China’s military strategists see a blockade as a strategy that gives them flexibility to tighten or loosen a noose around Taiwan, depending on Beijing’s objectives.New York Times, 25 Aug. 2022 Reported by Gary Smith, a Hall-of-Fame level sportswriter, the article describes the young Tyson watching as grown men placed a noose around his friend’s neck and threw him off the side of a building. Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Aug. 2022 Telling the board of directors about my mental health and hearing their compassionate response lifted an anvil of anxiety off my chest and loosened the noose of shame around my neck. Andy Dunn As Told To Marty Munson, Men's Health, 10 May 2022 The article detailed an incident from several months earlier, in which an officer who had arrived to work with a Confederate flag and a noose displayed on his pickup truck had initially avoided an official reprimand. Marisa Gerber, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2022 Not long after, vandalism in a campus bathroom depicted a stick figure hanging from a noose with the N-word next to it. Devi Shastri, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 June 2022 Certainly, these recent instances of cultural and political tone deafness – the noose on a college campus and a Confederate flag license plate – are examples of how threats and symbols made popular in the aftermath of the war remain popular today. Daina Ramey Berry, Chron, 30 May 2022 Russia is tightening the noose on Ukrainian troops in the country's east. Patrick Galey, NBC News, 26 May 2022 That car was later found abandoned as well, but the noose was tightening. Grayson Quay, The Week, 12 May 2022 See More