Under the scheme, Washington brought the tobacco industry under the thumb of federal regulation.
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The British preferred to allow him to return via Portugal, formally a neutral country but under the thumb of Germany.
Mexico's judiciary used to be under the thumb of the government of the day, but has recently shown signs of increasing independence.
Acer has always been a somewhat rebellious partner, seeking ways to extricate itself from under the thumb of major intellectual property suppliers.
The IMF is a tired old dinosaur of an institution, wholly under the thumb of European bureuacrats while largely reliant on U.S. tax dollars.
At companies owned by private equity, the board and the shareholders are one and the same: their directors are hardly under the thumb of managers.
In Mr Yeltsin's time, attempts to bring under control the far-eastern Maritime Territory foundered when the local armed forces turned out to be under the thumb of the fearsomely idiosyncratic provincial governor.
As things stand, it says, many gay clergy prefer to work as hospital chaplains, where their employer is the impeccably correct National Health Service, rather than in dioceses where they could be under the thumb of old-fashioned bishops.
Meanwhile a Lima court, under the government's thumb, dismissed a lawsuit I brought recently on the ground that I was not a citizen.
As always, much depends on Turkey's powerful and popular army, which still keeps the politicians under its thumb.
That kind of comment worries those who think that General Rios Montt would keep Mr Portillo under the army's thumb.
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The number of private patients they can take will be capped, which will leave them financially under the government's thumb, and will limit their exposure to competitive pressures from insurance companies.
She describes him using infrared reflectograms to see under the layers of paint, and discovering the thumb in the blessing hand and the stole Christ is wearing painted in different positions.
These key post-Cold War allies also saw it as a tangible expression of the U.S. commitment to their security in the face of assiduous Russian efforts to reassert a sphere of influence that would turn the clock back, reestablishing in some form their unhappy status under the Kremlin's thumb.
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All this prompts speculation over whether Mr Peretz and Ehud Olmert, the prime minister, are too much under the security establishment's thumb.
Having fought to protect lakes, rivers and streams as a legislator, he now plans to get all regional water and sewage policy under his thumb as firmly as he has the roads.
But in the teashops of Yangon, Myanmar's biggest city, the talk two decades on is not of sanctions but of the need for dialogue, of frustration with the main opposition party, the National League for Democracy, and even with its detained leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and of the widening gap between those who oppose the junta from abroad and those who live under its thumb.
Though Germany may be readier than others to give him the benefit of doubt, the West is unlikely to welcome Belarus, under Mr Lukashenka's thumb, as a prospective candidate to western clubs.
That would be a blow to the regional governors, as it would create larger regional companies too big to remain under their thumb.
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