Sentences with phrase «under the thumb of»

Pat Falotico, CEO of the Robert K Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership, and Cheryl Bachelder, CEO of Popeyes ® Louisiana Kitchen Inc., were asked the question: «Is it possible to be an effective servant leader under the thumb of oppressive, command - and - control leaders?

Many politicians on both sides of the Atlantic, Jonas argued, were really under the thumb of those large companies.

It can't possibly get worse that what the western world lived under when it was under the thumb of the one and only, most holy Catholic church for 1500 years.

And what exactly happens when the tables are turned and as a Christian you find yourself under the thumb of an Islamist politician who insists that women not be allowed to walk in public between 9AM and 6PM.

The marginalized spend their lives living under the thumb of the rules of the privileged.

I'm also free from living under the thumb of someone eles's beliefs.

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.

But it was just the opposite; grant maintained schools had far more autonomy than schools under the thumb of the local education authority.

Small «g» will put you right under the thumb of the Joneses.

Taking economic development from under the thumb of the executive and shifting some oversight authority to the legislature strikes me as an exercise in futility.

Margulies told me that a man might fare best, especially someone who doesn't feed residents» fears that they're «under the thumb of the city.»

And though the body does not dole out the discretionary funding Ms. Quinn brandished to reward allies and punish opponents, the Assembly functions entirely under the thumb of Mr. Silver.

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.

Buckley is on phosphorescent form as flame - haired islander Moll, a twentysomething misfit who is still firmly under the thumb of her domineering mother.

She still lives at home (on Jersey, one of the Channel Islands off the British coast), under the thumb of her condescending control freak of a mother, Hilary (Geraldine James), who offers only a calm rationalization when Moll's sister Polly (Shannon Tarbet) hijacks Moll's birthday party at the film's beginning.

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.

Moselle began to film the Angulos, using their narration to shape the resulting footage into the story of six bright young men yearning to breathe free, gradually wriggling out from under the thumb of an oppressive patriarch.

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.

Fast - forward a dozen years and we find Peter and his fellow foundlings sharing the misfortune of being under the thumb of a sadistic mother superior (Kathy Burke).

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.

But the Count failed to count on the love relationship that develops between the rich young woman, dressed like a geisha and fated to marry the Uncle when she comes of age, and the scammer who is under the thumb of the sharply dressed count.

This movie's community of fear is no longer a bandit - plagued Mexican village but an American mining town under the thumb of land - grabbing, violent industrialist Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard).

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

The town of Black Creek, named for the oil that contaminates the water supply, has made Mikkelsen and his brother welcome, but the men who supposedly run it are under the thumb of a ruthless villain named Delarue (Morgan).

Kate Winslet perhaps comes the closest to being a lock, what with her typically effortless grace and charm lending her Joanna Hoffman, marketing executive under the thumb of one Steve Jobs, a power that rivaled that of Michael Fassbender's eminently watchable and simultaneously loathsome Apple co-founder.

You're still exploring a troubled place - a fictional American midwestern rural community under the thumb of a doomsday cult called Eden's Gate - and working with the locals to fight back and build a resistance in Far Cry 5.

Less antiseptic than the very broad good vs. evil, dark vs. light fantasy - based conflicts of the series, the world of Rogue One is far more complicated, showing us a more realized version of a universe under the thumb of an evil dictatorship and the moral compromises soldiers living and fighting in a war zones might have to make.

With the steady rise of economic depression across the globe, a small town has found itself under the thumb of a feared bully (Matt Smith).

He's under the thumb of an abusive mother, who isn't afraid to pick at his wounds.

The movie begins in a post-apocalyptic 2029, when Los Angeles has been largely reduced to rubble and is under the thumb of all - powerful ruling machines.

A la Baby Driver, Carter & June revolves around a waitress and mobster under the thumb of a Machiavellian villain.

Camino (Unrated) Action adventure, set in the jungles of Colombia in 1985, about a war photographer (Zoe Bell) who embeds with a group of missionaries under the thumb of a charismatic guerilla leader (Nacho Vigalondo).

She is a reluctant revolutionary, much more concerned with the fate of Peeta Mallark (Josh Hutcherson), confined to the captial and under the thumb of Snow.

It's a vicious, surreal little fable about a family whose young - adult children live under the thumb of their incestuous, megalomaniacal patriarch.

We have Mackenzie Foy as the voice of an unnamed Little Girl, a chip - toothed schoolgirl under the thumb of a well - meaning but overbearing single mother (Rachel McAdams).

Director: Ron Howard Cast: Alden Enrenreich, Joonas Suotamo, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover, Thandie Newton, Phoebe Waller - Bridge, Jon Favreau Plot: Han is a young thief under the thumb of a local gangster.

Early on, Han's stealing speeders on the junk planet Correlia, alongside girlfriend Qi «ra (Emilia Clarke), with hopes to get out from under the thumb of a worm leader named Lady Proxima.

Second, while the public sphere appeals to many in schooling, keep in mind that the more «public» the oversight, the more likely it is that schools and teachers will be very much under the thumb of elected officials and voters.

The plaintiffs themselves repeatedly admit that neither the donors, nor the private schools, nor the scholarship granting non-profits, nor the low - income families themselves are under the thumb of state officials.

NAGB has autonomy regarding the conduct and presentation of NAEP, but proposed changes would give most of that power to NCES, which would itself be under the thumb of IES.

How diligent will teachers be in implementing their school's anti-bullying strategies while under the thumb of a bullying principal?

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

C.J. Sansom rewrites history in a thrilling novel that dares to imagine Britain under the thumb of Nazi Germany.

«We have suffered under the thumbs of a cartel that controls print distribution and refuses -LSB-...]

It'd be a way for them to put rogue Amazon under the thumb of law and they, more than anyone else, have the means to take advantage of that sales data.

Limeros is the northern kingdom, which is turning slowly to ice and is under the thumb of a cruel and sadistic king.

And though a stroke of luck prevents him from becoming yet another casualty of the Great Terror, for decades to come he will be held fast under the thumb of despotism: made to represent Soviet values at a cultural conference in New York City, forced into joining the Party and compelled, constantly, to weigh appeasing those in power against the integrity of his music.

Is anybody yet unconvinced that we need an open ebook format and device that is not under the thumb of one monopolist?