But Mr. Kadyrov has an iron grip on the republic.
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Originalists believe that history has an iron grip on constitutional meaning.
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Eastern Europe was in the iron grip of the Soviet Union.
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He's also threatening the iron grip Trump once held on the news cycle.
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But its iron grip began slipping ever since Google launched Chrome in 2008.
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The people I met had steely logic and an iron grip on reality.
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The authoritarian President has ruled Sudan with an iron grip for 30 years.
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We, in Britain, are held tight in the iron grip of a Brexit.
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Now outlets are giving Apple News+ the same iron grip on their businesses.
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The authoritarian Bashir has ruled Sudan with an iron grip for 30 years.
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They sort of still have an iron grip on a lot of companies.
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Understanding that suppression apparatus is key to understanding Putin's iron grip on his country.
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But as the company expands into doing everything everywhere, an iron grip is harder.
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But China has an authoritarian government that controls its society with an iron grip.
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The program is centered on what she calls an iron grip on her diet.
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And those with a bully pulpit can keep an iron grip on their megaphone.
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At every level, the government will never give up its iron grip on transportation.
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Lavish welfare (and an iron grip) keep an oft-rebellious people, now numbering 240m, quiescent.
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The Millennials lost, but Michaela bared all so she could escape from Lucy's iron grip.
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Mr. Sorrell shaped WPP with an iron grip, and fashioned it in his own image.
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Strong economic performance helps the Communist Party keep an iron grip on China's political system.
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Over the past 19 months, Thiem has had three chances to break that iron grip.
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Our media columnist took the fracas as proof of TV's iron grip on the president.
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Rabinowitz said Lynch had an iron grip on Autonomy's finances, including approving relatively small deals.
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But none of these reasons fully explain the iron grip almond milk has on millennial consumers.
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A decade ago, it was Firefox that broke Microsoft Internet Explorer's iron grip on the web.
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Until midafternoon Friday, American officials thought Mr. Erdogan had tightened his iron grip on his country.
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For the first day in nearly four decades, Zimbabweans experienced life free from Mugabe's iron grip.
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It is widely alleged that Mugabe kept his iron grip on power by rigging the vote.
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The internet sunk its unforgiving claws into Oberst and he was powerless in its iron grip.
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Under a new president, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Uzbekistan has recently eased its iron grip over its citizens.
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Mr. DeSantis's victory represented another emphatic demonstration of the president's iron grip on the Republican Party.
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Iron grip Bashir was ousted in a military coup in April following a lengthy popular uprising.
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HE WAS once a liberal reformer, but now no institution is safe from Viktor Orban's iron grip.
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Inside your company, you may have total control, but working with reporters requires abdicating that iron grip.
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Facebook and Snap, for example, ensured that their creators would keep an iron grip on their businesses.
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Whatever happens, experts agree Kim will use the meeting to tighten his already iron grip on the country.
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Mr. Sisi has banned public protests, fragmented the opposition and exerted an iron grip on the news media.
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This is in sharp contrast to the House of Representatives, where the majority rules with an iron grip.
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But to get there he must beat Novak Djokovic, who currently rules men's tennis with an iron grip.
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If loosening the iron grip on secrecy is what gets people talking, well... that's probably what should be done.
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Sani Abacha came into power in 1993 and ruled Nigeria with an iron grip until his death in 1998.
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MBS' iron grip might be slipping, but at just 33 there's every chance he'll be in power for decades.
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Heading into Election Day, the congresswoman and veteran had an iron grip on the race, leading incumbent GOP Sen.
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All that said, Pelosi - over the past decade -- has demonstrated that she enjoys an iron grip over her caucus.
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Another AKP loss on Sunday could weaken his iron grip on power, but also restore some faith in democracy.
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Now he is extending his iron grip to a new corner of Egyptian society: the country's cherished soap operas.
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Mr. Sorrell led WPP with an iron grip and a frenetic personality, cultivating the image of a superstar executive.
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In-N-Out keeps an iron grip on its supply chain, ensuring that its beef and veggies are always fresh.
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It's enough to make you hold onto any bit of info — say, your baby's due date — with an iron grip.
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But the party has never been as concerned with how things look as with keeping an iron grip on power.
