iron grip

He took an iron grip on himself and his emotions.

An iron grip held him balanced between life and death.

But those who think she has an iron grip on the nomination make a strong case.

Some invisible power held it down with an iron grip.

His managing style is known to be under the iron grip.

He had both hands in an iron grip over the guard's throat.

We fell to the soft ground, and he held me there with an iron grip.

Its iron grip on the doctor's arm stopped him from leaving.

A big hand clamped over his with an iron grip.

The party still has an iron grip on the national levers of political power.

The iron grip on his chest finally eased a little.

Her hands caught his own, the fingers closing with an iron grip.

He held her other hand in an iron grip.

He took an iron grip upon his will, though, and stayed upright.

The fat one took my arm above the elbow in what he must have felt was an iron grip.

A hand smacked across her mouth in an iron grip.

And it has an iron grip on its members.

He reached out and seized her shoulders in an iron grip.

But what an iron grip it has upon us!

She was held in his iron grip like a lifeless doll.

But even his two hands couldn't loosen the iron grip.

Trying to twist away from the iron grip, she opened her eyes in panic.

The boy struggled without effect in the trooper's iron grip.

Despite the Federation's iron grip, there were those who resisted.