Sentence examples for had mainly held from inspiring English sources

The rain had mainly held off.

Unwilling to take losses, banks have mainly held onto these homes.

So far the mosaic of clans, with their shifting alliances, have mainly held back from openly challenging Mr Mohamud's government while they wait to see how resources and authority will be shared.But Mohamed Omar, the foreign minister of Somaliland, a northern breakaway from the rump of Somalia, says the government in Mogadishu has achieved little despite its international backing.

Fast-forward a few years and in many respects Gartner's 2008 forecast has mainly held true.

I've mainly held RIMM because the lighter bandwidth demand it puts on the carriers (unlike AAPL) means higher margin for carriers, and it's only a matter of time before carriers start to push back on the PDA manufacturers' bandwidth consumption and push its preferred PDAs where there is more margin.

Talk of returning to the drachma had mainly been held up as an apocalyptic vision rather than a viable policy option.

The Pakistani establishment has mainly been held responsible for the attacks on Baloch intellectuals but now these attacks have been extended to the non-Baloch elite as well should they decide to stand on the side of the Baloch instead of the armed forces.

One school holds that the problem has mainly to do with stress; the other holds actual deprivation responsible.

The anti-corruption boss says his agency has identified assets of $2.3 billion, mainly held through trails of offshore shell companies and accounts in tax havens, and that his understaffed agency tracks about 5-10% of such activity suggesting a total pot of $23 billion-45 billion.Bringing it all back homeSome of this comes back to India through mis-invoicing.

Anti-immigrant politicians mainly held their thunder.

Whereas the ACT's federal electorates have been mainly held by Labor, the Liberal Party has been able to gain some footing in the ACT Assembly, and were in government for just over eight of the Assembly's 21-year history.