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Snap's desire to maintain an iron grip on its 'cool' brand has kept its work with developers minimal until now.
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The Rapid Support Forces, the notorious paramilitary group that led last Monday's bloodshed, has an iron grip on the city.
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But now that it's happening, she's doing it her own way — in 4-inch heels and with an iron grip.
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But ethnic violence - long held in check by the state's iron grip - has flared up in many areas, including Amhara.
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But now she's steering the proceedings with an iron grip, forging a part of her legacy that she didn't seek.
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Public markets are also behaving more like private ones, by enabling founders to retain an iron grip even when they list.
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Mr Sisi has the perks of incumbency: a pliant parliament, a repressive police force and an iron grip on the media.
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The association wants to keep an iron grip on people seeing things, and they want people in theaters, all the time.
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He added that the company has an iron grip on its product supply, which allows it to maintain its high prices.
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And Uber, with its iron grip on the US's for-hire vehicle market, is best positioned to profit on that development.
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Polls suggest Erdogan could lose Ankara, the city from which he has ruled Turkey with an increasingly iron grip since 2003.
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And today, against Kansas City, he trucked through the iron grip of 350lb lineman Dontari Poe to get himself six points.
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Big offices may have moved in, but the Presidio still has an iron grip on how the historic acreage is used.
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The fighting has been compounded by the iron grip of Myanmar's military, which formally ruled the country from 1962 to 2010.
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Mr Zuma has already survived four no-confidence votes and two motions for impeachment because of his iron grip on the party.
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China's Communist Party maintains its iron grip on power by controlling what's said in the media and what's taught in the classroom.
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Egypt: President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is extending his iron grip to a new corner of society: the country's cherished soap operas.
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A poor performer in Parliament and on television, she lacks both Mr Corbyn's intermittent charm and Mr McDonnell's iron grip on detail.
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Biya maintains his iron grip on the Central African country despite a growing secessionist movement, which has worsened security in the nation.
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The streaming service was a bastion of an era when Apple, Google, and Spotify didn't yet have a iron grip on the industry.
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Polls suggest Erdogan could be defeated in Ankara, the city from which he has ruled Turkey with an increasingly iron grip since 2003.
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After all, he started a massively successful company, survived a ruthless business environment for decades, and maintains an iron grip on his family.
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If he chooses the other option, which is further tightening his iron grip and escalating tensions, he will make his end only quicker.
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Today, steel executives have an iron grip on the White House thanks to the deep ties of the president's advisers to the industry.
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China keeps the value of its currency in an iron grip, but investors in places like Hong Kong can trade it more freely.
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Mr. el-Sisi was elected president in 2014 and still rules the country with an iron grip, with Egypt's democratic hopes largely extinguished.
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Two decades of revelations about clerical abuse and cover-ups have broken the church's iron grip on the people and institutions of Ireland.
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Jammeh, who has ruled Gambia with an iron grip since a 1994 military coup, suffered a shocking loss after running for his fifth term.
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Mahathir's previous decades-long tenure was marked by an iron grip on power; he was known for using security laws to imprison political opponents.
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They would maintain an iron grip on the region until the civil rights movement of the 1960s once again shook the South's political order.
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"Comrades, generals, admirals, officers," said an announcer, who explained every aspect of the elaborate war games intended to show Russia's iron grip over Crimea.
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See, Xi Jinping may have an iron grip on the rule of China, but the autocrat and the stuffed animal share a certain... likeness.
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One topic of urgent concern, according to people briefed on the meeting: how to break the Republican Party's iron grip on the congressional map.
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King Joffrey tried to exercise an iron grip on the course of events without the influence of his grandfather, and look how he turned out.
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America helped push once-pariah-nation Myanmar, also known as Burma, out of China's orbit and towards democracy after years of iron-grip military rule.
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Her iron grip on House Democratic leadership is preventing a new generation of leaders from rising, which the party desperately needs to attract new voters.
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My goal is to free our art scene from the iron grip of money and get as many people to interact with art as possible.
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MBS' iron grip on his Kingdom is tightening, already cowed critics won't dare whisper, and no royal would risk his wrath stepping out of line.
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In those countries formerly under the Soviet Union's iron grip, tributes show a longing for the kind of constancy in US relations that McCain championed.
