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scissors grip

(= scissors) a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze

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In the end, Putin has what history left him: not ideas, just a faction yearning to consolidate its grip on power.
No, Kuchma wants to change Ukraine's constitution for no other reason than to maintain his grip on power.
Until China is released from the grip of religious politics, Liu's ideals are unlikely to take root.
Those who monopolize power cannot imagine a world released from their grip as anything but a catastrophe.
Given the fragile grip that these leaders have over their societies, America's warnings have been taken to heart.
Last month, the Afghan leadership finally adopted - albeit half-heartedly - a transitional justice plan that could remove from power the biggest war criminals who have consolidated their grip on the country over the past five years.
On the economy, he must reconcile the priorities of full-employment Germany with those of Greece and Italy, which remain in the grip of recession and sky-high unemployment.
Michael Woodford, one of the world's leading authorities on central banking, offers a strategy to break the grip of falling prices.
Israel, meanwhile, is worried that Hamas has strengthened its military grip on Gaza, in terms of both fortifications and networks capable of launching Qassam rockets into neighboring Israeli towns.
Unless the US and the EU relinquish their grip, the Fund's latest bid for relevance may well turn out to be its last.
Far from harboring weapons of mass destruction, he was focused on maintaining his grip on power.
Starting with demand, Larry Summers, the Harvard economist and senior US official under Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, recently proposed that advanced economies have found themselves in the grip of secular stagnation.
If donors keep giving only a little bit of help, but not enough to solve the problems of the poorest countries, these countries will never escape poverty's grip.
When its grip was loosened, any semblance of law and order disappeared.
We Czechs know something about this, as the wrenching economic transition that we underwent in the 1990's taught us much about how the right policies can break the grip of hopelessness.
DAKAR - Sub-Saharan African is in the grip of currency-union mania.
With this move, the military leaders are putting their sham vote aimed at tightening their repressive grip on power ahead of the well being of the Burmese people.
In the grip of two lost decades and counting, this could be Japan's last chance.
But continuing its purchases would tighten the government's grip.
STANFORD - This year has proven to be yet another replete with futile efforts to manage the outsize grip that banks and bankers have on the world economy.
Eritrea is in the grip of a repressive regime; and Libya has become a collapsed state.
Europe needs, first and foremost, to break the vicious circle of recession, unemployment, and austerity that now has it in its grip.
What kind of economic boom might stagnating Pakistan enjoy if patriarchy relaxed its grip?
Japan, for example, is in the grip of a growth crisis and public finance disaster - not the usual companions of an appreciating currency.
As China attempts to tighten its grip on Hong Kong, Li is showing independence, and China's new rulers - who, true to their communist roots, believe firmly in top-down control - do not like it one bit.
Others argue that China's government is simply losing its grip over local authorities.
We need to know why some forms of collective irrationality gain a stronger grip on us than others.

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