Sentence examples for weak hold from inspiring English sources

A weak hold at these levels.

The attack in the centre of Grozny again shows the weak hold the government has on the region.

Of the three possible scenarios the estimate enumerates, the most optimistic is a weak hold on stability in Iraq, but the worst outcome is civil war.

There was, for example, a time of shadow when Clive Woodward was a commoner with a weak hold on his job as coach of England.

Indeed, this substantial outperformance is now accompanied by a feeling that the shares are very much up with events, such that the market consensus now sits at a weak hold.

The Pakistani government is publicly an ally, but it has a weak hold on power (in a country that has nuclear weapons), and one can't be sure that it won't make a separate peace with the Taliban.

By Brad Leithauser December 24 , 2012During a stretch in my life when you might suppose that children's lit would have had its weakest hold on me — my twenties, with childhood solidly behind me and marriage and children not yet firming on the horizon — I idled my way through a number of old-fashioned classics.

Internal fixation devices, however, have a much weaker hold in osteoporotic bone and are therefore more likely to loosen and lose fracture alignment.

Gluing over a dirty or dusty surface can interfere with the bonding action of the glue, resulting in a weaker hold.

Flour tends to have weaker holding power, and more of it must be used to "set up" a pie filling.

Often he would support his head in a specially made frame so he could keep working even though he was too weak to hold up his own head.