Capital is also already becoming less captive.
Flash-Matic made the TV audience less captive, though also less active.
Surely the incoming administration will be less captive to industry on this issue — and every other.
And that might mean a leader less captive of, and subservient to the party's various factions and power structures than Campbell Newman has proved to be.
Two main Chinese-language dailies, the China Press and Nanyang Siang Pau, which used to be considered less captive than the Malay-language press, were bought by the Malaysian Chinese Association, part of the ruling coalition, in 2001.
They also talked about something that might be even more significant to the company's future stockholders: a new playground that would leave it less captive to the whims of Facebook, its crucial partner.
Yet he seems to assume that bumping policies up to the international level will make world economic institutions less captive to the special interests he abhors — though democratic control of policy is more likely at a national than an international level, since most national politicians must face elections.
And George, no less captive to the snow and ice of Cooper Island, began to see a correlation: when the polar pack ice remained up against the shores of Cooper Island, as it did in the 1970's and 1980's, his guillemots -- able to feed easily from the nearby ice edge with its great density of prey -- had fabulous breeding success.
(d) Few cases are, however, emerging of farmers operating in these chains in a less captive position thanks to the increasing demand for fresher, more genuine, and local food.
Less captive situations may occur in cases where the farmers manage to organize (through producers associations and/or coops) for increasing their bargaining power (Menard 2004; Yu and Bouamra-Mechemache 2015).
