Remember, everyone in this town is under the thumb of George Hodel.
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Yet the courts are still under the thumb of the Communist Party.
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Girl in the attic, electricity gotten under the thumb, garroted by its very cables.
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Like many companies under the thumb of Big Tech, Sonos groused privately for years.
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Yes. Compare it to parts of Syria and Iraq currently under the thumb of ISIS.
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I lived under the thumb of someone like this and chose to go into debt.
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"The Favourite" depicts two women competing for political clout under the thumb of Queen Anne.
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Critics of the Moscow Patriarchate say it is under the thumb of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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When Alexander was three, his family fled Ukraine, then under the thumb of the Soviet Union, with almost nothing.
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Many politicians on both sides of the Atlantic, Jonas argued, were really under the thumb of those large companies.
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Venezuela's supreme court, the judiciary and the armed forces are all to varying degrees under the thumb of the president.
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Tau finds that the post-apartheid rebels have become politicians, police and pawns under the thumb of a homegrown opportunist.
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The mainstream press, which has been increasingly under the thumb of the government, did not focus on the girl's tears.
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Is he beholden to Russian oligarchs and banks who are under the thumb of the Kremlin and Russian security services?
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Although the bank wants to improve its financial results, its priority is getting out from under the thumb of regulators.
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To begin with, the United States is no longer under the thumb of other oil and natural gas producing countries.
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No wonder swamp dwellers of both parties have tried to put the O.C.E. more completely under the thumb of Congress.
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It was all a bad dream, except for the part about being under the thumb of a horde of vicious killers.
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That said, the competition between the two is great for consumers who have long been under the thumb of big cable.
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He himself was once a firebrand, championing the cause of democracy when Hungary was under the thumb of the Soviet Union.
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Qatar has been able to get out from under the thumb of Saudi Arabia due to its natural gas-based independence.
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I'm not saying immediately start legislation to put central banks under the thumb of governments, because we know the danger of that.
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It would never happen because we are living under the thumb of a cruel god who denies us good things in life.
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There are three customizable buttons that will fall under the thumb, but far enough away that you won't hit them by accident.
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But her speech ignores that a central impetus behind the Brexit vote was getting out from under the thumb of European bureaucracy.
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The Republican Party is under the thumb of a small group of plutocrats endangering our economic future to feed their insatiable greed.
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This paragraph in particular rings true to me: Like many companies under the thumb of Big Tech, Sonos groused privately for years.
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They talked about Mondragón, the worker-owned conglomerate co-op in the Basque Country that arose under the thumb of the Franco dictatorship.
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I feel that as long as singers are constantly under the thumb of a conductor, they will not use their full musical abilities.
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Since the UAE's antitrust watchdogs are under the thumb of the governments that own the airlines, they will get no say in the matter.
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For Thomas Bergstrom, a former US attorney, it seems that "all US attorneys are going to be under the thumb of the attorney-general".
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"Having worked in a White House that was under the thumb of the special counsel for several years, they have no idea," Stephanopoulos said.
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"The interim final rule finally provides relief to those who have been under the thumb of the federal government," one HHS official told reporters.
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Washington says China's construction and fortification of man-made islands puts trillions of dollars of trade, travel and communications under the thumb of Beijing.
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"Real-estate developers like Agalarov are under the thumb of the government, and they are expected to do as they are told," Aslund said.
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The official church in China is controlled by the so-called patriotic association and the bishops' conference, both under the thumb of the party.
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The Australian news media has given the episodes intensive, often negative coverage, portraying the students as brainwashed or under the thumb of government agents.
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Top priority: Scharf has made clear that getting the bank out from under the thumb of regulators is essential to getting back on track.
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It's about a young girl who lives under the thumb of an oppressive order that has reasons to want to deny the use of magic.
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With dozens of other academics, Mr Ji was kept under the thumb of a clique of Red Guards who had been his students and colleagues.
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A young woman who was tired of living under the thumb of the government, she risked her life by openly rebelling against Egypt's conservative mores.
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Another round of recriminations about how Washington is under the thumb of the powerful gun lobby and won't do anything to enact "commonsense" gun regulation.
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In Wolfe, he was up against someone as superb at his job as Bernstein was at his — one maestro trapped under the thumb of another.
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But until then, farmers and property owners may find themselves under the thumb of a civil works agency that behaves more like an occupying power.
