Sentences with phrase «iron grip on»

Sony seems to be losing some of its iron grip on the current console market.

Play Music and YouTube Red set to merge and combine music and video, as Google looks to break Spotify's iron grip on the music streaming market.

The company has loosened its previously iron grip on the way it communicates with the world in recent years, but it's still unusual for it to make an announcement through a channel it doesn't completely control.

Marvel, itself, seems to have an almost iron grip on information pertaining to the MCU.

The prequel novel is written by David Liss (The Ethical Assassin, Black Panther: The Man Without Fear) and will reveal Kingpin's plans to gain an iron grip on New York City, along with establishing character relationships that can be continued in the game

Perhaps that is because they felt stifled by the company's iron grip on its employees and the sense that they were viewed not as valuable workers but potential sources of information leaks.

Sony seems to be losing some of its iron grip on the current console market.

Nintendo would eventually relax its iron grip on taste, signing off on god knows how many uses of the word «fuck» in Conker's Bad Fur Day.

Contrast that with a state that has a Rate Bureau maintaining an iron grip on renters insurance rates in the state, and you'll see how different types of regulation can lead to not only different rates, but also to greater or lesser availability of coverage in the state.

So it's finally here — the Android tablet that will break Apple's iron grip on the market and consign the iPad to history.

In a nutshell: Apple still sells more tablets than anyone else, but Cupertino's iron grip on the market is finally loosening.

Because they know eBooks are taking off and they want to keep their iron grip on book profits and what books get published.

Technology startups are trying to unclench Amazon's iron grip on the book business, one finger at a time.

The 2016 Audi TT Roadster exhibits excellent handling, responding quickly to driver input and keeping an iron grip on the road.

The Good The 2016 Audi TT Roadster exhibits excellent handling, responding quickly to driver input and keeping an iron grip on the road.

With her third Oscar nomination by the age of 23, Ronan has an iron grip on any next - generation - of - Hollywood titles.

Based on true events, the drama follows a special force of LAPD officers who are tasked with breaking the mob's iron grip on the city of Los Angeles.

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES Starring: Megan Fox and Will Arnett Directed by: Jonathan Liebesman Darkness has settled over New York City as Shredder and his evil Foot Clan have an iron grip on everything from the police to the politicians.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Director: Jonathan Liebesman Starring: Megan Fox, Will Arnett, William Fichtner, Noel Fisher Synopsis: Darkness has settled over New York City as Shredder and his evil Foot Clan have an iron grip on everything from the police to the politicians.

«Former private eye Harry Kilmer knows a lot about Japan — and the gangsters who keep an iron grip on its gambling, prostitution and protection rackets.

Veep creator Armando Iannucci's blistering new comedy of errors begins with a heart attack that loosens Joseph Stalin's iron grip on Russia; his cabinet members promptly rush to fill the power vacuum left in his wake.

Like most superhero movies, Thor: Ragnarok also had a lot of use of the green screen and CGI, but thanks once again to Taika Watiti's iron grip on the art of filmmaking and stunning cinematography by Javier Aguirresarobe, none of it seems too much.

Darkness has settled over New York City as Shredder and his evil Foot Clan have an iron grip on everything from the police to the politicians.

So they've, you know, they still run all the newspapers and the television stations, but they don't have the iron grip on it that they used to, but the government is fine about this.

While Silver has held an iron grip on the Assembly through a previous coup attempt and several scandals, Democrats said his removal became «inevitable» because of the cloud of the corruption charges.

It looks like Speaker Silver's iron grip on the Democrat caucus prevented many from doing right by the most vulnerable in our society.»

As the 39th Ordinary Congress of the Confederation of African football, CAF, in Addis Ababa, the chance of a life time beckons on Madagascar's Ahmad to beat the gangling Camerounian whose long stay in office coupled with his iron grip on CAF has thrown up a group of fiery younger generation who for the first time will present a serious challenge to Hayatou.

However, Silver's iron grip on the Assembly makes that unlikely.

He already have iron grip on the club and with the help from Wenger he turned Arsenal FC to Arsenal Football Corp or Inc..

Satan had an iron grip on this world, and he ruled it ruthlessly and with all dominion, power, and authority.

After failing to persuade Microsoft to release its iron grip on its code in 1997 — then, Friedman was a lowly intern, and de Icaza a mere job applicant — they set out to develop audacious software that spurned the company's multibillion - dollar business model.

As growing numbers of TV watchers either cut the cord entirely or opt for what cable providers like to call «skinny bundles,» ESPN's iron grip on viewers and subscribers is being questioned in a way it never has in the past.

Not exact matches

Dark Iron Fitness featured this Ultimate Body Press model on its list of the best ceiling mounted pull - up bars because of its solid construction and multiple grip handles.

Amazon has «iron grip» on e-commerce — analysts react to its 100 million Prime members Stock rises premarket as subscriber figure tops Wall Street's estimateAmazon.com Inc. has bulls bellowing happily after revealing its Amazon Prime subscription program has topped 100 million members worldwide.

The human mass is spiritually warmed and illumined by the iron grip of planetary compression; and the warming, whereby the rays of individual interaction expand, induces a further increase, in a kind of recoil, of the compression which was its cause... and so on, in a chain - reaction of increasing rapidity.

When I put a two -, three - or four - iron in my hand, my left hand instinctively tends to get stronger on the club than it does when I grip a wood or a middle or high iron.

It actually feels like there is a change of grip on the long irons, but there isn't — it's just a stronger grip.

With the ball sitting at thigh level, he gripped a high - iron on the steel of the shaft, dug his feet into the sand and made a perfect swing, keeping his shoulders level as he rotated them back and forth.

It bends the shaft of a violent four - iron, loosens the grip on a well - honed nine.

Spurs relentlessly pursued Berahino last summer but came up short on every occasion as West Brom held onto to the striker with an iron grip.

Fourth worst: Kevin Ball, raced hard for the ball but time's iron grip had a firm hand on his shirt.

On the one hand, this is just the House, which, in the iron grip of the Tea Party, is spitting out one destructive piece of legislation after another.

Lear's is a concrete court of 20th - century totalitarianism — a high - Stalinist aesthetic — with the withering old dictator losing his iron grip not only on the regime, but also his senses.

Next, press down on the clasp slightly to loosen the iron's grip on your hair.

Together with Sid Meier, The Creative assembly are responsible for the iron grip that strategy games have had on me for the past 11 years.

Traditional districts retain an «iron grip» on ownership and deployment of school buildings.

It's the grip, stability and precision that really take your breath away — you can lean harder on the brakes and the front tyres than in the other two, while the cast - iron body control remains totally unfazed by anything you throw at it.

The Communist government in East Germany is on the brink, desperately clinging to power through the iron grip of the Stasi.

Spoiler alert: they're losing their iron - fisted grip on the bestseller lists now that their prices have gone up.

Instead of relying purely on magnetism, two deep grooves fit into notched tabs on the keyboard, which provides an iron grip.