Something exactly like a finger and thumb it felt nipped my nose.

With competition weak, entrepreneurs did not rush to hire the unemployed. When recovery began, political unrest last fall nipped confidence in the bud.

Militarily, it has nipped in the bud any potential armed militia in West Beirut that could hinder its movement beyond the southern suburbs.

Unfortunately, the skepticism of the United States defense establishment, together with Reagan s adamant refusal to abandon his Strategic Defense Initiative nipped this bold move in the bud.

What we've done, we've just sealed both the ends with tape, nipped the right corner and the bottom left corner, so there's holes in the opposite corners, there's a little hole over here.

Years of Western backed repressive authoritarianism nipped in the bud any potential growth of a liberal alternative to the incumbent Arab regimes, and turned any abrupt move to free elections into a dangerous exercise in Islamic democracy.

8. As for that unprecedented recommendation, it has already been nipped in the bud in the above nota bene, and it suffices here to observe that one should not lose sight of the relationship between the application of Shariah and the beginning of the attack on the human rights record of the Sudan.