"take in hand" is an idiom used in written English.
It means to begin to deal with a particular task or issue. Example: The government must take in hand the issue of pollution control.
In particular, the introduction of a financial transaction tax is an issue that we must finally take in hand.
The restrictions imposed afterwards on the liquids travellers can take in hand luggage remain in force.
So I'd rather think this whole notion of protecting people from that is something that we have to take in hand and deal with.
Socialist Revolutionaries of the Ukraine offered an amendment to the effect that the Ukraine government should take in hand the creation of a federal republic, which should then be intrusted with the peace negotiations.
Now that it has changed, he believes that not only should the name be changed, but suggests he take in hand the revision of the Spalding Handbook of Rules.
Invincible, I take in hand a flailing monster,Plunge it in a pot of boiling water,Watch its green copper turn to scarlet.(Well it might, killed to appease our appetite).
Obama effortlessly took in hand an even vaster audience and imbued it with his own serene sureness and seriousness.
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TOPICS IN WALL STREET.; Another Day of Erratic Fluctuations; Copper Shares Taken in Hand.
We love the bone, which demands to be taken in hand.
The situation has been taken in hand by the local D. A. R.
