Legislation such as the US Glass Steagall Act clipped their wings.

There was tension in the lines of his mouth. His speech was clipped, as if under continuous rigorous control.

For every head is bald, and every beard clipped on all the hands are cuttings, and on the waist sackcloth.

For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

Since these are the fastest growing large economies, the Bank s revision has clipped half a percentage point off world growth over the last five years, according to the IMF.

In the past, he clipped the wings of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who had strong ties to the merchant class, and of Mohammad Khatami, a reformer whose support came from Westernized middle class professionals.

I removed the microphone from that, and then just pinched that like I just made a clip out of the microphone and clipped that to a piece of paper, any paper that you found around.

The Chairman I wish to say that I would like my suggestion to fly, not because it is mine, but because the other proposals do not have wings or, if they do, some of those wings have been clipped.

One of the skis just clipped a pressure ridge at the end of the runway, banking. I could see into the cockpit, Troy battling the controls, and he just took one hand off, reached back, flipped a switch on the roof of the cockpit, and it was the fasten seat belt sign you can see on the wall.