Sentence examples for hem in from inspiring English sources

Israel would then hem in its most dangerous foe, Syria.

Military roadblocks hem in some of its famous nightspots.

The Fitch warning seemed to hem in Republicans further, however.

Small apricot orchards hem in the old stone farms that dot the slopes.

These mountainsides of slag, these coal-black hills, hem in the helpless villages.

In America today, quarter-to-quarter concerns hem in even a visionary chief executive.

It apparently aims to hem in the antigovernment street demonstrations that began after December parliamentary elections, widely condemned as fraudulent.

The outposts are often strategically placed to claim a hilltop, to frame a major road or to hem in a Palestinian village.

In "The Black Vase" they hem in an akimbo nude who seems to be trying to touch the top and bottom edges as if to meet compositional obligations.

Precipitous mountains hem in all those slender skyscrapers that, from a high trail, make Hong Kong look like a giant pincushion.

There are those, of course, who argue that at least some of the efforts to hem in the press represent a long-overdue correction.