Sentence examples for act does not hold from inspiring English sources

The judge found that the Nigerian Oil Pipelines Act does not hold pipeline operators responsible for damage caused by oil theft but he identified exceptions, for example if a company did not install surveillance or anti-tampering equipment, or if it knew the time and location of a planned attack by criminals and decided not to inform the police.

But, lawyers said, that indemnity does not hold if they act in what is deemed to be bad faith.

Bruguera, a Cuban national who divides her time between Cuba, the U.S. and Europe, is in the midst of staging a satirical, long-term performance piece that comments on the lack of democracy on the island: She recently announced that she is running for president of Cuba when Raul steps down in 2018 — a futile act in a one-party state that doesn't hold presidential elections.

But though the Georgi of this region are considered to be at the same time both more gentle and civilised, still, since they are money-getters and have to do with the sea, they do not hold aloof from acts of piracy, 312nor yet from any other such acts of injustice and greed.

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Do not hold them.

Do not hold back.

When they brought the baby in there, they acted like I didn't hold him long enough.

It's important to see how your man acts around his friends, but don't hold him accountable for way his friends behave on their own.

Please don't hold my defiant acts against my (almost) perfect children.

The play begins with his father's death, and later that day, an epiphany, while thumbing through the third act of "Our Town," that the theatre didn't hold any of the answers to life.