Little was extracted from the laconic octogenarian other than the impression that his grip of detail in some corners of his media empire is less than vice-like.

从这位八旬老翁简短的回答中几乎得不到任何东西，除了一点：他并非完全了解自己麾下媒体帝国某些角落的所有细节。

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Microsoft is also betting that WP7 will help it preserve its once vice-like grip on the workplace.

微软同时也寄希望于WP7能够帮助维持其在商务领域的统治地位。

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In this, Graham Swift's breakthrough novel of 1983, the flat, liquid landscape of the Fens holds the teenage protagonists in a vice-like grip.

在1983年的这部格雷厄姆·斯威夫特的突破性小说中，Fens平坦清澈的风景紧紧拥抱着少年主人公。

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"We simply can't go on while TB increases its vice-like grip on family farms" argues the president of the NFU Peter Kendall.

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But the only way to move forward is to loosen the vice-like grip these fears have on your life, your soul, your mind, and your body.

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Eventually, a political opposition may arise in Singapore to challenge the vice-like grip that the People's Action Party has had on the country since independence in 1965.

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