Robinson and his generation were in thrall to science and felt that religion must change.
While denying it, the Federal Reserve is still in thrall to the Phillips curve.
The same-sex marriage advocates occasionally demonize their opponents as Christian conservatives in thrall to Pat Robertson.
In his eyes, Mr Schnittke was in thrall to formalism, cosmopolitanism and, worse still, religion.
Just occasionally, an Ayckbourn play may seem schematic, in thrall to a challenge he has set himself.
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There are few companies as large as News Corp. that are so devoted and in thrall to one man.
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Soon the two fall in thrall to an older surfer, Sando, who calls the boys to ever-riskier battles with water.
Throughout her book Ms Ahuja seems to be in a trance herself, in thrall to the glamour of her subjects.
No, these smokers were in thrall to the cigarette advertisements that said light cigarettes were potentially less deadly than other cancer sticks.
That a man of such prolific mental powers should be in thrall to such an adolescent obsession only serves to highlight his humanity.
It also conjures up something of Mr. Buren's own personality, which has never been in thrall to the prevailing winds of artistic conformity.
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There are few companies which, over so long, have so assiduously hired the kind of people who would be in thrall to one man.
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Mr. Ellena's slim book is rich with insights into the mind of a Frenchman and of a creative person in thrall to his craft.
Many Europeans and Americans wonder whether Mr Netanyahu is himself a dyed-in-the-wool rejectionist, or is simply in thrall to the ultra-nationalists in his coalition.
The main opposition Telugu Desam Party lost power in 2004 partly because it was seen as in thrall to the IT industry and foreign investors.
We are in thrall to the narrative of selves that do not really exist in the way we imagine, a fabrication in which most novel-writing connives.
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"We are less concerned with which plays are taught than with the methods of the assessment process that some teachers are in thrall to, " he said.
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Yet in the 17th century the Jewish world from Aleppo to Amsterdam was in thrall to Sabbatai Sevi, a kabbalist who claimed to be the messiah.
For months, the conference has been somnolent as other countries waited for a British election to return (they hoped) a government less in thrall to Eurosceptics.
Despite their illusion of control, college coaches are fully in thrall to high school and club coaches in order to guarantee an open door to top players.
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But Calabria remains firmly in the grip of the 'Ndrangheta, and Naples and its surrounding region of Campania are still in thrall to the Camorra (see article).
Conscious of the French ambivalence toward wealth, and perhaps in thrall to it, he had long presented himself, in spite of his business successes, as a man of nature.
And everything, as I said, is in thrall to the delicate, wilding cursor controller, which in a moving automobile is about as accurate as whizzing out a third-story window.
And being in thrall to the electoral cycle, they will remain vulnerable to well-aimed direct actions, unless they are prepared to adopt a tough stance and stick to it.
The new Thai government that came in last November seems less in thrall to the murky business interests in the army, local government and commerce that have long warped official policy when it reaches the border.
Indeed, it might be argued that a better understanding of humanity can help direct efforts to counteract those propensities viewed as detrimental or undesirable, thus ensuring people are less, rather than more, in thrall to their biology.
He laments that these leaders are still in thrall to financial markets and international business, and he is appalled by what he sees as a collective instinct to try to repair a failing system rather than change it.
Mr Sarkozy sees a chance to show he is a man of action, and he will find it easier to force through domestic reform if he can show he is not in thrall to all that Anglo-Saxon free-market ideology.
Of course, implicit in any mediated dispute between academic scientists and industry is the message that the scientists are free of economic motive and therefore trustworthy, while industry is hopelessly in thrall to profit and should be regarded with suspicion.
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And in case that seems to leave brawny manual labourers still sunk in tears, isn't it these same men who drive the trains, fight the fires and hold society in thrall to their skill at mending motors and fixing the plumbing?
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