Sentence examples for vise on from inspiring English sources

It was like a vise on her head, just over her eyes.

Another client of the agency, Richard Clark, is caught in the foreclosure vise on both ends.

For his part, President Bush finds himself squeezed in an intraparty vise on campaign finance reform.

Despite the tightening vise on journalists, Mr. Nega and Ms. Fasil have remained in the capital, Addis Ababa.

The United States and its allies on Monday targeted Iran's central bank and petrochemical industry with new sanctions, seeking to tighten the vise on Tehran's nuclear activities.

As with so many other issues — the Middle East, civil rights — Paul has placed himself in a political vise on the question of when life begins.

Food banks are now caught in a financial vise, squeezed on one side by rising demand for food, especially from the long-term unemployed, and on the other side by shrinking donations from food manufacturers and cuts in federal spending.

The one‐minute spot notices, believed to be the first such ecumenical endeavor in net work television, were carried yesterday during N.B.C.'s morning game show, "Concen tration," and again at night during.the network's "Monday Night at the Movies". Plans call for the spots to be tele vised on the average of twice daily for the next two weeks, less often after the fall sea son begins.

These moves, many industry executives predict, could loosen NBC's vise grip on coveted young adult viewers on Thursday night.

The Senate Republicans, a bulwark of the state Republican machinery that has held a vise grip on that chamber for decades, look on this year's election with greater fear than they have felt since the 1970's.

At one time, Steve Superior had an unapologetic vise grip on the horn he tooted as he publicly indulged in his own genius, wearing a visor like a belt to hold his vast knowledge in place.