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Still, he considers himself far luckier than the Turks who find themselves under the thumb of Mr. Erdogan and swept up by the political upheaval.
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But the freeze was the result of a shuffle-up in the Chinese government that placed media agencies directly under the thumb of the propaganda ministry.
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Akamai says more than 45,000 devices are already under the thumb of the massive network — potentially amounting to more than a million computers waiting for commands.
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They regard the mountains along the Lebanese border as a strategic base and also consider Lebanon to be under the thumb of Assad's ally, Shi'ite Hezbollah.
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The nominal "opposition" parties that are gaining ground—the Communists, the Liberal Democratic Party and A Just Russia—are largely under the thumb of the Kremlin.
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You may not want to live under the thumb of an absolute monarch, but my goodness, do you ever want to step into the TV sometimes.
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After the death of Russo, Rachel, a prostitute who was hired by Doug Stamper to help blackmail Russo, had been living under the thumb of Stamper.
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That task is compounded when your country has been under the thumb of autocratic and corrupt dictators for generations and entrenched interests work actively against reforms.
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German boxing authorities, under the thumb or at least sympathetic to Nazi imperatives, had refused to reward the clear winner on the basis of his race.
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Not in a way that is in any way to hurt them, but for them to believe that Rick Grimes would be under the thumb of Negan.
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The country's tech industry is consolidated around a handful of tech giants, all increasingly under the thumb of President Xi Jinping, who in February abolished term limits.
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One certainty, however, is that Zimbabwe is better off now that it is no longer under the thumb of Robert Mugabe, who ruled it for 22008 years.
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He winds up with a dead man riding shotgun and, later, under the thumb of Ann Savage, as perhaps the most pitiless femme fatale of the era.
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The cuts would put the Federal Aviation Administration under the thumb of the private sector, reduce funding for Amtrak and wipe out resources for new transit projects.
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But the story of Solo involves Han and some friends pulling off a daring heist to get out from under the thumb of an intergalactic crime syndicate.
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But if they can trade with more people and they don&apost -- they&aposre not necessarily under the thumb of the Chinese, that could be in their interest.
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The European Central Bank (ECB) is a special case; being a supranational institution, it is not under the thumb of any member state government or particular interest groups.
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Rohrabacher inherited Reagan's moral clarity that always leads him to fight for those who are under the thumb of totalitarian oppressors, even when to do so is unpopular.
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He said Twitter had allowed Panamanians to express their sense of liberation after years of living under the thumb of dictators and, to an extent, the United States.
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The wealthy girls were under the thumb of their domineering father and only allowed to go without a chaperone to Delmonico's restaurant and the Central Park skating pond.
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Others have mocked him as being under the thumb of a mother figure and even accused him of a gay affair, which he was driven to publicly deny.
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Do you want to look back and realize that you put off that project so you could stay safely sheltered under the thumb of a boss you dislike?
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Washington says China's construction and fortification of man-made islands in the South China Sea puts trillions of dollars of trade, travel and communications under the thumb of Beijing.
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All elected politicians, even the president, are ultimately under the thumb of appointed clerics, Islamic jurists and their opaque but powerful institutions, with the supreme leader at their apex.
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After all, how does one make light of the conditions of people living in one of the most impoverished places on earth, under the thumb of a repressive regime?
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The preliminaries to both contests underlined that elected politicians are ultimately under the thumb of clerics, Islamic jurists and their opaque institutions, with the supreme leader at their apex.
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For the last 20 years, the Liberty have been under the thumb of James Dolan, Chairman of The Madison Square Garden Company, who also owns the Knicks and the Rangers.
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We will be joined by a countless Iranians still living under the thumb of the theocratic regime, who will risk reprisals to watch the proceedings on banned satellite television channels.
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Top Republicans, including Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, reportedly opposed changing the rules to put the ethics office under the thumb of the committee.
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By having repeatedly committed itself in public to false narratives about interactions with the Russian government, Trump and his aides have repeatedly put themselves under the thumb of the Russians.
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Children of Men is set in a Great Britain under the thumb of an increasingly nationalist, authoritarian regime that squashes various ethnic, religious, and class insurgencies through propaganda and excessive force.
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But union branches at many Walmart stores are under the thumb of store managers, and higher-level union officials appear torn about how to respond to complaints from workers like Ms. Zhai.
