• These are basic movements many of us take for granted: a tri-pod grip to pick up a pen, or hand-shake grip for business meetings, said Miguelez, who has fitted hundreds of amputees with prosthetic devices.

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  • The track rubbered-in very quickly, ramping up its grip - and the tyres held out perfectly, without any of the tyre nursing that usually helps keep fuel consumption in check.

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  • The story of the past three decades or more has been one of successive prime ministers promising to get a grip on media standards - and stand up to powerful vested interests - and ultimately failing to act.

    BBC: Nothing personal: Politicians and their media friends

  • But 30-year-old Llodra took control at the net to claim the next two sets before two straight aces in the fourth-set tie-breaker helped him put France 2-0 up and loosen Spain's two-year grip on the cup.

    BBC: France take shock Davis Cup lead over Spain

  • When the grip was released, however, the pent-up hatreds were also released.

    ECONOMIST: Ten years on

  • Up front, six-pot calipers grip discs the size of novelty sombreros.

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  • The application, which is compatible with the latest Apple products, is designed to give i-limb wearers quick access to up to 24 different grip patterns.

    BBC: Touch Bionics limb with mobile app

  • But it has now been three years since the fall of Lehman Brothers, and the grip of government-backed finance is still tightening as opposed to letting up.

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  • "Practice starts during the weekend had shown that the dirty side of the grid was so lacking in grip that a car would lose up to a second in the 350-meter run to Turn 1, equivalent to two positions, " James Allen, a Formula One commentator for the BBC and the editor of jamesallenonF1.com, wrote in an email.

    WSJ: Alonso Happy to Spoil the Party

  • Dubbed the "Bo Series, " these four bots sport the ability to walk and turn, move and grip with their arms, dozens of pre-programmed functions such as picking up objects, dancing, burping, whistling, and a kicking out a fair selection of " Kung Fu moves, " not to mention the ability to dictate your new friend with an IR remote.

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  • Fifty years ago, at the dawn of nuclear power, Wall Street was in the grip of a uranium-mining fever, with stocks and even mutual funds cropping up to take investors' money.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Back in May this year, Transport Minister Kim Howells promised a radical shake-up of the railways in a bid to tighten the government's grip on the way the industry was run.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Rail regulator slams government

  • The thumb grip's pair of programmable rockers similarly won our favor because of their ridges up top -- like the thumb keys on Logitech's G700, we could press these just by slightly shifting the base of our thumb, leaving our thumbtip free to hold the red sniper button -- a feature we'll talk about later.

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  • First introduced in the late 1800s to save the strain on horses hauling carts up the city's steep inclines, the 15, 500-pound cable-powered cars grip a continuously moving underground cable with pliers-like gear to travel the streets of San Francisco.

    NPR: San Francisco Cable Car Accidents Costs Millions

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