Sentence examples for best holding from inspiring English sources

Now, orders are more likely to be falling or, at best, holding their own.

But these results do chime with other evidence suggesting that the UK is, at best, holding its own on giving and helping.

But the Knicks' defense was at its suffocating best, holding Philadelphia scoreless for the first 5 minutes 41 seconds of the game, and without a field goal (0 for 14) for nearly eight minutes.

Recent attacks and dozens of interviews with Afghans in three strategic border provinces -- Paktia, Khost and Kunar -- suggest that American forces are, at best, holding their own in what has evolved into a classic counterinsurgency campaign.

But in countries such as Lebanon or Côte d'Ivoire, they are at best holding the line between parties still in conflict.One reason for the surge in UN peacekeeping is that Africa, the region most in need of peacekeepers, is least able to provide for itself.

In creating this "Gary Barlow" character, who raises money for charity while simultaneously trampling our shared values into the urinal trough, was Barlow in fact (like the comedy of Jimmy Carr or Ricky Gervais at its best) holding up a mirror to society, magnifying our hypocrisy through the lens of his own actions?

These are best held in flash memory.

He had three chances to break back in the ninth game, but Tsonga, serving near his best, held.

Advertisers and networks will know with weird accuracy who and what within each program best holds television viewers' attention.

It analyzed what assets were best held in tax-deferred accounts and at what point fees reached a level that negated the benefit of that deferral.

These assimilations illustrate a universal tendency of vowel interaction and are of relatively recent origin; they are best held apart from the question of vowel harmony.