He said pointedly this week that he wanted the oligarchs cut down to size.
In short, Jordan, bereft of its famous ruler, will be cut down to size.
It was an appropriate epitaph for Leicester's Treble hopes, cut down to size by those swarming Wasps.
But the ratio says that if there is something that needs to be cut down to size, it's government.
In real terms, spending would continue to grow, but at least the leviathan would start to be cut down to size.
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David Cameron has created more than a hundred peers since the general election and unless the House of Lords really is cut down to size under the coalition government there will be more politicians, not fewer.
Brazil is using monetary policy as a means to cut inflation down to size.
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Against this background, Mr Putin's promise, when he became president in 2000, to cut the oligarchs down to size was justified and welcome.
Some monarchs must have wondered if they were giving away too much power with their charters, and attempted to cut the companies down to size.
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But guess what: Mr Berlusconi has scuppered an 18-month-long attempt at constitutional reform, largely because he was thwarted in his desire to cut the magistracy down to size.
Two days after passing the bipartisan budget Mr Christie ordered the state legislature back to Trenton, the state capital, for a special session over the July 4th holiday weekend to cut property taxes down to size.
That explains recent speculation about a multi-coloured rainbow alliance voting with David Cameron and company to cut the Commons down to size - an alliance that would probably have to include unionists, nationalists, independents and a Green.
He failed to reform the judiciary, or to cut the armed forces down to size.
The moments of savagery seem to cut their own perpetrator down to size.
But so is Peru's need to cut an overmighty army down to size.
If he is not, Mr Blair must play King Hal, put aside youthful friendship, and cut his chum down to size.
That is precisely the kind of hard constraint Congress needs imposed on it otherwise it will never cut federal spending down to size.
If you are deeply opposed to the concept of being cut down to your regular size, you can wear a small block or kitten heel.
Protected from Asian imports, the car makers will hesitate to cut Brazil's car industry down to size.
Teams might talk about whether they want to cut that down from the size of a standard school backpack to something such as a laptop carrying bag.
The Swiss know that, however lazy or corrupt or incompetent or arrogant politicians may be elsewhere, they can cut their own ones down to size.
It is far too simplistic when considering a complex economy such as the US to say al one has to do is cut down the current size of the government.
Well, Tactus has been sampling some new coating materials attempting to reduce glare -- and succeeding -- and to cut down on the controller's size by 70 percent and in so doing also doubled up the speed that the keyboard activates.
The prospect that Mr Putin could oversee a more thorough-going union between Russia and Belarus, on Poland's eastern border, sends a few Polish pulses racing, though a lot of Poles also think it would be good if Russia's new president were to cut Belarus's eccentric leader, Alexander Lukashenka, whom most Poles despise, down to size.
President Vladimir Putin has said he wants to cut Russia's richest businessmen - the so-called "oligarchs" - down to size.
Worries that investors may balk at a company with such baggage has forced underwriters Goldman Sachs Asia and China International Capital Corp. to scale down the size of the offering and cut the stock's asking price.
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