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He warned the country could be facing another crisis unless the next Government grasps the nettle of public spending.
A figure grasps the hose, swings back and forth like the clapper of a bell and finally bounds high above the floor.
Encountering unexpected and unreasonable resistance to her charms, Hepburn's character quickly grasps that drastic measures are required.
Its long, smooth blade glints in the lights as she grasps the handle firmly in both hands.
The examiner grasps the wrist, resisting attempts by the patient to actively supinate the arm and flex the elbow.
The marooned sailor rises, grasps a palm tree, shakes it and loosens a coconut, which conks him directly on the wound.
His spine straightening as he arises, he takes the hand of the concertmaster and grasps it briefly.
What we see is a girl who suddenly grasps the point of taking control and finds it liberating.
The woman grasps his ankles and the man places his left hand over her hip and props his body up with his right arm.
Poseidon clothes himself in raiment of gold, grasps his gold whip, and takes his stand upon his chariot.
Composure slowly seeped back into the aggressive man, enabling him to gently release his captive from his tight and trembling grasps.
The lips are slightly parted and a cord made of knotted strips of raveled red cloth hangs to the floor, where the crow grasps it in its beak.
The problems facing it will only get worse until someone grasps the nettle.
He or she grasps it with a hemostat and guides the bone plug into the femoral socket.
The dialectician acts more strictly as such when he grasps an inference between immediate endoxes and the proposed problem.
He grasps a forelock between his thumb, his index finger, and the one beside it and he twirls it around and around, until it stands up in a little tuft.
Therefore, they usually define their mental grasps of SE not the external social realities.
Sympathetic local management that grasps how these pieces fit together is a major help here too.
Whoever grasps the poisoned chalice of Chechen power will need the support of Mr Kadyrov and his militia, as well as that of the Kremlin.
Clearly nothing that I commented on could be classified as supportive, but I guess one grasps at the support one thinks one might get.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Mr. snivel dashes the candle from her hand, and in the darkness grasps her wrists.
He wears a conical hat, and grasps a crutch with one hand while he holds a pruning hook in the other.
The girl grasps the hideous symbol, a gleam of intelligence lighting up her swarth but beautiful face.
Laughing, he throws off his coat, like a duellist, grasps and holds her tightly.
The creature comes to the tree by night, inserts his paw, and grasps his booty.
In Curzon's figure the lion is standing, not 'couchant', as stated by Malcolm, and grasps a scimitar in his off forepaw.
When a person, at the moment of death, grasps any object firmly, there is set up a condition known as cadaveric spasm.
One hand keeps her balance with a pole, the other grasps a streamer of water-weed.
Tom Tootle, who is nearest to the doctor when he says this, grasps the doctor fervently by the hand.
Polished with a powder horn at its hip, the new stylized Hunter grasps a 5-foot musket and appears to gaze past an unknown horizon.
Startled from his lethargy by that direful cry, Jonah staggers to his feet, and stumbling to the deck, grasps a shroud, to look out upon the sea.
You have the wisdom that grasps the substance and lets the shadows flit.
As the history of philosophy improves its understanding of causation, it correlatively better grasps the nature of science.
A phenomenological Hegel, one who grasps the history of the arts, seems to win out over the systematizer.
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