Sentence examples for had first held from inspiring English sources

As secretary-general of the Central Military Commission (a post he had first held three decades earlier), he forced the military to abandon its archaic role as a politicised revolutionary force, to become a modern fighting body.

Microsoft reiterated the business line to me in an interview, conducted before the release of the Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2, immediately after I had first held the devices, again in Redmond.

This arrangement lasted until the early 4th century ad, and such emperors as Shāpūr I and Hormizd II are known to have first held the title kūshānshāh as governors of the areas of Bactria, Sogdiana, and Gandhāra.

The Drumcree march had a long history, having first been held in 1807 when the area was sparsely populated, but the first serious stand-off over the parade came in 1995.

Jazz had first grabbed hold of him as a teenager growing up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

They would have been the first held in a predominantly Muslim country.

He is believed to have been first held at Camp Nama, a secret detention facility at Baghdad airport that British troops helped to run.

Rahmutallah is believed to have been first held at Camp Nama, a secret detention facility at Baghdad airport that British troops helped to run.

He had been held first in Lebanon and later in Iran.

He had been held back in first, fourth, and sixth grades.

Other drivers said they had long held second jobs and would find other work.