Sentence examples for without a firm hand from inspiring English sources
It's a difficult play to do, because without a firm hand it can slide into soft porn.
A good number of Egyptians worry that without a firm hand, their nation of 93 million could become the next Syria, Libya or Iraq.
Even though the Lubanga trial took more than five years to complete, it might never have concluded without a firm hand from the presiding judge.
But he also knows how to keep a firm hand without being abrasive.
It goes without saying that any formally incorporated enterprise requires a CEO — i.e. a firm hand on the tiller.
Instead, there's a brief list, and a firm hand.
"Our democracy needs a firm hand from the authorities".
But he runs the club with a firm hand.
They are going to need a firm hand guiding them.
For three years he ran the Dresden Staatskapelle orchestra and the Semper Opera in Dresden with a firm hand, then quit both posts in a huff when the management, without consulting him, hired Christian Thielemann to conduct a televised gala.
Basel Needs a Firm Hand and Fewer Delays, (with David Scharfstein) Financial Times, September 13 , 2010
