Sentence examples for grabs that from inspiring English sources

Some compared the decree to power grabs that took place in the country's not so distant past.

We need to reverse the land grabs that have recently transferred 133 million acres from small farmers to big investors.

Any list of the Supreme Court's enduring power grabs that does not begin with Bush v. Gore is seriously defective.

In Game 1 on Sunday, the star center Dwight Howard felt the slaps, bumps and grabs that proved the path will be more difficult against the Boston Celtics.

But others condemn the deals as neocolonial land grabs that destroy villages, uproot tens of thousands of farmers and create a volatile mass of landless poor.

But Charles Ives — businessman by day, modernist composer by night — "grabs that big sound with both hands and shapes it into a song".

Local governments, no longer drawn by land-fee windfalls, would be less prone to the sort of high-handed land-grabs that have triggered tens of thousands of protests in recent years and this month the death of the grandmother.

The Kyoto Protocol is simply a Big Government power grab that would severely harm our economy.

According to screen-grabs that have begun to appear on Twitter, it would appear that male ticket buyers for Calvin Harris' upcoming dates at the Omnia super-club in Vegas are being faced with a little bit of a shock.

Or the sugar-fueled candy grab that is Halloween.

A pill giver is a plastic grabber that grips the pill.