Sentence examples for a vise of shrinking from inspiring English sources

Caught in a vise of shrinking revenue and stubbornly high public spending, the Caymans averted a fiscal crisis this week by securing a $60 million overseas loan.

But the rest of the division is caught in a vise of uneven quarterback play.

In any event, the Mets are in a vise of their own making.

Many of these companies are still trapped in a vise of big debts and big inventories.

But one died from a neurological disease, and the other died after getting its head caught in a vise of narrow tree branches.

Choose a type of shrink-wrapping film.

All this means we have an economic system -- whose only purpose is growth -- stuck in a shrinking vise of money and energy, inhabiting the hollowed-out body of a debt-bloated carcass that continues to stumble forward, only to be bonked on the head or shot in the stomach every few years by never-ending financial crises that are the product of attempting to achieve infinite growth in a finite world.

The pressure from Mr. Obama put Mr. Morsi in a vise grip of competing values and world views.

Lantern jaw set like a vise, this is of course Charlton Heston.

If you don't have a vise, a pair of vise-grip pliers will work too.

And the antithesis of a shrinking violet.