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Will Keith Kellogg, who toiled much of his life in obscurity under the thumb of his abusive older brother, founded two enduring institutions: the Kellogg Company and the W. K. Kellogg Foundation.
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Now the higher education community is under the thumb of a potentially burdensome executive order: The president has imposed new requirements to ensure that institutions that receive federal funds promote free inquiry.
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Uber is going to strengthen its board, which has been under the thumb of Mr Kalanick and two others, who together control a majority of the voting rights; an independent chairman is planned.
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He had turned a blind eye, possibly because it was a destitute city whose elected officials had little political power and were under the thumb of an emergency manager Mr. Snyder had appointed.
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But it's quite crucial as it's the first meeting in the 'new era' and a hike would at least give some sign that the central bank isn't entirely under the thumb of Erdogan.
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But for those kicked out of the United States with little option but to return to areas under the thumb of the MS-13 or 18 gangs, the country can be incredibly dangerous.
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Everyone on the island is under the thumb of Red Cargo and when one of Deni's fellow workers dreams of leaving to go to the United States to open his own business, Deni snickers.
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They have branded O'Connor as "dishonest Danny" and Republicans, including the state party, have filled Ohio mailboxes with mailers that cast O'Connor as under the thumb of Pelosi and fully supportive of Hillary Clinton.
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She had lost her ID and had no way to fly home, so she was fending for herself, middle-manning or dealing in order to use, stuck under the thumb of dealers and pimps.
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The plan, first proposed by Republican Bob Goodlatte of Virginia, would have renamed the OCE the "Office of Congressional Complaint Review" and placed the office more firmly under the thumb of the House Ethics Committee.
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But after suffering so much torture at the hands of sociopathic neo-Nazis, Jesse ended the series by escaping his hellish life under the thumb of Big Meth, driving away with a shout of liberation.
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Ordinary people living under the thumb of cruel dictatorships are in a perpetual state of placid terror, trying to go unnoticed, and those characters are all over The Death of Stalin (and disposed of unceremoniously).
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"Music fans, recording artists, and UltraViolet members praise this tremendous decision and look forward to hearing Kesha's latest hits knowing that she can record them without being under the thumb of her abuser," said Thomas.
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I skipped down a merry path forged by countless young women before me who, wriggling under the thumb of patriarchy, thought it would be a good idea to gain control of their lives body-first.
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Although China has become capitalist to the core—almost eighty per cent of the country's industrial output is produced in the private sector—the commercial classes are under the thumb of a highly disciplined, autocratic bureaucracy.
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MBS has chipped away at the wilaya (guardianship) system, which puts women under the thumb of male relatives, and curbed the religious police, who used to hound young Saudis for such offences as wearing nail polish.
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But that's not unusual for poor people living under the thumb of history: My Jewish relatives from Eastern Europe were no different; they'd sit up all night regaling one another with the horrors they had survived.
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Erika's a music instructor and performer who lives a constrained life under the thumb of a controlling mother who treats her like she's still a child instead of a woman hovering somewhere near the age of 40.
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The two newbies arrive to Cali and are immediately greeted by a tough policeman, Captain Calderon, who wants them to know that he's not like the other corrupt policemen, completely under the thumb of the Rodriguez brothers.
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With their repeal, the restive region is now directly under the thumb of the BJP, which has also recently grabbed for itself the unilateral power to declare any individual a "terrorist" without any sort of due process.
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She offers a rare glimpse into life under her country's oppressive regime, where women have long lived entirely under the thumb of their appointed male guardians, be it a father, husband, brother, or sometimes even a son.
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Astarion is a sad and squalid character in many ways, and a lot of it is tied to the fact that he's lived his life as a vampire who has been under the thumb of other vampires.
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"You have heard a few Republicans scrambling to try to cover up 30 years of inaction, and 30 years of being under the thumb of the NRA, and 30 years of putting children at risk," Washington Gov.
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If that's the case, then how much less cool will Facebook look when it becomes known as nothing more than a boring public utility under the thumb of the positively ancient people who tend to run totalitarian countries?
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This included what even she considered her best film, 1954's Love Me or Leave Me, a dramatic, though highly fictionalized, biopic of '20s singer Ruth Etting, who lived under the thumb of her short-tempered, controlling husband.
