movement.

It's a pincer movement heading straight for our hapless hostage heroes.

When the first snows fell in November 1942, the Russians counter-attacked in a pincer movement and trapped the Sixth Army inside Stalingrad.

Three is not only a crowd, but one large enough to pull off a pincer movement.

One isolated vertical paint stroke, only one and half inch wide but the same height as Vir, The Wild is the opposite of all - over painting as espoused by one of Newman's champions, Clement Greenberg: it is sculptural, it is even theatrical, but the two works create a pincer movement that assert or challenge the viewer's sense of proportion, dimensionality, and measure just as Newman wished.