Sentence examples for few hold from inspiring English sources

Few hold their assets out of artistic conviction.

And in the west few hold the Gateses to account.

Yet few hold out much hope that Mr. Ford's arrival in Damascus will change much.

Few hold out more than the slimmest hopes for the remaining two.

Few hold out much faith that it can succeed where others have failed.

Afghans are deployed for combat purposes, although a few hold senior advisory roles.

Mind you, the serial restaurateur has had a few hold-ups with his latest venture.

John Oxx has sounded none too bullish about Sea The Stars, while Sir Michael Stoute's Evasive has had a few hold-ups.

At the Olympic Park in Barra da Tijuca, a small forest of cranes swings back and forth over the velodrome and gymnasium even as the last few hold-outs in a nearby favela resist police attempts to forcibly remove them.

The foundation stone of St John's Cathedral (27) in Ann Street (00 61 7 3835 2248; www.stjohnscathedral.com.au) was laid in 1901, but funding problems have caused a few hold-ups; the latest estimates are that the work will be completed in 2009.

The number constituting "some" has been dwindling since then, but there are still a few hold-outs who think ALH 84001 is indeed the first evidence of extraterrestrial aliens albeit of bacterial dimensions.The reason why ALH 84001 is so interesting is that it contains organic compounds.