On Thursday, the chancellor extended her hand to the president, who answered with a firm and decisive grip of his own.
"Ministers have got to stop hiding behind the retailers and food industry and take decisive action to get a grip on this scandal now.
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 American, who was serving at speeds of up to 125mph, earned a third-round meeting with Slovakia's Dominika Cibulkova thanks to a decisive victory over Santonja, whose double-handed grip on both flanks looked clumsy but did not prevent her hitting some telling ground strokes.
They want assurances that the leadership will get a grip on the crisis and take decisive steps to stop antisemitism.
Based on our review of 16 cases of rigged elections in authoritarian or transition countries in the last 40 years, we find that autocratic rulers who attempted to steal presidential, parliamentary, or general elections had roughly an equal chance of keeping their grip on power, succumbing to a quick and decisive defeat, or getting mired in a costly political stalemate.
ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish voters gave President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a decisive victory in national elections on Sunday, lengthening his 15-year grip on power and granting him vastly expanded authority over the legislature and judiciary.
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.
Islamic State has consolidated its grip on the historic city of Palmyra and other swaths of territory in eastern Syria, fresh from its decisive victory over forces loyal to the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.
