Sentences with phrase «in iron grip»

The warmth of our fields and gardens would pour itself unrequited into space, and the sun would rise upon an island held fast in the iron grip of frost â ¦ its presence would check the earth's loss; its absence without sensibly altering the transparency of the air, would open wide a door for the escape of the earth's heat into infinitude.»

Have you ever dreamed of what it would be like to hold the galaxy in an iron grip?

In Iron Grip: Lords of Atelia, you play as the leader of a rebel group.

In the iron grip of the military, drones have acquired a reputation as flying dealers of death.

On the one hand, this is just the House, which, in the iron grip of the Tea Party, is spitting out one destructive piece of legislation after another.

Not exact matches

As growing numbers of TV watchers either cut the cord entirely or opt for what cable providers like to call «skinny bundles,» ESPN's iron grip on viewers and subscribers is being questioned in a way it never has in the past.

After failing to persuade Microsoft to release its iron grip on its code in 1997 — then, Friedman was a lowly intern, and de Icaza a mere job applicant — they set out to develop audacious software that spurned the company's multibillion - dollar business model.

The human mass is spiritually warmed and illumined by the iron grip of planetary compression; and the warming, whereby the rays of individual interaction expand, induces a further increase, in a kind of recoil, of the compression which was its cause... and so on, in a chain - reaction of increasing rapidity.

When I put a two -, three - or four - iron in my hand, my left hand instinctively tends to get stronger on the club than it does when I grip a wood or a middle or high iron.

Mugabe's iron grip ended in a shock announcement to parliament where MPs had convened to impeach the 93 - year - old who dominated every aspect of Zimbabwean public life for decades.

As the 39th Ordinary Congress of the Confederation of African football, CAF, in Addis Ababa, the chance of a life time beckons on Madagascar's Ahmad to beat the gangling Camerounian whose long stay in office coupled with his iron grip on CAF has thrown up a group of fiery younger generation who for the first time will present a serious challenge to Hayatou.

It looks like Speaker Silver's iron grip on the Democrat caucus prevented many from doing right by the most vulnerable in our society.»

With all of this talk recently about Block Weight Training, such as Blobs, Fatman Blobs, Fatman Clones, and the Iron Grip Monster, it can be pretty easy to think that you either have to spend an exorbitant amount of money in order to develop Grip Strength through block weight training, or you have to completely ruin one of your perfectly good dumbbells by cutting one of the heads off.

It's the height of Stalin's iron fisted grip in the early 1950s.

Veep creator Armando Iannucci's blistering new comedy of errors begins with a heart attack that loosens Joseph Stalin's iron grip on Russia; his cabinet members promptly rush to fill the power vacuum left in his wake.

Though the clips featured in the latest Mad Men promo from AMC all come from last season (because as we all know, creator Matthew Weiner keeps an iron grip around most of the promotional material), the message is still clear: moving forward, things are...

In the world of Sushi Striker: The Way of Sushido, the sinister Empire holds dominion, controlling the consumption of sushi with an iron grip, and denying it entirely to the inhabitants of the vanquished Republic.

For me, there is almost too much grip — the CLS63 lacks the beautiful subtlety of adjustment that you can enjoy in the very best AMG cars (the SLS and C63), but you still get to the end of a road in awe of the brutish speed you've just carried through the corners and the iron - fisted composure of such a big car.

It's the grip, stability and precision that really take your breath away — you can lean harder on the brakes and the front tyres than in the other two, while the cast - iron body control remains totally unfazed by anything you throw at it.

While the Haldex all - wheel - drive system balances the weight distribution and provides low - loss transfer for the power and torque, the springs and dampers unite in a convincing display of iron - fisted control, masking the Golf's bulk with resolute grip and surprising agility.

Abarth - designed cast - iron front lower control arms are claimed to improve lateral stiffness, while an increase in negative camber to -1.5 degrees is said to improve grip and steering precision.

The Communist government in East Germany is on the brink, desperately clinging to power through the iron grip of the Stasi.

In a nutshell: Apple still sells more tablets than anyone else, but Cupertino's iron grip on the market is finally loosening.

Contrast that with a state that has a Rate Bureau maintaining an iron grip on renters insurance rates in the state, and you'll see how different types of regulation can lead to not only different rates, but also to greater or lesser availability of coverage in the state.

Nintendo would eventually relax its iron grip on taste, signing off on god knows how many uses of the word «fuck» in Conker's Bad Fur Day.

The prequel novel is written by David Liss (The Ethical Assassin, Black Panther: The Man Without Fear) and will reveal Kingpin's plans to gain an iron grip on New York City, along with establishing character relationships that can be continued in the game

The company has loosened its previously iron grip on the way it communicates with the world in recent years, but it's still unusual for it to make an announcement through a channel it doesn't completely control.