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But tensions within the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), which has ruled with an iron grip since 1991, have risen following the failed coup.
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Divide was a massive success, making virtually every Billboard chart it could upon its release and keeping an iron grip on the top spots for weeks.
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Another person said the elder Li, known for his trademark horn-rimmed glasses and an iron grip on his companies, could step down by year-end.
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It is home to some of India's poorest villages where politically powerful councils, mostly comprising elderly men, have an iron grip over social and moral life.
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Not if you're one of the dwindling number of disaffected conservatives who believes that the Republican Party can be wrested back from the president's iron grip.
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Throughout the day, Trump and Kim's body language was openly friendly, a striking warmth given Kim's iron grip on power and dismal record on human rights.
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Tito smartly allowed his people slightly more rights than were given to his communist colleagues in the Eastern bloc, while keeping an iron grip on politics.
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The Mexican government and labor unions have long controlled the workforce with an iron grip, immediately quashing labor unrest by jailing workers who go on strike.
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She is also a polarizing figure — increasingly even with Democrats — and as the budget vote indicated, she may be losing what was once an iron grip.
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I have developed arthritis in my hands to the extent that shaking them is painful — and really painful when the other person has an iron grip.
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In fact, the app could also be translated as Study Xi, an appropriate title given the Chinese leader's iron grip over the country and its government.
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Three years of deadly protests culminated in Hailemariam's resignation in April last year, ushering in Abiy's rule and the gradual loosening of the state's iron grip.
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Facebook's founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg came under pressure to loosen his iron grip over the company after a year of scandals and stock market turbulence.
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In an interview with VICE News, Apple CEO Tim Cook said Apple is maintaining its iron grip on privacy — even within the People's Republic of China.
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It seems an issue Trump doesn't care all that much about and doesn't even really seem to understand very well broke the GOP's iron grip on Washington.
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Google also has an iron grip on the definition of an Android device, including the open-source version of Android that Huawei will be using to compete.
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The second defeat in Istanbul marked a major embarrassment for the president and could also weaken what until recently seemed to be his iron grip on power.
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China's communist government maintains an iron grip on information in the country, censoring information on the internet on topics ranging from political opponents of Beijing to sex.
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But Facebook's iron grip on how publishers could show ads, email newsletter widgets, subscription sign-ups and their own design identity made the format a bad deal.
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That Mr. Kalanick and some of Uber's earliest investors are selling their shares is notable because they have long held an iron grip on the ownership structure.
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Here's everything you need to know about the scandal and head to BI Prime to learn about how Zuckerberg's iron grip on Facebook is affecting this situation.
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The Chinese Communist Party, which comprises some 28500 million members, maintains an iron grip on power, ruling a country with a population of more than 6900 billion.
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With the iron grip of the past administration loosened, the federal government has struggled to assert its authority and enforce laws throughout the sprawling country, analysts say.
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Although empires from long past have since lost their iron grip over their constituents, it's striking how effects from their influences still resonate within cultures across continents today.
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Laid low by serious illness, his iron grip on the island nation had loosened over the past decade, with full power passing to his brother Raul in 2008.
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Former Senator Norm Coleman of Minnesota, an influential Republican strategist and fund-raiser, said Mr. Trump's nomination could imperil even the party's seemingly iron grip on the House.
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Even as the Communist Party has kept an iron grip on politics and discourse, the country's technology industry has grown to rival Silicon Valley's in sophistication and ambition.
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And Washington became increasingly critical of the iron grip he kept on his population, particularly after elections in 2005 and 2010 that were widely criticized by outside observers.
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Mr. Trump has held an iron grip on the Republican base, making it difficult for fellow party members, who also rely on those core voters, to oppose him.
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What we do know is that Disney is inescapable and thanks to its streaming holdings, its iron grip on our attention and our entertainment dollars has never been stronger.
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Crown Prince Mohammed first demonstrated his iron grip on the kingdom in 2017 by locking up hundreds of royal relatives and wealthy Saudi businessmen in a Ritz-Carlton hotel.
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The changes are the most sweeping since the coalition took power in 1991, and the loosening of the state's iron grip has raised hopes in the country and abroad.
