Sentence examples for a solid holding from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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.

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.

Facing up to this, Jobs is implementing a strategy tightly focussed on two markets in which Apple has a solid hold: education and what he calls "creative content," meaning publishing and design and Web-site development.

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.

Although military brass has spoken about rapid gains, the fact is that soldiers have a solid hold on only three of the five towns in an enclave that is twice the size of New Jersey.

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.

Once a breeding ground for state political leaders, the Machine (it has long been known by that nickname) today maintains a solid hold on student government through an effective, and critics say coercive, brand of old-fashioned organization politics.