An English noose.

Get the noose.

The noose slipped.

The noose is tightening.

Sean's having noose trouble.

Freedom or the hangman's noose!

I've freed myself from the noose

You put your head in the noose.

Just make yourself a noose... like this.

I made a noose with my shoelace.

He tightened the noose and... then what?

The regime may respond by trying to tighten the noose.

It's my head in the noose if anything gets unstuck.

When it turns into a noose, I'd rather have my freedom.

With Gazprom having already doubled gas tariffs for Georgia, the energy noose is tightening.

What is this? Is this a dress or a noose (to kill yourself with)?

Perhaps our friend can weave all the loose ends into a noose. Eh, McPherson?

Shall I tell you, too, who placed the noose around her pretty, white young neck?

A noose is hidden for him in the ground, a trap for him in the way.

He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

If I stick around long enough, sooner or later you've got to put your head in a noose.

At the same time, sharply elevated unemployment and subpar income growth have combined to tighten the noose on over extended consumers.

The policy of tightening the noose and violating the safe areas pursued by the Serbs is still very much in evidence.

But as they hunt down and kill violent domestic extremists, they are quietly tightening the noose around all those who want moderate reform.

all I can say certainly is that when it came to the point whether I would put another man's neck into the noose

A hangman s noose did not await them. This was an important sign for Poland s neighbors in the Soviet bloc, which took its example to heart.

With Gazprom having already doubled gas tariffs for Georgia, the energy noose is tightening. But, thanks to gas supplies from neighboring Azerbaijan, Georgia has not yet been strangled.

We hope, however, that the thread of liberalism that runs through these new instruments will not become a noose to suffocate those of us that did not inherit a head start.

But China has another motive for tightening the noose on rare earth exports it wants to force high tech firms to operate in China, so that local companies can absorb their technologies.

In a state of secrecy and lack of transparency, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas recently approved a new cybercrime law that further tightens the noose on Palestinians' freedom of expression and privacy online.

I realize that the danger of terrorism cannot be eliminated overnight, and that our war against terrorism will be long and difficult and that terrorism is becoming increasingly violent and vicious as we tighten the noose around it.

A leaflet on marine litter, entitled Tightening the noose , was also published recently by UNEP. As mentioned earlier, in order to address the global and transboundary problem of marine litter, an interdisciplinary, multisectoral and holistic approach should be taken.