Under the scheme, Washington brought the tobacco industry under the thumb of federal regulation.
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He stayed home to lend support to besieged democrats under the thumb of Robert Mugabe.
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.
Several European countries, including powerful Germany, are already under the thumb of Russia in terms of access to energy, especially of natural gas.
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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.
Had you not been under the thumb of Saddam Hussein for so long and the victim of terror for so long, you would not need this help.
Unfortunately, history has shown that it is only by getting the republics out from under the thumb of the traditional, reflexively authoritarian center that such a climate can come about.
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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.
Shaikh said Bouazizi was seen as a man who struggled and tried to do the right thing, Shaikh said, but he wasn't born into the right clan or elite and was under the thumb of a dictatorial regime.
There, an addiction to artificially priced grain, wrong-headed collectivization methods in the late 1950s and economic reforms that have generally favored the cities over the countryside have conspired to keep the peasantry poor and under the thumb of self-serving cadres.
On this anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, those who are either ignoring politics or actively supporting the dramatic growth of government need to ask themselves: Do I want to live my life under the thumb of a new master, or do I want to be free?
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Assuming private monies funded his creations, would this have been possible four decades ago when the global economy crawled under the austere thumb of statism?
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.
The planet remains beset with enough dictators to darken the days of millions under their thumb.
Russia has used economic leverage in an attempt to stifle democratic revolutions in Ukraine and Georgia, with the goal of keeping those neighboring countries 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.
The people of this small country want out from under Slobodan Milosevic's dictatorial thumb.
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.
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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