Once back in Africa, he determined to starve out Carthage with a blockade by land and sea; gradually the cordon was drawn tighter around the beleaguered city, and in the spring of 146 it fell to his final assault: after six days of street fighting the citadel was captured and Carthage was destroyed.
The principles which need to be applied are the same; but the answers that should emerge are different.The power of the cable companies has worried America's governments for years, and the regulatory frameworks applied to them have been drawn tighter, and relaxed, depending on the political climate.
Already the lines are being drawn tighter; already fear produces symptoms of the very disease we hope to fight off the preoccupation with loyalty, the tightening of censorship, the control of thought by legislative committee, the readiness to impute guilt by association, the impatience with liberalism.
Below the cap, his mouth and jaw were drawn tight.
The belt was drawn tight to accentuate the slender waist.
If the law was not accepted, it was drawn tight.
Below the cap, his mouth and jaw were drawn tight, as were his hands.
Cellphones are handed in; land lines and Internet connections are cut off; curtains are drawn tight.
But sometime after that populist splurge, Mr. Fyodorov explained, the purse strings would be drawn tight.
The shades on the olive green ranch home that Mr. Israel shared with Ms. Ryan were drawn tight late last week.
It was dawn by the time I finally dozed off, my dreams poisoned and my heart constricted as if a noose had been drawn tight around it.
