Sentences with phrase «now under the thumb»

But the State Board — now under the thumb of a new education agency, the Center for Education and Career Innovation — may have different ideas.

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Even now he remains under Eritrea's thumb.
But then we thought about the 14 - year - old farmer's daughter who thought she was taking a job in a restaurant, was deceived by a corrupt system, and who was now held under the thumb of a pimp, forced to sleep with five or more older men a night in some seedy brothel.
Satan is a creature of God who exists only because of God's creative activity, and yet, now that Satan exists, he is not simply under the divine thumb but is engaged in mortal combat with the creator for the devotion of human beings.
And it now seems that he was under the thumb yet again as the contract states that United would have had to pay Real Madrid the sum of $ 50million.
It is hard to overstate how much the dynamic of the Assembly will change now that members are out from under Shelly's thumb.
Now, as I've said before, I get that director Rian Johnson was making dramatic decisions under the thumb of the Disney corporation, rather than decisions based on the obvious chemistry between these two actors and my personal ships.
Whitey Bulger has had the FBI under his thumb for too long, and now people are starting to notice.
The federal government now controls two major car companies, has wasted over $ 860 billion on a failed economic stimulus plan, taken over our health care system, put the nation's banks and financial systems under its enormous thumb and attempted to restructure our entire economy with cap - and - trade legislation.
Stavros Mavrakis» three adult daughters want little to do with him after a childhood spent under his abrasive thumb — but now that he's dying, they're reluctantly circling the wagons.
Super Mutant Alien Assault has had me under its thumb for quite some time now.
the impetus toward renewables has jumped so many hurdles, dodged so many roadblocks and bullets, recovered from so many near death incidents and squeezed out from under so many thumbs the only question to my mind now is
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