Sentence examples for squeeze major from inspiring English sources
The desire by Senate Democrats to move quickly on the regulatory bill gained new urgency over the weekend, as party leaders said they would try to squeeze major immigration and energy bills onto a tight Congressional calendar, which will include efforts to pass a budget and the confirmation of a new Supreme Court justice.
As a side benefit, the price of electricity would fall as we squeezed major new revenues out of a sunken, often idle, capital investment.
The unsuccessful efforts of Beth Israel Medical Center to squeeze a major contribution from its most peculiar long-term patient are especially embarrassing.
Nevertheless, it takes a great deal of imagination to squeeze a major musical like My Fair Lady onto a postage stamp-sized stage like the one at SFPlayhouse.
"One of our biggest problems was that we were squeezing a major network in an office building, so with remodeling we would have wound up battling the same problem," Mr. Wilkey said.
A war is easier to understand when you can squeeze all the major objectives into a chorus and back it up with a catchy tune.
Despite some creative financing to squeeze dollars for major projects -- like persuading the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to finance the $250 million purchase of double-decker rail cars for New Jersey Transit -- the state no longer has enough money to repave cracking roads and refurbish aging trains.
Experts say the contracting market is also putting the squeeze on major collectors, many of whom had been hoping to unload high-priced works in 2009.
As the crisis at stricken nuclear plants north of Tokyo threatened an energy squeeze for major Japanese automakers and electronics giants, Jens Nordvig, an economist at Nomura in New York, said that there would probably be spillover effects outside Japan, though the global impact was likely to be small.
South would score the diamond ace, play all dummy's trumps and squeeze West in the major suits.
Then East will be squeezed in the major suits".
