Everyone wants to be there, so the Chinese have the whip hand.
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The conditions necessary for holding a referendum never existed, because those who are unprepared to give up East Timor under any circumstances have the whip hand.
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I dont know the ins and outs of this case but in general a free market only works efficiently if customers have the whip hand over producers.
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The complacent reasoning that reform was all-but-inevitable was dealt a blow by such a clear-cut demonstration that Cardoso doesn't necessarily have the whip hand.
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And yet another thing is making folks down this way happy these days . With the advent of term limits in the state Legislature, Orange County will have the whip hand.
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All this _ talk of a new Republican era; control of both houses of Congress; the conviction, widely held, that Republicans have the whip hand in the national debate _ could come crashing down _ on Haley Barbour's watch.
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:Thank " you " : ) The Admiralty may say that, but the Sinking of Prince of Wales and Repulse graphically shows how effective " speed and maneuverability " are when surface ships come under sustained aerial bombardment-aeroplanes have the whip hand, in terms of speed and maneuverability, over surface vessels.