Sentences with phrase «about the grip of»

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In a recently recovered interview with Steve Jobs, he talks about the disease that grips most people, which he explains is «thinking that a really great idea is 90 percent of the work.

I didn't much care for the 2015 Best Picture of the Year Spotlight; in my view, it was a Lifetime version of the kind of gripping story about journalism that All the President's Men actually was.

Like just about everywhere else in the dehydrated 31st state, the bustling port city McClellan calls home is in the grips of a forced H2O lockdown.

It's just one reminder about the challenges of doing business with China: the government still maintains a tight grip on its corporations, and Beijing's wishes come first.

The title of her latest book, she explains, is meant as a caution about the future of leadership: «For nearly everywhere, leaders are found wanting, followers are restive, and the context is changing... unless we get a grip, the prognosis is grim.»

Stephen J. Sheinbaum, president and CEO of Merchant Cash and Capital, recently offered some tips, including giving your company a financial checkup, coming to grips with seasonal variations in your business, making sure you hire great people, and arming yourself with knowledge about financing options.

But uncertainty remains over what regulators will make of the merged group's grip of the overall agriculture market, with a combined market share in seeds and pesticides of about 28 %.

I see it as part of the larger story I wrote about here as the «brittle grip.»

Flipboard's woes are indicative of a larger malaise gripping startups across the technology landscape as questions emerge about the sustainability of the tech - investment boom.

In bonds, the fear about Depression gripping the markets had a striking result last week, as investors priced inflation - protected bonds as if the rate of inflation would be essentially zero for the next 5 years or more.

The insurer Cigna will spend about $ 52 billion to acquire the nation's biggest pharmacy benefit manager, Express Scripts, the latest in a string of proposed tie - ups as health care's bill payers attempt to get a grip on rising costs.

Cigna will spend about $ 52 billion to acquire the nation's biggest pharmacy benefit manager, Express Scripts, the latest in a string of proposed tie - ups as health care's bill payers attempt to get a grip on rising costs.

Unlike most razors, you can choose a DE89lbl that suits your own personal style, as you have the choice of many different handles, including smooth chrome, lined chrome for extra grip, faux ebony, faux ivory — heck, some retailers even sell a 24 carat gold plated version (for about double the price).

Even borrowers whom you would expect to be experts, like the Department of Education lawyer who sent me a despairing note this weekend about her own encounters with FedLoan, have trouble getting a firm grip on their loan status.

Facebook board member Reed Hastings offered his first public comments on the scandal that has gripped Facebook over the last month — and cast the concerns about Facebook's algorithms and data as part of how any young company matures over time.

If this world of ours can come to grips and learn to scrap religious views and just serve one God and ONLY ONE GOD without making a such a BIG DEAL about messianic belief, it would be a much more peaceful world to live in.

Criticism can't come to grips with good poetry by talking only about the craft of the poetry; the poems themselves draw the critic into discussions of life and the world.

As to Revelation, I am still trying to come to grips with that myself and will write more about Revelation near the end of this current series.

Only thus can we really hope to come to grips with the true depths of our predicament and help our liberal culture understand the truth about itself and the profound implications of its present course toward an impoverished absolutism now poised to seize control of the most primitive junction between nature and culture — the family itself.

After his conversion, he wrote a gripping historical novel, A Danger to the State, about the suppression of the Jesuits, which is among the best of its kind.

The only theologian of the era who came to grips with Marcion's pessimism about creation was Irenacus, whose genius Pagels underestimates.

And as a practical matter, for those who care about freedom and equality, knowledge of the foundations of the truths we have long held to be self - evident can contribute to our ability to cultivate the conditions under which we can keep our grip on them firm.

This is one of the reasons why Ken Burns» television series about the Civil War so gripped the imaginations of many of us in the fall of 1990.

We may need to repent of anxiety that has gripped us because we were worried about temporal things.

All of us who care about both faith and economics are indebted to those theologians who are getting to grips with economics because the gravest temptation we face is the rending asunder of theology and economics — if this process were to be completed an ancient tradition would disappear.

The experience led her later to read further about such animals and to learn that weasels are known for the tenacity of their grip.

Yes, here is the great question that has gripped me about the Egyptian coup; would there have been democracy tomorrow if not a coup of the democratically elected Islamists yesterday?

One afternoon, when I was about four, I came into the kitchen to find mom sitting immobile at the table, in the grip of what she would later describe as «a black cloud, a satanic fog.»

