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Значения термина grasping на английском

Immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth.

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The act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)

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Examples for "seizing"
Examples for "seizing"
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However, few observers believe the army is bent on seizing power again.
Reuters
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Renzi's political focus since seizing power in February does make economic sense.
Reuters
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So any move will almost inevitably lead to accusations of 'seizing power'.
News.com.au
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They came close to seizing power in a lightning attack last year.
Reuters
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Sea gangs have made millions of dollars from seizing ships and crews.
Reuters
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Two experiments were carried out: the prehension experiment and the grasp perturbation experiment.
Pubmed
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In the stationary-object prehension task, subjects had to pick up a stationary target object.
Pubmed
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Such a precision grip device may form the groundwork for future studies on prehension mechanisms.
Pubmed
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The presentation of distractors had no effects on the prehension kinematics of the control subjects.
Pubmed
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TENTACULA or TENTACLES.-Delicatefleshy organs of prehension or touch possessed by many of the lower animals.
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection / Or, the Pr...
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The same feverish restlessness was taking hold in similar circles in Europe.
The 5000 year leap: a miracle that changed the world
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The Dominican crisis broke just as the new dogma was taking hold.
The new yorker
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As I said the words, I could feel a shift taking hold.
Between a heart and a rock place: a memoir
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She'd hardly eaten anything today, and the wine was taking hold fast.
Killer
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It adds credence to anecdotal accounts of a new normal taking hold.
Reuters
Использование термина grasping на английском
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The man was openly exultant; he stood for Demos grasping the sceptre.
Demos
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The act of Fred Linden in grasping the limb saved his life.
The Hunters of the Ozark
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The wild blood in her leaped at the thought of grasping happiness.
December Love
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This will teach thee caution in judgment and accuracy in grasping subjects.
The Pharaoh and the Priest: An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt
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The players form in a circle, grasping the hands of their neighbors.
School, Church, and Home Games
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It's clearly a fantastic opportunity and they're grasping it with both hands.
The Irish Times
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Already some unknown individual is grasping the lemon in his unwilling fingers.
The Prince and Betty
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Or, if it does, it sees no political dividend in grasping reform.
The Guardian
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The universal wish to realize is only typified by the grasping gain.
Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis to John S. Dwight; Brook Farm...
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He rose, grasping in his teeth the kreel of weed and shells.
Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida / Selected from the Works of Ou...
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Employers are also grasping the great possibilities for them in this theory.
Analyzing Character / The New Science of Judging Men; Misfits in...
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Great wonder, and the stir of a grasping tenderness was in Richard.
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 6
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Agent Williams leaned forward, grasping the dashboard to get a better look.
Wet desert: tracking down a terrorist on the colorado river
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People who are partially sighted often have difficulty grasping a complete image.
Wired
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Vivian Standish grasping the back of a chair, stared in furious amazement.
Honor Edgeworth; Or, Ottawa's Present Tense
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His arms, prevented from grasping Mrs Fox's, hang at his sides, useless.
The crimson petal and the white
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