She felt like she was caught in an ever-tightening noose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Murder Canyon]

The ever-tightening traffic was an element in my decision.    From Wordnik.com.  [HOLLYWOOD] Reference

Hello, Mark, Chakotay managed through an ever-tightening throat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Star Trek: Voyager®: Full Circle] Reference

We are in the ever-tightening coils of an aggressive public sector.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Latin America into an ever-tightening embrace where they can exert total control.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mexican Newspaper Interviews Fidel Castro Part II Views Miami Summit] Reference

The fading core that was Destria spun an ever-tightening cocoon of bleakness around herself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arrow's Fall]

ZARRELLA: Can't keep them alive because of ever-tightening restrictions on outdoor water use.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 13, 2007] Reference

She clawed at the hands, but he was too strong; nothing she did made him release that ever-tightening grip.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oathblood]

Pure Eroticism Is anyone in Norway safe from the ever-tightening grip of the country's food safety authority?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Housing in Recline] Reference

Also, one possible logical consequence of the ever-tightening wage vs. wealth death spiral is domestic revolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » The Long Suck] Reference

I wound my ankles around his, tilting my hips up to his as an ever-tightening coil of pressure built inside of me.    From Wordnik.com.  [And One Last Thing…] Reference

Soaring upward, he caught a strong thermal and relaxed his wings, gliding upward in ever-tightening concentric circles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragons at War]

While you'd expect that the label, "the best player never to have won a major," would be an ever-tightening noose around.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Mickelson brimming with confidence in final major] Reference

But now France faces just that, because of the ever-tightening race among those candidates who would like to be his successor.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 12, 2007] Reference

The move was aimed at boosting waning confidence and getting banks around the world to open their ever-tightening purse strings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don’t Just Do Something–Stand There! | Heretical Ideas Magazine] Reference

This disparity became even more pronounced as the ever-tightening blockade gradually cut off the Confederacy from foreign imports.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best Christmas Present Ever: Senator DeMint Objects to the Appointment of the Conferees - Dan_Perrin’s blog - RedState] Reference

She forced herself to go on despite the claustrophobic sense that she might never extricate herself from the ever-tightening space.    From Wordnik.com.  [Circles of Stone] Reference

In his place there was only a spinning mass of energy particles shrinking into an ever-tightening spiral until they vanished from sight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack Blank and the Imagine Nation] Reference

In the near future the promise it holds for us will be snuffed out by the the ever-tightening grip of those seizing ever more power over us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surely, rather than disaster, this is our opportunity.] Reference

With Herb at the controls, the Space Pup cruised in an ever-tightening circle around the glinting thing that hung there just off Pluto's orbit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cosmic Engineer]

Separately, Ford vowed to continue operating three former Visteon Corp. plants beyond 2008 as it attempts to find buyers in an ever-tightening market.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ford Credit to Cut Back] Reference

A growing knot of curious onlookers hovered, quivering on the borderline between revulsion and fascination, moths circling a flame in an ever-tightening orbit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ninja]

By attempting multiple projects simultaneously, each far too ambitious in its own right, on ever-tightening aid budgets, the West often causes more problems than it solves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amitai Etzioni: The Failures of Long Distance Social Engineering] Reference

She resisted him, striving to escape that ever-tightening arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Swindler and Other Stories] Reference

And, schools hope, savings in an ever-tightening budget crunch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catholic Online > Daily Readings] Reference

ICIS. com reports that chemicals companies in Europe are facing ever-tightening credit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Purchasing - Top Stories] Reference

Many women-and indeed many men-feel that they are caught in an ever-tightening tangle of commitments.    From Wordnik.com.  [AllBusiness.com - Home Page RSS] Reference

Sri Lanka later not only had ever-tightening exchange controls, but also imports controls and eventually a.    From Wordnik.com.  [LBO-Lanka Business Online]

By utilizing SIWG's free labor, state agencies accomplish island rejuvenation despite ever-tightening budgets.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Raised in comparatively flush times, many teens today are struggling with parents 'ever-tightening grip on the purse strings.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York News, Weather, Sports & Traffic - WCBSTV.com] Reference

This pattern entails an ever-tightening range of lower highs and lower lows and typically precedes major breakouts to the upside.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference

As I explained in that piece, rising domestic consumption coupled with declining supply puts an ever-tightening squeeze on imports.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peak Oil News]

When we met the next night in the same place, and adjusted the ever-tightening bands upon the psychic, she sat helplessly for three hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow World] Reference