Meanings of grasp power in English

A strong man might grasp power, and I would be that strong man.

Why should I grasp power?

They resisted the devil's temptation to grasp power over others, even when it would have been practical for them to do so.

Yet after all, his dominant passion was a love of power, and of money as the means by which to grasp power.

The fore-paws possess great grasping powers, and have a hand-like appearance.

You are the most appallingly irresponsible man whose hands have ever grasped power.

The radicals involved in 1916 were not those who wrote the Constitution or grasped power.

This man of intellect succeeds in grasping power.

Russia appeared no longer as the champion of oppressed Christians, but as an ambitious and grasping Power.

He grasped power, but not office.

Their wonderful agility and sureness in climbing about is partly due to the perfect grasping power of the lower limb.

The dancer certainly has far less grasping power than the common mouse, and is therefore at a disadvantage in moving about on sloping surfaces.

The greater strength and grasping power of their feet, from going always barefoot, no doubt gave them a surer footing in the rapid water.

The great nobles find me an obstacle in the way of their grasping power, and they would hesitate at nothing to rid themselves of me.

Either by the help of an unrighteous sentence, or grasping power with the strong hand, they were eager to satiate the impatience of party spirit.

Many savage human races, however, whose feet remain unshod, make use of the primitive grasping power of the foot which the higher races lose completely.