Sentence examples for stop the pendulum from inspiring English sources

Unless we stop the pendulum it will eventually swing out of control until the Board loses its remaining credibility.

Rather, he later indicated, "it's time to make a strategic decision to stop the pendulum from swinging between the two.

Men inside rushed to stop the thunderous reports of metal on metal, all the while staying out of the way of the nearly 16,000-pound pendulum.

In Edgar Allen Poe's famous short story, "The Pit and The Pendulum," the narrator imagines breaking free and stopping the steel "crescent" as it lowers inexorably toward his breast: "I would have seized and attempted to arrest the pendulum.

That's where the pendulum stops swinging altogether.

What if the Old Democrat center, revivified as a stop-Dean movement and helped by the pendulum press, actually stops Dean?

The pendulum never stops in the middle; look for the trend toward first-time coaches to continue for the next few seasons, or as long as the current wave of wunderkind coaches wins a bushel of championships.

"Never Stop" (E1), last year's brave release, swings the pendulum the other direction: all originals, start to finish, with everybody pitching in.

In the past, Frederick's chased Victoria's Secret and chased the department stores, but the company swung the pendulum too far; they stopped being a Frederick's brand -- the 'anti-establishment lingerie.' We're reaching for a younger audience".

Acquirers such as Cisco Systems, which devoured a dozen firms a year, have all but stopped buying.Many venture capitalists say they welcome the swing of the pendulum.

The pendulum acted like a seesaw so that, when a player depressed his clock, it stopped and the opponent's clock began ticking.