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"snatch at" Definitions
  1. to try to take hold of something with your hands
  2. to take an opportunity to do something

47 Sentences With "snatch at"

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That may be enough to snatch at least Mayo, a prized Liberal lower-house seat near Adelaide.
I attempt to snatch at least one more hour of sleep, but eventually I give up and finish my trashy romance novel instead.
Kasich and Cruz are hoping to snatch at least a few delegates in New York by keeping Trump below 50 percent, especially in Manhattan.
It was sold for nearly twenty times what it was expected to snatch at auction, and its sale will benefit both the Stephen Hawking Foundation and the Motor Neurone Disease Association.
But it now has the backing of three of the four independents who won seats and looks likely to snatch at least half of the six seats that are still undecided.
Larger rival Boeing Co already looks well placed to snatch at least part of a deal for about 30 small jets from United Continental Holdings Inc, worth around $2 billion at list prices.
Late in the third quarter, Sloan lazily let an inbounds pass roll toward midcourt to stall the clock, only to see the Celtics' Marcus Smart dive and snatch at the ball, forcing a jump.
There were nights when the invisible wolf, carried along by the fire wind, would come and snatch at the child with its jaws, try to take it away and carry it back into the hills.
Edgar even found a chance to snatch at that lead leg on the pivot and run through his favorite pick up into the back bodylock, though keeping Aldo down has always been a tough task.
Gauff, who needed courtside medical treatment between the sets, started to snatch at her shots and became too loose while Halep did what she needed to as the American racked up a total of 45 unforced errors in the match.
Pop a check next to 'opportunism' which I still maintain is one of the single most powerful traits a fighter can have—it is what makes men like Carlos Condit so great after all, the ability to snatch at even the hint of poor positioning or distraction.
Cate Blanchett, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Keira Knightley, Kit Harington, Stanley Tucci and Jesse Eisenberg are among those featured in the video, titled "What They Took With Them," in which the actors read a rhythmic poem enumerating the items that refugees snatch at the moment their lives are uprooted.
The stick being made to twirl rapidly, the merry-makers in succession leap up and snatch at the apple with their teeth, but it very frequently happens that the candle comes round before they are aware, and scorches them in the face, or anoints them with grease.
He was there at hand; he had tricked her into staying a few extra minutes in this room with him, because she thought he was going to lend her the money she so urgently needed; and she was angry with him for that and for being a procurer for (his boss) and for assuming she would snatch at an opportunity to sleep with either or both of them.
She won the silver medal in the snatch at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships in the 81 kg division.
Farkas won three silver medal (snatch, clean & jerk, total) at the 1997 European Weightlifting Championships in Rijeka. One year later he won bronze medal in snatch at the European Championships.
Maude Charron (born ) is a Canadian female weightlifter, who competes in the 63 kg category and represented Canada at international competitions. She won the silver medal in the snatch at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships.
Tanumafili Malietoa Jungblut (born 10 June 1990) is an American Samoan Olympic weightlifter. He qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics and was the American Samoan flag bearer during the opening ceremony. He won the bronze medal in the snatch at the 2016 Oceania Weightlifting Championships.
Okoli Chukwuka (born ) is a Nigerian male weightlifter, competing in the 94 kg category and representing Nigeria at international competitions. He won the bronze medal in the snatch at the 2007 All-Africa Games, lifting 146 kg. He participated at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in the 94 kg event.
Leonid Mikhaylovich Lobachov (Леонид Михайлович Лобачёв, born ) is a Belarusian male former weightlifter, who competed in the 76 kg category and represented Belarus at international competitions. He won the bronze medal in the snatch at the 1994 World Weightlifting Championships lifting 162.5 kg. He participated at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Oliver Orok (born ) is a Nigerian male former weightlifter, who competed in the 100 kg category and represented Nigeria at international competitions. He won the gold medal in the snatch at the 1984 World Weightlifting Championships lifting 172.5 kg. He participated at the 1984 Summer Olympics in the 100 kg event.
As a junior, coached by Michael Noonan, he won the silver medal at the national championships in 1984. Christou won the bronze medal in the snatch at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, Canada. lifting 152.5 kg. He competed at world championships, most recently at the 1998 World Weightlifting Championships.
Karla Fernandez Beaumont (born ) was a Venezuelan female weightlifter, competing in the 53 kg category and representing Venezuela at international competitions. She participated at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the 53 kg event.Womens Featherweight Snatch at Sports Reference She competed at world championships, most recently at the 2003 World Weightlifting Championships.
With their long snout and tubelike nostrils, these turtles can "snorkel" in shallow water. When resting, they lie at the bottom, buried in sand or mud, lifting their head to breathe or snatch at prey. Their basking habit is not well developed. Chinese softshell turtles often submerge their heads in water.
