Sentence examples for grip from inspiring English sources

Economically, gas exports enable the government to maintain its tight grip on power.

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For that, thank the Chinese regime's vice-like grip on its financial system.

What explains this enduring grip on both the public and political imagination?

An example of this has been analysed in a recent paper in Nature Climate Change that tried to get a grip on the sources that US politicians used to inform themselves about climate change.

As it still is today, the NSW division of the party was wracked with factional fighting and in the grip of lobbyists.

With military operations inside Ukraine's borders an unappealing prospect for many of the country's professional soldiers, irregular units are springing up as Kiev struggles to wrest back control of Donetsk and Luhansk regions from the grip of pro-Russia fighters.

Republicans were in the grip of an intense power battle on Wednesday as rival factions in in the House of Representatives, which the party controls, jockeyed to replace the outgoing majority leader Eric Cantor.

So while it is good to understand what factors will determine our carbon budget, it is much more important to call on politicians and investors alike to get a grip on this issue and face up to the simple and incontestable reality: there's far more fossil fuel than we can burn, and the more of it that we take out of the ground, the greater the risk of an irreversible climate catastrophe.

After comments by Mark Britnell, the head of health at accountancy giants KPMG giants and a former adviser of David Cameron, hit the headlines in May 2011 – Britnell told an investors' conference that "the NHS will be shown no mercy and the best time to take advantage of this will be in the next couple of years" – the industry got a grip.

And although increased productivity would have always meant lower employment at the same levels of output, the destruction of coal's share of power generation had nothing to do with uneconomic pits and everything to do with the rigging of the privatised electricity market in favour of gas to break the miners' grip.