Sentence examples for had a hand in the making of from inspiring English sources

An unqualified A for effort in bringing to the screen a frank and immediate demonstration of the brutality of religious bigotry as it festers and fires ferocity in certain seemingly normal American minds is due to Producers Dore Schary, Adrian Scott and everyone else at RKO who had a hand in the making of "Crossfire," which came tothe Rivoli yesterday.

Terry Semel had a hand in the making of 400 films in 24 years at Warner Bros., defining a generation with such seminal works as the Superman and Batman series and Goodfellas.

"If they are not at the table, they will not have a hand in the making of the regulation," said Robert N. Stavins, director of the environmental economics program at Harvard University.

"But by the time you get to the Academy Awards now, they're almost anticlimactic," said Ms. Press, whose studio has had a hand in the making or distribution of each of the last three best-picture winners.

As well as the Audi A2, he had a hand in the "3-litre" fuel saving version of the Volkswagen Lupo, and developed an early interest in exotic – at least in everyday car-making – materials, such as magnesium.

During the Jazz Age and Great Depression, radio broadcasters did not conjure their listening public with a throw of a switch; the public had a hand in its own making.

Page C2 MAKING THE GENRES DANCE Afrojack, the innovative Dutch D.J. and producer who through a combination of serendipity and idiosyncrasy had a hand in three of the year's biggest and best songs, offered a set at the Roseland Ballroom.

Musk also addresses Eberhard's claims that he had no hand in the making of the Roadster and that Musk's management was detrimental to the business.

It involved hundreds of willing hands in the making of a giant chopped salad.

He's also willing to extend a helping hand to Mel Gibson in the making of a film on the pope.

It's hardly fair to compare her book with Joseph Frank's 50-years-in-the-making life of Dostoevsky, but in terms of English language biographies, at least, Tolstoy's great rival currently has the upper hand.