Tom started to choke.

Tom pulled a lever.

I pulled the lever.

I pulled the lever.

Tom just tried to choke me.

Larry Lessig on laws that choke creativity

One Facebook user threatened to choke her.

Trade relations provide another all important lever.

The Internet is a seminal lever in this process.

The following two days, it was Malaysia's turn to choke.

I ll choke you on Miami Beach, one Facebook user threatened.

Curtailing prices, they say, would choke off R D and stifle innovation.

Bubble pricking may indeed choke off growth unnecessarily and at high social cost.

A Facebook post in Malayalam threatening to choke Inji Pennu on Miami beach.

In any case, the driving lever of the revolution is always the elite.

The screw, the lever, the wedge, the pulley, etc. are called simple machines.

Great move to counter BlackMoney and choke TerrorFinance ban Rs.500 and Rs.1000 notes.

They kill, they choke, they slay, they tear us to pieces but still freedom boldly spreads.

The Kremlin s economic woes have to be used as a lever to make Russian foreign policy less obstructionist.

Then, he pulled a special lever on the lid of the container and released the rest of them.

Guests at their salon included Sheridan Le Fanu, Charles Lever, George Petrie, Isaac Butt, William Rowan Hamilton and Samuel Ferguson.

Or, if these deficits are monetized, high inflation may force up long term interest rates and again choke off economic recovery.

As its power grows, China seems determined to choke off Asian competitors, a tendency reflected in its hardening stance toward India.

Assad s defeat would break the axis of resistance, choke off Hezbollah s arms supplies, and drive a permanent wedge between Turkey and Iran.

Worse still, in a vast and predominantly rural country, the prime minister s underlings control broadcasting and maintain a choke hold on other media.

Indeed, Georgia is Russia s choke point in its policy of using oil and gas as strategic foreign policy weapons, which it has done repeatedly.

It is therefore no surprise that Putin has sought to use this lever to rebuild Russia s power and to revise the post Soviet order.

The Security Council has unanimously boosted sanctions on North Korea since 2006 in a bid to choke off funding for Pyongyang's nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

During the Boer War, the British had to send mincing machines to South Africa, so that soldiers were not forced to choke down unmasticated lumps of meat.

By claiming that debt relief is legally possible only outside the eurozone, he wants to turn the issue into the lever for bringing about a voluntary Grexit.

Instead, the vocation of Europe in the course of the twenty first century should be to become the lever of step by step inter continental convergence and unification.

For starters, Chávez is a formidable campaigner, and he has at his disposal every available lever of state power, from the Electoral Council to PDVSA, the national oil company.

Secular, military, and Mubarak era foes of the Muslim Brotherhood have used every lever at their disposal, democratic or not, to block the Islamist parties democratic exercise of power.

As the protests began, Deng s chosen successor, Premier Zhao Ziyang, was tempted to use the mass movement as a lever to push harder for market reform, and possibly political reform.

During a mixed martial arts match in 2001, referees had to restrain him with a forearm choke hold, when he didn t respond to the bell, signaling the end of the fight.

I am sure person who lives in Ukraine must know ukrainian their state language, but lets face the truth do u know the lever of ukr lessons in for example Donetsk?

The SDGs will not ensure global action, but, as US President John F. Kennedy once said about UN agreements, they can serve as a lever to help move the world toward action.

What this pattern suggests is that the Party can rarely choke down more than the smallest dose of political reform, much less outright criticism before reacting in an almost autonomic fashion against it.

But if regulations are not well tailored to the various types of market participants and to how markets actually work, they can choke off opportunities that would otherwise benefit investors and the economy.

The lever for this process will continue to be the EU s central bureaucracy, the mechanism that formulates the member states common interests and whose field of action is determined by loose, and periodic, inter governmental collaboration.

VCCP creative director Matt Lever was struck by the silence surrounding the advertising of the arms fair with a blank space on ExCeL's calendar and thought Let's give them the campaign they are trying to avoid.

In effect, rather than according serious room for decision making to his prime minister, François Fillon, or to Fillon s cabinet, Sarkozy has arrogated almost every lever of power to himself and his advisers within the Élysée Palace.

Convenient and with minimal obstructions, it can accommodate a cargo volume of 561L. The back seats fold down in a 4 2 4 configuration, with each section having its own remote control lever, which increases the trunk space to 1560L.

The secular argument that Morsi s lust for power jeopardized Egypt s nascent democracy does not bear scrutiny. Secular, military, and Mubarak era foes of the Muslim Brotherhood have used every lever at their disposal, democratic or not, to block the Islamist parties democratic exercise of power.

Fifth, Georgia itself provides an important link to Caspian energy for all those Europeans who do not want to be totally dependent on pipelines controlled by Russia. Indeed, Georgia is Russia s choke point in its policy of using oil and gas as strategic foreign policy weapons, which it has done repeatedly.