Sentence examples for tightening grip from inspiring English sources

Can Hong Kong find a way to relax Beijing's tightening grip?

Opponents to Mr. Buchanan are also trying to ease his tightening grip on the party infrastructure.

The guards' tightening grip has been reflected in their increasingly dominant role in the economy.

American institutions are already chafing against Beijing's tightening grip over Taiwan.

But in fact New York has been in the tightening grip of Beatlemania for some weeks".

The National Security Agency whistleblower described Moscow's tightening grip over online activities and treatment of gay people as "fundamentally wrong".

Much of Erdogan's politics now hinge on stirring nationalist sentiment to justify his tightening grip on the country.

In the third decade of the supersonic age, sport gripped the nation in an ever-tightening grip.

By E. B. White The New Yorker, October 25, 1947 P. 28 In the third decade of the supersonic age, sport gripped the nation in an ever-tightening grip.

It feels like an ever-tightening grip.

Reprieve hopes the European move will be just the start of an ever-tightening grip on medical drugs reaching US penitentiaries.