He has a grip of steel.

This is a business paper.

I have a business meeting.

Policies must not be based on the fiction that good loans were made, and that the business acumen of financial market leaders and regulators will be validated once confidence is restored.

A business game in the airport takes place at Domodedovo.

I have a business trip to France in the fall.

But the stranglehold of North Korea s dictatorship is based on total isolation.

When its grip was loosened, any semblance of law and order disappeared.

His administration is trapped more and more in the paralyzing grip of special interest groups.

It makes good political sense it could make good business sense as well.

In March, a high quality Moscow business daily, Vedomosti, published a letter from Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

The president s authority is draining away precipitately, and his vice like grip on his People s Democratic Party (PDP) has loosened.

The NSW business community is represented by the NSW Business Chamber which has 30,000 members.

But even before, there were signs that AKP's growing hold over society could cause conflict.

Decades old, apparently immovable autocracies are finding their hold on power unhinged change is invading their static environs.

Tom couldn't go on the picnic with us today because he had an important business meeting.

The Wall Street Journal, for example, America s leading business newspaper, has run an aggressive editorial campaign against climate science for decades.

By investing in American and European assets, Russia s government and business elites are buying a stake in the global economy.

Tom couldn't go on the picnic with us today because he had an important business meeting.

Surveys indicate that business confidence is up throughout the euro zone economy, indicating that a domestic investment boom may be around the corner.

Surveys show that business confidence is up throughout the euro zone economy, indicating that a domestic investment boom may be around the corner.

These protests have run, on and off, for nearly 200 days, with crowd sizes ranging from a few hundred to tens of thousands. It is widely known that the anti Thaksin business elites provided the money to keep people in the street.

Under President Kuchma, the economy has recently started to boom thanks partly to Yushchenko's brief, reformist premiership four years ago but the oligarchs' grip has grown tighter.

What one thing can you start counting today that actually would be meaningful in your life, whether it's your work life or your business life?

Traditional business wisdom holds that trust is earned by predictable behavior, but when everything is consistent and standardized, how do you create meaningful experiences?

Similarly, the business press has described many a CEO as charismatic when things are going well, only to withdraw the label when profits fall.

Even in Kenya, where the stranglehold that the dominant Kenya African National Union (KANU) party had on politics from 1969 was finally broken in 2002, multi party politics has proven to be a fragile thing.

If more information circulates freely in the country, and more individuals experience other ways of life by traveling abroad, authoritarianism s grip will loosen.

Other countries must then tell America that the state can't stand back and let the market do this job accurate business information is a governmental responsibility.

Indeed, an entire industry of businesses which operate rather euphemistically as data management platforms now captures individual users passive data and extracts hundreds of billions of dollars from it.

The world's business press has roundly condemned the authorities' behavior, especially the impounding of Yukos shares worth many times more than possible state claims, which smacks of expropriation.

For when people do not believe that their government adheres to this higher spirit of law, no constitution is worth the paper it is written on no business transaction is safe.

Since the World Cup ended in July, economic activity has plummeted, inflationary pressures have intensified, and consumer and business confidence have collapsed, leading many economists to slash their growth forecasts for this year.

In either case, GDP growth is likely to slow as business confidence, consumption, and house prices suffer either from new taxes under Labour or from uncertainties about EU membership under the Conservatives.

The northern business and political elite see him as a bulwark against their increasingly restive southern rivals who openly threaten a repeat of the Igbo attempt to secede in 1967 that caused the Biafra conflict, taking the rich oil fields of the Niger delta with them.

These protests have run, on and off, for nearly 200 days, with crowd sizes ranging from a few hundred to tens of thousands. It is widely known that the anti Thaksin business elites provided the money to keep people in the street.