Sentence examples for a solid hold from inspiring English sources

But Somalia still has a solid hold on the bottom position.

Given The Imposter's impressive debut the previous weekend, and its expansion to 77 screens, a solid hold was always likely.

"We have this cold air that has been reinforced over the last few days and has a solid hold over the area," Mr. Picca said.

The victory gave United 9-10-9 9-10-9 9-10-9a solid hold on a playoff berth in the Eastern Conference with two regular-season games to play.

K.C. Singh, a former counterterrorism coordinator and former Indian ambassador to Iran, said the greatest danger to progress may lie in Mr. Sharif's making an overture before he has a solid hold on his country's powerful security infrastructure.

Modern Serbian power reached its zenith near the end of 1992, when the Serbs controlled seventy per cent of Bosnia and a third of Croatia and still had a solid hold on Kosovo.

Across the street from the soaring (and heavily surveilled) arched door of No. 9 is the back of the Frick, a solid holding wall.

The stock is a solid holding for any utility portfolio.

The setup of the simulations is based on the experimental measurements of Gan (2013), who used a laboratory-scale cylindrical bubble column, neutrally buoyant acrylic beads of 3 mm in diameter, and a solids hold-up of 1.6 vol%.

Though Mr. Young held a solid grip on his district, Mr. Obama carried it in 2008 and again in 2012 after it had been redrawn, signaling increasing difficulties for some Republicans.

After all, while Google may not have had a strong foothold in the Chinese search market from an overall perspective, indications are that they did have a very solid hold of the better educated, young elite class in China.