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I would rather face the firing squad than be strapped down and injected into eternity, and I would choose a strong dose of pain and shame over years under the thumb of guards and inmates and the state.
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If you practice this with an aikido instructor, it seems like magic: you snatch the hand out of the air, wrap your fingers around the meaty part under the thumb, wedge your thumb between their knuckles, and twist.
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Three days earlier, perhaps 1m marchers thronged the streets, worried that the law would make anyone in Hong Kong, citizens and visiting businessfolk alike, vulnerable to prosecution in Chinese courts, which are under the thumb of the Communist Party.
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Many would rather be free to make their own mistakes, instead of living under the thumb of some distant, powerful government that regulates everything from their water usage to when they have to have their dog on a leash.
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I frequently complain about the industry myself in this space, but not this week, because I spent much of it in Havana … which basically felt like a picturesque disaster area, still under the thumb of oppressive one-party rule.
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As you get your bearings, you learn that this is a system well under the thumb of the Corporate Board, a governing conglomerate composed of the rival (but fundamentally aligned, of course) corporations that colonized the system to begin with.
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Time after time, Kat is forced to realize the power that lies in representing a brand that, while feminist and open-minded, is still under the thumb of Steinem Publishing's corporate overlords and a board of mostly white, older men.
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This prompted many to speculate that Lee, who is elderly and suffered from recent bouts of bad health, was under the thumb of Morgan in alliance with J.C. Since then, all public communication from Lee about Morgan has been positive.
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There was a church across the road from the farm, so I wandered off to praise the Lord for allowing me to spend my short time on this earth surrounded by pig shit and under the thumb of cruel noblemen.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Lagging well behind in opinion polls, French Socialist presidential candidate Benoit Hamon accused his main rivals on Thursday of being under the thumb of "big money" as he sought to revive a campaign eclipsed by party in-fighting.
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And it did get around, flourishing in Cold War Europe, in South American countries under the thumb of military dictatorships; and in Japan, where memories of Hiroshima and the material rewards of Western occupation made for an intensely conflicted culture.
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Even if it's like, sure I am playing a woman who is being terrorized by a man, or I'm playing a woman who is under the thumb of the patriarchy, to me there's so many different versions of that story.
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"Vital to the rule of law in any land is an independent judiciary, judges who are not under the thumb of other branches of government -- the executive and legislative power holders -- and therefore equipped to administer justice impartially," she added.
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Suzanne's community-service sentence involves reading to cranky Blind Bill, and they instantly clash, so of course they will soon be hot and heavy for each other, especially since Suzanne has been chafing under the thumb of her domineering husband.
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A capable opponent would quickly turn any of those stories into a crisis for Clinton, using it to build out the caricature of her as a deceptive shill who's careless with state secrets and totally under the thumb of toxic moneyed interests.
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Over the course of the roughly 22-minute long podcast episodes (three have been released so far), Howard reports on Wood's upbringing under the thumb of an allegedly difficult stage mother, in which Wood felt perpetually obligated to land the next part.
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"Having worked in a White House that was under the thumb of the special counsel for several years, they have no idea," Stephanopoulos told David Axelrod on "The Axe Files," a podcast from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN.
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MORE in their attempt to reset the U.S.-Russia relationship or improve it to some degree has persuaded many inside the foreign policy community that as long as the Kremlin is under the thumb of Putin, the Russians will never be a friend.
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Fannie and Freddie have been in "temporary" conservatorship for 11 years – a state whereby the two mortgage giants, which needed a $187 billion bailout a decade ago, are privately owned but under the thumb of their regulator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency.
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" Mostafizur Rahman, an assistant public prosecutor who filed the first sedition case against Mr. Anam, said the newspaper's reporting was an attempt to "try and wipe out that family, in order to put this country under the thumb of an evil force by printing falsehoods.
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But gradually I came to hear what the extensive notes on this handsomely packaged, moderately priced double-CD gave me a grip on: a fleeting '70s golden era that uplifted a Khartoum postcolonial elite under the thumb of Nasserite music lover Gafaar Muhammad Nimeiry.
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It cropped up, at once embraced and mistrusted, in Argentina and Brazil, countries under the thumb of dictatorships; and in an Eastern Europe penned in by Soviet Communism; and in Japan, where memories of Hiroshima and the material rewards of Western occupation made for intensely conflicted art.
