Sentence examples for a secure grasp. from inspiring English sources

Michigan State is the only team in the league with a secure grasp on its place in the league standing.

This paper focuses on two-phalanx fingers and studies their ability to seize objects with a secure grasp, considering practical issues on the grasp, namely the local geometry of the contact, the influence of design parameters and friction.

Very few Britons have a secure grasp of the causes of the first world war, just as few of us are really certain what British military objectives have been in Afghanistan for the past decade.

Staged by director Kyle Donnelly with a secure grasp of the diabolical brand of gentility practiced by the Hubbard clan, the production proves exemplary at milking the tension without falling prey — as it might — to outdated histrionics.

Conservative commentators have pointed to Baltimore as a kind of anti-Ferguson, a city where, for decades, blacks have had a secure grasp on political leadership, including the mayor's office; a significant representation in the police force, including, now, the commissioner; and an African-American chief prosecutor, who announced the charges in Gray's death.

They are being used less as a path to justice than to crush an opposition Islamic party, Jamaat-e-Islami.It hardly suggests that India's ally has a wholly secure grasp on power.

It is sometimes said that positivism gives a more secure grasp on the fallibility of law, for once we see that it is a social construction we will be less likely to accord it inappropriate deference and better prepared to engage in a clear-headed moral appraisal of the law.

In the paradigm case, which the definition has in view, cognitve impressions are perceptual, but in a broader sense of the term, non-perceptual impressions that afford an equally secure grasp of their contents can also be called cognitive.

On Stoic assumptions, assent to an impression that is not cognitive (either in the strict sense or in a broader sense which covers impressions that, though not perceptual, nonetheless afford an equally secure grasp of their contents), gives rise to opinion.

But while we are eating snow cones in fantasyland — what would it take to snatch the title of "Coldest July Ever" from the secure grasp of 1888?

In one of the most astounding climaxes to any game, let alone a European Cup final, Manchester United conjured up two goals in two injury-time minutes to snatch the European Cup from the seemingly secure grasp of Bayern Munich last night.