He said pointedly this week that he wanted the oligarchs cut down to size.
In short, Jordan, bereft of its famous ruler, will be cut down to size.
It was an appropriate epitaph for Leicester's Treble hopes, cut down to size by those swarming Wasps.
But the ratio says that if there is something that needs to be cut down to size, it's government.
In real terms, spending would continue to grow, but at least the leviathan would start to be cut down to size.
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Apart from having to take on al-Qaeda and its allies, Mr Hadi has been engaged in a no less testing battle to cut down to size the remnants of Mr Saleh's power circle.
David Cameron has created more than a hundred peers since the general election and unless the House of Lords really is cut down to size under the coalition government there will be more politicians, not fewer.
Brazil is using monetary policy as a means to cut inflation down to size.
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Some Fatah officials see the next few years as their best chance to cut Hamas down to size.
They are simply bitter that an upstart politician from a tiny party has deprived them of the presidency, and are determined to cut him down to size.
The American people in their wisdom, reelected Obama despite the fact that he wants to cut America down to size, strangle the economy in regulations and unaffordable welfare handouts and then gut its military.
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Against this background, Mr Putin's promise, when he became president in 2000, to cut the oligarchs down to size was justified and welcome.
Some monarchs must have wondered if they were giving away too much power with their charters, and attempted to cut the companies down to size.
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The opposition says the government wants to cut the judiciary down to size for hampering the passage of bills, including one that centralises development funds.
But guess what: Mr Berlusconi has scuppered an 18-month-long attempt at constitutional reform, largely because he was thwarted in his desire to cut the magistracy down to size.
The aftermath of the foreign-ministry bombing was a rare chance to cut Mr Maliki down to size, leaving the former bead-seller from the Damascus souk with no other choice but to strike out on his own.
Two days after passing the bipartisan budget Mr Christie ordered the state legislature back to Trenton, the state capital, for a special session over the July 4th holiday weekend to cut property taxes down to size.
That explains recent speculation about a multi-coloured rainbow alliance voting with David Cameron and company to cut the Commons down to size - an alliance that would probably have to include unionists, nationalists, independents and a Green.
He failed to reform the judiciary, or to cut the armed forces down to size.
The moments of savagery seem to cut their own perpetrator down to size.
But so is Peru's need to cut an overmighty army down to size.
How many national politicians will readily hand over to some international body the chance to cut the local Rockefeller down to size?
Hipsters buying their clothes in thrift shops and appearing to be happier than achievers are subversive to both the 1% and those of the 99% who think it is important to cut the 1% down to size.
At least in the initial days after his arrival, he appeared to pose the most serious threat to the system since the "memo-gate" affair - a dubious scandal built around a controversial Pakistani memo that allegedly requested American intervention to cut the Pakistani military down to size.
If he is not, Mr Blair must play King Hal, put aside youthful friendship, and cut his chum down to size.
That is precisely the kind of hard constraint Congress needs imposed on it otherwise it will never cut federal spending down to size.
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