Sentence examples for fragile grip from inspiring English sources

Olmert needs the religious right in his governing coalition to maintain his fragile grip on power.

Li, Jessica and Druzin, Bryan (2016) "Censorship's Fragile Grip on the Internet: Can Online Speech Be Controlled," Cornell International Law Journal: Vol. 49 : No. 2, Article 3.

For Bernstein, aware that the constant flux at the top of the organisation was a key factor in its fragile grip on legitimacy, it was a huge frustration.

As General Michel's troops gained ground, a tide of refugees escaping the crisis crossed the porous and remote border into Liberia, a country with a fragile grip on stability itself.

The court's decision may embolden critics who have accused Mr. Zuma of recently appointing close allies to critical public positions in an effort to protect his fragile grip on power ahead of his party's election convention next year.

Months of study had given W. a fragile grip on the issues, but the tension about whether he would know an answer evoked the scene in Hitchcock's "North by Northwest" when Cary Grant (W). is hanging on to the Mount Rushmore precipice by his fingertips and Martin Landau Goree) is grinding his foot into Cary's hand.

It stopped your heart for a beat and froze your lungs for a gasp; showing you how fragile your grip on life was and how many enemies you didn't know you had.

Their injured receiver, Wes Welker, watched from a luxury box, his crutches propped nearby providing a fitting reminder of how fragile the New England Patriots' grip on success has become.

And although other robot-like devices have used vacuum for various purposes — we had one on stage that used vacuum to safely grip fragile items — the researchers claim this is the first bot that works entirely by vacuum.

Afghanistan is considered "safe", although humanitarian groups point out it is a fragile country in the grip of conflict – more than 3,000 civilians were killed and 7,000 wounded in 2017.

Saskia Sassen's Expulsions (Harvard, £22.95) describes the global forces that make ever more tenuous and fragile most people's grip on the places where they live – which is architectural to the extent that inhabitation and place are ultimately the main concerns of architecture.