(1) He is not in thrall to the media.

(2) She was in thrall to her emotions.

(3) The country's economy is largely in thrall to the big companies.

(4) We have a congress that is in thrall to special interest groups.

(5) Last night you were in thrall to your emotions.

(6) Perhaps I was in thrall to an illusion, but to me Pottz looked natural, free, and potent.

(7) We are in thrall to the uniquely Western illusion of cheating time by investing the temporal with immortality.

(8) It seemed that Martin was acting in thrall to a belief common among organizational leaders who want to avoid telling the truth.

(9) We have a Congress that is in thrall to the gun lobby.

(10) She was completely in thrall to Dickens.

(11) Well, for a start, I'm not actually in thrall to the King of Death, or whoever he's meant to be.

(12) That the Japanese, in thrall to China from time immemorial, should try to subjugate their vast neighbor seemed an inversion of the cosmic order.

(13) Britain was not just in thrall to the cost of its victory, but it seemed somehow frozen in time.

(14) But people in Great Groups are different from those who spend countless hours in thrall to video games or other trivial pursuits.

(15) You may recall that for years the chancellor was helplessly in thrall to Prudence.

(16) But Christie - and this is really very unusual - is not in thrall to his public image.

(17) Self-pity evaporates as she's drawn to playground attendant Billy, unhealthily in thrall to macho pack leader Len.

(18) We adore "The Front Page" and "Scoop, " which present us as lazy, unprincipled, and hopelessly in thrall to bogus information.

(19) He argues that the refusal of powerful institutions to admit losses aided and abetted by a government in thrall to the "money-changers" may make it impossible to escape from the crisis.

(20) Mr Sarkozy sees a chance to show he is a man of action, and he will find it easier to force through domestic reform if he can show he is not in thrall to all that Anglo-Saxon free-market ideology.

(21) The subject generates great cynicism, with critics suggesting investors are in thrall to political correctness and guilty of creating a "box-ticking" culture that stifles entrepreneurship.

(22) It's gone so far that one expert calls First World countries chronocracies, in thrall to rigid scheduling.

(23) He regards the witches as beings "that palter to us with a double sense", apparently quite aware that they are " servile ministers", in thrall to the force of evil and can mean no good.

(1) He is not in thrall to the media.