Ion Hortopan ( in Câmpina - 1980) was a Romanian male former weightlifter, who competed in the 52 kg category and represented Romania at international competitions. He won the bronze medal in the snatch at the 1973 World Weightlifting Championships lifting 100.0 kg. He participated at the 1972 Summer Olympics in the 52 kg event.
Beatriz Pirón (born February 27, 1995) is a Dominican female weightlifter. She won the bronze medal in snatch at the 2011 Youth World Championships and gold at the 2011 Youth Pan American Championships. She went to the 2012 Summer Olympics ranking in the 9th place and the 2016 Summer Olympics ranking fourth.
In 1972, he was close to the medals at the Olympics (doubling as the World Championships), placing 4th. But Hekel collected event medals in the snatch, winning twice at the Europeans and once at the World Championships (1971). He won the silver medal in the snatch at the 1969 World Weightlifting Championships lifting 130.0 kg.
Daniel Núñez Aguiar (born 12 September 1958 in Santiago de Cuba) is a Cuban weightlifter. He won a gold medal in the bantamweight class at the 1979 Pan American Games in San Juan and at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Núñez set a world record for the snatch at the 1982 Central American and Caribbean Games.Official Results p.
Madalina-Bianca Molie (born ) is a Romanian female weightlifter, who competed in the 69 kg category and represented Romania at international competitions. She won the silver medal in the snatch at the 2014 European Weightlifting Championships. Later in 2014 she tested positive on the forbidden substance stanozolol and was banned for two years by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF).
Jean-Paul Fouletier (1 July 1939 - 27 August 2016) was a French male weightlifter, who competed in the 110 kg category and represented France at international competitions. He won the bronze medal in the snatch at the 1970 World Weightlifting Championships lifting 152.5 kg. He participated at the 1968 Summer Olympics and at the 1972 Summer Olympics in the 110 kg event.
Feliks Khalibekov (born ) is a Russian male weightlifter, who competed in the 69 kg category and represented Russia at international competitions. He won the bronze medal in the snatch at the 2014 European Weightlifting Championships and the silver medal overall at the 2016 European Weightlifting Championships. At the 2017 European Weightlifting Championships Khalibekov won the bronze medal in men's 62 kg category.
His 217 kg snatch at the 2017 European Weightlifting Championships and 2018 World Weightlifting Championships is the fourth highest weight ever lifted in the snatch, surpassed only by three of his own, 218 kg at the 2019 European Weightlifting Championships and 220 kg at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships and 2019 World Weightlifting Championships which is the joint highest snatch of all time.
Anthony Terlazzo (July 28, 1911 – March 26, 1966) was an Italian-born American weightlifter. He was America's first weightlifter to win an Olympic gold medal, which he had done in 1936. He also won a bronze medal at the 1932 Games. While winning the 1936 gold medal Terlazzo set Olympic records in the total, at 312.5 kg (687.5 lbs), and in the snatch, at 97.5 kg (214.5 lbs).
Willey competed in the 67.5 kg category and represented Great Britain at international competitions. He won the bronze medal in the snatch at the 1984 World Weightlifting Championships lifting 140.0 kg. He participated at the 1984 Summer Olympics in the 67.5 kg event and also at the 1988 Summer Olympics. He represented England and won a gold medal in the 60 kg featherweight, at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
In 1980, he killed Renee Roberts off as he deemed her marriage to Alf Roberts was "not working". Podmore was quoted as saying that Alf Roberts was allowed to emerge "from the shadows of a rather humdrum marriage". When Stephen Hancock refused to sign a new contract, Podmore had his character Ernest Bishop killed off, having him shot dead in a bungled wages snatch at Baldwin's factory. Podmore also sacked Peter Adamson who played Len Fairclough.
Martin Zawieja (born 31 January 1963) is a retired West German weightlifter who was active between 1985 and 1992. He competed at the 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics in the super heavyweight category and finished in third and ninth place, respectively. He finished third in the snatch at the 1991 World Weightlifting Championships and won three national titles in 1984, 1990 and 1991. After retiring from competitions he studied physical education, graduating in 1995, and later worked as a weightlifting coach.
Mu Shuangshuang (穆爽爽; born July 7, 1984) is a Chinese weightlifter from Shuangliao, Jilin. She competes in the over-75 kg category. In 2005, 2006, and 2007 she won the silver medal in World Weightlifting Championships. On 6 December 2006 she set a new world record of 139 kg for the snatch at the World Championship in Doha and on 26 September 2007 she set a new overall world record of 319 kg at the World Championship in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
After not being able to compete at the 1972 Summer Olympics due to a back injury, he won the bronze medal in the 110 kg snatch at the 1976 World Weightlifting Championships, lifting 167.5 kg. He participated at the 1976 Summer Olympics in the 110 kg event, and is credited with a ninth-place finish. In 1978, Prior became the Commonwealth record-holder in the 110+ kg clean and jerk, by successfully lifting 210.5 kg. Prior retired from the sport and moved to Winnipeg, where he became a high school teacher.
