Sentence examples for real grip from inspiring English sources

"What numbers [US Soccer] does release are hard to get a real grip on," women's player Megan Rapinoe told Foudy.

There was the sense, perhaps even true, that I had some measure of control, after all these years, a real grip on the wheel.

If local authorities are to have a real grip of their care responsibilities they need to keep these in house, leaving Ofsted able to undertake its inspection role.

For instance, having a single figure in charge of intelligence probably makes sense, but even Mr Negroponte's new power will not give him a real grip on his sprawling empire (much of which is run by the Defence Department).

But Edward Gardner, the company's music director, said Mr. Gilliam has "a real grip on what needs to be done," adding, "I can't wait to tap into his crazy world and artistry".

Also, black coffee (no cream and sugar); chinning from the door (which has no real grip, so I can only do ten or eleven or twelve); and less sleep.

"But there's a real mature grip on reality.

This was conducting of real intellectual grip, conscious that Brahms is above all a master of concision and musical structure, not the sonic wallower to which lesser conductors reduce him.

Italy broke Real's grip in the 1960s when Angelo Moratti, Inter's oil-rich president, hired Helenio Herrera, a coach born in Buenos Aires and raised in Casablanca, to organize a team that included the Spaniard Luis Suárez and the Brazilian Jair da Costa.

"He had a real good grip on him," Johnson recalled.

The critics who did not like the film were not amused by the film's graphic and comical violence, with Larry Ratliff of San Antonio Express-News noting that "this ambitious, scratched and weathered venture never manages a real death grip on the senses".