Sentence examples for held dangerous from inspiring English sources

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While many European banks held dangerous quantities of American mortgages in 2008, American banks today have relatively little exposure to Europe's troubled sovereigns.

"At the age of 21, she decided to join the resistance movement in a foreign country, held dangerous positions and undertook perilous missions to prepare the grounds for the allied troops to march on.

At a news conference yesterday, Police Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik said the gang used the kind of tactics that make the job of an undercover detective, a job he formerly held, dangerous.

State-run media said that the facility held "dangerous materials," possibly including the chemical calcium carbide, which reacts violently to water.

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The system must also become much more discriminating about whom it holds dangerous criminals, not the harmless and sick.

"There is this very public display and investment in making these places of confinement look like they're holding dangerous people," Ms. Bosworth said.

While Indian immigrants are thought to arrive in the United States with vibrant traditions, Americans, post-9/11, worry that transplanted Pakistanis hold dangerous religious and ideological beliefs.

Those areas, which hold dangerous pathogens, feature filtered air, sealed doors and negative air pressure, which prevent germs from leaking out.

Under the country's patchwork system of state and federal regulation, most companies that hold dangerous commercial materials are inspected not by the N.R.C. but by thirty-four "Agreement" states, which have varying priorities and often inadequate resources.

But there were disagreements among senior Afghan officials about whether the Constitution allowed for indefinitely holding dangerous prisoners who could not be tried because of a lack of admissible evidence.

And while in Florida last month, Clinton went after Trump for holding "dangerous" views on gun policy – painting him as hypocritical for supporting the open carry of guns in schools while declaring his own properties as gun-free zones.

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