The best thing Democrats had going for them was the state AFL-CIO under the whip hand of Bob Haynes, whose strong performance in the losing cause makes him a coming strongman in Democratic Party politics here.
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In the first sequel, " Whip Hand ", Halley and his partner, Chico Barnes, no longer working for Hunt Radnor Associates, have opened their own detective agency, and, in quick succession, are hired to investigate three unrelated cases.
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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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But then, after the budget stalemate that closed the government, the power swung again, giving Clinton the whip hand just as he was preparing to run for reelection against a man who personified Capitol Hill, Senator Bob Dole of Kansas.
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In the course of this novel, Halley is threatened with the loss of his remaining hand . " Whip Hand " won both the MWA Edgar and the John Le Carre's " The Spy Who Came in from the Cold ".
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It's a roster that needs a whip hand right now, and Nolan, who coached Pat LaFontaine in Buffalo, is the only logical pick . . . Trivia of the day : Can you name the last Bruin who didn't wear a helmet?
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Under the whip hand of Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, an unctuous right-wing Mississippian whose power rests in the methodical harvest of tens of millions of dollars of soft money from corporate influence-buyers, this Senate has repeatedly impeded the progress of American civilization.
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Now that the Yankees have gloriously won the World Series for the first time in 18 years, does anyone seriously doubt that Steinbrenner, owner of horses as well as ballplayers, has the whip hand in the stretch drive to keep him from bolting before long to New Jersey?
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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.
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Durkan said Trimble seemed to be confronting Northern Ireland's myriad armed groups " on the basis of, ` Either you go or the democratic institutions go .'In that situation, the paramilitaries would be quite happy to say, ` Bye bye, democratic institutions .'I don't think we should be giving them that whip hand over democracy ."
