Sentence examples for a handle over from inspiring English sources

One of the main criticisms that have been levelled against Alec is that its influence distorts the democratic process by giving corporations a handle over lawmaking.

"Not that other coaches didn't have Ph.D.'s, but Dr. Walker's title had become a handle over the years," Vince Matthews, the 1972 Olympic 400-meter champion, once said.

"The government needs to get a handle over this extreme abuse of the most vulnerable girls in our society by implementing a robust national plan to address the issue," she said.

With its soaring steel arch, a semicircular engineering marvel that loops over the field like a handle over a bucket, it promises to set a towering standard for contemporary sports architecture, though some Londoners already seem wary that it will be an expensive reprise of the recent Millennium Dome folly.

You can hang a coffee can with a handle over the sap pot.

When you didn't arrive yesterday and I couldn't reach you, I felt that I had little choice but to continue and finish what I could but it was clear I didn't have a handle over the X, Y, Z issues that you're best at defining.

That exchange does not handle over-the-counter equity derivatives.

Do we start with getting a handle on the over 80,000 chemicals that are loosely regulated?

The bartender need only pull on a specified handle over a mug or glass, and voila!

But, Freeman wrote I would rather be ruled by an elected government than the top 1000 billionaires on Forbes' list — so I don't think the issue is big government but the way government operates and hope that technology and information and media offer some chance for us to get a better handle over what big government does.

Upon spotting a teenager carrying a garden-variety orthopedic cane — simple wood, J-shaped crook for a handle — the officers pulled over and seized it.