Sentences with phrase «whip hand»

The phrase "whip hand" refers to having control or power over a situation or someone else. Full definition
Forfeit, in 1968, won the Edgar Allan Poe Award, and Whip Hand in 1979 the Golden Dagger Award of the Crime Writers Association.
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Initiate the movement by rapidly whipping your hands to shoulder level as quickly as you can followed by whipping the rope down as fast as you can.
Then, make the final micro-turn and whip your hand downwards in a smooth curve, initially nearly vertically downwards and then once clear bring it out horizontal and then in an upwardish curve while decelerating as hard as possible without allowing oil to be accelerated up the bolt.
Their ideological opponents hold the whip hand when it comes to defining public perceptions.
«San Francisco values,» once something of a national joke, drive contemporary California politics with a whip hand.
But when even the biggest brands in the business are getting dictated to, there can be little doubt who holds the whip hand.
When he whipped his hand under the ball, he generate enough backspin for it to bounce easily back to him.
Coutinho was not at the end of his contract and Liverpool had the whip hand.
The sad truth is though that players have the whip hand.
As he demands that the Health Secretary Andrew Lansley's plans be watered down, he holds the whip hand — literally.
As a class system in which the the owners of capital have the whip hand, running capitalism against capital is like using a whisk to mix cement.
Mr Cameron is calling the shots and holds the whip hand — for now, at least.
Faso, who seems to have had the whip hand in negotiating the terms of engagement, apparently had little choice in agreeing to the even split, if only to appear as a paragon of fairness.
Mike Dukakis is riding the whip hand on these candidates to keep them from going negative (maybe he's threatening to assault their campaign offices in his tank if they do?).
She's concerned that'd mean Ukip would have a «whip hand» in the negotiations, which isn't something anyone voted for on Thursday.
The fungus has the whip hand because it breeds far faster.
This failure fueled an over-correction: While in the past reformers tried to change culture without changing policy, now they are trying to change policy without changing culture... [Resistance and foot dragging] is taken as evidence that they need to wield the whip hand ever more firmly.
Another reason why mLearning has a whip hand is that it is banishing the barriers set by national boundaries as well.
After the major publishers lost the collusion case, Amazon had the whip hand in the negotiations.
* High - Brow, Low - Brow, Middle - Brow: There Are Three Basic Categories of a New U.S. Social Structure, and the High - Brows Have the Whip Hand, April 11, 1949, p. 99
Law firm employers have held the whip hand for so long that we've come to think it's just the natural order of things.
My big concern — and I'd have to read the rest of your thesis, I imagine, to see what your thoughts on it are — is that commercial publishers will render legal information difficult to get access to unless the government retains a whip hand.
In December 2010, the justice minister Jonathan Djanogly, at odds with his own professional background as a solicitor, claimed with apparent approval that the ProcureCo model would for the first time give barristers «the whip hand» over solicitors.
They identify a range of options and with them create a checklist for law firm leaders to navigate a much - changed future in which clients have the whip hand, and technology is used to full its potential.
It is the latter who get the whip hand in the next stage of the process — the development of V3.0.
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