As Abraham Lincoln stated, "We could not secure the good we did secure if we grasped for more".
At that period rumors about Isabeau's promiscuity flourished, which Adams attributes to English propaganda, who may have felt a need to secure their grasp on the throne.
Together with the arapaima secure in our grasp, we swim toward the shallows.
By contrast, Trump grasps the political benefits of securing the release of American hostages and seems to give little thought to the broader strategic considerations.
Biological sciences such as classical genetics that are couched in terms of higher levels of organization should persist, secure from the reductive grasp of molecular science, because their central theories (or patterns of reasoning) explain domains of phenomena that are best explained at levels higher than the molecular level.
But while we are eating snow cones in fantasyland — what would it take to snatch the title of "Coldest July Ever" from the secure grasp of 1888?
A fourth-and-18 attempt by Nelson from the Golden Knights' 48-yard line was low and bounced from the grasp of Talianko to secure a 28-25 win for the second-seeded Dons in the opening round of the Western Division playoffs on Friday night.
This paper focuses on two-phalanx fingers and studies their ability to seize objects with a secure grasp, considering practical issues on the grasp, namely the local geometry of the contact, the influence of design parameters and friction.
In one of the most astounding climaxes to any game, let alone a European Cup final, Manchester United conjured up two goals in two injury-time minutes to snatch the European Cup from the seemingly secure grasp of Bayern Munich last night.
Very few Britons have a secure grasp of the causes of the first world war, just as few of us are really certain what British military objectives have been in Afghanistan for the past decade.
Michigan State is the only team in the league with a secure grasp on its place in the league standing.
