'pinching' is correct and usable in written English.
Generally, it is used to mean "to hold or grip firmly between a finger and thumb or the teeth; to take or remove something from a place or person with such a grip." For example, "John was pinching the flowers from the garden."
Speroni often ends up pinching himself when he contemplates the journey he has made from Saavedra, Buenos Aires to the Premier League via Dundee.
He told the Guardian of his appointment: "I had to keep pinching myself, saying is this real... it's a great honour being mayor of Selby, my home town.
Twist this coil around into a circle before pinching the loose ends together with the sealed end.
When I'm fresh from a diet, she'll say (untruthfully), "Not an ounce of fat!" When I'm glumly pinching at three or four inches, it's, "So what?
Some white hats go even further, pinching a confidential document from their clients' servers and then presenting it to them with a flourish.
The only response is to raise volumes, either by pinching market share or buying it".
Such penny-pinching allowed the company to survive when the telecoms bubble burst in 2001.With no outside investors, AdventNet could switch to a different business.
Yet after a thousand years of relentless Germanisation, penny-pinching seems to many Sorbs like a final insult.The Nazis believed they were Aryans who spoke a Slavic language by mistake.
In response to allegations that it gave whistleblowers short shrift when they pointed to penny-pinching, it has appointed a former judge as an ombudsman, to record and investigate complaints.Lord Browne insists that there is no pattern to BP's various problems and no over-arching failure of management.
The hard part will be to maintain it over a full business cycle.In this section The perils of prudence Sex, death and football Asia's symptoms A new world court In defence of the demon seed The pliant peerage ReprintsA surplus makes it harder for a finance minister to convince his colleagues, public-sector workers and voters at large of the need for penny-pinching.
Their bad design reflects the poor management and penny-pinching that has plagued the tube for half a century.
