Sentence examples for had formerly held from inspiring English sources

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

Mr. Powers, who had formerly held the post, said the move was necessary to quell unrest among a deeply divided faculty.

Manuel fled to Constantinople in 1392 to claim his crown but, two years later, was under siege by the sultan who had formerly held him captive.

The son of Ealhmund, king in Kent in 784 and 786, Egbert was a member of a family that had formerly held the West Saxon kingship.

The last volume, Monsieur Bergeret à Paris (1901; Monsieur Bergeret in Paris), concerns the participation of the hero, who had formerly held himself aloof from political strife, in the Alfred Dreyfus affair.

Matthew Drutt, chief curator of the Menil Collection, took a decorative approach, hanging a quiet gray painting by Max Ernst on a gray wall that had formerly held such assertive works as a monumental Braque (shown at left).

The Cardiff Central MP becomes shadow Wales secretary, having formerly held a justice brief.

Normally, when whiskies are sherry cask-matured, the liquid is moved into barrels that have formerly held sherry -- barrels which have been brought to Scotland from Spain.

Jean had formerly been held in an H.I.V. detention camp located at Guantanamo Bay.

That title had formerly been held by Strahinjica Bana itself in the 1990s and 2000s, when its surgically enhanced clientele gave it the nickname Silicon Valley.

The Army fled, leaving the jihadis in control of sizable gas reserves, the brutal prison where thousands of Islamists and political dissidents had formerly been held (which they blew up), and the ruins of a fabled dominion that was once ruled by a queen named Zenobia, who dared to threaten the power of imperial Rome.