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We seem to have arrived at a moment when further economic expansion is hemmed in by financial as well as natural limits.

If it fails to strengthen regional ties, it is destined to see its economic expansion hemmed in by unsympathetic and threatening neighbours.

But the Russian supply lines were intact and they were able to enjoy quarters which, though spartan, were not hemmed in by the enemy.

Frozen and hemmed in by a cold, callous greed, the warming influence of Socialism is beginning to liberate them.

Mr. Yang and his partners do not plan to be hemmed in by the online digital format.

Pharaoh will think, 'The Israelites are wandering around the land in confusion, hemmed in by the desert. '

The Arctic is an ocean, covered with drifting packed ice and hemmed in by the land masses of Europe, Asia, and North America.

Hemmed in between family-size cartons of cornflakes and giant packets of washing powder, her individual yoghurt seemed to say it all.

These definitions seem designed to promote an image of Canada sort of still in our buckskins, hemmed in by dark forests.

During the last 20 years elephants have been hemmed in by the increasing number of people moving into the area in search of arable land.

Had he ever entered the Maze and discovered what could make his life better? Or was Hem still hemmed in because he would not change?

For a moment I am hemmed in by the loss and I feel helpless. I suffer it silently.

This is an amusement park on the edge of the city, hemmed in between an odoriferous river and a clamorous overhead expressway.

She is a sprightly married woman, hemmed in by an overwhelming sense of duty.

While it was hemmed in on land, it traveled to the Swahili in Africa, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, Madagascar, Indonesia, China.

The army was hemmed in by the enemy.

The enemy were hemmed in by our troops.

The rebels now control large parts of the capital. The colonel is hemmed in.

They wanted to sniff out the changes ahead of time and scurry into action, rather than get hemmed in and be left behind.

Yet as Beijing tries to come off its stimulus high, its leaders are in danger of getting hemmed in by domestic politics.

and hemmed in by the land masses of Europe, Asia, and North America.

Today, the hemmed-in Japanese seem satisfied with the knowledge that everyone around them is equally unhappy.

Downey, hemmed in by the disclosures of the team he had trained, confessed his CIA affiliation on the 16th day.

The West Bank's last surviving herders are hemmed in by Israeli military bases, by-pass roads and Jewish settlements.

Natural selection can achieve many things, but it is hemmed in. Even harmless, random mutations can block its path.

In the deeply conservative south, most women spend their lives hemmed in by high walls and overprotective men.

Hemmed in by Mississippi River floodwaters, dozens of deer gather on one of the few dry spots in Posey County's Point Township on May 4.

The private sector, already hemmed in by many controls, is predictably angry.

Operational management was hemmed in by rigid definitions and plans.

Hemmed in by these commitments, the government is likely to make only modest reductions to universal benefits.

But he was severely hemmed in by the world's economic and diplomatic sanctions.

China also feels hemmed in by foreign domination of technology-standard setting and the valuable licensing fees that can flow from that.

It comes as Singapore finds its Asian ambitions hemmed in by rivals to the north.

HEMMED in by mountains and volcanoes, Mexico City is the perfect smog-trap.

He found himself increasingly hemmed in, where he once felt himself free.

But academics in both China and Vietnam are hemmed in by political dogma.

They don't like being hemmed in by rules or convention and often look at problems from a different angle.

The building was hemmed in by flowers.

Persia, theCaliphate, and later the Mongols hemmed in the sub continent.

He felt he was hemmed in the marriage.

The soldiers were hemmed in on all sides.

Over-buyers feel stressed because they're hemmed in by stuff.

who is hemmed in by antipathy among taxpayers back home to propping up profligate Greeks and others.

A valley hemmed in by mountains