And, since in the end almost everybody needs them, doctors have a special hold over people.
Now we will we watching what levels can hold over the next few sessions.
Mr Putin has responded by consolidating the state's hold over domestic oil and gas reserves.
Wednesday's dramatics are indicative of the broader trends that have taken hold over the last year.
But Mexican politics is not especially male-dominated: women hold over a quarter of congressional seats.
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In this century, the Russians have tried to weaken China's hold over its western Xinjiang region.
But it is still male dominated, most likely a hold over from being based on the films.
He can no longer rely on controlling the parliament and his hold over the media has loosened.
An environmental campaign over the mill is threatening Mr Turnbull's hold over his constituency around Point Piper.
"It was just a guy trying to hold over on a lease he wasn't entitled to, " he said.
He said Racing UK's strangle-hold over broadcasting from Doncaster is putting the progress of those negotiations in jeopardy.
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Only when you can acknowledge this thought forming in real time can you loosen its hold over you.
It also deprived them of a hold over the majority of the people who live in the north.
Conservatives like to claim that there are chinks in the Times's ideological and commercial hold over the city.
The LDP will hold over his head the threat of a no-confidence motion should he break his promise.
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Like all priesthoods, the economics one depends for its hold over the credulous on a form of arcane knowledge.
He has a plan to maintain Palm's hold over the industry it created.
They provided it on condition that Frau Brecht decrease her hold over the theatre.
If you believe money has a strangle hold over the entire political system this is ceding the moral high ground.
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In addition, ministries control special funds of their own, so the cabinet's hold over the national purse strings is weak.
It risks leaving Swatis even angrier with their government and more vengeful than before, hardening the Taliban's hold over the region.
"That's the carrot that owners hold over their cities' heads, " says McBride.
Officials worry that General Izurieta's hold over the army could be undermined, opening the way for hot-headed acts aimed at provoking chaos.
It gives them a hold over the resources of their old backyard.
Meanwhile, lest Israel and its allies try to prise the economy away from it, Hamas is tightening its hold over supplies by land.
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This line of argument naturally enchants many of those who work in universities, because it helps to secure their hold over public funds.
Thanks to its research, Ballard has a strong hold over the fuel cell's intellectual property, owning around 300 patents at the last count.
The death penalty in two states was more or less put on hold over concerns that executions by lethal injection had been botched.
Much may depend on whether Mr Erdogan can strengthen his hold over the political centre, and on how independent President Gul proves to be.
This trend in mortgage finance is troubling, but unfortunately the government is also growing its hold over the other major aspects of financial markets.
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