Sentences with phrase «under its thumb even»

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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Even now he remains under Eritrea's thumb.

They feel that since we are God's creatures, He can do with us whatever He wants, even if it means squashing us all like bugs under His divine thumb.

The Internet exposes youth to a lot of dangers — and we're not talking about eye strain and sore thumbs here — even though they are secure under our roofs or safe in our line of sight.

Seriously, wear her under anything, and she even has little holes for your thumbs, that I sometimes show off.

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.»

Even so, once you get used to the controller under your thumbs it gets easier to access all the various commands.

Judy leans on Nick — whom she has under her thumb because she has enough evidence to have him locked up — to guide her through the big city, even though Nick tends to cause more problems than he solves.

These fall under your thumb, no matter which hand you hold it in, and mean you can navigate through books without even thinking.

Certainly words like this will cause even the most ruthless debt collectors to curl under their desk, shove a thumb in their mouth and cry for their mommies.

Chris Sanderson reviews Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor # 13... Earth is under attack from an ancient species who yoked suns and spanned galaxies before we'd even evolved opposable thumbs.