Sentence examples for noose from inspiring English sources

The response to Willis's appeal to them to seek a compromise deal was a hangman's noose that was slowly lowered from the rafters of the meeting hall until it rested close to his head.

The European Central Bank's decision on Wednesday to loosen the noose by increasing emergency financial assistance to the nation's banking system was unlikely to provide enough breathing space for Athens to stay solvent and keep pace with debt repayments, as well as public sector salaries and pensions.

"We need a walk-in centre specifically designed for when, in the middle of the night, someone thinks 'I am going to hang myself' or 'I am going to a forest and jump out of a tree with a noose around my neck', because I have thought of all these things.

There is a lamppost and noose waiting for every jihadi that comes back to Britain and their scum enablers and sympathizers.

The wear marks on the beam below the staircase, which carried the noose, can still be seen.

Once again, Greece seems to have slipped the financial noose.

Efforts to persuade the European Central Bank to tear up its own rulebook and loosen the noose – by easing limits on cash flows to Greek banks – have fallen on stony ground.

A senior Indian official talks of India having a legitimate interest because a Chinese "noose" is tightening on its friends and trading partners around the South China Sea.China's maritime fixation underscores the appeal of lessening worries over its terrestrial borders at least that is the argument that some make in Beijing for seeking an agreement on the disputed border.

They would be wiser, however, to set aside the hangman's noose, and think instead about how they can come to terms with those of their Kurdish compatriots still prepared to fight and die for the right to express their Kurdishness.Mr Ocalan is a ruthless and dogmatic brute.

The picture showed a Klansman with a noose, to remind readers what race relations were like before the Voting Rights Act of 1965.In this section Will Obamacare destroy jobs?

The noose tightens Snap and snarl Slo-where?