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How to use the word grips in a Sentence? Page #2

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They are in a downward spiral right now and have got to figure out a way to come to grips with all that's happening, you know the shame of it is there's a really good national security team in place, there's good productive things that are underway through them, and through others. But the chaos that is being created by the lack of discipline is creating an environment that I think — it creates a worrisome environment.

Bob Corker

Found on CNN
6 years ago

It would be easy to focus on the loss in terms of his Olympic medals and enormous athletic contributions to the organization, but USA Bobsled and Skeleton is a family and right now we are trying to come to grips with the loss of our teammate, our brother and our friend.

Darrin Steele

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Now, Hollywood's bitter left-wingers are trying to rewrite history by discrediting a man greater than any of them can ever hope to be, liberals have never been able to come to grips that Reagan won election and was both incredibly popular and successful. They blame him for all of what they consider the ills of the current world, including making America strong and ending the communist Soviet Union.

Dan Gainor

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I had a wonderful time playing it, it was incredibly challenging for me. And I had a great time working with Zack and the crew and everyone who was involved, down to the grips, the stuntmen, those guys were awesome. I haven't seen the film. We shot it a lot in CG and green screen, so it's a new movie for me as well.

Producer Charles Roven

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The new rules are going in the right direction, but the problem is that they were published just before Chinese New Year with immediate effect and short compliance deadlines, so there hasn't been much time to get to grips with them, and there is still a lot of ambiguity in the rules.

Ying White

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

But I'm not sure he can do justice to the complex finance portfolio, goyal, with his micro orientation, might struggle to get to grips with multi-dimensional and serious macroeconomic issues facing the country.

Rajiv Kumar

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I am convinced that was a terrorist attack, we need to come to grips with the idea that we are in the midst of the next world war.

Chris Christie

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I had to face what my mom had done and find a way to forgive her, in the process, I saw that my mom had struggled through the years to come to grips with what she had done and face her own horror about her actions.

Kayla Gissendaner in her statement

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We should do our part, as should the Europeans, but this is a broader, global crisis, i think we have got to come to grips that this is not going away and the millions of people need safe places to be.

Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Like the rest of the community, we are stunned by the fire today that destroyed the Civic Stadium grandstand, it is too early for us to know where we go from here. We ask for a bit of grace and patience as we come to grips with this loss to our community and to our effort.

The Eugene Civic Alliance

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

At some point it's going to be important for the American people to come to grips with it, and for us to be able to shift how we think about the issue of gun violence collectively.

Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It is impossible to know that (...) we find difficulties at the site which are pretty much unprecedented, i would hope (the cost estimate) won't go up and hope we are getting nearer to a place where the NDA and Sellafield Ltd are getting to grips with problems at the site.

Stephen Lovegrove

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The film's reception abroad proves its universality - it is understood everywhere, it evokes compassion for a person who finds himself in the grips of injustice and tries to maintain a sense of dignity.

Andrey Zvyagintsev

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There's a long-term deficit beyond just a short-term drought that we have to come to grips with, there's just not enough water in the Colorado River to meet the demands that were designed in the 1922 Compact.

Bill Hasencamp

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Not only do they kill and butcher and rape Christians and burn churches and crucify Christians, but they turn on each other and kill each other, this is something our country is going to have to come to grips with.

Franklin Graham

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

There are countless examples of players who have struggled with a particular aspect of golf, if you look at putting, there are a variety of different grips and so many ways to get around that.

Briton Jason Palmer

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Genius sits in a glass house -- but in an unbreakable one --conceiving ideas. After giving birth, it falls into madness. Stretches out its hand through the window toward the first person happening by. The demon's claw rips, the iron fist grips. Before, you were a model, mocks the ironic voice between serrated teeth, for me, you are raw material to work on. I throw you against the glass wall, so that you remain stuck there, projected and stuck. (Then come the lovers of art and contemplate the bleeding work from outside. Then come the photographers. New art, it says in the newspaper the following day. The learned journals give it a name that ends in ism.)

Paul Klee

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest --thought, action --is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

Cesare Pavese

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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