Sentence examples for firm anchor from inspiring English sources

Matti Salminen's familiar portrayal of Fafner as dragon provided a firm anchor.

The show has a firm anchor in Carla Duren's Clementine, a potent combination of vulnerability and strength in both voice and gesture.

Ricky Muñoz, the frontman who sings and plays accordion, was a firm anchor, not physically demonstrative but vocally pliant and plaintive.

LANDING FOOT Strasburg's left foot lands with two times his body weight (so 440 pounds), so it needs a firm anchor to transfer force up through his trunk and into his arm.

Adecco, the world's largest staffing firm, said it was in tie-up talks with Russia's largest recruitment firm, Anchor, a deal that would give it access to a fast-growing market.

It's not done, either: it has also acquired self-publishing podcast firm Anchor and say it has plans to spend a further $500m on podcast acquisitions in the near future.

Termination of the distal dendrites inside the lumen of the setae is gradual with a firm anchoring to the cuticle.

Turkish public opinion sometimes favours a go-it-alone strategy for the country; but in the absence of firm anchors, that is unlikely to promote either economic or political stability.

This strengthening required the firm anchoring of the pelvic girdle to the axial skeleton (vertebral column) because hind limbs must support the body while providing the main propulsive force in tetrapod locomotion.

Although the group has been performing since 1970, and some of its veterans, like the cellist André Emilianoff, were firm anchors of this evening, it is clearly open to new blood.

Though the dark cherry fruit is soft, the structure is firm, anchoring a solid core that will age well.