Sentence examples for forces were held from inspiring English sources

That was the block where prisoners of the American occupation forces were held pending and during interrogation.

While the SALT negotiations were under way in Geneva, talks on the prospect of cutting back conventional forces were held in Vienna and are still in progress.

But Curious George and his world seem almost to have been a refuge in which historical forces were held at bay by a focus on the timeless innocence of childhood, sensed in the artificial world of this strangely tailless monkey.

Although (according to non-saga sources) the English forces were held up at the bridge for some time by a single Norwegian, allowing Harald and Tostig to regroup into a shield-wall formation, Harald's army was in the end heavily beaten.

Qaddafi forces were holding out against the allied military campaign to break their grip.

He contended that Free French forces were holding the workers in virtual slavery as they built airstrips for the Allied military.

Soon after our meeting, AQIM said that it had executed one of the six French hostages its forces were holding in North Africa.

A person close to the negotiations, who requested anonymity to discuss private talks, said the Clinton campaign was receptive to the June revote plan but the Obama forces were holding back for now.

Mariupol's city council urged residents Saturday not to panic and offered reassurances that Ukrainian forces were holding their positions.

Evidently, even at this point, some Persian forces were holding (or had re-taken) some part of the Chersonesos with the help of native Thracians.

The Koran episode occurred in February at the library of the Parwan detention center on the edge of Bagram Air Base, where thousands of Afghans captured by American and international forces are held.