Grasps

The logical point that everyone but the language mavens intuitively grasps is that everyone and they are not an antecedent and a pronoun referring to the same person in the world, which would force them to agree in number. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Grrr. On the other hand, people with really good grasps of the constitution rarely wind up working for Wackenhut. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is certainly politically inappropriate, as the Queen herself, nothing if not a pragmatist, probably grasps. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Some of the rudeness that Mr. Theroux encountered was simply the post-Soviet standard, seen from Vladivostok to Vilnius; and, as he grasps, some of the distance he felt in his interactions with Estonians was merely the product of the way that living under a dictatorship had curdled the reserve natural to the peoples of the eastern Baltic. ❋ Andrew Stuttaford (2011)

He grasps the phone, "Betty," and mumbles "thank you," before she hangs up. ❋ Samantha Zalaznick (2010)

But I'm not convinced that DfID quite grasps the extent of the risks here. ❋ Unknown (2011)

As an adult, played by Mr. Penn, he grasps for meaning. ❋ John Jurgensen (2011)

"I'm not saying I was going to kill myself, but people die from broken hearts …" He grasps at his hands, lost for words. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Across the desk from me, her grandmother afraid enough to bring the child to the hospital but not yet ready to hear the words spoken aloud grasps the one-year-old to her, the child no bigger than she should have been three or four months earlier. ❋ Md Meghan Maclean Weir (2011)

This butterfly needle has two plastic wings and he grasps them lightly as he advances toward the artery beneath her skin. ❋ Md Meghan Maclean Weir (2011)

The amount of unpayable debt world wide, even the debt that countries like Italy and Japan (who owes their own citizens) maintains is crushing all productive activities and fueling ever more stupid speculative grasps. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In this society, the establishment will allow you to make as much money as you so desire, but the power that ownership affords will continue to elude the grasps of African-Americans. ❋ Dexter Rogers (2010)

Ozma and her mother Zilla are on the move after having murdered the constable of Abal and then keeping his ghost in their grasps. ❋ Pabba (2009)

She understands … … at four she grasps that, and as she grows up and asks more questions, we will build that up. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"The concept grasps people's imagination and they start thinking about whether urban farming is a practical solution," said Bradford, who expects his company's VertiCrop system to begin being used in the U.S. in early 2011. ❋ AP (2010)

But he is not the only one entering the White House who has seen both sides, who intuitively grasps the heroic American narrative of work ethic and family, and how that narrative historically failed black people. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A father grasps his infant and won't let go, saying, "I have to protect my children." ❋ Howard Stringer (2011)