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Thomas Richardson, played by Dan Stevens of Downton Abbey and the live-action Beauty and the Beast, is hunting for his disappeared sister on a pastoral island thoroughly under the thumb of a cult leader played to sinister perfection by Masters of Sex star Michael Sheen.
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Gigi demands Alicia meet with her to go over nitty-gritty hotel details, but Alicia does not want to be on Gigi's schedule — and, more importantly, she has zero interest in being under the thumb of the woman who has married her father and stolen her family.
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The goal was to go after liberals, mainstream media, Hollywood, Democrats and anyone else who stood in the way, portraying conservatives as a besieged minority under the thumb of Big Liberal and "cultural Marxism," depicting the left as morally wrong, inherently dangerous and also deeply foolish.
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Ross Douthat America has two political parties, but only one of them has a reasonably coherent political vision, a leadership that isn't under the thumb of an erratic reality television star, and a worldview that implies a policy agenda rather than just a litany of grievances.
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The decision means essentially that every arm of Venezuela's government is now under the thumb of President Nicolás Maduro, whose supporters have gone to great lengths to wrest authority from the National Assembly, which has been dominated by a slate of opposition parties since early 2016.
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But the Democratic Party likes to style itself as the "party of the little guy"—the party of voters who are more likely to be able to speak to what it's like to have done time at a bad job under the thumb of an abusive manager.
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Now, it seems that Turkey could be indefinitely under the thumb of a thin-skinned leader willing to use his vast powers to crack down on dissent at home and to pick fights with any foreign government perceived to slight him or to challenge his dismal human rights record.
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To understand why the Turkish model has let us all down, we have to go back to the 2001 founding of Mr. Erdogan's Justice and Development Party, or A.K.P. At that time, Turkey was under the thumb of secularist generals who would overthrow any government they couldn't control.
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In general, the surprise outcome of the United States presidential election has been greeted philosophically by many Italians in the fashion business, who say that, having lived through decades under the thumb of a media-savvy businessman bully — the former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi — a long view helps.
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How much the fake-news epithet has damaged journalism, however, is difficult to say, given the pre-existing difficulties of doing untrammeled reporting in countries where the media is already under the thumb of the state and where journalists have been murdered or imprisoned, not simply insulted or mocked.
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Even the lifting of economic sanctions under Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with large foreign powers including the United States has not unleashed the growth Mr. Rouhani had hoped for, as key sectors of the economy remain under the thumb of obscure powers, including religious foundations and the country's Revolutionary Guards.
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They are more likely to be angry at an intern than under the thumb of an oppressive boss; and if they ever were that intern, nostalgia and the brain damage of years in Washington are likely to color their memories of that experience as The Best Years of their Lives.
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Trouble sighs when describing the mundane details of a life under the thumb of the criminal justice system, but he relates more colorful details related with a smirk (a highlight comes on "Come Thru" when he boasts of raining bullets upon a foe's house as a way of "[redesigning] your porch").
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By the time of His Dark Materials, Oxford is fully under the thumb of the Magisterium, which operates more or less like the Vatican during the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition all rolled into one: It controls all scholarly inquiry, punishes heresy without mercy, and kidnaps and tortures children with impunity.
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" ON MONEY IN THE MOVEMENT: Hughes accuses the libertarian wing of Transhumanism of being under the thumb of Silicon Valley billionaires: "Peter Thiel, who runs a billion dollar hedge fund, is also one of the principal backers of Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and a bunch of other far-right operations in the country.
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A military that appeared, on the surface, to be largely under the thumb of Mr. Erdogan is clearly riven with divisions so severe that the chief of staff appears to have been be detained while lower-level officers put tanks on the streets of Istanbul and the air force over Ankara, the capital.
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"We think this is an incredibly important ruling both for cheated student loan borrowers and anyone who cares about the government under the rule of law instead of under the thumb of a predatory, for-profit college industry," said Toby Merrill, director of the Harvard Law School's Project on Predatory Student Lending.
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Instead, the political entity collapsed, turning the smaller Russia into an independent state surrounded by former Soviet republics that Russian officials came to refer to as their "near abroad" and continue to regard as part of Moscow's legitimate sphere of influence — just as it was under the thumb of Imperial and Soviet Russia.
