Sentence examples for formerly held in from inspiring English sources

Under its terms, approved by Greece among other nations, the four powers renounced all rights they formerly held in Germany.

On Saint Leger's advice they were given titles to lands that they had formerly held in defiance of English law.

They could also mean that potentially harmful organisms, formerly held in check, might take on the status of pests.

Mr. Jung's frayed instrument can still summon the volume the role requires, and the grotesque accents in his final scene bespeak a wicked theatricality formerly held in check.

The Hamdan defense has worried prosecutors by winning the right to submit written questions to four detainees who were formerly held in secret C.I.A. prisons.

After the end of the cold war, he explains, people formerly held in check by totalitarian regimes began to move about and, in some cases, plot crime and terror.

Ricardel formerly held positions in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.

Seventy-Five percent of oil lobbyists formerly held jobs in the federal government.

In the Senate, Democrats were successful in unseating the incumbent Republicans in New Hampshire, Oregon and North Carolina and won seats formerly held by Republicans in Virginia, Colorado and New Mexico.

In December 1543, just after his sister had married the king, he was created Earl of Essex, a title formerly held by his father-in-law, Henry Bourchier, who had died in March 1540.

Dr Otto Kandler is emeritus professor and formerly held the chair in botany at the Institute of Botany, Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich.