Sentence examples for likely to claw from inspiring English sources

Cheaper voice calls are all very well, but they are hardly the vehicle through which the networks are likely to claw back the billions of pounds they invested in 3G networks in the first place.

A survey of 2,100 employers by the recruitment firm Manpower found that retailers were the most likely to claw back the costs of the living wage, which came into effect in April, as they consider advertising new jobs over the next three months.

A grip that is too firm will cause the cat to become less cooperative and more likely to claw to escape.

Put double-sided tape on your furniture along the back, arms, and other areas where pets are most likely to claw, unless you have leather furniture (double-sided tape can tear through leather).

But companies affected by the legislation are likely just to claw the money back: minimum-wage employers tend to operate in areas of the economy where margins are too low to absorb costs.

Pulling away fast from a play bite or grab is when you're most likely to get clawed from playing rough.

Having in our time observed many creative folk at close quarters, we consider it to be a truism that an artist chasing after a single muse is likely to paust at intervals to claw and throw.

Broad capital spending cuts and curtailed production may have landed machinery companies in the pits but mining equipment makers will likely be among the first to claw their way out from under the recessionary rubble.

Jobs are likely to go if two Dorset councils merge their services to claw back £8.8m following the government's cuts, a report says.

The UK government wants to claw back some EU powers over justice and policing, but is likely to remain in the European Arrest Warrant (EAW) system.

Still, Snap will likely have to spend years and billions of dollars to get to a v5 or v6 of Spectacles that are able to claw their way out of the uncanny valley.