1.   In addition, parish priests were feeling the pinch through reduced income from alms and tithes.

2.   Local stores and businesses are beginning to feel the pinch.

3.   Consumers are spending less and traders are feeling the pinch.

4.   Feeling the pinch, are you?

5.   Naturally, the loss of this sort of money is a blow to us, but every club is feeling the pinch.

6.   Already, businesses in Waco are feeling the pinch from the air travel slowdown.

7.   Although Horn, with his children grown and his mortgage paid off, was in better financial shape than most others, he still felt the pinch.

8.   Although some clinics around the state have yet to feel the pinch, most are limping by on smaller budgets and forecasting steeper cuts in the coming year.

9.   And customers were beginning to feel the pinch, as well.

10.   Analysts said the company was feeling the pinch of new competition, having previously enjoyed a position as the only supplier of its range of applications software.