1.   As darkness gains a firmer grip the songbirds fade and the owls start.

2.   Right-wing think-tanks have an even firmer grip.

3.   And this time, he hoped to keep a firmer grip.

4.   But as the socialists gained an ever firmer grip, its protests grew weaker.

5.   But Sanderling keeps his troops under firmer grip in a taut and compelling interpretation.

6.   I say he needs a firmer grip on this team.

7.   In creating George along those lines, it could be argued that Kennedy has a firmer grip on the public pulse than most pundits do.

8.   Incidentally, you can use a bar of soap instead of a potato, but you can usually get a firmer grip on a potato.

9.   They also have a firmer grip on the mechanisms by which this debilitating, though rarely fatal, disease gets started in the first place.

10.   This is not grasping at straws only because straws would have given Mathis a firmer grip on reality.