Sentence examples for forceful grip from inspiring English sources

In the longer term, he will need to consolidate his personal power within a divided old guard that was held together by his father's forceful grip.

In Italy, the "ombra del cupolone," or shadow of the dome of St. Peter's, reaches far, and the church has long maintained a forceful grip on public life, if not in Italians' private lives.

A Reuters photographer, meanwhile, captured a photograph Friday of the imprint that French President Emmanuel Macron left on Trump's right hand after a handshake, suggesting the French leader used a forceful grip.

The sense that you are visiting an alien world is critical to the film's forceful grip, which immediately takes hold of you in the opening with images of some men bathed in dark blue light standing in what turn out to be sunbathing booths.

A massive collection of terracotta sculptures showcase his forceful grip, applied manually, and frozen indefinitely as amorphous, flesh-toned objects, indeterminate from first glance as human or something created by nature.

In our study 17 patients (27%) reported that they had pain at the base of the thumb on forceful gripping or pinching.

The patients were enquired about the frequency of heavy lifting, duration of working with hand above shoulder level, prolonged forceful gripping, as well as pinch grip that either required exertion or deviated wrist posture, and the use of vibrating tools.

The BBC was in an extraordinary and forceful political vice-grip.

The new method provides "solid evidence that A. africanus was likely using forceful precision pinch grips," says ancient hand expert Matthew Tocheri of Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Canada, and the Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program in Washington, D.C.

The Post's Liz Sly was at the scene, and described it as "forceful affirmation" of Assad's grip on power.

Others, citing his doctorate in economics, say at the very least he could become a forceful advocate for loosening the grip of the state-run conglomerates that many analysts say are smothering entrepreneurs and endangering China's economic miracle.