Sentence examples for forceful hold from inspiring English sources

Outside the Capitol itself, which has been swept clear of vehicles and most visitors, a weird, wary silence prevailed, and within its corridors a bunker mentality took forceful hold.

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.

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.

Yet the most forceful reason to hold these shows must be financial: the high attendance brings in the big bucks.

"Joy" had always been an idiosyncratic operation, written and rewritten, over the years, by strong personalities who held forceful and often conflicting opinions.

But in taking the forceful step of holding up a statute even before it was put into practice, Judge Bolton previewed her opinions on the case, indicating that the federal government was likely to win in the end on the main points.

An ippon can be scored by a clean, forceful throw; by holding the opponent mainly on his or her back for 30 seconds (under control); or by submission to a strangle, a choke or a lock applied against the elbow.

He was a "strong and forceful" player, able to hold the ball up in order to bring other players into the game.

Yet what held Japan back from more forceful action then is what held America back in the wake of its own crisis: political hostility to anything that smacked of favours to banks or borrowers.

McCain, in particular, might find much to admire and consider in the straight-talking La Follette, among the most admired and forceful United States senators ever to hold the office.

"I shut the front door and leant against the door to try to stop water coming in but it was so forceful that I couldn't hold it any longer so I ran into the lounge and it just burst the front door open and it all rushed in," she said.