If there are abortion rights supporters at the podium this week, for example, they will talk about something else, thanks to what Mr. Bush calls his "iron-fist" control of the proceedings.
Technology is empowering civil society in ways that no iron fist can control.
Traditionally, the Chinese government used an "iron fist" to control the economy and firms under central planning.
These are cult wines of another sort, made not by big spenders hiring the best consultants, but by wine idealists with their own hands, who risk failure by abdicating the sort of fist-clenched control over production that is deemed necessary in more commercial enterprises.
A better explanation, given the fraught, radicalised and ungoverned state of north-western Pakistan, and the many dead soldiers there, is that the army could not make a much better fist of controlling the border, even if it did its damnedest.
Thus it was surprising to read in several articles that an iron fist was in control of the Republican convention in Philadelphia early this month.
Liz 10 says there has to be another way, but The Doctor slams his fist on the control pad and angrily tells them not to talk to him, because "nobody human has anything to say to [him]".
Fowler finished with a 4-foot putt, then added a controlled fist pump to celebrate his performance.
Leaning while turning the imagined handlebars works well to simulate steering, and opening and closing a fist to replicate throttle control feels like a thing of magic.
It had been someone's idea -- the Grateful Dead, a few sources reported -- to entrust the security of the stage to the Bay Area Hell's Angels, who, fueled by free beer, practiced crowd control with fists and pool cues.
