Sentence examples for at first held from inspiring English sources

Even after the Wall fell, on 9 November 1989, fear at first held people back from grappling with this monster.

(Cassella at first held out and was not absorbed by IG Farben until 1937.) Policy-making was fused, but operations were decentralized.

The Communist Party at first held that a strong administrative organization was bound to damage the revolution by dampening spontaneity and other revolutionary virtues.

The group has the potential to become one of the more important of the plethora of forums filling the calendars of Asia-Pacific leaders.EU membership was at first held up for technical reasons, because one condition was to sign the "Treaty of Amity and Co-operation" with ASEAN, something open only to countries, not organisations.

The world has watched rapt for the past two days as IBM super computer Watson has at first held its own and then gone on to defeat Jeopardy champions Brad Rutter ($10,400) and Ken Jennings ($4,800), raking in $35,734 by the end of  night two yesterday.

Two women, one whose softball-sized tits are trying to abandon ship (+1 point), the other has long since passed that milestone and is wearing just a bra (+3 points), at first held back by her teeny-tiny kid, then everything goes absolutely gorillas.

The movement, also called the Free Officers, progressed slowly at first — holding meetings, developing "organizational procedures," distributing a revolutionary newspaper.

Teenagers may be apprehensive at first; hold your ground.

If your cat doesn't like it at first, hold the animal firmly to your chest with your hand under its belly and pet it.

At the first, held in October at the Carltun in Eisenhower Park, players mingled with the crowd.

Alex Gaumond, as Howard Keel (alright, as "Adam Pontipee") did not at first hold a candle to Keel and our hearts sank.