Thrall is a city in Williamson County, Texas, United States.

Why, with the central government in thrall to them, should they venture into the unknown perils of an early election?

Cricket continues to hold many Indians in thrall, but many others have forsaken it in the wake of the IPL revelations.

Implementation depends on regulators some of whom are very good, while others remain in thrall to the big Wall Street banks.

Under the leadership of Dominique Strauss Kahn, the Fund was in thrall to the French and German governments, which adamantly opposed debt relief.

From Alexander the Great to Stalin the Cruel, variants of that strategy have been used to keep nations in thrall to the will of an emperor.

We reject the acts of subversion aimed at financing and artificially building an internal counter revolution in thrall to the interests of the power attacking us.

John Maynard Keynes once famously said that even the most practical man of affairs is usually in the thrall of the ideas of some long dead economist.

That would be an unjustified use of IMF resources, and would further confirm the suspicion among the world's emerging economies that the IMF is in thrall to Western interests.

Furthermore, Netanyahu s unsentimental assessment of the Middle East does not line up with that of the Obama administration in thrall to its collapsing romance with moderate Islamists and its devoted supporters among Jewish Americans.

It is a paradox, indeed, that all candidates in Bolivia promise social and economic change when they all are basically looking at the past for inspiration and are in thrall to the same model of development.

But, in the end, it will have to decide if it wants to be governed by the LDP, which at least offers the possibility of addressing Japan s problems, or a DPJ in complete thrall to the bureaucracy and the past.

It is a paradox, indeed, that all candidates in Bolivia promise social and economic change when they all are basically looking at the past for inspiration and are in thrall to the same model of development. In a profound way, they are all deeply conservative.

Or was it because the forecasters were in thrall to economic models that implied that economies were at full employment, in which case the only result of fiscal expansion would be inflation? They now know better, and Ferguson should now know better as well.

To divide a people in order to conquer them is an immoral strategy that has endured throughout recorded history. From Alexander the Great to Stalin the Cruel, variants of that strategy have been used to keep nations in thrall to the will of an emperor.

It is a deeply disturbing vision, one that amounts to a huge, uninformed gamble with the future of the American economy and that suggests that Geithner remains the senior public official worldwide who is most in thrall to the self serving ideology of big banks.

The Bush administration, in thrall to the idea of regime change, ignored this initiative and rejected the Big Deal on nuclear energy negotiated with the EU 3 in Paris in November 2004 by Rouhani, who was then Khamenei s representative and Chairman of Iran s National Security Council.

Nevertheless, to paraphrase Keynes, every time we turn on the radio or television, read a newspaper, pick up a novel, or watch a movie, we are in the thrall of one or more dead humanists who set the terms of reference through which we see the world.