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The planet remains beset with enough dictators to darken the days of millions under their thumb.
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That, or they are arrogant enough to think that they have Kim under their thumb.
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That would be a blow to the regional governors, as it would create larger regional companies too big to remain under their thumb.
ECONOMIST: Russian electricity
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At companies owned by private equity, the board and the shareholders are one and the same: their directors are hardly under the thumb of managers.
ECONOMIST: Executive pay
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Investors who aren't under Uncle Sam's thumb can move their money elsewhere, bidding up prices and driving down yields on other fixed-income assets in the U.S. and offshore.
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These key post-Cold War allies also saw it as a tangible expression of the U.S. commitment to their security in the face of assiduous Russian efforts to reassert a sphere of influence that would turn the clock back, reestablishing in some form their unhappy status under the Kremlin's thumb.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: 'Reset' translates as 'capitulation'
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The number of private patients they can take will be capped, which will leave them financially under the government's thumb, and will limit their exposure to competitive pressures from insurance companies.
ECONOMIST: National Health Service
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But their complaint was against bourgeois flabbiness, not against business itself or keeping workers under the thumb.
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As things stand, it says, many gay clergy prefer to work as hospital chaplains, where their employer is the impeccably correct National Health Service, rather than in dioceses where they could be under the thumb of old-fashioned bishops.
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