bring to heel
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Regulators across the world are working out how to bring to heel the crypto sector, which is subject to patchy rules.
From Reuters • Aug. 4, 2022
The men whom De Gaulle was trying to bring to heel had made one revolution and were quite capable of making another.
From Time Magazine Archive
In trying to realize the Nazi dream of a perfect "Totalitarian State," Adolf Hitler has notably failed to bring to heel Germany's devout Protestant pastors and their congregations.
From Time Magazine Archive
I garner the best of your manhood's prime Then quit them when shattered in health; I bring to heel the ones that you love And smiling I shear them of wealth.
From Rhymes of a Roughneck by O'Cotter, Pat
“Then the only man we can bring to heel is this bond-servant of thine.”
From Janice Meredith by Ford, Paul Leicester
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