Henchman and enforcer.

You're an enforcer, aren't you?

So you're an enforcer for the hotel? I'm not that kind of person.

All of which raises the question of whether China will eventually replace the US as the world s hegemon, the global economy s rule setter and enforcer.

But, in the absence of a credible enforcer (and lacking sufficient mutual assurances), participants felt that they had more to gain from continuing their non cooperative behavior.

While initially viewed as pacific and moderate, it was underpinned by an overarching view of Turkey as the hegemonic regional power as an arbiter of conflicts, but ultimately also as an enforcer of its own views on lesser players.

Willem Buiter of the University of Amsterdam and Anne Sibert of the University of London believe that it is the ECB s willingness to, in effect, accept all euro zone debt as collateral that has undermined the market s willingness to be an enforcer of fiscal prudence.

The objective of threatening a fiscal cliff was to force a cooperative outcome on an increasingly non cooperative game. But, in the absence of a credible enforcer (and lacking sufficient mutual assurances), participants felt that they had more to gain from continuing their non cooperative behavior.