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It was brought to heel in a bloody civil war.
Now, Cosima and Alison (Maslany), and their allies have been brought to heel.
The second: The tyrants causing the mayhem were brought to heel, despite Russia's protestations.
And if that means kidnapping Lena until Anna can be brought to heel — why not?
For some, they're looked on as an agency that needs to be brought to heel.
This culture of fear that's grown up around the Internet needs to be brought to heel.
The president still insists that Mexico will be brought to heel and pay for the wall.
It's also a robust and helpful itemization of the ways Facebook could be brought to heel.
Russell Simmons is the latest powerful man to be brought to heel under allegations of sexual assault.
Basically, these folks say, Iran must be completely brought to heel, effectively forced to be a lapdog.
With winter arriving next month in South America, the outbreak will most likely be brought to heel.
In his view, Vassilev is being railroaded by a corrupt system that should be brought to heel.
That has electrified his Hindu-nationalist supporters, who want Kashmir, India's only Muslim-majority state, brought to heel.
Other magazines and newspapers brought to heel by officialdom have either closed down or survived as tepid replicas.
But until America's mortgage monster is brought to heel, the task of making finance safer will remain only half-done.
China and some of its Asian neighbors have shown that with furious efforts, the contagion can be brought to heel.
If past is prologue, there will come a day when law enforcement actually oversteps and must be brought to heel.
In her 1996 speech, Clinton referred to some young offenders as "super predators" who "must be brought to heel" by law enforcement.
There's the saber-rattling by nuclear-armed North Korea, a Chinese ally that the Trump administration believes should be brought to heel.
Right-wing ideologues in the Trump administration seem to consider SNAP a wasteful welfare program that needs to be brought to heel.
Does it make sense to organize our health-care system around private insurers brought to heel by regulations and an individual mandate?
And everyone assumed that the Freedom Caucus would be brought to heel by a president who had won many of their districts overwhelmingly.
In fact, it will only make you a party to Xi's system of authoritarianism— another example of the West being brought to heel.
This article originally appeared on VICE UK. It was the Stalingrad of Big Tobacco: The moment a previously indestructible adversary was brought to heel.
While Apple appealed that decision, Comey testified to Congress in March 2016 that the FBI was effectively helpless unless Apple was brought to heel.
In the first, the FBI is brought to heel, and Rosenstein and other senior FBI executives are fired and replaced with more Trump-friendly appointees.
Following the Church Committee investigations, it was widely believed that the FBI had been brought to heel by superior power emanating from the U.S. Congress.
The parable of Mr Tsipras's eventual capitulation—his radical government brought to heel by capital markets and an intransigent European Union—is seeping into the left's consciousness.
He took for granted a world in which capital was brought to heel and trapped within national borders, so that egalitarian redistribution would not stir capital flight.
In the 80's and 90s', it focused on drugs, and on the "super predators" that needed to be "brought to heel" according to Democrat, Hillary Clinton.
Or is it victory over the natural world—a malevolent force, screaming with overwhelming and collective murder, just begging to be brought to heel by mankind—that Boris craves?
Instead, the steel barons were brought to heel — something more easily done by a vast authoritarian bureaucracy than a lone strongman who needs to worry about his inner circle.
Ultimately, the too-big-to-fail banks and their political allies must be brought to heel, forcing Wall Street to work on behalf of Main Street, not vice-versa.
It brought to heel Victor Bout, an arms dealer; BDA, a bank in Macau that traded with North Korea; and Nauru, a Pacific island with a sideline in exotic finance.
Last week the National Basketball Association was brought to heel by China over a tweet by Daryl Morey, the general manager of the Houston Rockets, supporting democracy protestors in Hong Kong.
" John F. Harris and Matthew Nussbaum of Politico agreed, writing that the speech showed what would happen if "Trump somehow brought to heel the impulsiveness and improvisation that define his politics.
Mr. Kucuk said it would not be necessary for Turkey's remaining big newspapers to be shut down, as so many other outlets have been, because they had been brought to heel.
He is clearly aiming at the heart of Silicon Valley and is most definitely influencing Mr. Trump and those in power with the idea that it needs to be brought to heel.
