Sentence examples for common held from inspiring English sources

Rapper-actor Common held a moment of silence for Michael Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old who was fatally shot by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, before he presented the award for best hip-hop video.

Of those who do have children's services related qualifications, the national survey found that a diploma or advanced diploma was the most common, held by 31% of the workforce, followed by 19% of staff with a Certificate III or IV and 10% with bachelor's degree (Rudd and Macklin 2007b, 7).

This common held misperception overshadows the reality that domestic violence penetrates all barriers: socioeconomic, religious, ethnic, cultural, etc. Diane believed she had married her prince in shining armor.

Contrary to common held perceptions, a significant proportion of these deaths occur in the medical patient population.

In the 1920s the Commons held an inquiry into the shortage of domestic servants in Britain.

That contrasted with tough words from David Cameron when the Commons held an emergency session on 11 August.

The Commons held an 11th-hour emergency debate during which the Lib Dem home affairs spokesman, Nick Clegg, condemned the "unfair, unequal treaty".

James's advice concerning parliaments, which he understood as merely the king's "head court", foreshadows his difficulties with the English Commons: "Hold no Parliaments," he tells Henry, "but for the necesitie of new Lawes, which would be but seldome".

The center, called the F. G. Walton Smith Commons, holds a cafeteria and a bar that was rated as one of Miami's best secrets by the Miami New Times in 2008.

(Putting merged Landesbanks under a common holding company would be one way to preserve regional identities).A shortage of eligible buyers also gums up the system.

To do so, he is studying as many pairs of venerable siblings as possible, in the hope that the genes they have in common hold the secret of their advanced years.But genes are not everything.