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The Oscar winner talks about his oddest jobs, his cooking hobby, James Bond—and taming lions.

He has dreams of clearing the jungle, straightening its rivers, taming the wild animals.

Taming these institutions and curbing their excesses should be a task for a renewed Labour Party.

One female customer told us that we saved her marriage by successfully taming her philandering husband.

One could get the feeling that Washington and other governments will be taming the markets.

He felt the atmosphere of the little society, and acknowledged that it was “taming the savage beast.”

He did not need taming, for he was tame from the beginning, as it never entered into his head that anyone could be unkind to him.

And then in the second chapel on the right is a lovely Sienese Madonna, and a strange fresco on the left wall of men taming bulls.

The literature on the taming of animals, the education of juveniles and adults, and on social control belongs in this field.

But her eagerness, her hunted wild-bird air only stirred in McNab a lust for the capture and taming of her.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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