tying-up

Moments later the tying-up was finished and Sura looked around him.

CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

It's a question of tying-up capital for future developments.

She Closed Her Eyes 2010

Do they start with a robbery and then, especially, I mean, if it involves this sort of intimate tying-up of somebody?

CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2009 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 ..."

Do New Hampshire Vote Count Questions Harbinger Super Tuesday Vote Theft Disaster? 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.

Archive 2008-02-01 Ed Howard 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.

2/25: Husbands and Wives; Le Corbeau 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.

AMD-ATI Merger Looks Likely 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.

N Bodies Sean 2006

When the tying-up fakement was over everything went off first-rate.

Robbery Under Arms 2004

Anyone have something of the tying-up sort with them?

Deep Water Laura Anne Gilman 2000