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Despite Saudi Arabia's shifting narrative — from denying any knowledge to admitting the killing was premeditated — the crown prince has retained an iron grip on power, bolstered by Trump's support.
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While Schmidt was their man, Page and Brin managed to keep an iron grip on Alphabet with super-voting shares, setting a new standard for Silicon Valley's 21st century upstarts.
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The fact that the opposition has been relatively quiet in the run-up to the coming vote is not a reflection of greater harmony, but of the government's iron grip.
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If confirmed, this second defeat in Istanbul would be a major embarrassment for the president and could also weaken what until recently seemed to be his iron grip on power.
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Created by Michael Rojas, the co-CEO of Iron Grip Barbell Company, the service already has 400 gyms in the United States and plans to expand over the next year.
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The government under Erdogan's iron grip has strengthened with more removal requests on Twitter lodged than any other country, at over 3,000 from July to December 2016, followed by France.
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While Netanyahu remains politically popular in Israel, not everyone is thrilled about his iron grip on government that's essentially preventing anyone else from getting a chance at being prime minister.
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President Ronald Reagan did not receive the prize despite bringing the Soviet empire to its knees, ending the Cold War and liberating millions from the iron grip of communist oppression.
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In the hands of a president with an iron grip on one party and nothing but contempt for the other, it's more of a blank check than a meaningful one.
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Karimov has run the ex-Soviet republic of 32 million - the region's most populous - with an iron grip for 123 years and speculation is rife over who will succeed him.
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The idea of creating a sovereign internet is something that authoritarian regimes like Russia and Iran are embracing, seemingly inspired by the iron grip China holds over its online space.
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By December, it finally relaxed its iron grip over the experience by starting to let developers build their own AR filters, though Snap won't help promote them unless they pay.
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China's leader: Dropping the vote was the biggest concession to public pressure under Xi Jinping's rule, suggesting that despite his increasingly iron grip, there are still limits to his power.
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McQuiston masterfully navigates two very different political realms, conjuring the quick-fire decision-making of a progressive White House and the iron-grip traditionalism of Buckingham Palace with equal skill.
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Today, a handful of companies have that sort of iron grip on the industry, but perhaps none quite so much as Google — the ad-driven heart of the Alphabet conglomerate.
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Petrillo estimates the chair has another five years or so before it starts to dip in popularity; that's assuming the industrial trend ever releases its iron grip on the design world.
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Pelosi lost only four votes, which suggests that she retains an iron grip on her caucus — despite terrible results in last year's election for Democrats up and down the ballot. Rep.
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Directed by Sam Mendes, this show uses the vast scope and the small, character-defining detail of great family sagas in fiction, rendered in an iron-grip narrative that never slackens.
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Under Bashir's iron grip, an entire generation grew up in the shadow of war, where the threat of torture in infamous "ghost houses" was never far away, and press freedom nonexistent.
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But the profit motive and the iron grip of special interest groups who believe in shooting the most treasured mammals on Earth for prestige, most unfortunately, still has the upper hand.
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But few candidates try to keep such an iron grip on their image as Mr. Trump did in 2016, driving his aides to do battle with reporters over seemingly minor details.
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Under his iron grip, an entire generation grew up in the shadow of war, where the threat of torture in infamous "ghost houses" was never far away, and press freedom nonexistent.
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As I said back in December when Qualcomm announced the 8cx chip, it's a big fucking deal because it could be the beginning of the end of Intel's iron grip on PCs.
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Iowa, a state that became first in the process around 50 years ago has essentially managed to maintain an iron grip on the Democratic primary process, purely through willpower and political extortion.
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His iron grip on the Senate's flow of business amid the current shutdown shows how Republicans' structural advantage in one legislative chamber gives them an undemocratic veto on the country's political agenda.
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While he didn't talk much at the last meeting, some GOP senators believe he has an iron grip on the White House position, which opposes a two-year spending deal (The Hill).
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Britain have had an iron grip on the men's four in a golden run stretching back to the turn of the century and the era of five-time Olympic champion Steve Redgrave.
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If Apple and Amazon are amassing jobs in places that are not Silicon Valley, does that mean the Bay Area is losing its iron grip on that magical wealth-creating industry, tech?
