0 If you are in thrall to someone or something, or in the thrall of someone or something, he, she, or it has a lot of power to control you: --
Her love for him was like a madness, and she was completely in its thrall.
We are in the thrall of priorities and of priorities within priorities.
But that is a quite different thing from being completely in thrall to the past.
It remains a party in thrall to economic illiteracy.
I do not believe that they want to hold us in thrall in a relationship that we do not enjoy.
That situation puts the editors, or can put them, in thrall to the unions.
This report, in thrall to liberal orthodoxy, illustrates the cynicism of property owners and the miserable submission of reform policies to their lead.
That economy continues to be in thrall to deflationary forces, which have proved very difficult to throw off.
They have, in addition to that, a system of deferred rebates by which they are held continually in thrall to that same builders' merchant.
