Sentence examples for tight hand from inspiring English sources

It is a family operation, largely controlled by the Walton family, which keeps a tight hand on management.

Mr. White has done his best to undermine Mr. Perry's claim to having steered the state to prosperity with a tight hand on the fiscal reins.

This executive would keep a tight hand on the seating chart, too, so that the people guaranteed to send someone running from the table in tears are kept far from the emotionally vulnerable.

And what was the role of John Silber, the chancellor and former president who has run Boston University with a tight hand for more than three decades and who was Mr. Goldin's biggest backer, at least until two weeks ago?

Keep a Tight Hand Another item to determine before hitting the sales floor?

With chairman Karl Oyston keeping a tight hand on the purse strings and his relegated side stripped of assets such as Charlie Adam and David Vaughan, an immediate return had seemed unlikely.

Filmmakers started using bawdy humor, urban settings, tight hand-to-hand combat shots and the rough Cantonese of the streets.

We innovated on that portion with tight hand-tuned assembly code that leverages special features of the ARM processor instruction set to make it as fast as possible".

From now on, Dolan is going to run the business with a tighter hand, with Chief Scientific Officer Peter Ringrose Peter Ringrose reporting directly to him.

And at its center the two Americans stand with hands clasped tight — one hand notably dark, the other notably fair — as though trying to help each other along a hard and endless road.

Ema was up for the challenge and created super sleek bodysuits in her signature style of skin-tight hand-painted pieces.