It's a question of tying-up capital for future developments. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Moments later the tying-up was finished and Sura looked around him. ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)
Do they start with a robbery and then, especially, I mean, if it involves this sort of intimate tying-up of somebody? ❋ Unknown (2009)
IMO, the Bush administration is intent on getting a candidate elected that will insure that his crimes will stand without prosecution, and the message will be for us to "move-on with the healing process" and "what purpose would be accomplished by tying-up Congress with investigations that burden our system and prevent them from insuring a better and brighter future for all of us ..." ❋ Unknown (2008)
It's as though the dark ideas and human ugliness raised by Clouzot's films can't find an appropriate expression in the final moments, and so he either retreats into a Hollywood-style tying-up of loose ends, or else opts for a non-sequitur with little relation to the rest of the film. ❋ Ed Howard (2008)
"This tie-up might make sense for AMD at this juncture but we don't think Intel should pursue tying-up with graphics companies and should instead look at the communications-space," said the analyst. ❋ Unknown (2006)
By the time he heard from Poincare that no such tying-up would be forthcoming, the journal had already been mailed to mathematicians throughout Europe. ❋ Sean (2006)
When the tying-up fakement was over everything went off first-rate. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Anyone have something of the tying-up sort with them? ❋ Laura Anne Gilman (2000)
I started, for I had supposed myself entirely alone on that end of the boat -- the men all busy with their tying-up preparations forward, and mademoiselle and the captain in the cabin. ❋ Mary Dillon (N/A)
"Keep on the lookout for a tying-up place, Tony," he said, as he saw that the sun was sinking low. ❋ St. George Rathborne (N/A)
In the honest sunlight Dan's spirits rose, and as I investigated various byways he asked "where the sense came in tying-up a dog that was doing no harm running loose." ❋ Jeannie Gunn (1915)
There are situations in "The Tinker's Wedding" -- the tying-up of the priest in the bag, for instance -- that suggest as source ❋ Cornelius Weygandt (1914)
The failure of the insurrection of the "Pilgrimage of Grace" was celebrated by the execution of twelve abbots, and, to use Henry's own words, by a wholesale "tying-up" of monks. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Caps of varnished gauze, after the Chinese type, began to be worn by both sexes simultaneously with the tying-up of the hair. ❋ Dairoku Kikuchi (1886)
In fact, there were a hundred reasons against legal interference, and legal tying-up of the money, with all that dreadful jargon about "whereas," and "hereinafter," and "provided always," and ❋ Unknown (1875)
If the fish are not cooked by being merely thrown on the fire and broiled they dress them in a manner worthy of being adopted by the most civilized nations; this is called "Yudarn dookoon," or "tying-up cooking." ❋ George Grey (1855)
The object of this tying-up operation is, that he shall thoroughly exhaust without hurting himself, and that he shall come to the conclusion that it is you who, by your superior strength, have conquered him, and that you are always able to conquer him. ❋ Unknown (1846)
