In Scotland, the effect of the entitlement to free personal care was that these other services were badly squeezed financially.

Your neck was badly squeezed.

With the tunnel quite likely to be closed for weeks if not months, the north-south transportation corridor will be badly squeezed.

Thorby was badly squeezed by these maneuvers; he was finding it ruinously expensive to be rich.

But many small and medium-size companies did not have as much foresight and are being squeezed badly.

The military sales of virtually every company in the industry have begun to fall off in the last few years, and overall profit margins have been badly squeezed.

While top military officials have yet to be hit hard by the sanctions, some officials concede, many soldiers resent the sanctions because they are being squeezed badly.

"We could get squeezed badly if both sides have weapons like those skylances," Rhystan pointed out.

And though most of the major labels are still profitable, their margins are being badly squeezed.

In health imaging, which has traditionally provided 18 percent of sales and a higher percentage of profit, margins have been squeezed badly as large hospital purchasing organizations exact lower prices.