Sentence examples for tight fist from inspiring English sources

The tight fist is reserved for homeowners.

In particular, Nobuko Koizumi is known to keep a tight fist on Mr. Koizumi's political funds.

Yet while spending money with one hand, Mr. Eyler was keeping a tight fist with the other.

In the movie, to convey the menace of the place, he clamped that open hand into a tight fist.

But some Greek officials have suggested tapping the remainder to keep the government running past June, should the troika continue to wield a tight fist.

MINTIMER SHAIMIEV has ruled Tatarstan, a large Muslim republic in the heart of Russia, for two decades with a soft voice and a tight fist.

West started lip-synching, first to his own lines, then to those of the record's guest vocalist, Haskell Jackson, Jr. West reeled from side to side, shaking his shoulders, then working his arms into a tight fist-over-fist rhythm.

A decision to fund student placements is less of a sure bet, due to universities' reluctance to loosen their tight fists.

As the main road ended, my teeth clenched and my hands were in tight fists as we slowly crept over rocks and tall grass.

Sister Elaine Roulet, a nun who founded the prison's children's center and worked there for 35 years, noted how the new prisoner walked with her hands clenched in tight fists.

It was the beginning of April, and the vineyards were lines of plowed dark earth, a mathematical map of gnarly black stumps with tight fists of tiny green leaves that would open any day now, like a hand.