For critical observers of Uber like Edelman, this whole affair seems to be just another example of Uber's strategy of violating the rules until it is brought to heel with tons of pressure.
And Congress announced Monday that the House Judiciary Committee would begin an investigation into whether tech giants including Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple need to be brought to heel by anti-trust law.
Pelosi didn't want to launch an impeachment inquiry, but the pressure got too hot and so her position collapsed, one of the most powerful people in Washington brought to heel by grassroots demands.
At the same time, fingers crossed, the new Middle East alliance of Israel, Saudi Arabia and the US may see Islamist extremism pushed back and (it would be nice) Iran brought to heel.
Chechnya was brought to heel by Russia after two wars against pro-independence rebels there in the 1990s which killed tens of thousands of people and reduced the region's towns and cities to rubble.
Mr. Yin, now 80, said his report was ignored, and he described the brutality he uncovered in a memoir published in 2012, in a Chinese magazine later brought to heel by Communist Party officials.
Take the 1973 film "A Touch of Class," which won her an Oscar, a romantic comedy in the Hepburn-Tracy mode, in which Jackson plays a castrating career woman who must be brought to heel.
That one-tenth of 1 percent of relatively free Chinese would have to be brought to heel, and the elimination of those rare and special freedoms in any part of China could not wait until 2047.
The proceedings before the judge in Daniels' case and the judge in Cohen's case are a heartening reminder that even the President can be brought to heel by a single federal judge, if the law so dictates.
Political offenses are, in theory, excluded from the list, but nobody is fooled: Contriving criminal charges against political opponents is child's play for Beijing, which can then make its victims disappear indefinitely until they are brought to heel.
As toxic algae blooms spread in the ocean, for example, they are brought to heel by a virus that attacks the algae and causes it to explode and die, ending the outbreak in as little as a day.
He's terribly broken from being abandoned by his parents, he was raised by strict Catholic nuns and priests, and now he's taking everything out on Catholics everywhere by treating them like disobedient children who must be brought to heel.
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's prime minister said he had no regard for Europe's "red line" on press freedom on Tuesday and warned Ankara would not be brought to heel with threats, rejecting criticism of the detention of senior journalists at an opposition newspaper.
King Salman, Trump and the Crown Prince will know exactly what Erdogan intends to do next: drip incriminating information until he gets what he wants -- the trial of 18 senior Saudis on his turf, bin Salman brought to heel and who knows what else from President Trump.
We need prosecutors willing to bring big cases with the courage of trustbusters like Theodore Roosevelt, who brought to heel the empires of J.P. Morgan and John D. Rockefeller, and with the economic sophistication of the men and women who challenged AT&T and Microsoft in the 1980s and 1990s.
In our recent paper, The Last Straw: Responding to Russia's Anti-Western Aggression, Third Way proposes two main avenues that lawmakers can take to march against Moscow's meddling: First, just as Capone was brought to heel by criminal investigations, we recommend undermining Russian influence through rigorous investigations into Putin's election interference and its possible ties to the Trump campaign.
Though Mr. Bharara was just barely in high school during the go-go years of Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky, his own tenure as a United States attorney from 2009 to 2017, when he brought to heel a new generation of Wall Street miscreants, most notably Steven Cohen, lent a certain familiarity to the scenes unfolding in front of at Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont Theater.
A system like ours—in which hospitals set their prices based on what they can get away with rather than what medical care actually costs; in which insurance will pay up on these inflated costs because they can pass the pain onto consumers via premiums; in which doctors are paid off by private equity ghouls; in which the individual patient is financially liable for their bad luck to get sick if the hospital and insurance can't agree on a deal, or if they don't have insurance—is not one that can be easily brought to heel.
A wild, wealthy woman (Joy) is brought to heel by a sermonizing district attorney after she accidentally hits and kills a motorcycle cop.
The Saxons were once again brought to heel, though Widukind fled to the Danes. Charlemagne built a new camp at Karlstadt. In 777, he called a national diet at Paderborn to integrate Saxony fully into the Frankish kingdom. Many Saxons were baptised.
One of Honorius's first tasks in southern Italy was to deal with the barons in the Campania who were molesting farmers and travellers at will with their armed bands.Mann, pg. 246 In 1125, papal force brought to heel the lords of Ceccano. Papal armies took possession of various towns, including Maenza, Roccasecca and Trevi nel Lazio.
