0 a bandage, or other device, tied very tightly round an injured arm or leg to prevent too much blood being lost. -- เครื่องห้ามเลือด
I regard them as being like a tourniquet.
It is as if in the case of the human body you were to apply tourniquets to stop the circulation of the blood.
Tourniquets of all kinds are being put upon our road transport system and what is the result?
This country was undoubtedly bleeding to death, financially and industrially, and the first thing to do was to apply a tourniquet.
So all three elements in what up till now has been a relatively flexible system will be tightened up into a triple tourniquet.
It is like applying a tourniquet to stop the flow of blood.
I regarded that as a tourniquet applied in a crisis situation in which certain measures had to be taken.
It is still far too much: but at least a tourniquet has been applied and is beginning to work.
