whipsaw

How To Use whipsaw In A Sentence

• This bargaining tactic is called the whipsaw, and B.C. taxpayers are about to feel it in the months ahead. Kootenay Rockies - News
• There is a velocity with this capital which can whipsaw a marketplace.
• Citi's actions weren't illegal, but broke an unwritten understanding not to whipsaw markets or take advantage of the thin summer trading.
• Laura Bush is all deferential and smiles in public, but you can bet that she whipsaws him like a swing in private.
• Until clear answers emerge, expectations center on the kind of whipsaw markets seen in 2010 where the dollar is tossed up and down as investors move their focus between the regions' competing woes. Dollar's Up-and-Down Year
• Then the Indian brings over a whipsaw from the cabin at Surprise Lake and makes lumber enough for the box. Flush of Gold
• All the mental health care professionals we know have been whipsawed between their ideals for practice - based both on knowledge of patients and on their own self-image - and the narrow demands of managed care.
• So my theory is that pretty much all of their songs are the rock equivalent of ‘The Ice Storm’: a look at the despair and chaos that whipsaws people who try to live as moral beings in an amoral society.
• But in the past few months the dollar has been confounding forecasters - and whipsawing short-sellers - by rebounding sharply.
• The tech-services industry has been whipsawed as the red-hot demand of the late 1990s turned into the deep freeze of the past few years.