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2) Grasp the shadow and let go the substance. 

3) Grasp all, lose all.

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76) Certainly if the job were offered me I'd grasp at the chance.

77) I think I managed to grasp the main points of the lecture.

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107) He had allowed the ball to slip from his grasp.

108) The people in your grasp are not guests, they are hostages.

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129) But sometimes you grasp at straws.

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135) The blue cap he tossed to the floor in order to grasp my hand.

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139) Being registered as Paula Grey will lead the baying hounds straight to you - once they grasp that I've disappeared too.

140) The concept of altering demand to remain at full employment was one he did not find it difficult to grasp.

141) The prehensile pectoral fins actually grasp the weed as the fish moves about.

142) He seized the broomstick between his strong teeth and began to leap about, trying to wrest it from Angela's grasp.

143) Horses are not stupid and will soon grasp how to avoid hard graft!

144) Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle. James Russell Lowell 

145) He tried to clear the phantoms from his head and grasp reality.

146) Toni turned her gaze back to the fireplace to grasp a newly feigned interest in the bright flames.

147) The right balance of detail should help the reader quickly grasp the nature of the problem and your approach to it.

148) Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom. Mignon McLaughlin 

148) Wish you will love and make progress everyday!

149) Reyes Heroles is well-respected for his ability to quickly grasp complex issues.

150) They fail to grasp that what is required is their own detailed response to what is before them.

151) They grasp at each other with numbed fingers for the comfort of touch.

152) Visitors to the studio could gain an impression of his work as a whole and grasp the cumulative effect.

153) What is so sad is that through all the tinsel shines a reality, but we can not seem to grasp it.

154) They were trying to learn to perform a role whose meaning and importance they could not grasp ahead of time.

155) Enough information is given to provide the reader with a grasp of the essentials of each area.

156) She's yet to grasp the difference between a cigarette dispenser and a gaming machine.

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158) She distrusted the institutions through which they exercised influence from the moment that supreme power seemed within her grasp.

159) It is important to grasp what it was that peace activists thought they were trying to prevent.

160) Taylor manages to explain technical ideas in a way that non-specialists can grasp.

161) It remained his belief, though, that a firm grasp of wider realities would serve him well.

162) Everything said at this foolish board meeting unwittingly points to Scott's consummate grasp of the essentials of television.

163) He had seen total nuclear disarmament in the grasp of his President, then seen it slip away.

164) This concept of structure is particularly difficult to grasp because it appears not once but twice.

165) And it is like a butterfly wing, fragile and quickly crushed between finger and thumb even as we grasp it.

166) The concept of ideal types remains controversial and quite difficult to grasp.

167) Detectives believe that Elizabeth managed to grab the canister, but it was wrenched from her grasp.

168) There are those deep into their careers who still fail to grasp this concept.

169) The only way she knew to dispel it was to break free of his grasp and get into the canoe.

170) Science lessons should be taught in a way that makes the material easier to grasp.

171) A new field of activity seemed to be opening up for him if only he had the courage to grasp the nettle.

172) All this is accomplished through one master program. and several subroutines, and requires no conscious grasp of the problem.

173) Some cathedral organists have developed considerable liturgical flair and some have a good grasp of theology.

174) A pause: the speaker, though absent from our midst, has a fine grasp of the audience.

175) Friction between the generations is exacerbated when younger staff grasp the new idea and their creativity is suddenly released.

176) The hon. Gentleman's grasp of detail is usually so light that the idea of actually debating with him at all is risible.

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179) First we have no intuitive grasp of the immensities of time available for evolutionary change.

180) The idea of an alternate universe is hard to grasp.

181) John Gutfreund, although himself a trader by training, did not grasp the contradictions inherent in his compensation system.

182) It would shatter the illusion he was trying to create of having a unique grasp of this new warrant business.

183) When an opportunity comes, it holds possibilities. And when you move away from it or don't sense it or grasp it, you're really throwing away your future; you're throwing away your tomorrow. Robert H. Schuller 

184) Mrs Bottomley later dismissed suggestions that she had failed to grasp the nettle.

185) Years of dictatorship also meant that officials in athletic circles had very little grasp on reality.

186) The handgrips should be shaped so that children can grasp them firmly.

187) Usually this happens because the task is too broadly stated to get a firm grasp on it.

188) One person will grasp an opportunity with enthusiasm, whereas another will recoil from the same chance with anxiety and fear.

189) She seized the handle, but the impetus was too great, and it was wrenched from her convulsive grasp.

190) So extraordinary is this fact that we shall approach it from sev-eral perspectives to try to bring its enormity within our grasp.

191) Lucker holds my hand with the kind of grasp that men at sea learn as a last resort.

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193) There are formal operational thinkers - those who immediately grasp the abstract form of the problem and solve it quickly and easily.

194) The main aim of this chapter is to provide you with a grasp of political economy.

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196) When the workers are slow to grasp that reality, the results are often heartbreaking.

197) Fame has come suddenly, and Peyton is finding it hard to grasp.

198) I didn't have a solid grasp of myself - I depended on other people and surroundings to cue me.

199) It was Gerald Kaufman, shadow foreign secretary, who did that for him(), in a speech of vast sweeping grasp.

200) They employed a unique combination of theoretic analysis, practical grasp, and imaginative foresight.

201) Before I could grasp what was happening, I had bounced off the wall and was crumpling on to the floor in pain.

202) The army had failed to grasp that their mission was to protect the navy's ships, not vice versa.

203) Taking place on the trading floor was a strange inversion that be-came more apparent the longer management failed to grasp events.

204) This was separated from the other digits, giving their owners the ability to grasp and manipulate objects.

205) Sadly, it seems that he has failed to grasp the relationship between the district council and the board.