The laws about sacred seasons, Sabbath observance, details of sacrifice, clean and unclean foods, bulk much larger than legislation on ethics, and this lack of perspective and proportion, this inveterate idea that Yahweh was appeased by ceremonial behavior, obtained so firm a grip that even the prophets who contended against it never broke its hold, as orthodox Judaism today bears witness.

While conceding that there is «some basis» for concerns about «the negative social effects of globalization», it contends that it is «not true that globalization is an overwhelming supra - national force that has largely usurped national policy autonomy...» It asserts that «national policies can, and should, give priority to mitigating negative effects on globalization» of financial markets), and the desperate and helpless attempts by the national regimes to come to grips with the soaring unemployment situation in the face of the continuing onslaught of the «supra - national» financial markets, the above bland assertion about «national policies» has an air of unreality about it.

I first wrote about mulligatawny a couple of years back, when I was still getting a grip on this incredible dish, tweaking the ingredients, finding just the right flavor profile and process.

Australian agriculture is in the grip of a severe skills shortage; about 4,000 jobs were advertised last year looking for people with tertiary agriculture qualifications, and universities turned out just 130 graduates.

Some of it might be mental, like they keep thinking about pacing themselves to get through 5 or 6 IP as a starter but as a reliever they can just grip it and rip it (velocity tends to go up when starters are moved to the bullpen).

The state's attorney blew snot when he saw me grimace from the blow, after which I proceeded to tell the judge about the beautiful game of golf and how it had been a long and winding road for me since that first purely struck two - wood in 1973, but that I'd finally discovered the proper way to grip a club, and would His Honor really mind if the sheriff would be so kind as to fetch my driver out on the county road and bring it to the courthouse so my new grip could be photographed from all angles for my peace of mind.

What's unique about this competition is the incredible amount of grip strength necessary to make your way through the obstacles.

Racing drivers are famed for making excuses about why they didn't perform as well as they should have done — Button himself is notorious for complaining about a lack of grip — but this reason for not making an appearance on The Graham Norton Show is perhaps the most ridiculous of the lot.

What's more, she did this with a cacophony of voices echoing in her skull: admonitions about grip pressure from Hanson; swing thoughts from McGetrick; a putting tip from former coach Ed Oldfield; telephoned advice from her father, George, to concentrate on her tempo; and soothing words from her significant other, real estate developer Louis Capano.

Sports, thanks to me, had already taken firm grip of Noah's life, but now and then I'd get this uneasy feeling about where it all might be leading, a feeling I'd never spoken of with him.

if there struggling for form and confidence we to attack and make it count we do nt want to dilly dally about and make them feel comfortable and like they can get a grip of the game.

madrid can care less about looking dumb and paying a grip of money for a player they just sold.

While gripped in the throes of creative thought — that is to say, procrastinatingly furiously — I came across this piece by Ian King over on Two Hundred Percent, about the increasing concerns over the future of Kettering Town.

Renault said during a series of posts on social media he «complained about grip, understeer, downforce and had the biggest smile» afterwards.

@ harry barracuda, words such as u used to describe an event, eagerly anticipated by a population of about 500 million people, shows how stupid and insensitive people such as you can be, the African nations cup is not,» stupid, crap, pointless or in your words f**king thing,» if that is the case, then you are implying that such players that represent their nation, do that for a «crap pointless stupid f**king reason.Get a grip my friend, this is a place to dicuss arsenal related issues, not a forum for your biased foolishness.And, oh yeah KOLO stays.

As of his mothers funeral last June i have had to come to grips hes not going to be peaceful about any thing concerning his rights, and worry he will kill someone if interfered with.

Another great group of features we like about this Cruze bike is that comes with soft grips, which makes it comfortable and easy for your young toddlers to grip.

A few weeks later, she'll start learning how to drink out of a cup, and in a few months she'll be able to hold the cup herself (the one - handed grip often comes at about 24 months).

Speaking of grip strength, one interesting piece of information to consider if you've consumed (or are thinking about consuming) alcohol: besides the more obvious signs and symptoms of fetal alcohol exposure, poor hand grip strength is one common central nervous system abnormality.

If your child is having difficulty at first, tape about a 1/2 ″ of the end of the shoestring with masking tape to make it firmer to grip, or start by placing pasta or beads onto a pipe cleaner before moving to string.

she got about 3 squeezes in before the peg twisted out of her grip!

If you put your finger inside baby's palm, you'll notice that he'll close his fist around it (and many a proud father has bragged about the strength of his newborn's grip).