Eight years after the death of Robert Baratheon (Mark Addy) and men have a firm grip on the capital once again.
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By this time in his presidency, there should be a sense that he and his team have a firm grip on governance.
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Anyone who can't tell a consistent story about that doesn't have a firm grip on what's really going on with the U.S. economy.
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The hard-liners have a firm grip on the security forces, the judiciary and most of the economy and will for the foreseeable future.
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Computer models may not have a firm grip on its likely track since it is still a relatively diffuse storm system, lacking a compact core.
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In order to even begin to approach the ethics of social distancing, she says, we must have a firm grip on how the virus is spreading.
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But the ideas that private prisons are the culprit, and that profit is the motive behind all prisons, have a firm grip on the popular imagination.
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If you can answer all of those questions with anything like accuracy, stop reading — you have a firm grip on all the extra costs that are now added to so many purchases.
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DEMOCRATS PLAY FOR THE HOUSE: While Virginia has been trending blue at the statewide level for the past decade, Republicans have managed to have a firm grip on the commonwealth's House seats.
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Hollywood used to have a firm grip on film production because of its infrastructure, which includes numerous sound stages as well as specialized equipment and a large network of experienced crew members, actors and extras.
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Her exaggerated hand motions and odd sentence structures—"Maybe there is something for me to do more here"—are also reminiscent of someone who is translating a sentence from another language they don't quite have a firm grip on.
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Even if Mnangagwa wins, he does not have a firm grip on ZANU-PF, with his powerful deputy Chiwenga intent on imposing his authority after taking a massive risk in leading the coup to oust Mugabe, political and diplomatic sources say.
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Public health experts are most concerned that lifting national guidelines could undermine local, state and federal efforts to flatten the curve of disease spread at a time when they still don't have a firm grip on who is sick and where.
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Although the storm was relatively disorganized by this point, satellite imagery showed large outer bands extending hundreds of miles (kilometres) from the storm. By August 31, the storm began to slow and turn towards the west-northwest. The NHC noted that they did not have a firm grip on the storm and were unsure of its future track and intensity.
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The term public opinion first emerged in France during the eighteenth century. The definition of public opinion has been debated over time. There has not been much progress in locking in one classification of the phrase public opinion. Hermann Oncken, a German historian, stated > Whoever desires to grasp and define the concept of public opinion will > recognize quickly that he is dealing with a Proteus, a being that appears > simultaneously in a thousand guises, both visible and as a phantom, impotent > and surprisingly efficacious, which presents itself in innumerable > transformations and is forever slipping through our fingers just as we > believe we have a firm grip on it... That which floats and flows cannot be > understood by being locked up in a formula... After all, when asked, > everyone knows exactly what public opinion means.
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Figes, p. 4–5 which had featured prominently during the jubilee.Figes, p. 10 Meriel Buchanan, daughter of the British Ambassador George Buchanan, remarked how the vast display of jewels and tiaras swayed 'like a field of poppies' when they all arose to greet the Tsar. Despite the appearance of Nicholas' former mistress, Mathilde Kschessinska, who came out of retirement to dance the mazurka, the 'sensation of the evening' was tenor Leonid Sobinov, who, standing in for Shaliapin, was dressed as Michael I Romanov – the first time a Romanov Tsar had been represented on the stage. Meriel Buchanan also noted how the pale Tsarina's fan trembled in her hands as she struggled breathing and how her emotions seemed to have a firm grip over her; she also noted how a small wave of resentment 'rippled over the theatre' as she arose and left after a few whispers to the Emperor, not to be seen again the rest of the evening.
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