guiding hand

collocation in English

meaningsofguideandhand

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guide
noun[C]
uk
/ɡaɪd/us
/ɡaɪd/
a book that gives you the most important information about a ...
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hand
noun
uk
/hænd/us
/hænd/
the part of the body at the end of the arm that is used for holding, moving, touching, and ...
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(Definition ofguideandhandfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Then, too, and even when trivialized, civil authority had no rhetorical counter to a minister who questioned the world through theguidinghandof providence.
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For both sets of theorists, key elements in social coordination are the 'guidinghand' of the market, the exercise of control by state hierarchies, and the presence of voluntary groups.
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Perhaps there is more creativity in these poems than we have been willing to credit, or perhaps there was aguidinghandwhich either avoided or edited out duplicated gnomes.
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In this way the conductor can have aguidinghand, though by all means not the only say, in the way events link or overlap with one another.
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What they want is more emphasis on having a system that really constructed itself from experience without theguidinghandof the theorist.
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We heard the theory last night—how market forces and theguidinghandof the market will rescue our high technology industries.
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I maintain that what we are now witnessing is the result of the deterioration which set in since thatguidinghandwas removed.
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The small man when he starts wants a fatherlyguidinghand.
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I have asked a leading company in the technology industry to adopt these centres so that it can act as aguidinghand.
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Both the civilian and the militaryguidinghandis bound to continue between the next step and the final freedom.
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Governments, through intervention and a clear sense of direction, can be thatguidinghand.
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As other economies have found, the hidden hand needs a helping hand—not an interfering hand, but aguidinghand.
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Was there a word of warning uttered or aguidinghandextended to those who were negotiating that business?
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For far too long it has lacked aguidinghandin co-ordinating all the authorities and organisations which have responsibilities in this sphere.
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Right now the region needs aguidinghand.
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They form a maze through which the true path at the moment can only be found by taking theguidinghandof an expensive lawyer.
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I should think that since he has taken aguidinghandin this matter, things may well be better than they were before.
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We have got to consider the use of theguidinghandthrough the period of transition.
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They will only advance faster than we did if they have ourguidinghand.
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I shall certainly learn from yourguidinghand.
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