He bends, shrinking against further violence, and the frame also holds him down, subjugates him.
The Vikings figure the best way to win is to stretch the field on offense with long passes from quarterback Duante Culpepper to Randy Moss and Cris Carter; wring a few more yards out of Robert Smith, whose 25 carries for 74 yards kept the Saints' defenders honest, and hope their defense continues to swarm instead of shrink against Tiki Barber and a rejuvenated Ron Dayne.
The dollar is shrinking against the strong euro and eroding the huge profits that were coming from America.
There is an enormous ongoing battle which pits the Cheney/Limbaugh position of party purity (motto: "We can expand by shrinking!") against the "big tent" idea of the Republican Party (motto: "Remember winning elections? We do!") which is inclusive of different flavors of Republicanism.
Once the African National Congress (ANC) took over after the first democratic election in 1994, she never shrank from inveighing against its tendency to put party and state above the individual, whether black or white.
They freeze, shrink back against the walls, eyes asquint, their revolvers pointed at the captives.
At many construction sites, the netting has created giant towers that appear to be shrink-wrapped against the sky.
Its civil war pitted the Lebanese Christians, whose power was enshrined in the Constitution despite their shrinking population, against the Palestine Liberation Organization and more economically deprived communities like the Shiites and the Druze.
Many of the same commentators, who rightly tear their garments over every tragic incident, are precisely the same ones who want government to shrink, rail against the interventionist "nanny state", condemn local authorities for what they pay to senior staff and feel taxation – at whatever level – is too high.
Pre-referendum polls had indicated a comfortable, if slowly shrinking, majority against the proposal, after a controversial campaign that played aggressively on the same fears of Muslim immigration and the spread of Islamic values that resonate in other parts of Europe.
