Sentence examples for be gripped in a from inspiring English sources
The drill may be gripped in a chuck with three jaws that move radially in unison, or it may have a tapered shank that fits into a tapered hole in the spindle.
And remember, even with the stock market and economy in free fall, Congress originally rejected TARP before it reversed itself days later after the markets appeared to be gripped in a death spiral.
Straight-shank drills must be gripped in a chuck; tapered shanks fit with a sticking taper in matching holes in the machine and are driven partly by the taper and partly by a tang that fits in a slot in the machine.
Yet workers are gripped in a vice of state control through the kafala system.
Had Liverpool been gripped in a genuine crisis of confidence they might have capitulated.
St. Agatha's bloody breast is gripped in a vise; St. Bartholomew is flayed; St. Paul is beheaded in the lower curve of a flame-orange letter "S".
Shiite militias drove Sunni residents from the area 18 months ago, when Baghdad was gripped in a cycle of revenge killings that ultimately divided the city between the sects.
To grind an internal surface, a small wheel is so mounted that it can move back and forth inside the hollow of the workpiece, which is gripped in a rotating chuck.
C1 High Prices for Retail Chains The retailing industry is gripped in a seller's frenzy, as store chains are being bought for prices that would have been considered exorbitant a few years ago.
France is gripped in a tense debate over the role its immigrants should play in its tradition-bound society, and the bombings have raised fears that long-simmering resentment among right-wing nationalists could lead to violence.
The density of the nucleosomal substrate is gripped in a pincer-like fashion by the Snf5 and Snf2 ATPase in the foreleg and the ARP module in the thigh (Fig. 2B).