Some suggested that it was revenge for Nixon's choosing Gray over Felt to replace Hoover as FBI Director. Others suggest Felt acted out of institutional loyalty to the FBI. Political scientist George Friedman argued: > The Washington Post created a morality play about an out-of-control > government brought to heel by two young, enterprising journalists and a > courageous newspaper. That simply wasn't what happened.
On a wider scale, the Fascist economic policy pushed the country towards the corporative state, an effort that lasted well into the war. The idea was to create a national community where the interests of all parts of the economy were integrated into a class-transcending unity. Some see the move to corporatism in two phases. First, the workers were brought to heel over 1925–1927.
Print from Famiano Strada Meanwhile, the "Calvinist republic" of Antwerp was being brought to heel by Parma. He had cut its supply-line from the north by placing a pontoon bridge across the Scheldt river downstream from the city. The usual starvation tactic now began to take hold on the city of 80,000. Morale declined, also because one of the last Brabant holdouts, Brussels, surrendered in March 1585.
In 737, Charles Martel headed down the Rhône Valley after subduing Burgundy. He attacked Avignon and Arles, garrisoned by the Umayyads, and came back in 739 to capture for a second time Avignon and chase the duke Maurontus to his stronghold of Marseille. The city was brought to heel and the duke had to flee to an island. The region was thereafter under the rule of Carolingian kings, descended from Charles Martel, and then was part of the empire of Charlemagne (742–814).
Burchard was an intimate of Otto and his queen, Adelaide of Italy. He was often at the royal court and he accompanied Otto on his campaign against the Magyars and was present at the great Battle of the Lechfeld on 10 August 955. In 965, he led a third campaign against Berengar II in Italy. At the Battle of the Po on 25 June, Burchard defeated Berengar's son, Adalbert, and restored Italy to Ottonian control, even the south Italian principalities were brought to heel by 972.
Deria's reign saw a some Instability and revolts that were swiftly contained. Swayne recounts and incident where a portion of the Eidagale broke away, but were quickly brought to heel. > The late Assistant Resident at Berbera had a case brought before him in > which a part of the Eidegalla tribe had thrown off allegiance to Sultan > Deria, and when his intervention was successful, one of the terms proposed > by the delinquents themselves was that they would diballtig before him as a > recognition of their return to his control.
According to the Overseas Development Institute, the state-led nature of humanitarian aid in today's China traces back to these traditional beliefs.Krebs, Hanna B. "Responsibility, legitimacy, morality: Chinese humanitarianism in historical perspective", Overseas Development Institute, September 2014 Chinese believed that natural disasters would foretell the end of a dynasty or the death of a great leader. This concept of cosmic linkage between natural disasters and human conduct was radically rejected at the height of Maoist years when nature was represented as ‘an enemy to be overcome, an adversary to be brought to heel’.
There, Ljudevit, duke of Pannonia, was harassing the border at the Drava and Sava rivers. The margrave of Friuli, Cadolah, was sent out against him, but he died on campaign and, in 820, his margravate was invaded by Slovenes. In 821, an alliance was made with Borna, duke of the Dalmatia, and Liudewit was brought to heel. In 824 several Slav tribes in the north-western parts of Bulgaria acknowledged Louis's suzerainty and after he was reluctant to settle the matter peacefully with the Bulgarian ruler Omurtag, in 827 the Bulgarians attacked the Franks in Pannonia and regained their lands.
The movement held an ambiguous relationship with Nazism from the 1920s to the early 1930s which led scholars to describe the Conservative Revolution as a "German pre-fascism", or as a "non-Nazi fascism". Although they share common roots in 19th-century anti-Enlightenment ideologies, the disparate movement cannot be easily confused with Nazism. Conservative Revolutionaries were not necessarily racialist as the movement cannot be reduced to its Völkisch component. If they participated in preparing the German society to the rule of the Nazis with their antidemocratic and organicist theories, and did not really oppose their rise to power, the Conservative Revolution was brought to heel like the rest of the society when Adolf Hitler took power in 1933.
