long arm

noun

1. a long pole fitted with any of various devices, as a hook or clamp, for performing tasks otherwise out of reach.

long arm

noun

1. power, esp far-reaching power

   the long arm of the law

2. to reach out for something, as from a sitting position

Example Sentences

“Our air force is our insurance policy. It is our long arm but also our quickest and most effective response to most situations,” said Eyal Hulata, former head of Israel’s National Security Council and now a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

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Unless those buyers can entirely evade the U.S. financial system and the long arm of the Treasury, transactions with the firms would place them in jeopardy.

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The nation’s multilayered historical background has been variously stamped by a basic Arabic heritage, ineradicable remnants of protracted Ottoman Turkish rule and the long arm of the British colonial empire.

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And Attorney General Pam Bondi, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, White House border czar Tom Homan and especially Stephen Miller need control to prevent the long arm of justice from ever reaching them.

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It takes Johnson’s district in Dallas-Fort Worth and reorients it as a rural East Texas seat with a long arm slicing into a tiny sliver of the DFW metro region.

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