The regime may respond by trying to tighten the noose.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.