under the thumb of

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Like Iranians before them, Egyptians may neither forget, nor forgive, those who kept them under the thumb of an oppressive ruler.
正如他们的先例，伊朗人一样，埃及人既不会忘记，也不会原谅那些曾经把他们踏在脚下的统治者。
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Chechnya itself has been relatively calm in recent years under the thumb of the local strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, installed by Mr Putin as Chechen president in 2007.
车臣本土，近年在本地铁腕人物拉姆赞•卡德罗夫的统治下，相对平静，此人于2007年被普京先生任命为车臣总统。
One of the two bits of a future Palestinian state, the Gaza Strip, is under the thumb of the Islamists of Hamas and locked out of the diplomacy.
作为未来巴勒斯坦国两块领土之一，加沙地带被哈马斯所占据，并在外交上实行了“锁国”政策。

Under the scheme, Washington brought the tobacco industry under the thumb of federal regulation.
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The British preferred to allow him to return via Portugal, formally a neutral country but under the thumb of Germany.
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