Sentence examples for had a noose from inspiring English sources

Another detainee had a noose placed around his neck.

He did this, he explained in a speech a few years later, because Britain's powerful print unions "had a noose round the neck of the industry, and they pulled it very tight".

But the Miami office of the equal employment opportunity commission is currently pursuing a lawsuit on behalf of a black employee, who, it says, had a noose wrapped around his neck, which was then pulled, while he was working for a Florida office of the Asplundh Tree Expert Company.

Every dummy had a noose looped around its neck, with the remaining length of rope coiled around the students' arms.

Sure enough, Lucy already has a noose around her neck.

It's like having a noose around your neck, and you're the one tightening it".

Moreover, although Mary has a noose around her neck, she gets stabbed, with a Japanese knife, and Janiszewski wasn't.

"The word is two ropes that are bound together, and have a noose on both ends — so, four nooses, or loops of the rope, on all four ends and merged in the middle," Weist explained.

Asked what he was going to do next, given that Greece's creditors were "tightening the noose," he replied, with a wry smile, "I do not feel as if I have a noose around my neck.

Thus, in just a few days, the Iraq crisis went from Saddam having a noose around his neck to W. being bound by multilateral macramé.

No, because the rope has a noose at one end, which the man's head goes into, a chair is kicked away, he's definitely hanging himself.