Sentence examples for from getting hold from inspiring English sources

As they also explained, the bill would certainly not prevent a determined criminal from getting hold of a weapon.

If, alternatively, the firearms were locked up, how would I grab one in the heat of some desperate moment or keep students from getting hold of the keys?

The sanctions are preventing Iran from getting hold of the hard currency it needs to defend its peg, among other things.

I am trying to prevent ghoul dot-com from getting hold of those pictures and putting them on the Internet or going out and commercializing them".

Most of these carefully run meetings last only about 15 minutes to prevent corporate extortionists from getting hold of a microphone.

Fraught trade relations and off-putting investment climates (to say the least) normally prevent them from getting hold of the fancy imported goods they covet; which only sharpens the desire.

She has seen her monthly repayments sink from £900 since getting hold of the first rung of the property ladder 17 months ago to just £200 today on a deal that gives a current pay rate of 1.49 per cent.

"If a certain member of our organisation from another region gets hold of Trinkaus & Burkhardt then that is the end of peace among the public banks," he declared.

With the music, as in this summer's Roman season: the composer Claire van Kampen, licensed by Globe boss Dominic Dromgoole, worked around the idea that the Romans imported their festive music, and its instruments, from North Africa, and got hold of Moroccan and rustic Spanish drums and buzz-booming shawms.

But their best-known collaboration was the theme from the 1967 film version of Jacqueline Susann's drug-soaked show-business novel "Valley of the Dolls" (later recorded by Dionne Warwick), which begins: Gotta get off, gonna get Have to get off from this ride Gotta get hold, gonna get Need to get hold of my pride.

Best is "Quizás," a fluttery duet with the Mexican pop singer Yuridia that borrows a bit from the Notorious B.I.G.'s "One More Chance (remix)," but still sounds airy and polite, like bachata from before the streets got hold of it.