JERNGREB in English translation

• stranglehold
• grip
• clutch
• hold
• iron vice
• with an iron fist

Examples of using Jerngreb in Danish and their translations into English

hvilket hidtil har været afgørende for hans jerngreb om den politiske magt.
which has hitherto been vital to his stranglehold on political power.

den højtliggende jernbaneforbindelse til Lhasa har yderligere konsolideret Beijings jerngreb om Tibet.
the arrival of the high-altitude railway at Lhasa have further consolidated Beijing's hold on Tibet.

Langt nordpå, i Arktis… har isen holdt land og hav i sit jerngreb i månedsvis.
In the far north, in the Arctic, ice has held land and ocean in its grip for months.

som er spredt ud over kloden, i en primitiv stammereligions jerngreb i femogtyve århundreder?
distributed around the globe, in the clutch of primitive tribalism for twenty-five centuries?

hvad kan der gøres for at løsne deres jerngreb om menneskeheden?
what can be done to undo their grip on humanity?

De forlanger en ende på militærdiktaturet, som har holdt landet i et jerngreb siden kuppet i 1962.
They are demanding an end to the military dictatorship that has ruled the country with an iron fist since a coup in 1962.

Imens fastholder den kommunistiske junta sit jerngreb om folket, pressen
Meanwhile the communist junta maintains its iron grip on the people, press

har de i forhold til deres tidligere jerngreb om den globale økonomi,
compared to their former iron grasp on the global economy,

Chun og hans regering holdt Sydkorea under et jerngreb indtil 1987, da en ung studerende ved Seoul National University,
Chun and his government held South Korea under a despotic rule until 1987, when a Seoul National University student,

ikke plejerne ikke havde holdt mig i deres jerngreb.
I would have spoken to you if the attendants hadn't held me in their iron grip.

Eller kammerat Vigenin, hvis parti holdt det bulgarske folk i et jerngreb i 50 år og dræbte tusindvis af bulgarere i koncentrationslejrene?
Or Comrade Vigenin whose party held the Bulgarian people in its clutches for fifty years and killed thousands Bulgarians in its concentration camps?

korruption ikke længere holder samfundet i et jerngreb.
when corruption no longer has society in its grip.

Manderlay-plantagen med dets prangende palæ og de lurvede slavehytter omme bagved var blevet holdt i et jerngreb af disse tal!
The Manderlay plantation with its glamorous front mansion and pitiful rear where the slaves had their quarters had been kept in an iron grip by these very numbers!

skueplads for grusomme kampe, og rædsel og undertrykkelse holdt længe Ungarn i et jerngreb.
of a bloody repression, and Hungary was gripped by terror and oppression for a long time.

Det bliver deres ultimative mål at have et jerngreb omkring jer.
It becomes their ultimate goal to have a stronghold on you.

som kan bryde nedskæringspolitikkens jerngreb og opbygge ægte demokrati og solidaritet fra bunden.
which can break the rule of austerity and will start to build democracy and solidarity from below.

som har holdt landet i et jerngreb.
who have kept an iron grip on the country.

der holdt Central- og Østeuropa i et jerngreb.
Eastern Europe in its iron grip.

det vil kaste Burma yderligere under juntaens jerngreb.
it will plunge Burma even further under the junta's iron rule.

Topmødet i juni må tage stilling til, hvorledes de lande, som har særdeles store problemer, kan få mulighed for at vikle sig ud af euroens jerngreb.
The June summit must make a statement on how the countries having particularly significant problems can extricate themselves from the iron grip of the euro.