Sentence examples for was grasping on from inspiring English sources

I was grasping on with both hands, screaming my way into the present.

Her marriage to David Beckham helped by keeping her in the public eye even as her singing career waned, although the idea that she was grasping on to her husband's fame is unfair: Victoria was an integral part of the appeal of Brand Beckham and increased her husband's status just as much as he helped hers.

The abdominal wall was grasped on either side of the incision with Allis forceps or hand held retractors and lifted up and laterally while inserting the transmitters through the incision into the ventrocaudal abdominal cavity.

If, as he's grasping on to one more shiny gold thing in his life and standing before millions of people, he remembers that there is no shame for him to reveal openly, he will in turn, give that gift to someone watching.

"I find it extraordinary that people are grasping on to the notion that draconian punishments are the way forward".

Some of the issues are being grasped; on others, the penny has yet to drop.

The Rapidom is a condom in a packet so organised that, instead of having to be ripped open and the contents struggled with in the heat of the moment, it can be grasped on either side and pulled apart, unrolling what is inside in a controlled way.Once a condom is on, though, there remains the question of preventing it from coming off inopportunely.

Avnery, for his part, is a grateful citizen of a Jewish state and also a passionate liberal; he has taken for granted a Zionist conception of that state as a distinct nation whose novel politics and language must be grasped on their own terms.

Such a hypothesis is supported by the work of Oliva and Torralba who have shown that the gist of a natural scene can be grasped on the basis of the spatial frequency content of the image [10].

Our central thesis is that psychiatry targets the phenomena of consciousness, which, unlike somatic symptoms and signs, cannot be grasped on the analogy with material thing-like objects.

And that's the thread that MSNBC is grasping for its official position on the matter.