Sentence examples for a nation held from inspiring English sources

A nation held its breath.

We are now, as a nation, held hostage to the predictable ­ and predicted ­ disarray that has followed".

When Bryan Robson dislocated his shoulder while playing for Manchester United against West Ham a nation held its breath.

He sought to look like the rescuer of a nation held captive by talk of deadlines, voter intent and chads.

Should anyone need reminding, Iraq is a nation held hostage to an American-led embargo every bit as barbaric as the dictatorship over which Iraqis have no control.

A nation held hostage by the failings of its political class and burdened by many years of irrational spending has invested its hopes in a former vice president of the European Central Bank and longtime governor of Greece's central bank.

A nation holds its breath.

A nation holds it's breath...can Henman break?

Unless we, as a nation, hold ourselves to such a standard, we will only substitute one brand of social injustice and bias for another, and compromise our moral authority.

Japan as a nation holds nearly $3 trillion in dollar-denominated assets, many of them ultimately supported by the very deposits that would be withdrawn in a wholesale reorganization of Japanese banking.

Unlike the even more epic Intolerance, which is glorious and dull in turn, The Birth of a Nation holds the watcher as in a vice because it shows such ingenuity in integrating a very intimate story within the framework of so large an historical canvass.