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Clamp \Clamp\ (kl[a^]mp), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Clamped}
(kl[a^]mt; 215) p. pr. & vb. n. {Clamping}.]
1. To fasten with a clamp or clamps; to apply a clamp to; to
place in a clamp.
2. To cover, as vegetables, with earth. [Eng.]
- The television media cooked their goose in Vietnam, and since then I think most Americans understand why the government clamped a lid on front-line TV reporting in Grenada, Panama and now the Gulf.
- The strike also halted most activity in the Gaza Strip, where Israeli troops clamped curfews on two refugee camps after stone-throwing incidents.
- The army clamped a curfew on Jabalia, an Arab reporter in Gaza said.
- The Israeli army clamped an indefinite curfew on the Gaza Strip after 25 Palestinian protesters were wounded by troops and six Israelis were injured by a firebomb.
- After the vessels supplying the lobe have been clamped off, it is filled with chilled liver-preservation solution.
- Troops clamped a four-hour curfew on the Jalazone refugee camp near the West Bank town of Ramallah, an army spokesman said.
- In an apparent effort to prevent disturbances, the army clamped a curfew on Shati, a beachside shantytown in Gaza City housing 42,000 Palestinians.
- The government on Monday ordered troops to secure major industrial plants and clamped curfews on three provinces hit by pro-Solidarity strikes following a week of the worst labor unrest since 1981.
- MBC's reports on the recent turmoil in Algeria have been particularly well watched, North Africans say, as that nation has clamped down on its own media.
- Troops clamped a curfew on Nablus' 120,000 residents and launched house-to-house searches, Arab reports said.
- Martial law was clamped on Rangoon last Wednesday after demonstrations demanding the ouster of new hard-line leader Sein Lwin.
- The protesters also clamped several huge padlocks and chains onto a plant gate, and police brought out a heavy duty bolt cutter to get them off.
- Authorities clamped curfews on three of the most violent districts.
- The Journal account, quoting unidentified sources close to the company, said the public offering also would ease pressure from short-term lenders, who have clamped down on credit lines to Polly Peck.
- In September 1988, with inflation at 30% or more in parts of the country, Beijing clamped down on credit and reasserted central control over major construction contracts and foreign-exchange earnings.
- The army immediately clamped a curfew on Jabaliya, forcing the camp's 60,000 residents to stay indoors.
- In the Gaza Strip, meanwhile, Israeli troops clamped curfews on the Beach camp and a portion of the Jabaliya camp after an Israeli car was stoned and set ablaze in the nearby Beit Lahiya neighborhood on Sunday, Israel radio reported.
- The army later clamped a curfew on Askar's 8,200 residents.
- Police clamped an indefinite curfew on Hyderabad, and calm was reported restored by this morning as military patrolled the streets.
- The government has clamped down on foreign borrowing, barring banks from tapping the market and restricting all but a few companies.
- Sponsored by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., it would have clamped on a quota if imports surged over 110 percent of a formula level based on multiyear averages.
- The army clamped a curfew on the camp Monday, the military spokesman's office said.
- Thereafter the Federal Reserve under Paul Volcker, with the support of the Reagan administration, clamped down on the money supply.
- President Elias Hrawi's government on Monday clamped an economic and diplomatic blockade on rebel Gen. Michel Aoun in an attempt to oust him from the Christian enclave north of Beirut.
- The authorities last month clamped down on the Maltese habit of firing at anything and everything, including rare birds of prey.
- But the streets were peppered with rocks and smouldering tyres - lingering signs of the violent clashes between Palestinians and soldiers that raged soon after the shooting, before the army clamped on a curfew.
- In Bangladesh, police fired rifles in the air to disperse crowds and clamped an indefinite curfew on the city of Chittagong.
- The army increased its forces in the occupied territories today and clamped a curfew on the Gaza Strip in an effort to prevent violence during Arafat's speech.
- They partially clamped a shared blood vein in hopes that smaller vessels would take over in each child.
- Albanian authorities clamped military control on three ports to halt a chaotic exodus and stepped up security in the capital, Tirana, after at least one person was killed in clashes with police.