Sentence examples for ratchet from inspiring English sources

The screw tightens on benefits, while a ratchet of bankrupt hospitals and rushed closures will stir local protests.

Garcia's decision will ratchet up pressure on Blatter to restore some form of confidence in his so-called reform process.

Further work is needed to ratchet up commitments, said a report of the Climate Action Tracker (CAT) initiative, issued on the sidelines of the Bonn talks.

Wolfango Piccoli, of the political risk consultancy Teneo, said to ratchet up the pressure on the Greek negotiating team, the ECB could increase the discount.

Calling on Corker to hold off the bill until a deal is reached, McDonough also warned that if the US was blamed for negotiations falling apart, Washington would be unable to muster the international support needed to ratchet up sanctions on Tehran.

By all means, default workers into retirement-saving plans that ratchet up in size over time!

She reversed what her mentor, Keith Joseph, liked to call "the ratchet effect", whereby the state was rewarded for its failures with yet more power.

Conservation, spurred by high prices and green regulation, is more like a ratchet than a piece of elastic.

She reversed what her mentor, Keith Joseph, called "the ratchet effect", whereby the state was rewarded for its failures with yet more power.

The decision to ratchet up the pressure on trade came eleven days after America imposed tariffs on certain types of Chinese paper and when American politicians are agitating for action against what they see as Chinese protectionism.

Opportunistic inflation simply means exploiting periods of overheating to ratchet inflation higher.Lingering with rates at zero is not without pitfalls.