Sentence examples for keep a boot on from inspiring English sources

He had to keep a boot on Oppie's throat.

When Rand Paul defended BP against Salazar's (empty) threat to keep a boot on the company's neck, he was not speaking as some oddball libertarian outlier.

If the Iranian government of President Hassan Rohani presents a smiling face to the world, many American lawmakers see that as a trick or as a sign that existing tough sanctions have worked, making it imperative to keep a boot on the regime's neck, while reminding Iran that fresh cheating will be punished.Another constant is domestic politics, especially in a mid-term election year.

The industry had every reason to expect the worst, particularly after the secretary of the interior vowed "to keep a boot on the neck" of the world's third-largest oil company.

You can keep a symbolic boot on someone's neck, and it can be just as effective as doing so physically, more so, even.

As long as the oil kept flowing, western governments have been happy to prop up dictators who kept a heavy boot on their people's freedom.

Uniformed members of the military can keep their boots on, though they, too, still must go through security.

Within a page, she goes from being "too shy to instantly obey" when he "ordered" her to kiss him, to becoming intoxicated by the moment, and agreeing when he asks: "Will you keep these boots on?".

Keep a ghost boot disk handy that way you can do clones on any system without installing ghost first.

Where some supercars, like the Saleen S7, are ill-suited to the street, the Koenigsegg is a Star Trek fantasy that manages to keep one boot on the earth.

We have to keep our marching boots on and hold our leaders to account for the promises they have made to Africa - and get them to promise more.