The Amesys system in Libya was switched off last year after Moammar Gadhafi and his allies began losing grip on the country.
When people feel like they're really losing their grip or their hold, oftentimes violence results.
As a result, it is losing its grip on the amount of liquidity in circulation.
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Pan Wei, of Beijing University, says that even in stodgy state enterprises, the party is losing its grip.
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Foreign diplomats in Warsaw who had been admiring Mr Miller's apparently iron fists now fret that he is losing his grip.
Traditional southern evangelism is slowly losing its grip on the "larger southern culture", argues Coker, as it becomes "more globalised and diverse".
Broadcast TV was losing its grip, and the revolution was being televised.
Cisco Systems shares have generated zero return over the last decade, thanks to fears the company is losing its grip on networking gear.
Fearful of losing its grip entirely over villages or of provoking peasant unrest, the party is reluctant to make clear who is in charge.
Mr Kim may soon pick one of his sons as the next dynast-designate, in part to quell rumours that he is losing his grip.
Brian Forbes's deeply affecting "The Whisperers" (1967) earned Dame Edith Evans an Oscar nomination for her haunting portrait of a lonely old woman losing her grip.
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As people rely more on smartphones and tablets, and now that Verizon is adding the products, the MSFT stranglehold on enterprise is quickly losing its grip.
Others deny that the tight cabal of officials in charge of information and discipline in the ruling party is in any danger of losing its grip.
If true, past history hints that Bernanke, increasingly a joke outside the Fed, is losing his grip on the inside on the way to him stepping down.
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We sometimes get so wrapped up in our business that we risk losing our grip on the things that really matter: health, happiness and those who love us.
Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom told Israeli radio on Sunday that any sign that Syria was losing its grip on the weapons could lead to Israeli action, even a pre-emptive strike.
But nearly a quarter of a century after it announced its arrival with Video Killed The Radio Star, MTV shows no signs of losing its grip on the world's young music consumers.
"This has been a very dysfunctional home for many years and she saw that the boys were working their way out and she was losing her grip, " Chappell wrote in a statement to investigators.
Israeli leaders in the days leading up to the airstrike had been publicly expressing concern that Syrian President Bashar Assad may be losing his grip on the country and its arsenal of conventional and nonconventional weapons.
As in four recent periods when share prices rose even as inflation increased, the pick-up in prices should be welcomed as a sign that an economy that was showing worrying signs of weakness is recovering, and not of the central bank losing its grip.
They appear to be losing their grip on voting blocs that once were bedrock supporters: working-class whites, and especially working-class white men, whose union roots made their parents and grandparents loyal Democrats, as well as rural citizens and senior citizens, whose gratitude for New Deal economic and modernization programs pulled them to the Democrats.
BlackBerry is losing its tight grip on the market for mobile phones for the U.S. Department of Defense, as the Pentagon today moves to open its network to Apple iOS and Google Android devices.
In an episode of the comedy "Portlandia, " a couple played by Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein go on an epic "Battlestar Galactica" bender, losing a job and their grip on reality in the process of watching 75 episodes straight.
In the Croat areas of the country the results suggest that the nationalist HDZ, which has long held power in a firm grip, could also be losing ground.
More alarming to Virgin than losing this opportunity is that the deal tightens the grip that its archrival, BA, and its oneworld alliance partners have on Heathrow, London's main hub airport.
Very nice, Sammy, but you better be careful playing with fire here, as we've found it pretty easy to death grip Galaxy S phones like the Captivate into losing a fair bit of signal.
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How it will end is anybody's guess, but it is hard to see how an organisation that defined itself by its grip on power can transform itself into a modern, ideologically-oriented political party without losing members.
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