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His iron grip was never firmer than over the last two months, during the House inquiry that concluded Wednesday with Mr. Trump's impeachment on charges of abuse of power and obstructing Congress.
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Modi and the BJP already have an iron grip over the Lok Sabha after they won a general election last month with a landslide mandate, improving on his massive win in 2014.
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It would also weaken what only three months ago appeared to be his iron grip on power as Turkey battles recession, jockeys in war-torn Syria, and balances its U.S. and Russian ties.
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The recent attacks Democrats have leveled against Kraninger are only a prelude to their fight to keep an iron grip on an agency that serves as a political slush fund for their allies.
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He also said that Beijing was playing a far longer game than Washington and, with the leadership's iron grip on dissent, could afford to absorb the painful side effects of a trade war.
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Connor has always resented her iron grip and manipulative ways — so assuming he didn't kill Wes himself, how could Connor (along with Laurel) not feel totally set up by his boss and "protector"?
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Here are the five ways Spotify is weakening the the record companies' iron grip on music: Spotify's Discover Weekly and Release Radar playlists aren't just some of its most popular and differentiated features.
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He has kept an iron grip on the job, weathering the 2008 financial crisis and a 2012 scandal in which a trader nicknamed the London Whale lost the bank more than $6 billion.
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It ensures President Trump will be able to confirm dozens more federal judges to the bench in the next few years, but breaks up two years of Republicans' iron grip on power in Washington.
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Kampala, Uganda (CNN)A Ugandan constitutional court ruling that upholds a constitutional amendment to remove the presidential age limit will likely allow President Yoweri Museveni to extend his 32-year iron grip on power.
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Writing reports about Chinese leaders or their families can be sensitive in China, where the ruling Communist Party tries to keep an iron grip on information about the leadership and carefully curates its image.
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On the first day of June 1866, a thousand armed Irishmen crossed into Canada, intending to hold key locations hostage until England loosened its iron grip on the little island nation across the Atlantic.
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And as the CW starts to age up, it currently has an iron grip on the episodic superhero genre with shows like Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, and Supergirl, which it saved from CBS.
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At its core, it's an opportunity to further loosen the iron grip that America's two main aerospace companies, Boeing and Lockheed Martin, have on the space business, according to investors with knowledge of the industry.
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Her tightly controlled vocal undulations—guttural, soaring, shrieked, a proclamation, a curse—on epic album closer "A Hideous Visage" feel wild and unhinged, even as it's obvious she holds the reins in an iron grip.
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Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson — half-siblings who oversee the "James Bond" films, described as having "an iron grip on the franchise" — recently discussed the future of the character in an interview with Variety.
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Dragnea, 54, who rules his party with an iron grip, has remained in his post as party leader despite a conviction earlier this year for rigging a 2012 referendum for which he received a suspended sentence.
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The French president wants France to take a leading role on tech regulation, seeking to strike a balance between what he perceives as the United States' laissez-faire stance and China's iron grip on the internet.
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"Today for the first time (there was) a little glimmer of hope... the first commercial goods have arrived in port, and the first ships that were let through this iron grip," NRC chief Jan Egeland said.
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Follow live updates While the world's oldest president has maintained an iron grip on the country since he led it to independence in 1980, many Zimbabwe watchers see Mugabe at perhaps his most vulnerable in decades.
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On Friday evening, a majority of the leaders of Mr. Mugabe's governing ZANU-PF party, which he had controlled with an iron grip since independence in 1980, recommended his expulsion, according to ZBC, the state broadcaster.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe — Robert Mugabe, 93, who ruled Zimbabwe with an iron grip until the military placed him under house arrest last week, shocked the nation on Sunday night by refusing to say whether he would resign.
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A majority of the leaders of the party, ZANU-PF, recommended Mr. Mugabe's expulsion from the very organization that he had controlled with an iron grip since independence in 1980, according to ZBC, the state broadcaster.
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US views Kim as a 'rational actor' The defense official emphasized the US continues to view Kim as a "rational actor", who is still determined to maintain an iron grip on power over his military commanders.
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The elder Mr. Anan, 69, was not considered a strong challenger to Mr. Sisi, a former general who has ruled Egypt with an iron grip since 2014, when he was elected with 97 percent of the vote.
