Sentence examples for handhold in from inspiring English sources

Firewatch uses branching dialogue and tactile objects and items (the walkie-talkie, the map, dozens of small nothings) to give players a handhold in the experience.

Action: from Russia, which, as Syria's main arms supplier, is defending its strategic handhold in the Middle East by opposing or blocking U.N. reports on its ally's nuclear program and arms deals with Iran, and through a probable veto of a condemnation of Syria if it comes up in the Security Council.

Every time I mentioned that my career goals of working in print after college, I was faced with reminders of how insanely difficult it was to get a handhold in that job market.

Here and there on the face of the wall were footholds and handholds in the form of slots the size of bricks.

Germany: an extraordinary neighboring democracy, strengthened by the brakes of a fearful history, and so far pretty much free of the hard right's new handholds in societies to the west and north of here.

This isn't a courtroom thriller: Will excels at "finding small cracks and handholds in the cliff face of the law," and his juridical hairsplitting prevents either case from coming to trial.

It is "the evening star inviolable over the coal mines", but equally "the hands of strong men groping for handholds"; in short, we can find hope both in the timeless world of non-human process and in the finite sphere of our own actions.

At one point I actually fell asleep, awakening with a start as I fumbled for handholds in the ancient granite so I wouldn't tumble – feet over fishing rod – into the violent, extremely frigid temperatures below.

He governed by press conference, preferring to make populist appeals in the realms of health care and public transit over handholding in a legislature dominated by his own Democratic Party during his entire tenure in office.

Digitization of the handholds in the periphery (of which we know the exact measures) showed only a small measuring error (≤10%) when compared with the actual dimensions of the handholds.

Canon's 24mm lens is a brand new design, and even though it's not particularly fast, it has a built-in image stabiliser that Canon claims will allow you to handhold the camera in 4 stops less light than normal.