His supporters say it is misguided to describe him as an archconservative in thrall to big business. |
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Although unable to hold land a thrall could have possessions, money and time to do work for himself. |
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Apparently in thrall to the resignation deadline set by David Trimble, the British government moved towards reintroducing direct rule. |
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Amid a sea of melismatic showoffs and crass belters, he stood out as an old-fashioned crooner in the thrall of a faraway vision. |
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And funnily enough, the females who go in for this low-grade misandry are usually the ones who are most in thrall to men. |
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Perhaps the liberatory moment comes because you're not in thrall to the art object as such, but rather to the force of creativity tout court. |
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These are serious, thoughtful people who are not in thrall to the restrictions of old ideologies. |
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We live in a world dominated by the private sector and governments in thrall to it. |
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It seemed that I was still in thrall to an ophidiophobia that dated back to my arboreal primate ancestors. |
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Another is to suppose that those who disagree with us are in thrall to some evil power. |
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We want food freed from the grip of science rather than further in thrall to it. |
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The unco guid, who held Scotland in thrall to the ducking-stool in times past, have reinvented themselves. |
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Having said that, he is a thunderously awesome singer and had the engineers at Battery in absolute thrall. |
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It might have been the gig of this year or any other, but not everyone was in thrall to the bands. |
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The thrall muttered an oath under her breath and summoned forth a blast of flame. |
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Andrew Lloyd Webber was the Svengali who held the musical theatre stage in thrall. |
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The show evinced an artist who remained deeply in thrall to modernist principles. |
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Sara was not sanguine about the prospects, for all of Midgarde had been held too long in thrall. |
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To capture the mystery, caprice and force of romantic love, the ancients conjured Cupid, a mischievous immortal in whose thrall we are wholly powerless. |
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They do not want to fall prey to a Europe in thrall to judges and procedures. |
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Mission Song is written from the perspective of Bruno Salvador, a translator used by a shadowy syndicate in thrall to the British government. |
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Hal is indeed shallow, smug, chubby, in love with himself and in thrall to his late clergyman father's last piece of advice that he should chase only the hottest totty. |
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Most natives speak Russian as their first language, and are more in thrall to Russian culture than Ukrainian. |
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Yes, technology had given the US undreamt-of power, he would tell henchmen, but its protagonists now held the nation in dangerous thrall. |
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As soon as his lyrics emerged in public he was taunted for his unmasculine stance in putting himself in thrall to a woman. |
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The younger they are, the easier to brainwash and keep in thrall by sheer terror. |
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Are the Hugo awards in thrall to a politically correct cabal, or simply making an effort to remedy an ingrained injustice? |
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The pub served deep-fried fish in the net they'd pulled it out the tarn with, and I ate it greedily in Blencathra's thrall. |
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I became his noble valet, reduced to even greater humiliations, and even now I am reduced to verbal automatism in thrall to his deity. |
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We've now created a society so in thrall to material success that it feels fair to many that if you've made it you deserve more power, more say. |
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This research seems to suggest that we are programmed to act and that we are all under the thrall of pre-destination. |
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Free the honest people of Campania from the thrall of the Camorra, in which various parties are caught up! |
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Such an environment is clearly not conducive to the development of a private business community that is not in thrall to the government. |
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Many women are virtual slaves to their pimps, snared by false protestations of love, and then held in his thrall by a combination of violence and spurious affection. |
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It's almost with a peculiarly larrikin pride we should wonder that a mere horse race holds our thrall in such complete surrender to its existence. |
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The sheikh is ready to flee if the Lebanese security forces, considered to be in thrall to Hezbollah, make a move to arrest him. |
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The art scene was still firmly in thrall to the cultural boycott, which restricted South African artists from showing overseas, and overseas artists from showing here. |
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Later in the empty chapel of St Martin-in-the-Fields, confused over who I've actually encountered, I weep in thrall but prayer sticks in my throat. |
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It's no longer in thrall to important personages and aristocrats. |
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The outlook of the German bourgeoisie remained in the thrall of superstition for a long time after Thomas Mann had renounced their sham values. |
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This approach is in thrall to liberal dogma and does not meet the expectations of users, or those of employees, since its principal effect is to harm quality, security and employment. |
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Some leaders' anti-gay language has a conspiratorial tone that feels borrowed from the anti-Semitic diatribes of another time: gay people are portrayed as in thrall to alien values and particularly dangerous to children. |
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Some forces also are unhappy with an economic structure seen as increasingly in thrall to powerful state-linked industries, and as suppressing competition and leading to widespread inequality, analysts say. |
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They are an elusive bunch, in motion or in the thrall of another time. |
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At that time much of the world was still in the thrall of colonialism. |
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Classical and familiar references are in thrall to modernity. The boundaries between fancies and plains, sustainability and technology, authenticity and eccentricity, are playfully and wittily blurred. |
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She seemed in thrall to the malevolently change-resistant educational establishment, gullibly accepting whatever advice it and her officials gave her. |
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Could the great Beethoven, the musical genius who held Vienna in thrall through his virtuosic piano playing, his flamboyant conducting and his boldly modern music, be the subject of some cruel cosmic joke? |
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The next arena is a foggy green-hued bone yard seething with thrall and acolytes: on the second wave the game adds a Critical Objective which involves destroying one or two large mines before they detonate and kill you all. |
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Saved from the sands in extremis, he returned to France still in thrall to this landscape and promising himself he would share his fascination with as many people as possible. |
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As for the other, she'll do anything she can to humiliate her spinster daughter before others if she thinks it will hold the young'un in her thrall. |
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The New York City five-piece were so in thrall to that other NY fivesome it felt more like a tribute band than anything else. |
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Hence the common' foreign policy of interventionism, with its aggressive approach, in thrall to the ambitions and interests of the large economic and financial groups of the major powers, headed by Germany. |
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A wife thats more then faire is like a stale, Or chanting whistle which brings birds to thrall. |
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Thralls and slaves legally commanded no weregild, but it was commonplace to make a nominal payment in the case of a thrall and the value of the slave in such a case. |
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A net on the undersoil, which lies passive beneath their thrall. |
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The artist seems in thrall to a tabloid persona that is not the real Amy. |
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