Window shutters are fastened closed, and empty rowing boats jostle about their moorings in the quays.
The reforms must jostle with other initiatives, such as health care, for legislative time.
The Flyers showed they aren't about to back down as they jostle for a playoff spot.
They briefly jostle in the moonlight, guzzling loutishly, before losing interest and scuttling back into the undergrowth.
South Carolinians may get saturated with television ads shortly after the New Year as candidates jostle for position.
In Dehradun, for example, a blue haze hangs over streets where vehicles jostle to move even at walking pace.
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Elderly Eastern European women with scarves over their heads jostle up to the counters alongside well-pressed German businessmen in waistcoats.
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Every morning, hundreds of tourists jostle with the odd entrepreneur dressed up as a corporate mascot or holding a sign.
Alongside BC brews from Phillips and Driftwood, frighteningly strong Quebec beers jostle with unfiltered Belgian libations and US favourites from Deschutes and Brooklyn.
However the union is divided into factions and many expect to see a power struggle as union barons jostle for control.
On the contrary, it has encouraged grade inflation, as the boards jostle to provide the results that will make their customers happy.
Instead of the drab concrete houses, dusty lanes and untidy shops usually found in rural India, forts, palaces and temples jostle with each other in the bustling town square.
He did not call for exchange rate targets but there will be international concern that, as countries jostle for export markets, a battle over currencies will follow.
Ferries, fishing boats, private launches and container ships jostle for space in these crowded waterways, presided over by flocks of screeching seagulls that supply another of the city's signature sounds.
But he will have to jostle for power with former prime ministers Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, who have just returned from exile and want to return to office.
If you tend to be a bit rough on your controllers, we'd recommend laying off a bit, lest you jostle your shiny Apple product out of its perch.
But like all hot tickets, the autumn migration can come with its share of hassles, including sky-high prices and traffic jams as safari vehicles jostle for space near the best sightings.
The news has done little to jostle Deutsche Telecom's shares.
General Mills is no stranger to the occasional outbreaks of profit-busting promotional wars that routinely occur as players in a mature industry jostle for position in the grocery aisles.
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This may help to explain the success of Silicon Valley, one of the last workplaces in America where hard and soft drinks still jostle for space in the company fridge.
People are often killed in the crush as hundreds of thousands of pilgrims jostle their way through tunnels and over bridges to complete the various rituals that form the pilgrimage.
There it hopes to find at least half a billion barrels of oil, enough to build a platform like ExxonMobil's nearby Hibernia, which can withstand a jostle from a million-ton iceberg.
Groups of men in their 20s and 30s fill the stands and sidelines, to the point where passers-by must jostle for space as they walk along fences separating the bleachers from the field.
The forthcoming peace talks in Libya may be making things worse as the rebel factions and the Sudanese government jostle for any advantage on the ground that they can take to the conference table.
There will soon be a big traffic jam at 3-D theaters as Alice in Wonderland (which hit theaters last weekend), Clash of the Titans and How to Train Your Dragon all jostle for those screens.
With the new set-up MPs no longer need to jostle to get the speaker's attention, but some of them pressed their buttons without knowing it and others did not do so when they were required to.
He points to the seeming incoherence of their approach to the public finances, in which promises of a tax break for marriage and a higher threshold for inheritance tax jostle with a putatively severe fiscal squeeze.
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