ratcheting

• Trees, bushes, other skiers were a swift-ratcheting backdrop sweeping past, everyone hushed, it seemed, listening to the cutting hiss of her Rossignol. —  Mistress of Justice
• I didn't know I was making it until I strained to catch another sound, faint and distant, that carried over the water, and found myself wishing irritably for the ratcheting noise to cease. —  Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel 02 - Kushiel's Chosen
• So what we're looking for is to see a ratcheting-up of that threshold before we do a drone attack. —  CFR.org -
• Now that oil prices are so high, travel demand will surely drop off - and even if there is a ratcheting down from higher up the J to dropping off the J altogether, the travel market will shrink. —  IAGblog
• Okay and second question; in terms of the $200 million that you are spending growth CapEx, is there any further discretion there in terms of ratcheting that back if we could be and I guess in light of that capital you are spending, can you talk about the decision to allocate the dollars there relative to decision not to exercise the option on MVP? —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page

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