Sentence examples for had traditionally held from inspiring English sources

The Free Democrats regained control over the Foreign Ministry in late 2009, ending an eleven-year absence atop a ministry it had traditionally held as the junior partner in the conservative bloc of the Christian Democrats and Christian Social Union.

But I was in Baghdad at the time and, in reality, the dissolution of the army was being recommended to the Americans by the Kurdish and Shia leaders, representing 80 per cent of Iraqis, who rightly saw the Iraqi security forces as the most important institution through which the 20 per cent Sunni minority had traditionally held power.

By the terms of the treaty, China was obliged to recognize the independence of Korea, over which it had traditionally held suzerainty; to cede Taiwan, the Pescadores Islands, and the Liaodong (south Manchurian) Peninsula to Japan; to pay an indemnity of 200,000,000 taels to Japan; and to open the ports of Shashi, Chongqing, Suzhou, and Hangzhou to Japanese trade.

The Redmond software giant had traditionally held a Monday night press conference to beat Sony to the punch, but when Sony moved their press conference to Monday afternoon to scoop Microsoft things got interesting.

Early in the ice trade, there were few restrictions on harvesting ice in the U.S., as it had traditionally held little value and was seen as a free good.

Washington has traditionally held its primary in the spring.

Among the Calabari people in southeastern Nigeria, fat has traditionally held a cherished place.

Some pop genres have traditionally held a licence to thrill, to divert and to exercise the mind.

True, the novel is a comparatively recent phenomenon in Arabic literature; poetry, an ancient art, has traditionally held wider prestige.

Cougars, perhaps, are simply claiming the sexual high ground from the sex that has traditionally held it.

European companies have traditionally held information close, and some have resented the idea of being assessed by a big American firm.