Sentence examples for slack grip from inspiring English sources

Moving pieces Rich pickings Unintended consequences All together now Sources and acknowledgements ReprintsWhen OFCs combine all these attributes with a low- or no-tax regime they are tagged as "tax havens", especially if they also have strict banking-secrecy rules, light supervision and a slack grip on business within their borders.

At the tailor's, Jossen, as if trying to talk himself into Weitz's lavender vision for him, noted that, in Hollywood's golden age, every man on a movie set — the technicians, the grips — wore neat slacks and a collared shirt.

It was carried on the left arm by means of a bronze strap that passed across the forearm and a rope looped around the inner rim with sufficient slack to be gripped in the fist.

In any case, his grip is slacker on film than on books.

Without more slack, the cartel's grip on the oil price may prove as illusory as that of Johnson's meteorologist.

Get a good grip on the slack spots and pull open the knot.

"Why don't you cut him some slack?" But Horace tried to get a grip on things after a maintenance man told him to be careful.

"The Black Girl Next Door" is provocative and gripping but at times curiously slack.

It was remarkable to see how Tottenham loosened their grip and Wes Morgan equalised following slack marking at a corner.

That was in 1986, four years before the movie "Slacker" came out, and Austin was in the grip of a profound economic malaise.

Dithering over plans, slack financial controls over contractors, political interference, the ever tightening grip of safety regulations - these, they say, added billions to a project that should have cost far less.