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This story seems to have taken root in Aronofsky's psyche, along with all his other obsessions — the horror of being trapped in a female body under the thumb of domineering men, the duality of light and darkness, the explosive relationship between mankind and the planet, and the mystical, cyclical nature of being.
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In 2004 the new government in Iraq, still under the thumb of the American-led coalition that had ousted Saddam Hussein the previous year, closed Al Jazeera's Baghdad office for a month; in 2016 Iraq's government closed it again, for a year, for supposedly stirring up sectarianism and violence by reporting on it unsparingly.
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And while it was the Turkish judiciary, under the thumb of Erdoğan and his AK Party, that ultimately accused thousands of using an application they had never heard of, falsely imprisoning them, and, at least temporarily, ruining their lives, their anger seems to be primarily directed at the Gülenists, who they believe set them up.
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Many r/The_Donald members believed that the newer, high-ranking mods (who were each named by their predecessors) were too liberal, and under the thumb of progressive Reddit admins who wanted to censor free speech on the subreddit — hence all the accusations that r/The_Donald had been taken over by shills, cucks, and SJWs.
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He had paid his commission to the politician—a headache Antanios wishes he could avoid (though perhaps it is better than being under the thumb of Hezbollah factions, who at times questioned me while working on this story as I sought answers about generators and their owners)—along with his taxes to the city government.
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This prompted many to speculate that Lee, who is elderly and suffered from recent bouts of bad health, was under the thumb of Morgan in alliance with J.C. Since that time, Morgan has been close to Lee, accompanying him to events and conventions as well as helping him with his videos for social media.
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Less than 24 hours after House Republicans met behind closed doors and held an anonymous vote to bring the Office of Congressional Ethics under the thumb of the House Ethics Committee, they backed down — stripping the changes to the office out of the package of House rules that the chamber will vote on later Tuesday.
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Davis also said the agency will help universities find replacements for senior scientists investigated for sexual misconduct, as a way to keep cases from jeopardizing the careers of victims who are often junior scientists under the thumb of their harasser, as well as potential witnesses who are fearful their testimony will cause them to lose their jobs.
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The memory of the Second World War is fodder for both sides in the Brexit debate: Remain to prevent that sort of thing from ever happening again; Leave to get out from under the thumb of the historic German foe and assert the spirit of the Sceptred Isle that long ago won the day against barbarism.
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Born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857, in a Poland then under the thumb of czarist Russia and to parents engrossed in the struggle for independence, he later becomes a homeless traveler of the oceans, and eventually ended up as Joseph Conrad, an English-speaking citizen of the most global of the European capitalist empires of the time.
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Not in a way that is in any way to hurt them, but for them to believe that Rick Grimes would be under the thumb of Negan; that he would go through an experience that would do that to him; and that the audience would go through the experience too, so they would believe that Rick would do what this guy says.
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The clip, which was shared by the Pretty Little Liars Twitter account on January 2, reminds fans that the Liars and the people closest to them are still under the thumb of the latest iteration of A. "We swim around in this fish bowl like we're in control," Mona (Janel Parrish) says over shots of the Liars sleuthing through dark hallways, slamming laptops, and reading cryptic notes.
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And when you think about sort of how the company's been caught in it, if you had to, you know, I think most ... You're going to have a group of people that are going to think, no matter what, this is a company that is under the thumb of the Chinese government, and the risks are there, because they could at any time be turned on.
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As the older Calogero, Mr. Conte Thornton sings with a rich tone, and the continuity between the boy and the young man feels natural (although they hardly look like relatives), so that we see in the divided heart of the teenager the remnants of childish infatuation that keep him under the thumb of Sonny long after he begins to see the brutality that he has embraced.
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The joystick featured on the Ultra 64's prototype controllers looks far more substantial, sturdy, and according to Battye, feels "...much nicer under the thumb at rest..." It was also free to travel in a perfect circle, whereas with the final N64 design, the controller's thumbstick moved around inside an octagonal hole, presumably to help gamers make the transition from four-way directional pads to analog sticks.
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By its own measure, one of the country's major political parties went rogue decades ago and has set about systematically disenfranchising millions of Americans, put the greater part of the population under the thumb of a permanent ruling minority, and has now slipped any remaining traces of civic decency, cynically installing a man it knows to be a ranting incompetent in the White House, just to advance its own, completely self-interested ends.
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