Whereas Thatcher defeated the unions and killed traditional industries in order to drag the north kicking and screaming into the new economy, years later Labour rekindled the north's feelgood factor by establishing it as the capital of Cool Britannia.
Only a credible medium term adjustment program with broader aims than those of the current one can ensure the revival of investment and consumption in Greece in order to drag the economy out of the seven-year recession and contribute to its sustained recovery.
Meanwhile Private Dennis Bathersby, although wounded in the right arm, remained behind his M60 throwing two grenades with his left arm and only withdrawing in order to drag another wounded Australian to safety.
Lucas said: "The Chilcot report confirmed Tony Blair lied to the public, parliament and his own cabinet in order to drag us into the Iraq war.
It reminded me of the obscure comic series (Avengers Infinity) in which they fight a dude as big as a planet, and then a bunch of other dudes the same size come and grow together to form a huge handle the size of a solar system, and then a giant hand comes out of nowhere in order to drag the entire galaxy into a line with some others.
It is hard to see Iran making much effort to switch course just in order to drag itself from the bottom of the table.
Mr Carney used his appearance before the Treasury Select Committee to call for a public debate over whether the central bank's existing inflation should be overhauled, in order to drag the ailing UK economy out of its two-year stagnation.
Mr. Passos Coelho has hinted that he would go further in terms of reform than the lenders' demands, in order to drag Portugal out of what he called "a cycle of poverty" triggered by the Socialists.
One explanation for this could be that traders were deliberately dealing below the prevailing price in order to drag the benchmark down, perhaps because they stood to gain more from other contracts linked to this benchmark.
Since Feb. 2, when the Socialist majority in the National Assembly voted to redefine marriage as an agreement between two people of the same or opposite sex, the conservative opposition has filed more than 5,000 amendments, none of which they expect to pass into law, in order to drag out the nation's seemingly ineluctable march to legal recognition of gay marriage.
