Sentence examples for decisive grip from inspiring English sources

After 29 Qd5, Eljanov's pieces had a decisive grip on the board.

New Zealand brushed aside World Cup bogey team France to take a decisive grip on Pool A. Adam Thomson, Cory Jane and Israel Dagg tries helped the All Blacks into a 19-0 lead before France managed a Dimitri Yachvili penalty just before the break.

Poole warns: All things considered, the 'solution' to the eurozone problem is likely to be a series of half measures coupled with a fiscal adjustment rather than a decisive decision that triggers the end of the crisis gripping the region.

"Ministers have got to stop hiding behind the retailers and food industry and take decisive action to get a grip on this scandal now.

The ball only just cleared the cross bar in the end, the final and decisive score in an utterly gripping contest.

But the Taliban have already turned this city into a battlefield as they prepare for the operation, which American officials hope will be decisive in breaking the insurgency's grip on southern Afghanistan.

The white bishops could not show what they often do because Benjamin's strong pawn center gave him a grip that he converted into a decisive attack.

Most Egyptians regard him as a decisive figure who can end the political turmoil that has gripped Egypt since a popular uprising backed by the military toppled autocratic president Hosni Mubarak in 2011.

"The decisive factor for the winning book was that it excited and gripped us as judges the most," said Bryson.

Cathal McShane's second half goal proved the decisive score for a Red Hand side that trailed for much of a gripping contest.

But the pair are chagrined because their nephew, Alain Rouvière, who has a decisive stake in the property, has married a woman who threatens to upend their cherished traditions and undermine their grip on things.