| A conspiratorial hush proceeds to cosh the masses, precipitating a muffled ripple of applause as the Mayor and his entourage take to the stand. |
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| It was claimed in court that he probably struck the first blow with an extended cosh. |
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| With respect, the use of a knife as opposed to the use of a cosh in their minds is clearly something quite different. |
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| Giving evidence for the defence, Mr Riley told the jury that he had used the cosh and struck the bone-breaking blow. |
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| She kept a cabinet full of weapons, including an axe, crossbow, machete, swordstick, cosh, an air rifle and two revolvers, the court was told. |
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| Livingston were under the cosh, scrambling the ball clear twice in injury time, but held on desperately for points. |
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| Killester were under the cosh from the tip-off, trailing 12-5 within minutes and behind 45-35 at the half. |
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| The sinh, cosh, and tanh subroutines compute the hyperbolic trigonometric functions of their parameters. |
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| He wrote sympathetically about highlanders under the cosh from rapacious landlords. |
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| In a game dominated by the weather Portarlington were under the cosh for most of the game. |
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| There are also well-grounded suspicions that they are used for internal repression to keep the extremist factions under the cosh. |
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| The psychological effect on farmers, already economically under the cosh, was frightening. |
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| Another man then appeared and smashed him across his left arm with an iron cosh, before dragging him out and throwing him to the ground. |
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| Its ability to price its product has also been under the cosh as other newsvendors cut prices to capture a bigger share of a shrinking market. |
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| Giving evidence for the defence, he told the jury that he had used the cosh and struck the bone-breaking blow. |
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| Some of his songs dealt directly with asylum life, as viewed by an inmate through the haze of a chemical cosh. |
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| The National Association of Young People in Care believes the chemical cosh was widely used in children's homes 20 years ago. |
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| We must avoid the use of these drugs as a potentially dangerous chemical cosh to patients who would be better off without it. |
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| It is a matter of good fortune that care staff are on hand to deal with difficult situations, rather than simply administering a chemical cosh. |
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| She discovered that she had been injected with a chemical cosh of sedatives at the age of seven while in council care. |
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| With a costly European defeat and nine goals conceded in two games, Strachan is already under the cosh with his first Old Firm derby looming. |
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| He said he had been threatened with guns, knives and hammers and attacked with a cosh in the past. |
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| The cosh and the teargas, he said, were left over from his evening job as a bouncer, and he had just forgotten to unpack them before travelling. |
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| But there is no doubt that my client used the cosh and probably struck Mr Bourne about the head. |
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| A jury convicted him in May of illegally possessing the gas, a lock knife and a cosh at the airport. |
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| Doctors will face up to five years in jail under a plan to stop anti-psychotic drugs being used as a potentially fatal chemical cosh to sedate dementia patients. |
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| They are not the only public sector workers who are under the cosh. |
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| Masked men armed with a machete and cosh burst into a busy town centre amusement arcade and forced terrified staff to open the safe and hand over a large amount of cash. |
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| However, not all suppliers are under the cosh or close to bankruptcy. |
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| Shell-shocked Derby spent the remainder of the first-half under the cosh. |
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| Dementia patients could be better treated with common painkillers such as paracetamol rather than chemical cosh anti-psychotic drugs, a study has found. |
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| They threatened to cosh him if he refused to hand over the phone. |
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| The second half saw Bolton under the cosh as Heaton Moor scored a second try and their stand off dropped a goal from 50 metres to level the scores. |
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| Operation Jutland, a joint initiative across the North-east, also uncovered a cosh in a car stopped on Teesside. |
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| Under the cosh, the Junior Elephants fought back. |
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| However, he was soon under the cosh and was reeled in by Tirailleur at the final flight. |
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| The report said that it was clear he had on at least one occasion attacked a Bradford prostitute with a cosh. |
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| We were under the cosh in the second half and some of Steven Gerrard's crosses were undefendable. |
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| For years, politicians under the cosh over health or education policy have trooped into BBC studios to proclaim that spending is at record levels. |
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| It may also encourage complacency on the part of the banks. Defenders of Basel 2 point out that the agencies are under the cosh now, but that their record in assessing the risk of default is pretty good. |
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| The wave of public sympathy that followed belied the fact that, in the aftermath of the Hillsborough Report and the Times's uncovering of the South Yorkshire police's negligence, coppers are under the cosh. |
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| We saw houses raided were serious weapons were discovered, flick knives, hunting knives, and a police cosh. |
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| Saints were under the cosh when Foden, Courtney Lawes, dylan Hartley and Co were away at the World Cup last year and the full-back said it was pay-back time. |
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| He coaxed her into the garage to discuss the break-up and when she tried to get out of the chair, he hit her over the head with a rubber cosh, Preston Crown Court heard. |
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