Sentence examples for a firm handle from inspiring English sources

I don't know that anybody has a firm handle on how long that could be".

"He's got to demonstrate that he's up on the issues and has a firm handle on them," Mr. Cohen said.

The director Matt Torney redraws the newly formed triangle with elegant focus, and his actors have a firm handle on the stylized prose.

The young Mr. Costello had a firm handle on all the music scenes in the United States when he first arrived, and hungered to experience them.

Staged by Ciaran O'Reilly with a firm handle on the narrative's time-shuffling structure and a stinging clarity that illuminates this 1973 play's multiple perspectives, the drama steadily tightens its grip, right up to its shattering conclusion.

Natalie Cassidy Is Doing This Now is a pitch-perfect look at the solipsistic banalities of shows like Peter Andre: The Next Chapter, while Britain's Hardest Commute with Danny Dyer has a firm handle on the tropes of youth television.

But soon after last June's launch of.pro, a firm handling registrations exploited a loophole to "lease" names to otherwise unqualified people.

An estimated 4.2 million borrowers in foreclosure will be contacted by Rust Consulting, a firm handling the payment details, by the end of March, according to the regulators.

But because the way a firm handles a trade is not as apparent as the $8 commission it charges, few investors understand how important execution is or how they can be victimized.

The containers that exploded belonged to Ruihai International Logistics, a firm handling chemicals ranging from flammable gases and liquids like compressed natural gas and ethyl acetate, to toxic chemicals including sodium cyanide and toluene diisocyanate.

Correction: July 31, 2000, Monday Because of an editing error, an article yesterday about lawyers' recruiting of clients for product liability suits over two prescription drugs misspelled the name of a firm handling some of the cases.