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Example sentences for "strong hand"

  • The "Strong Hand" was a gigantic undertaking.

  • In the "Strong Hand," he had codified and given orderly arrangement to Judaism as revealed in Bible and tradition; he would now examine its relations to reason, would compare its results with the data of philosophy.

  • Montvilliers wanted a strong hand to guide her, and a bloodless revolution raised my father to power.

  • Serious street fighting became general, and had to be suppressed with a strong hand.

  • When the reins fall from a strong hand there is always trouble," said another man.

  • Cromwell had too much common sense not to perceive the difficulty of establishing a democracy in a country in which that form of government had but few admirers, and he suppressed the Levellers with a strong hand.

  • The Republic needed a strong hand to preserve it, and the office of Stadholder was revived and given to William.

  • The chroniclers call him now Count of the Cotentin, and he there practised the art of government for a time, and, in sharp contrast to Robert, maintained order with a strong hand.

  • There were reasons enough for his presence there, and with a strong hand.

  • The acts of Esarhaddon show that he was a prince of energy, and knew how to guide the reins with a strong hand.

  • As I live, saith the Lord God, I will reign over you with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.

  • And hast brought forth thy people Israel, out of the land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and with a strong hand, and a stretched out arm, and with great terror.

  • Paaker's deed had shaken his friendly confidence, and in his petition for peace the Cheta prince had intimated that Rameses might find much in his household to be set to rights--perhaps with a strong hand.

  • I love you, and I know you well, and though I am not wise, I have my eyes open and a strong hand.

  • But Rameses sat on the throne, held the sceptre with a strong hand, and thirteen young sons promised to his house the lordship over Egypt to all eternity.

  • His prayers, however, had no power to touch Nebsecht, who only strove forcibly to disengage his finger from Pentaur's strong hand, which held him as in a clasp of iron.

  • Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.

  • Then the LORD said unto Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh: for with a strong hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land.

  • Remember that thou also didst serve in Egypt, and the Lord thy God brought thee out from thence with a strong hand, and a stretched out arm.

  • Thou shalt say to him: We were bondmen of Pharao in Egypt, and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand.

  • But because the Lord hath loved you, and hath kept his oath, which he swore to your fathers: and hath brought you out with a strong hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharao the king of Egypt.

  • And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.

  • Here the nobles are awed by the Archbishop, and when he is not in arms, the country rests, but on the Rhine the Barons are at continual feud and there is no strong hand to restrain them.

  • Arnold von Isenberg had no particular objection to the shedding of blood, and had before now held down his enemies with a strong hand, but results in this instance had been out of all proportion to their cost.

  • Count Heinrich has to hold his possessions with a strong hand, and so cannot be too nice in the selection of those who are to do his work.

  • Illustration: "If you grasp them in a strong hand, they will become diamonds.

  • That very evening there was a meeting of the prominent men of the city to take counsel together how anarchy might be suppressed with a strong hand.

  • If you grasp them in a strong hand, they will become diamonds.

  • And immediately he came forth to meet them with an infinite multitude, and a strong hand, 20:21.

  • And the Lord said to Moses: Now thou shalt see what I will do to Pharao: for by a mighty hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he cast them out of his land.

  • And it shall be as a sign in thy hand, and as a thing hung between thy eyes, for a remembrance: because the Lord hath brought us forth out of Egypt by a strong hand.

  • When the make has been passed, one must infer that the dealer has not a strong hand, neither has he much strength in the red suits.

  • When the weak hand can ruff your suit, it is sometimes good play to lead trumps; but only when, in doing so, you are leading trumps through the strong hand, and when you have some protection in the other suits.

  • Try to select the trump that will win the greatest number of points with a strong hand, and the one that will lose the fewest possible number with a weak hand.

  • But the English are now putting it down with a strong hand.

  • Wherever the Roman legions marched, they ruled with a strong hand, but they established law and order, the first conditions of human society.

  • It needed a strong hand, which was given it in Sir Henry Lawrence, who had been thirty years in India.

  • If my life is to be steadied, there must not only be a strong hand at the tiller, but some outward object which shall be for me the point of aim and the point of rest.

  • So he drifted and drifted, and at last was smashed to fragments on the rocks, as all men are who do not keep a strong hand on the helm and a steady eye on the compass.

  • Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand, and His arm shall rule for Him: behold, His reward is with Him, and His work before Him.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strong hand" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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