Sentence examples for strong fist from inspiring English sources
Despite this — or perhaps because of it — the province has enjoyed relative autonomy, escaping the strong fist of the Army.
"I run the building with a big heart and a strong fist," Mr. Carney said, groggy from lack of sleep, after shuttle diplomacy on a late-night noise dispute.
In these first few months alone there are premieres of plays by Jan Fosse and Shelagh Stephenson, and upstart company Randolf SD make a strong fist of Welsh writer Gary Owen's acclaimed 2002 script of The Drowned World.
Daniel Radcliffe makes a surprisingly strong fist of his central role as a young Allen Ginsberg, the nebbishy son of a poet who arrives at university with a head full of uptight anxieties, which are promptly undone by his infatuation with Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan, looking more like a young Leonardo than DiCaprio himself) and his first heady whiff of drink and drugs.
Shot with visceral intensity by cinematographer Tobias Schliessler, the film makes a strong fist of placing the viewer in an oppressive huddle of random gunfire, broken bones and pierced skin, each gut-wrenching wound dramatised with explosive squibs and fleshy sound effects.
Ben Affleck may make a strong fist of his role as the screen's grouchiest Batman but Snyder (who is no Christopher Nolan) mistakes "murkiness" for "darkness", leaving his stodgy antiheroes stomping around in a Stygian quagmire of quasi-religious imagery, superficial set pieces, and – most damagingly – incoherent storytelling.
The latest push for a Chicago-based casino is one example where suburban constituents could get thumped by the city's stronger fist.
The food industry shapes America's diet and health with a much stronger fist than here.
Gradually, the loudest voices would give way to the strongest fists and eventually to the sharpest steel.
The aim, commanders now admit, was to have many "different flags on coffins" at the start of a war, so as to ensure that allies could not dodge their commitment to joint defence.The new solidarity force, if approved, could form the first echelon of the troubled NATO Response Force (NRF), supposedly a powerful 25,000-strong mailed fist held at high readiness but far from ready.
