Sentence examples for unyielding grip from inspiring English sources

As it turns out, however, Cuba still has a strong and unyielding grip on his athletic career.

Much like them, Chávez has exploited the popularity the oil boom has brought to cement his unyielding grip on power.

"He was persistently coming up with ideas to unlock the unyielding grip white men had on the broadcasting industry," King recalled.

He chafed against the unyielding grip the band's producers and writers exercised and quit in February 1970, eventually inveigling his way into a band formed by a Memphis musician called Chris Bell.

BENGHAZI, Libya — In a sign of mounting frustration among rebel leaders over Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's diminished but unyielding grip on power, rebel leaders here are debating whether to ask for Western airstrikes under the United Nations banner, according to four people with knowledge of the deliberations.

Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukIn this section Waltzing into bedrooms and brothels Those who said No Soul-searching amid the debris They were there, Lafayette Angels in Waco Fluff and flight ReprintsTHE first world war, or the Great War as it was known to contemporaries, still exerts an unyielding grip on the consciousness of western Europeans, especially the British and the French.

Contribute with Guardian Witness Gentrification – a term first used more than half a century ago to describe the displacement of a neighbourhood's working-class occupiers and the transformation of its entire social character – now has a seemingly unyielding grip on cities throughout the world.

The art of Butoh, exhaustively explored in the New York Butoh Festival this month and last at several New York locations, including Japan Society, has always seemed a ferociously intense theater-dance form with an unyielding grip on life, death and other themes.