Sentence examples for hand in advancing from inspiring English sources

But he has had a hand in advancing them.

MANILA — Philippine voters appeared to have strengthened President Benigno S. Aquino III's hand in advancing his political agenda, according to early unofficial election returns on Tuesday that showed his political allies poised to take control of the Senate.

"The command addresses conditions as they arise, but it's not going to show its hand in advance," he said.

Under visual occlusion they no longer shaped the hand in advance of grasping.

By rejecting any greater role for the private sector in health, Mr Blair has foolishly tied his hands in advance.

And he did not think it was helpful for the Bank to "tie its hands" in advance.

For his part, Herman Nackaerts, the chief IAEA inspector, had insisted his inspectors should be able to follow leads wherever they led without tying their hands in advance.

The last quarter of 2014 is a month away and corporate social responsibility managers are wringing their hands in advance of programme planning and budget approval for the next fiscal.

Judge Scheindlin refused to issue an injunction against such transfers, saying she did not want to tie the department's hands in advance.

If the key to al-Qaeda turns up elsewhere, they do not want to have tied their hands in advance.The letter's other purpose was to deter Iraq from mischief-making while America's attention is elsewhere.

But he understands that if there were a deal where you could get five or six dollars of spending cuts for a dollar of tax increase, that's a good deal to get, and it is not good policy to tie your hands in advance".