Sentence examples for their vise from inspiring English sources

But there are others who could step into any vacuum, including Libya's powerful tribes or a pluralist coalition of opposition forces that have secured the east of the country and are tightening their vise near the capital.

In some ways it is less surprising that Mr. Self finally weaned himself from drugs than that he was able to produce so much fiction, and at such a high pitch, while gripped in their vise.

Washington basically gave the Arab dictators a free pass to tighten their vise grip on their people — as long as these Arab leaders arrested, interrogated and held the Islamic militants in their societies and eliminated them as a threat to us.

If and when FBI agents get Manafort or Flynn in their vise, they will climb up the chain by turning targets into witnesses.

Alligators and crocodiles have jaws strong enough to crack a turtle shell, according to the National Zoo, and prey on fish, snails, birds, frogs and "mammals that come to the water's edge". Their vise-like grip is nearly impossible to escape because the animals perform a spinning move, called the "death roll," to drown and subdue their prey.

The Braves, their once vise-like grip on the National League wild card loosened, looked to their two senior members, struggling in different ways, to inspire a winning effort.

When they smash into her samples in their diamond vises, they are scattered in all directions.

You wouldn't want the younger children not doing anything while the older kids are engaged in their games or vise versa.

But how many people have a vise in their kitchen?

SARAQIB, Syria — The workers arrive by darkness, taking their stations at the vise and the lathe.

In any event, the Mets are in a vise of their own making.