hold the whip hand

That kind of man could be pushed a ways if he thought you held the whip hand.

Their assumption from the beginning has been that they held the whip hand.

If they found her, Bugsy would hold the whip hand from that moment on.

But he was furious, and he held the whip hand.

All game long, Bure held the whip hand and did much of the cracking.

Commissioner Weston saw immediately that this man held the whip hand over the others.

"I always figured the Senate held the whip hand."

In the short run they hold the whip hand, and they have plenty of reason to hate us.

"Almost worth a cracked pate, to finally hold the whip hand on a Fraser."

Jake hoped that, if he killed enough rebellious blacks, the rest of them would learn who held the whip hand.

As long as he didn't shoot himself down, he held the whip hand.

He wanted to hold the whip hand.

He held the whip hand right now.

But England held the whip hand: it was a matter of amalgamate or be crippled by economic measures.

Here's the issue: When the Government runs the sweat-measuring test, it holds the whip hand.

He held the only two known routes into Deep Creek, but the enemy held the whip hand.

The club's last victory was in 1986 and in the intervening time Kingussie have held the whip hand.

Brand would hold the whip hand!

But Groves held the whip hand Telling him off wouldn't do anything but ruin the chance for revenge.

"Cushman holds the whip hand, Carmody."

Mayerson of course would hold the whip hand; he could take one brief glance at the display of ceramics and decline ad hoc.

Who Holds the Whip Hand

"Has it ever occurred to you, Mr. Mason," she asked, dropping her seductive manner, "that I hold the whip hand?"

Licensing publications inevitably means that governments hold the whip hand, though the internet now makes fools of all dictators (as the Arab Spring revolts illustrated).

I wanted to find out in such a way that I could convince my son of his mistake and, at the same time, hold the whip hand over the woman.