Sentence examples for nipping them from inspiring English sources

It turns out that children are at a dog's teeth level and dogs tend to warn away other dogs by nipping them on the muzzle.

"We all remember that Twenty20 game at Hampshire where we kept nipping them out," said Collingwood, before Tuesday's first one-day international, which is also at the Rose Bowl.

In any case, lawmakers need to stop blaming the past or present administration and support the president in putting in place antiterrorism security procedures that will be less onerous to passengers and more effective in thwarting terrorist plans by nipping them in the bud.

Sir Kieran Prendergast, UN under-secretary-general from 1997 to 2005, said Kosovo, whose declaration of independence split the security council, was an example of the UN being curtailed: "The security council has a large 'too difficult' tray, it's good at responding to crises when they erupt but rather bad at nipping them in the bud.

With pine trees, they prefer green cones, nipping them off at the stem and holding in one foot, then systematically lifting each segment and extracting the seed.

The faster you deal with them, the more you nip them in the bud.

"And we haven't had frosts to nip them in the bud".

My fruit tree has its first green shoots and the bullfinches have already come to nip them in the bud.

The Nets nipped them, 82-75, at Conseco Fieldhouse, putting together their best two performances of the season in back-to-back nights.

Hanushek told me, "The evidence is mixed on all of them because they're pretty significant changes, and the unions and others have nipped them in the bud, so there's not much evidence".

Surveillance, which the research's proponents adduce as an example of how mutation data can help protect human health by flagging up potentially dangerous strains to nip them in the bud, may be fine in theory.