• The farmer had filed complaints against people who had put the squeeze on him.

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  • That could put the squeeze on local builders who don't have the scale to compete against the deep-pocketed McMansion builders.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • It's no wonder that the pitched fight for control of the lucrative drug trade has become more intense as Mexican law enforcement has tried to put the squeeze on drug lords.

    CNN: Mexican drug cartel trots out boy as warning to cops

  • Green insists he doesn't put the squeeze on suppliers.

    FORBES: Billionaires

  • W. Bush and Omar Burleson when they put the squeeze on the IRS on behalf of their constituents in Abilene, TX who had been caught by the IRS improperly using the ministerial housing exclusion.

    FORBES: Will Liberal Ministers Challenge Their Own Tax Loophole ?

  • At the center of the new Great Game is Moscow's effort to put the squeeze on Azerbaijan, a secular Muslim state whose President, Heydar Aliyev, once a member of the Soviet Politburo, welcomes Western investment.

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  • Colin Farrell, buzzing with the chance to speak in his native accent again, plays a mean piece of work named Lehiff, whose plan is to take a girl hostage and thereby put the squeeze on her new man, the manager of a bank.

    NEWYORKER: Intermission

  • Since it is unlikely that all the G20 leading governments - especially the US - will sign up to put the big squeeze on investment banks, the Treasury may succeed in killing the tax (the UK can veto it in the EU).

    BBC: How scary is a financial transactions tax?

  • On the other, it values the bulwark they present against neighbouring Iran and the squeeze they put on the heroin trade.

    ECONOMIST: The blame game

  • In the wake of the 11 September attacks in the US, Mr Bush's government has campaigned ferociously to put a squeeze on the money funding the terrorists.

    BBC: US reward to combat terror funding

  • When rich people form buying cartels to put a price squeeze on properly patented drugs, the few win in the short term and everyone loses down the line.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Some people call this "squeeze" because of the pressure these costs put on family budgets.

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  • But inside it is warm and welcoming, and the bartenders put on a great show as they pour, pinch, squeeze, stir and shake ingredients, then present their creations with a flourish and a smile.

    WSJ: Queens hotel boom brings NYC tourists across river

  • He put a perverse twist on the repurchase trade, routinely used in the past to squeeze some additional income out of the Treasury securities that are traditionally on hand as part of normal business operations.

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  • Besides a brief meeting with Germany's Chancellor Merkel and France's President Hollande there was not a great deal - beyond I'm told a supply of espressos, haribos, and fruit - to fill the small hours as Brussels negotiators put pressure on other countries to accept a squeeze.

    BBC: EU Budget - when is a cut not a cut

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