The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft Against the inside knee was levered firmly.
An accessible history of Iraq that renders its horrors without ignoring what outsiders have done, or failed to do, that fastened Saddam Hussein's fists all the more firmly to the levers of power.
The show trial was organised by fellow communists, who twisted a popular uprising into little more than a palace coup and held on firmly to the levers of power.
With approval ratings in the mid-60s and sizable majorities in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, he and his party firmly controlled the levers of power.
Pull firmly on the brake lever multiple times to stretch out the new cable.
It means using investment, commerce, diplomacy and finance to create a Sinocentric network of Asian infrastructure and institutions, with each policy lever enhancing the next to bind the region firmly into a Chinese embrace.
This is partly because the modern Middle Eastern security state is firmly in control of the key levers of power — guns and money, mainly — and has learned to live with the digital open flow of information, as long as this does not translate into actual political action that seeks to change policies or ruling elites.
Through all the ebbs and flows of the GOP's 100-year civil war, the levers of power within the Republican Party have remained firmly in the hands of a progressive elite that sees big government as often inefficient but not wrong.
Many believe that Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia or other Sunni insurgent groups are trying to prompt a return to the violence of Iraq's worst days, but there is little sign that Shiites, who are a majority here and are firmly in control of the state's levers of power, are willing to head down that dark path again.
Once the CPU is in plain view, grasp the lever on the Zero Insertion Force sockets and carefully but firmly pull the lever straight up.