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Limit the court's power to unilaterally strike down laws (as Abraham Lincoln suggested in his first Inaugural Address); break the iron grip of the two parties by introducing proportional representation for congressional elections (any state could try).
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The few reports that have gotten through the Australian government's iron grip on information show mass violence, sexual abuse, riots, and death—a lot of which has been at the hands of prison guards and local authorities.
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This sort of iron grip may deter qualified COO candidates who "don't want to do their job with one arm tied behind their back," said Robert Siegel, a lecturer at Stanford University and venture capitalist at XSeed Capital.
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Sokha's house arrest was lifted as the European Union considers whether to cut preferential trade terms with Cambodia after a crackdown by Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has ruled with an iron grip for more than three decades.
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Singling out dissenting former public servants in this way is a norm-busting power play that might seem tame in political systems ruled with an iron grip by Russia's Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping, who Trump admires.
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Since taking power, Abiy has released political prisoners, removed bans on political parties and prosecuted officials accused of gross human rights abuses, but his government is battling ethnic bloodshed once held in check by the state's iron grip.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Kenya's Conseslus Kipruto stormed to an Olympic record breaking victory in the men's 3,000 meters steeplechase on Wednesday, ensuring the East African nation maintained its iron grip on an event it has monopolized since 04.000.
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Some of the president's critics questioned on Thursday how Mr. Kim, who rules with an iron grip, could not have known what was happening to a high-profile American detainee imprisoned in his country for more than a year.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who's held an iron grip on power for more than 15 years, suffered his first major election defeat Monday and it looks like he's about to lose control of the country's two biggest cities.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who's held an iron grip on power for more than 13 years, suffered his first major election defeat Monday and it looks like he's about to lose control of the country's two biggest cities.
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The introduction of the new Politburo Standing Committee was the final act of the 19th Communist Party Congress, which saw Xi emerge with an iron grip on China and a new focus on expanding his influence across the globe.
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Kim, who has presided over a limited form of economic development inside North Korea, is under pressure to deliver improvements in the lives of his people — even if he has no intention of loosening his iron grip on political dissent.
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So arguing that the company must keep its iron grip on the power it enjoys but has yet to demonstrate it can actually handle—and indeed, that this is the only way it can truly protect its users—is absurd.
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This "complex" is a circle of people and organizations -- inside the Democratic Party itself, as well as non-profit organizations, lobbyists, consultants of very stripes and individual self-promoters -- who work mightily to maintain an iron grip on power and prestige.
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KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - A former mayor of Karachi, Pakistan's largest and richest city, returned home from self-imposed exile on Thursday and launched a new political party to challenge the iron grip of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on the city.
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Google Fiber would, we were told, once and for all free the country from the iron grip of regional monopolies like Comcast, delivering ultra-fast broadband at a more reasonable $70 per month price point across huge chunks of the nation.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Kenya's Conseslus Kipruto stormed to victory in the men's 3,000 metre steeplechase final on Wednesday, ensuring the East African nation maintained its iron grip on the event it has won in every Games since 1984.
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White House budget director Mick Mulvaney publicly confirmed conversations to that effect and further speculated such a move would have the added benefit of embarrassing House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, whose caucus has grumbled about her iron grip on Democratic leadership.
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Bolstered by carefully drawn legislative maps and the results of nonpresidential elections, in which minority turnout usually dips, Republicans have maintained an iron grip on state government in places like Georgia and North Carolina, as well as some Western states.
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China has sought for decades to restrict the practice of Islam and maintain an iron grip in Xinjiang, a region almost as big as Alaska where more than half the population of 24 million belongs to Muslim ethnic minority groups.
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Iron grip on population During that time, however, Egypt remained a key Western ally, receiving more than $1 billion a year in US military assistance and contributing troops to the American-led coalition that drove Iraq out of Kuwait in 1991.
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Florida is sometimes referred to as "The Gunshine State" on account of its notoriously lax gun laws, many of which can be traced back to NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer, who has had an iron grip on state legislators for nearly four decades.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A fight among leaders of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's ruling party is unlikely to weaken his iron grip on the country, but the row has also underlined how fragile the political legacy he is seeking to build may be.
