Sentence examples for be held dear from inspiring English sources

The Republican platform that was adopted on the first day of the Convention included a call to reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, which prohibits commercial banks from engaging in investment banking, an idea that is loathed within the industry but happens to be held dear by Bernie Sanders.

"I didn't think of it as something to be held dear to my heart in a way that a mother would hold her kids' pictures dear," she said.

Food was held dear by all members of the court with the exception of Queen Aigle.

Yet it survived – because informing, educating and entertaining the public meant that it was held dear.

His memory is held dear among ordinary folk in the northwestern extreme of Ireland where he was born.

The rimmed metal baking pan that has long been held dear by American cooks is the rectangular half sheet.

Reforming public services has been held dear by most recent governments – and all have found it a struggle.

Food was held dear… Elphenor, a fairy from the Elfin Court of Zuy, was sailing on a ship when a storm caused a wreck.

In Italy Catholicism, as a mark of cultural difference in a homogenising world, is held dear in some unlikely quarters: among atheist intellectuals, for example.

In a country where secularism is held dear and religion is regarded as a private matter, there's relatively little debate over the merits of the ban even now, five years later.

They are held dear by millions of Iranians who, like Ahmadinejad's family, migrated from remote villages to the cities amid a great wave of social and economic change during the reign of the last shah.