Sentence examples for acknowledged holding from inspiring English sources

Executives of the two companies had acknowledged holding talks.

Their captors neither publicly acknowledged holding them nor issued any demands.

Yet he was never charged and the Pakistani government never acknowledged holding him.

Rollins hinted at that after Game 2, when he acknowledged holding the bat a little tighter and swinging too hard.

The Davis campaign acknowledged holding fund-raisers in New York that sought money from pro-Israeli groups and Jews.

Although the Syrian government has not acknowledged holding Mr. Foley, representatives of the news organization met with the Syrian ambassador to Lebanon in Beirut, Mr. Balboni said.

Burma's rulers have always cynically refused to acknowledge holding any political prisoners at all.

He went missing after the incident with authorities refused to acknowledge holding him.

The most intense confrontation came in August 2006 when she urged Mr. Bush to acknowledge holding Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and other terrorism suspects in secret prisons overseas.

The government acknowledges holding about 1,800 prisoners without charge under the emergency law, but human rights groups say the number could be closer to 10,000.

"Under international law, authorities commit an enforced disappearance when they refuse to acknowledge holding someone in custody or conceal the person's fate or whereabouts, thereby placing them outside the protection of the law and increasing the risk of torture or ill-treatment," Swerdlow said.