Sentence examples for screws from inspiring English sources

The trade union movement threatened retaliation against the government, but Thatcher met the threat by ignoring them and by tightening the screws.

Meltdown, complete with an Allen key hurled into oblivion, came on Friday, when a box from John Lewis containing a seesaw claiming to be "easy to assemble" actually consisted of a brain-exploding puzzle of 80 bars, bolts, screws and washers of infinitesimally different sizes.

Even putting a video up on YouTube screws up the whole experience of watching it.

If Kimberly-Clark screws up tomorrow, we'll be right back at their throats.

"The BBC has made huge efforts and spent an enormous amount of time on maintaining its impartiality during the course of the Olympics, and then this screws the whole thing up," said another corporation source.

THE screws are tightening on Bangladesh's main Islamic party, Jamaat-e-Islami.

It has also imposed visa bans and asset freezes on some 200 other people.This week's meeting of foreign ministers was due to turn the screws further, especially on the economic front.

But they are turning the diplomatic screws, and are eager for AK to sever political and trade links with Mr Assad.

Mr Obama's only reference to his party's crushing defeat in November's mid-term elections was his promise that if Congress passes a bill to undermine his health-care reform, loosen financial regulation or tighten the screws on immigrants, "it will have earned my veto".Few, if any, of Mr Obama's proposals seem likely to become law.

Carmakers were busy chasing up the 0.1% of failures, focusing on misaligned screws.

Shortly afterwards Keen bought Nettlefolds, which made screws and fasteners.