Sentences with phrase «under his thumb by»

Their relationship isn't portrayed as one of those hellacious ones in which the abuser keeps the abused under his thumb by threatening her.

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By offering lines of credit, the Cash Store believes it can put itself beyond the reach of provincial regulators and back under the federal thumb.

The Israelites did not choose to be slaves under Pharaoh's thumb, nor did they ask to be refugees expelled from their land by Babylon's army.

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.

Vast stores of hidden wealth, gained by committing every crime in the book, and millions of fear - driven, deluded «slaves» who have been trained to give their very souls if need be... all under the thumbs of mere humans who use their power for every vice imaginable.

You compound the problem by furthering the fraud of religion, the best deception by which to keep you under someone's thumb.

Use a tightly rolled hand towel to put under your palms by the base of your thumb to set your palms in a more comfortable angle.

Leaders of the Kings County Democratic Party — the organization former Assemblyman Vito Lopez kept under his thumb for seven years until deposed by scandal — today lamented the once - powerful politician's death this morning.

Very low carbohydrates are the third reason for muscle loss.To burn fat you have to lower carbohydrates, but lowering them drastically is a mistake.A good rule of a thumb is to keep the protein intake constant and lower the calories by 300 - 500 under maintenance by lowering the carbohydrates.That's cutting about 80g - 120g carbs a day.

Begin the move by positioning hands on the mat directly under chest with fingers spread and thumbs and forefingers touching, making a triangle shape.

The under grip, where the ends of the rope are held by the pinky side of your hands, or the over grip, where the ends of the rope are held between your index finger and thumb.

When a small town is overrun by the gang of outlaws, The Mayor finds that they are under the thumb of the gang's leader, villainous Hoyt Killian.

In part two, which debuted November 23, Reed is victimized by the crooked cops under Williams» thumb, but refuses to knuckle under to mob pressure.

With Bob and Margaret home packing, we cut back to the kennels, which have taken on the aura of Bates Motel run by a short, fat drill sergeant under the thumb of his mysteriously unseen mother.

I'm always thrilled to see him added to a cast, even when the film in question has the unlikely logline «An angel under the thumb of a ruthless gangster is saved by a trumpet player down on his luck.»

As a veteran of both huge production and micro-budget indies, leading man Anton Yelchin — who plays a horror buff who's freed from under the thumb of his sexy but controlling girlfriend (Ashely Greene) when she dies, only to find himself still at her mercy when she's revived as one of the walking dead — was impressed by the blend of Dante's vision and efficiency.

The patriarchal underpinning of this is vividly explored in sci - fi such as The Stepford Wives and Cherry 2000, where we are ushered into worlds where compliant and submissive female robots are idealized by their male creators as the epitome of perfection, and always exist completely under their thumb.

By saving Freddy, the family falls under the thumb of Lady Rah, who begins to involve the Greens in her business deals.

Hold the triangle by one corner, from the other two numbers work out or recall the number hidden under the thumb.

Not only has OCR thumbed its nose at the Supreme Court's interpretation of Title IX, but schools that have instituted new disciplinary procedures under pressure from OCR have been repeatedly castigated by lower - court judges for disregarding procedural fairness.

But those efforts have stalled, especially as all but 51 of the schools handed off so far have been taken over by United Teachers Los Angeles, the AFT affiliate that has long kept the district under its thumb.

Thrilled to be out from under Mercedes thumb for the transmission, Chrysler is building its own licensed versions of the ZF» high - power» 8 - cog shifter used by BMW and Jaguar, among others.

Readers will feel and understand the swirling ethnic tensions that the British purposly stoked in order to keep the country under its thumb even as they are entertained by the account of the downfall of the once wealthy and influential Obeysekere family.

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But the stress of running a business under the thumb of her ex-boyfriend's gangster operation can leave her tense, so she's not ashamed to sample the pleasures offered by her own merchandise from time to time.

you can change pages by using small arrow keys or a circular pad that is perfectly positioned to be under your left thumb while you are holding the device.

I started the engine by hitting a cardboard trigger right under my thumb, and revved up by twisting the right handlebar, as you would an actual motorcycle.

Norway was heavily under the thumb of Denmark until 1814, and conquered by Sweden in 1814 and under Sweden's thumb from 1814 to the late 19th century.

It seems more and more evident that the UN and other international agencies are under someone's thumb and can not be trusted; I don't believe in giving up one iota of sovereignty to these corrupt organizations led by morons!

Yet it continues to have a strictly political life because, just as Lysenkoism served Stalinism by backing up Marx's flawed notions — Global Warming serves today's collectivists by offering them an excuse to seize control, not merely of the means of production, but of each moment, every aspect of the lives of every individual under their thumbs.

Since A's spouse seems to know about the relationship and is unaffected by the information, giving over the thumb drive would not have any of the consequences outlined under the definition of «threat» in the law, such as revealing secrets, or harming a relationship.

Simply wedge your thumb or finger under the top of the screen when closed, lift and, as if by Apple - magic, the laptop opens with no awkward clamshell fumbles.

Q1 also saw the emergence of all - time highs for bitcoin user transaction fees, while the SEC gave the thumbs - down to two proposed bitcoin ETFs (though one of those decisions is currently under review by the regulator).

Finance 101 teaches us a rule of thumb that if prices drop by under 10 % on a given day, mark it as a correction.

The G600 features no less than 20 physical buttons — a panel of 12 on its left side, accessed by your thumb; three built into the «tilt» scroll wheel; two more mini-buttons on the very top; and three elongated keys (standard left and right mouse keys and a third «G - shift» key on the far right, directly under your ring finger).