Ukip, after all, are in the midst of a seemingly endless political summer, while senior Conservative politicians such as Boris Johnson talk optimistically about life outside the clutches of Brussels.
He is urged to be careful by an air hostess who is assisting him in his quest to rescue his daughter from the clutches of a deposed South American dictator.
Weaken any of them and you risk driving bewildered voters into the clutches of tub-thumping nationalists of one colour or another for solace and solidarity: Ukip, SNP or "English-nationalist light" Tories.
"Those susceptible to addiction do not realise it until they are already too far into its clutches.
And, as someone with faint claustrophobia who clutches their mobile at all times, even when it's off, such interruption did come as weird relief.
From the locker room to the ice, Chicago came out with a new look to start the third: Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane were split, most likely in an effort to free at least one of them from the clutches of Anton Stralman and Hedman, the super-star Swedish defense pair for the Lightning.
It was intriguing that he was offered the IMF job after all the humiliation of having to "turn back at the airport" in the middle of the 1976 crisis and apply for an IMF loan, and his frequent use of the phrase "sod-off day" when the Labour government finally emerged from the clutches of the fund.
Kermorgant lined up the free-kick and struck a right-footed shot that beat the wall with a prefect arc to elude the clutches of David Stockdale and Bournemouth were on their way to another victory in this glorious season.
He sacrificed his life so Europe might be free again from the clutches of Islam and cultural Marxism, multiculturalism and political correctness.
Unfortunately, schools can't remove themselves from the clutches of a struggling trust.
Wayne clutches a black metal box while another man appears to adjust the controls.
