Sentence examples for feeble grip from inspiring English sources
The massacre of political opponents of the governing family in Maguindanao last year was an extreme case but highlighted the wider problem of Manila's feeble grip.
All view the Tbilisi government with varying degrees of scorn.Mr Shevardnadze held a feeble grip on these regions at the best of times, and with his exit the centrifugal forces seem to have increased.
But Mr Hadi came out worst, and his already feeble grip on power was further weakened.If a ruling council is formed to replace the president it is likely to work to the benefit of Mr Saleh, who has long sought to destabilise Mr Hadi's presidency, and is believed to have helped the Houthis take Sana'a.
Whole districts of Aden have been fortified and bedecked with flags of the old southern republic and with portraits of southern victims of what locals see as northern repression.Months of nationwide protests and a quickening rate of defections from the security forces have loosened the regime's grip, feeble at the best of times, on much of the country.
"I mean Labour said they were going to have a class war and they were going to identify the class enemy and now we find out who it is – it's people earning £20,000 that Labour now consider rich and are going after them with a tax on jobs partly because they've been so feeble in not getting to grips with spending straight away".
But al-Sunnah's price of five cabinet posts as well as seats in Somalia's defunct parliament may weaken what is already a pathetically feeble government.The Shabab is tightening its grip in the areas it controls, as its opponents dither.
Gradually – after experiments, more or less successful, with different types of therapy and with drugs – she began to see that her habitual anxiety was even more disabling, though "anxiety", as she says, is a feeble word for the rib-squeezing terror that gripped her on a daily basis.
The Burmese junta, which calls itself the State Peace and Restoration Council and has ruled the country with an iron grip for four decades, rejected the report as a feeble attempt to discredit the regime.
To observe these inconsistencies is not to dismiss everything the chancellor had to say. Britain's grip on what the French call grands projets is often feeble, so an infrastructure commission has much to commend it, as does setting local government pension funds to work on financing new public buildings and bridges.
The reasons are hardly a state secret: the yawning wealth gap, lack of a social safety net for the needy, and feeble rule of law continue to undermine the happiness index as well as Party leaders' confidence in their sustained grip on power.
