Sentence examples for grasp at last from inspiring English sources

That commitment to finding solutions – and pushing on without stopping – can bring achievement of the goals set for 2015 within the world's grasp at last.

Grasping at last-minute bureaucratic straws, the would-be saviors of the church have poured in their objections to the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Here is the vision of an Olympics loser made to grasp at a last chance for glory.

He saw Meredith leaning down to grasp at one last memory as their daughter, Gina, bent to encourage her to stand, both women weeping — for it was always Arty who died in Arty's daydreams.

"They have lost hope and are grasping at some last hope with their attacks".

I grasped at the last tender threads of their attention and reminded them of the verse from the Quran where God says, "Now, verily, it is We who have created man, and We know what his innermost self whispers within him: for We are closer to him than his neck-vein" (Quran 50 16).

These and "innumerable other associated circumstances … will put the child upon grasping, till, at last, that idea, or state of mind which we may call the will to grasp, is generated and sufficiently associated with the action to produce it instantaneously".

Ghostly hands grasp at something unseen.

They didn't grasp at the beginning.

You just grasp at a straw.

It has been a revelation of sorts, he says, to watch agency compliance officers grasp the chance at last to seek significant criminal penalties against defiant employers.