English-Swedish translation for "clutch"

clutch {noun} (also: claw)

clutch {noun} (also: clench)

clutch {noun}

clutch {noun}

clutch {noun} (also: coupling)

clutch {noun}

clutch {noun}

to clutch [clutched|clutched] {vb} (also: to keep, to anchor, to hold fast, to pin down)

to clutch [clutched|clutched] {vb} (also: to resign, to let up, to leave, to knock off)

to clutch [clutched|clutched] {vb} (also: to ram, to press, to crush, to clasp)

to clutch [clutched|clutched] {vb} (also: to grasp, to claw, to snatch, to take)

Or are we clutching at straws here?

We really are clutching at straws here.

They saw an eagle flying with a serpent clutched in its talons.

A second argument for keeping the dismantling of cars out of the manufacturers ' clutches is the cost of transport.

Many people are now beginning to despair, and some are clutching at the idea of using ground troops as a last resort.

Nature has learned to compensate with that, and females have multiple clutches of eggs to overcome those odds.

Researchers asked a group of people to read a clutch of market commentaries, and then predict the next day's price trend.

Does the power, or the fear, of the aforementioned person extend so far that he already has the People's Party in his clutches?

Therefore, we are naturally clutching at any semblance of hope that we can again support a democratic movement in this country.

Lastly, many of you rightly raised the question, the fear of falling into the clutches of economic decline.

But if sink it must, it is better for it to sink now, while the passengers can still swim ashore, clutching their national currencies like life belts.

In my view, this illustrates the difficult campaign which President Mubarak is waging to keep his country out of the clutches of a fanatical orthodox religious group.

With this, Parliament has reached a result with the Council which is in the interest of all those clutching qualifications and looking for jobs elsewhere in Europe.

Though still in the clutches of a clueless banker, the Baudelaires celebrated their unmasking of Count Olaf as they skimmed their way across the icy surface of Lake Lachrymose.

Is it really the Council's policy to help bring about a situation in which the money of poor and persecuted people ends up in the clutches of the mafia and similar organisations?

The Directive on paint does not say a single word about 'painters ' disease ': as if there were no one working with paint; as if there were not painters clutching a brush day in, day out.

Even worse, the resolution is full of new threats to the workforce, given that it advocates the idea of opening the market in public services and exposing it to the clutches of the private sector.