Sentence examples for extraordinary grip from inspiring English sources

The world's largest chip maker seems to have an extraordinary grip on the market for microprocessors.

The initiative highlights the extraordinary grip Pakistan has over the Taliban leadership.

If anything, Mr. Sarkozy's acknowledgment of defeat contrasted with Mr. Putin's extraordinary grip on power in the Kremlin.

The "threat" comes from Amazon's intentions, its extraordinary grip on the market share of the big conglomerates.

The extraordinary grip that this mountain has had on the Armenian imagination is tellingly demonstrated by subsequent sections on sculpture, the Armenian Church and the Ark — the conical domes of Armenian churches seeming eternally to replicate this geographical feature that symbolizes the salvation of the human race.

"Everything's cracking up", says Anna, the protagonist of Lessing's masterpiece, a novel that takes its place in this list for its odd, visionary engagement with the issues and anxieties of its time and also for its extraordinary grip on the literary imagination of the late 20th century, when Lessing (who lived to November 2013) was in her prime.

Such a statement gives no idea of the emotional flow of the play and its extraordinary, gripping speech rhythm.

In tonight's extraordinary, gripping film, "The Murder of Stephen Lawrence," the writer and director Paul Greengrass uses the shaky, hand-held camera style of video news to echo the unsettling, real-life dynamics of the case from the Lawrence family's point of view.

It's an extraordinary book — gripping, deeply moving, encyclopedic.

"This extraordinary story gripped people who are never usually interested in politics".

Channel 4 deputy head of drama Beth Willis said: "Matt Charman has done something extraordinary with this gripping political thriller.