Ivanovskiy won the silver medal at the 1995 Junior European Weightlifting Championships in Beer Sheva, Israel, in the Sub-Heavyweight class (lifting 370.0 kg). He won the bronze medal at the 1996 European Weightlifting Championships, in the Sub-Heavyweight class (lifting 377.5 kg). Ivanovskiy competed for Israel at the 1996 Summer Olympics in the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, at the age of 20, in Weightlifting-Men's Heavyweight I (99 kg). He did not complete a lift in the snatch at 175.0 kg, and did not finish.
Aleksei Aleksandrovich Petrov (; born 8 September 1974) is a retired Russian weightlifter. He had his peak performance in 1994, when he won the European and world titles and set four world records: one in the snatch, two in the clean and jerk, and one in the total. In 1996, he won gold in the class at the 1996 Olympics and set his second world record in the snatch. At the 2000 Olympics he finished third in the class. His last international success was a European gold achieved in 2002.
For Chris Bennion, writing in The Independent, the events of "The 12 Days of Christine" are a life review; the viewer shares Christine's visions of her life as she lies dying. However, like Christine, the viewer does not realise this until the end. For Bennion, Christine does not merely relive key moments of her life, but attempts to "snatch at lost moments" as she longs "for second chances". Julie McDowall, who reviewed the episode for The Herald, also considers the viewer "totally immersed in one character's confused and flawed point of view".
His long, prehensile fingers helped him make a reputation as a fine slips fieldsman and he was the first to take 20 catches in an Australian season. English cricketer Johnny Douglas said, "Trumble should not be allowed on the cricket field—his natural place would be up trees in the bush." He practised slip fielding by catching a tennis ball thrown against a brick wall; he believed this practise trained him not to "snatch" at the ball but allow it to fall into his safe hands. Trumble was known for his cleverness on the field.
Morgan is the only competitor to win medals in six different Commonwealth Games, with victories in 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1998, and 2002. He won two gold and one silver medals in 2002 at Manchester (with 145 kg in the snatch and 160 in the clean and jerk),www.qwa.org bringing his career medal total to twelve (nine gold, three silver). Morgan recorded his best attempt in the snatch at the 1984 Junior World Championships, with a lift of 150 kg which gave him the gold in the snatch in the 75 kg class.
Ted Bannister (John Henshaw) appeared in episode three as a trade union organiser who is fighting to keep the factory where he works in business, despite its probable closure. The character is introduced when a corpse is found in the factory and the death is assumed to be murder. Later it transpires that the dead man was killed by faulty machinery, and Ted concealed the circumstances of the death to prop up the factory's reputation. Later in the episode, Ted's son Derek (Andrew Knott) is arrested for armed robbery, after organising a payroll snatch at the factory.
Lasha then completed his next lift of 247 kg, giving him the lead after Salimi did not make a lift. He then completed a clean & jerk of 258 kg to set a new world record total of 473 kg and won the gold medal by a 22 kg margin over silver medallist Gor Minasyan. 220px In his first competition after winning the gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics, he set a new world record in the snatch at the 2017 European Weightlifting Championships with 217 kg, and in the process broke the all-time highest snatch of 216 kg set by Antonio Krastev in 1987, and matched by Behdad Salimi at the 2016 Olympics.
His wicketkeeping style, according to an obituary in Wisden, was "brilliant rather than consistent" and he was "apt to snatch" at the ball. But his pugnacious batting was an asset as well: "Never a sound or orthodox player, he had plenty of strokes and hit the ball astonishingly hard for so small a man," Wisden's obituary noted. In 1937 he hit 109, the only century in a Warwickshire total of 518, in the match against Gloucestershire at Gloucester. In 1938, he scored 1054 runs at an average of 31.00 to finish third in the Warwickshire batting, behind Test players Bob Wyatt and Tom Dollery but ahead of established batsmen such as Alfred Croom and Reg Santall, and for much of the season he batted at No 3.
He earned the right to compete at the Olympics by winning the U.S. National Weightlifting Championships in the Spring of 1996 for a third time. During his victory Henry became Senior US American record holder (1993–1997) in the Snatch at 180.0 kg (396.8 lb), Clean and jerk at 220.0 kg (485.0 lb), and Total at 400.0 kg (881.8 lb), improving all of his three previous personal bests. This 400 kg total, in the opinion of many experts in track field of international lifting—including Dragomir Cioroslan, the '96s coach of the U.S. team—was the highest ever made by an athlete who had never used anabolic steroids—who was lifetime drugfree. By that time, at the age of 24, Henry was generally acknowledged as the strongest man in the world, even by many of the Eastern Bloc athletes who outrank him in weightlifting.

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