However, the Basques' relish was short-lived since they were brought to heel by Dagobert (Clichy, 636).Collins, R. (1990) By 626, it is certain that the duchy extended up to the Pyrenees and Vasconia had replaced Novempopulania as a preferred name for the geographical area between the Pyrenees and the Garonne. In 643, there was another rebellion to the north of the Pyrenees and in 642 and 654 they battled against the Visigoths to the south, in Saragossa.Collins, R. (1990) From 589 to 684, the Bishop of Pamplona was absent from the Visigothic Councils of Toledo, which is interpreted by some as the result of this city being under Basque or Frankish control.
However, while on Monkey Island, Guybrush discovers that resident castaway Herman Toothrot is actually Elaine's presumed dead grandfather Horatio Marley; the two escape through the use of a large robot monkey and disable the apparatus needed to project the Ultimate Insult across the whole Caribbean. LeChuck loses patience and uses his voodoo powers to inhabit a giant statue of himself he has had built on the island, with the intent of using the statue to personally crush all resistance to his rise to power, but is brought to heel when Mandrill exposes him to the Ultimate Insult. Guybrush's monkey robot and LeChuck's statue engage in Monkey Kombat. Eventually, LeChuck grows exasperated and crushes Mandrill and the Ultimate Insult, the side effect of which destroys his statue.
La capricciosa corretta (The capricious woman reformed) is a comic opera (commedia per musica) in two acts composed by Vicente Martín y Soler. The libretto is by Lorenzo Da Ponte and has a plot which has a slight similarity to William Shakespeare's play The Taming of the Shrew, but is not based on it. The story takes place over a 24-hour period and examines the marriage of an older man to his vain and capricious second wife whose antics make her husband, stepchildren, and servants miserable until she is finally brought to heel through the machinations of her husband's major domo. The opera premiered under the title La scuola dei maritati (The school for spouses) at the King's Theatre in London on 27 January 1795 to considerable success.
Before the Prussians and their neighbors to the west, the Pomeranians, were finally brought to heel, Polish rulers and the Duchy of Masovia, both by then Christianised peoples, would be continually frustrated in their attempts at northern expansion. Aside from minor border raids, major campaigns against the Prussians would be launched in 1219, 1220, and 1222. After a particularly sound defeat by Prussian forces in 1223, Polish forces in Chełmno, the seat of Christian of Oliva and the Duchy of Masovia, were forced onto the defensive. In 1226 Duke Konrad I of Masovia summoned the Teutonic Knights for assistance; by 1230 they had secured Chełmno (Culm) and begun claiming conquered territories for themselves under the authority of the Holy Roman Empire, although these claims were rejected by the Poles, whose ambition had been to conquer Prussia all along.
He defended Leonardo Boff when that theologian was brought to heel by Joseph Ratzinger in the 1980s, and continued his strong social activism, being jailed briefly in 1993 as a result of participating in a protest against government policy. With the crackdown on dissent in the John Paul II papacy, especially after Cardinal Ratzinger (later Pope Benedict XVI) became prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in 1981, Lorscheider found himself opposing brother cardinals whom he had been very firmly associated with during the Montini papacy. During his Church career, he developed his outspoken stance on the appalling poverty that blighted the region. He believed that the Church was obliged to take a firm stand against this poverty and his hard-working and personable character allowed him to develop links with the poor that he observed to be lacking in previous generations of priests.
Due to the strategic importance of both Limoges and the nearby dependent town of Aixe, he was protected as a ward of King Henry II. He ruled from 1148 to approximately 1184, when outlawed and exiled to France, and was succeeded by his son Guy. Aimar is most famously known for being a fulcrum of insurrection against his liege, Richard the Lionheart, who was a noble frenchman from Anjou and rightful Duke of Aquitaine after his mother Eleanor. Aimar, like many of the fractious Aquitanian nobles, participated in sporadic rebellions against ducal authority throughout his adult life, often co-operating with Duke Richard's brothers, the Count of Angoulême and the house of Lusignan, though he was generally brought to heel. It was while suppressing one of the frequent revolts in Aquitaine that Richard's older brother Henry The Young King died, while being supported by his brother Geoffrey of Brittany, Aimar of Limoges and the Lusignan brothers.

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