firm grip
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffirmandgrip
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firm
adjective
uk/fɜːm/us/fɝːm/
not soft but not ...
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grip
noun
uk/ɡrɪp/us/ɡrɪp/
control over something ...
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(Definition offirmandgripfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is our intention to keep afirmgripon the monetary supply—and, in fact, to have targets six months by six months.
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We have made far-reaching changes to trade union law, while keeping afirmgripon expenditure.
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The third major aspect of policy is to take afirmgripof nationalised industry prices.
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Unless one has afirmgripon money supply, no amount of tax measures in themselves can operate except in the bluntest possible way.
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Note that all the joint velocities of the robots are connected to the same u because offirmgrip.
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Better to give up political power if that will allow a continuingfirmgripon the economy.
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So what kind of critical posture might produce afirmgripon the slippery ox of performance studies?
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Issues of gender in the archaeological record are a very useful reminder of thefirmgripthat disciplinary traditions have on our imagination.
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The new government took afirmgripof the helm, using five-year development plans to harness the rapid development of the new-born republic.
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The physical, non-verbal nature of this type of learning is both inherent in the learning method and instrumental in the expert craftsmen'sfirmgripon production of expertise.
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If we decline to address this central problem, to take afirmgripon it, we will not solve the monitoring problem.
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I had never had such afirmgripin my mind on the great public service he had rendered.
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The time has come to take afirmgrip.
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We need an interest rate cut and afirmgripon public finances.
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In the period ahead, it will be necessary for afirmgripto be maintained on the growth of money and credit.
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The disease has afirmgrip, and will be cured only by steady and persistent treatment over a considerable number of years.
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We now believe that we have afirmgripon the policy.
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