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Example sentences for: grip

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Only an independent outsider can break the selfish grip that Washington has on our national life."
For a time, therefore, the affairs of Muslim Spain were administered from the Almoravid headquarters in Granada, until they lost their grip on the peninsula, softened by their life of ease in Andalucía.
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I think some conservatives are uneasy with him for the reasons you cite; and because they associate him with the boomer generation, whose moral and psychological grip on reality is famously suspect.
But, says the author, the steeling grip of lawyers on their stilted language is in fact the result of fear.