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Why it matters: Chances are if you're cooking with garlic (or, less commonly, using it medicinally), it's from China, which has an iron grip on the U.S. market, controlling more than 20003% of the dried garlic trade and killing many American garlic farms.
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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - The United States maintained their iron grip on the Olympic women's 4x400 meters relay on Saturday when they held off Jamaica for their sixth straight victory in the event to give anchor Allyson Felix her sixth career gold.
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Facebook is also adding a new class of stock to let the public buy in without getting voting rights that could disrupt Mark Zuckerberg's iron grip on the company's direction, including long-term bets on artificial intelligence, virtual reality and Internet connectivity.
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Mr. Walsh, who entered the race last August, was once part of a trio of Republican challengers to Mr. Trump, who together were involved in a quixotic attempt to peel away support from a president with an iron grip on his party.
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One of the victims of the most recent missile attacks was a Syrian refugee, who himself had moved to Turkey in an effort to escape the iron grip of PYD, which the Central Intelligence Agency describes as the terrorist organization PKK's Syrian wing.
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But after days of political protests, violence and arrests of key opposition leaders, the streets of Uganda's capital were empty and the majority of businesses closed as President Yoweri Museveni was sworn in for a fifth term -- extending his 30-year iron grip on power.
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Rather than reduce rates, Democrats in states like California, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut have begun taking extreme steps to maintain their iron grip on taxpayer dollars, including announcing a joint lawsuit and proposing nonsensical schemes that treat obligated tax payments as charitable contributions.
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In other areas, including his support for free trade, his revulsion for Russian President Vladimir Putin and global strongmen, his vehement support for the Atlantic alliance and human rights, McCain found himself at odds with a President who has an iron grip on his party.
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"Abbas has such an iron grip that none of his rivals really stands a chance against him right now," said Grant Rumley, a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, based in Washington, and co-author of a forthcoming biography of Mr. Abbas.
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In its sixth season, the show feels, more and more, like it got a whole bunch right about how the world operates, how the security state tries to maintain its iron grip of power on America, and how dangerous the spread of deliberately false information can be.
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While the Trump FCC voted last fall to kill net neutrality, the 3-2 partisan vote was really only the beginning of an entirely new chapter in the quest to keep the internet open, competitive, and free from the iron grip of regional duopolies like Comcast.
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"Prince Mohammed, rather than forging alliances, is extending his iron grip to the ruling family, the military, and the National Guard to counter what appears to be more widespread opposition within the family as well as the military to his reforms and the Yemen war," he said.
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But with tales of CEO Evan Spiegel's iron grip on product, a share price down 50 percent from its post-IPO high, and Facebook's copying machine running at full-tilt, Snap isn't as attractive of a place to work as it was when it made those acquisitions.
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Take any collective of millions of people ruled by the iron grip of that kind of politics, subject them for decades to grievous abuse in a concentration camp called a country; then knock down from the outside, or chip away from the inside at the walls.
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Xi, who secured a second five-year term last month and holds an iron grip over the Middle Kingdom, is seeking to position China as the champion of free trade and globalization, while Trump, struggling for support both at home and abroad, is seeking an isolationist agenda.
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Only months after his arrival, upheaval erupted across the Arab world, and Mubarak's seemingly iron grip on Egypt was broken by the last people anyone expected to be consequential — the liberal activists, whose networks were tiny compared with the state or the deeply rooted Islamist organizations.
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Yet even while Mr. Abbott is an overwhelming favorite for re-election, he proved that he did not have an iron grip on his party: Two of the three Republican state representatives he opposed as part of an unusual intervention against incumbents still managed to win.
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Even as reporting on the scandal continued, and US authorities launched an investigation and began seizing assets in early 2017, it seemed unlikely Najib would face prosecution -- he had an iron grip on Malaysian politics and had passed several laws seemingly designed to stymie discussion of 1MDB.
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HONG KONG/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A U.S. police investigation into an allegation of rape against JD.com Inc CEO Richard Liu has hammered the e-commerce giant's shares, with the case laying bare risks posed by his iron grip on management and the lack of other leaders to challenge him.
