She almost collapsed to the snow in his loosening grip.

Against the loosening grip of the earth they had risen to a point almost one thousand miles high.

The revolver went from his loosened grip as he flattened face forward on the floor.

She jerked her arm out of his loosened grip.

The saber bounced from his loosening grip as he struck.

But the ministry's loosening grip will not make Japan a less formidable competitor.

"Take me to bed," she said simply, and slid her hands through his loosened grip to his shoulders.

Svetz wriggled out of the loosening grip on his knee.

It reached swiftly toward the gun that lay in Frick's loosened grip.

Riker grabbed the man's handgun and twisted it free of his loosened grip.

Giggling nervously, Kathy pulled her hand away from Andy's loosened grip and turned away.

Sure enough, partly because of the loosening grip of managed care, premiums - which had remained stable during the mid-90's - began to rise rapidly.

He smiled and spread his hands innocently, twisting his arms in the loosened grips of his captors.

"I think it's time we got back on the road," I said, retrieving my hands easily from the two loosened grips before getting to my feet.

Drought Loosens Grip Paradoxically, all this happens as winter and spring storms have swept the West.

As The Shadow slumped, with loosening grip, Shakes Niefan wrenched free.

When a great museum submits to an extensive expansion, one thing you can count on is a loosened grip on the core collection that benefits art lovers elsewhere.

We don't have much time to discuss the potential impact of a sudden slip or loosened grip as the acts have to rush off to prepare for that night's show.

He pushed off from the floor and smashed Nathaniel against the ceiling hard enough that plaster dust rained down on them, and when Damian touched ground he rolled out of Nathaniel's loosened grip.

Any who doubt her need only hear the sickening thunk of a dropped body or witness the occasional sight of a loosened grip turning a female dancer into a human missile being fired off into the crowd.

In taking the city from the loosening grip of the Seleucid Empire in 85 BCE, Aretas III brought the Nabataeans from a backward nomadic tribe to a minor Eurasian power.

Macao's reputation was also tarnished in the months before the change in sovereignty as rival gangs, known as triads, took advantage of Portugal's loosening grip over the colony to battle for control of the lucrative V.I.P. rooms in the casinos.

INTERNATIONAL 3-10 Beijing Loosens Grip On Publishing Trade A growing stream of books and magazines has been bubbling up in China, and many experts see the publications as possible harbingers of greater official freedom.

A Loosening Grip, Federal Officials Say Still, the officials say, they have achieved significant victories against the mob in New York City and its suburbs, severely wounding the Gambino, Lucchese and Colombo families through the convictions of their bosses and their top lieutenants on racketeering charges.