Sentence examples for clamp him from inspiring English sources
T has no interest in either of them, I have to basically wrestle him down, seize Spot's Noisy Tractor and all the other books he likes, hide them, clamp him in a viable reading position with one hand and turn the pages with the other.
My boy was called Stripey, a green and pink and blue striped bear with a perfect hard pink nose, and I used to clamp him to my ear when I was tired and in need of comfort, mashed his face up so much he needed stitching back together each summer, his snout getting more and more mangled with every hot wash, with every military jump he took down the stairs.
We were not there, however, to do it again in 1966, when Syrian authorities clamped him in chains at the infamous Palmyra Prison in the Syrian Desert.
Nestor wards off the little man's increasingly feeble blows, moves in, clamps him in a police neck lock, and that does it!
He also says and where is the inconsistency?—that what has allowed Mr Hussein to pose this threat to America is the Security Council's leniency in having permitted the Iraqi leader to run circles around the disarmament regime it clamped on him after his invasion of his Kuwait.
Indeed, over the past year he has used the weariness in the Security Council, and the growing desire of Russia, France and China for an end to economic sanctions and a return to oil-business-as-usual, to wriggle slowly but surely out of the weapons hand-cuffs that Unscom's inspections had clamped on him.
If he strays over the line, he knows the military may clamp down on him.
The problem, then, was not that the army knew about his escapades (although it might have had some inkling), but that it was not powerful enough to clamp down on him or contend with the public anger afterward.
Simultaneously two uniformed soldiers clamp their hands on him from behind and roughly push him into a narrow corridor, lined on both sides with uniformed soldiers standing at ramrod attention, wearing prosthetic makeup that turns their faces into identical wooden masks.
Dr. Robert Bartlett, who was the director of the inspection service's program review office from 1979 to 1994, said Mr. Puchta, 68, had blocked several efforts during those years to force him to clamp down on unsavory plants.
