Sentence examples for vise by from inspiring English sources

Closing the vise by turning the tightening nut with a wrench was a slow and awkward process.

India placed Pakistan in a vise, by equating Pakistan's support for Islamic militant groups fighting in Kashmir with its backing for the Taliban, and by insisting that General Musharraf could not make war on terrorism on Pakistan's western frontier, in Afghanistan, and support it on its eastern border, in Kashmir.

Secure the tool being sharpened in a vise by the handle, so the tool cannot move while you work on it.

AIR travelers especially those on overseas flights—are being ad vised by Eastman Ko dak of the possibility of dam age to films carried in their baggage as it is being load ed aboard international flights.

AIDS outed many rich, successful gay men to their powerful circles, loosening the oppressive vise exerted by potent institutions.

He has sought to break what he regarded as a vise grip by the teachers' union on work rules; to divide large failing schools into small schools; to put traditional public schools into competition with charter schools; and to end what he viewed as a monopoly by the mostly white, middle and upper middle class on good public education services.

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Then the shells are washed in a chlorine solution to sanitize them before they are fed into a bank of crackers, where each nut is grabbed in a little vise and hit by a plunger to break the shell, at the rate of one nut a second.

Dissatisfaction over high pay, business failures and American-style laissez-faire capitalism has been sweeping across Europe for some time, but it has been given new impetus as investors and politicians struggle to make sense of a credit vise that tightens by the day.

(3) The red hot plate is held in a vise and twisted by a long lever with a groove to hold the plate.

The state is being squeezed more than most by the vise of falling revenue and rising demand for services.