jackboot

He's about as threatening as Mr. Rogers and still gets the jackboot.

Orwell's jackboot may be coming but it will be a literal boot not a lack of words.

A few countries have tried that and it’s hard to do without applying the jackboot to a few million people’s’ necks.

You might want to ask what country is putting the jackboot on people's necks to maintain social order

" That thuggish federal jackboot stomping on your face forever can be kind of helpful, eh?

And there is a government jackboot on the neck of decentralization.

As a practical matter, I worry about corporations screwing me over more than I worry about "jackboot thugs.

Luckily there weren't too many hard-liners; the jackboot was applied without much enthusiasm after 1956.

It's not the jackboot that keeps us on the ground, it's social media, and the public outrage you get when you disagree with whatever's the most popular opinion on a topic this week.

A factory of managers crushing creativity with the jackboot of workplace professionalism.

It's not about whether people can get unauthorised access to content without paying for it, it's whether computers and electronic networks are to be a tool for freedom or a fascist jackboot stamping on all of us.

But considering no one seriously expected CleggMania to turn into five years of Tory jackboot economics, "inconceivable" is not the right word for the possibility.

Most other relevant metrics like education, lifespan, and even crime stats paint a pretty good picture for blacks living under the merciless jackboot of evil whites, when compared to living without all that racism.

When these images clash -- as in The Fascist octopus has sung its swan song, the jackboot is thrown into the melting pot -- it can be taken as certain that the writer is not seeing a mental image of the objects he is naming; in other words he is not really thinking.

I'm much more worried about employers using my browsing habits to deny me jobs, companies using my spending habits to deny me a mortgage, etc. Not as bad as having "jackboot thugs" break down your door, but a heck of a lot more likely and potentially life-ruining by itself.