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RETURN OF THE LOYALISTS: Two Trump loyalists are returning to the White House as Trump seems bent on taking an iron grip of the government following his acquittal on impeachment charges, along with meting out a healthy dose of revenge on those he thinks tried to undermine him.
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Under the subsection for Caution Wear Iron Grip Snugger Fit: 12-Pack of Condoms, he writes (emphasis ours):I'm not, uh, exactly blessed in the crotch department, and when I first became sexually active and started using condoms, I found the standard issue to be a little … baggy.
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The French president, who will meet Facebook founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg later on Friday, wants France to take a leading role on tech regulation, seeking to strike a balance between what he perceives as the United States' laissez-faire stance and China's iron grip on the Internet.
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Usually McConnell has an iron grip on the Senate agenda, but Schumer is taking advantage of a little-known law, the Congressional Review Act, which allows the minority party to seize the initiative to overturn an administrative rule as long as it's done within a certain time period.
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Image 2 of 2 MEXICO CITY – For much of the past century, it was hard to get elected to any office in Mexico — even to get a government job — without being a staunch member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which held an iron grip on power as administrations came and went.
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But even as the Cleveland Cavaliers kept an iron grip on the lead in the fourth quarter, Coach Steve Kerr of the Golden State Warriors repeatedly told his players that the Cavs' stars would eventually wear down as long as the Warriors stuck to the game plan and never gave up.
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As for the future of cities thing, Uber and other rideshare companies' fleets of cars have been blamed for creating more traffic problems than they solve, and the company's vision has historically been more about guaranteeing that Uber and its Silicon Valley brethren keep an iron grip on the future of transportation.
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As the Communist Party of China prepares to celebrate the 241th anniversary of its rule, the state is choreographing the pomp and pageantry to exalt President Xi as the unassailable leader of a rising nation and the indispensable bulwark against an array of challenges that threaten to erode its iron grip on power.
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The parade at the Zhurihe base in Inner Mongolia featured troops and advanced weaponry, and was another forceful indication of Xi's iron grip over the PLA and every other political power base within the party ahead of a pivotal congress this autumn that will award him a second five-year term as leader.
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"The UK Government must match the resolve that US lawmakers showed last night and begin immediately preparing targeted sanctions, while offering asylum to those seeking to escape the iron grip of dictatorship like Simon Cheng," said David Alton, a member of the House of Lords and vice chair of the Westminster Friends of Hong Kong.
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Bill Weld are running quixotic GOP primary bids to oppose Trump, but even a few-percentage-point ding to Trump's iron grip on the party could look bad for Trump, who often boasts of a GOP approval rating upwards of 90% (a false claim, as the approval rating is actually somewhere in the 80s).
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While, in previous sessions of Congress, the House leadership held an almost iron grip on which amendments would be considered to any piece of legislation, Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiWhy President Trump needs to speak out on Hong Kong Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Pelosi warns Mnuchin to stop 'illegal' .
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On Tuesday, Kadyrov, a former rebel-turned-Kremlin-loyalist who has been linked to the killings of political rivals, investigative journalists, and human rights advocates, and who uses torture and death squads to maintain an iron grip on his country's government, included the "youth division" tournament as part of the latest event put on by his own World Fight Championships of Akhmat (WFCA).
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Last year, I stumbled across a presentation on Soviet X-ray audio recordings at Brooklyn's Morbid Anatomy Museum, and was enthralled by the tale of the clever, resourceful young people—the stilyagi—who found a way to get their hands on contraband jazz and rock'n'roll during the decades when Stalin and his enforcers kept an iron grip on hated (and illegal) Western music.
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But, his candidacy was created, and backed, by a circle of people and organizations — inside the Democratic Party itself, non-profit organizations, consultants of various stripes and individual self-promoters — who work mightily to maintain an iron grip on power and prestige, even as they fail to have any footprint in the struggle that has unfolded, from Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter.
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Yet, here with are, nine months later, and not only has Uber's co-founder Travis Kalanick lost what once seemed like an iron grip on the role of CEO; not only has one of the company's earliest investors and staunchest supporters filed suit against Kalanick, ostensibly for hiding problems at the company; not only has Kalanick seen his super-voting shares annulled; but now, according to a new report in Deadline Hollywood, Fowler's story could made into a film that's being pitched to studios as you read this.
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