Word: clamped
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...halftime adjustments by the coaches, Murphy said, that allowed Williams and the defense to clamp down in the final two quarters...
...TIME: Your government used what many consider excessive force to quell protests about the elections. Meles: It's very obvious now that the opposition tried to change the outcome of the election by unconstitutional means. We felt we had to clamp down. We detained them and we took them to court. In the process, many people died, including policemen. Many of our friends feel that we overreacted. We feel we did not. There is room for criticism nevertheless it does not change the fact that this process was a forward move towards democracy and not a reversal. Recent developments have...
...until freshman midfielder Jason Duboe took advantage of a long Harvard possession and a nice feed from sophomore midfielder Max Motschwiller to give the Crimson a 3-2 lead after a quarter.Two Denver goals in the second quarter sandwiched an unassisted score from Calvert, before the Crimson put the clamp down in the second-half shutout.“I think it was a really good formula,” Anderson said of Harvard’s long possessions and the resulting rest for the defense. “When our defense was in, I think they were playing...
...became agitated, and she fought violently against the tight steel walls. It was painful to watch. Ahead of her, a door opened, and the heifer ran forward--into the waiting arms of a "V-conveyor restrainer," which held her on both sides and immobilized her legs. A metal clamp descended to restrain her head, and then a man walked forward, shot her with a pneumatic gun and sliced her open...
...bill's language makes it clear that in this case mercy is for monsters: it invites women to request pain relief for her baby, so that it will hurt less when, as the law states, "the unborn child's body parts are grasped at random with a long-toothed clamp. The fetal body parts are then torn off of the body and pulled out of the vaginal canal." The text notes that this concern for the unborn child's possible pain is in keeping with laws having to do with the humane slaughter of livestock and lab animals...