The president cannot be tied hand and foot when he faces armed bandits,
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Nine athletes were captured and tied hand and foot to furniture in a bloody third-floor bedroom.
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And if the Duma is involved in internal intrigues and posing before cameras . . . the president will be tied hand and foot,
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Thereupon Sant was seized, tied hand and foot, and whisked to a landing to catch the next steamboat heading for St . Louis and points south.
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Even in a world brutalized by such things, no other state could quite match the Taliban for the chilling way they carried out their ritual killings : At the direction of the the religious police _ mostly young thugs recruited into the service of the Ministry for the Prohibition of Vice and the Promotion of Virtue _ couples caught in adultery were led out to the " stoning ground " before a mosque, the women buried in a pit up to her head, the man tied hand and foot beside her, their children required to cast the first rocks.