Sentence examples for close grip from inspiring English sources

During Dr. Shalala's tenure, the White House kept a close grip on both the health care and welfare initiatives.

But he has not set the currency free: even as the central bank has widened the yuan's trading band, it has continued to keep a close grip on it by setting the exchange rate's starting point every day.

I would work out five times a week with a regiment consisting of roughly 15 sets of pull-ups utilizing all different styles, i.e. underhand, overhand, close grip, wide grip, reverse grip, super pullup, for a total of roughly 250 repetitions.

Start out by performing a close grip bench press.

Include exercises such as close grip push-ups, lying barbell French presses, and overhead cable extensions.

This close grip allows you to control your motions and feel for the clog easier.

Slide your strong hand down until both of your hands are close, gripping the end of the handle, then bring your hands down and flick your wrists, letting gravity do much of the work for you.

Offering a mobile security service makes sense for a carrier: it gives the carrier a closer grip on its customers' usage, and potentially offers a unique selling point to set a it apart from a competitor offering the exact same device for more or less the same price.

If you like baseball this could be fun, but using the touch controllers to hold a bat also wasn't that natural – because when you hold a real baseball bat you're supposed to hold your knuckles close together with a tight grip, and the touch controllers don't really let you do that.

Indeed, a gate of this kind has been observed in RNA polymerase, whose clamp domain opens to permit entry of promoter DNA during initiation, closes to establish a tight grip on the DNA during elongation, and then opens again to release the DNA during termination.

With this sketch of practical reasoning we can come to closer grips with what sorts of things admit of change.