Sentence examples for held it apart from inspiring English sources

Verona fell to Gian Galeazzo Visconti in 1387 and in 1405 to Venice, which held it, apart from its occupation by Emperor Maximilian I (1509 17), until 1797, when it was ceded to Austria by Napoleon I at the Treaty of Campo Formio.

What I want to do is recognise the fantasy, take hold of it and take it apart.' Gomorrah the film is out on Friday.

There is no motor driving it, no music to tether it, and nothing to hold it aloft apart from that up-draft of sensual atmosphere and existential dread.

And I knew that another way must be possible, for this center can no longer hold, it must fall apart.

(Although, as disfiguring irony, generations of Afrikaner rule brought this black majority close in some sense, while holding it ruthlessly down and apart).

With so few other national bonds, Yemen has more to pull it apart than to hold it together.

He has upset the power structure by tearing apart what holds it together.

A long-stated fear among Iraq's Arab neighbours is that without Mr Hussein's iron fist to hold it together, Iraq might fly apart into separate Kurdish, Shia and Sunni fiefs.

G. Stick out your thumb and index finger about a centimeter apart and hold it sideways.

At the same time Gabayzadeh set up a labyrinth of 45 companies with 100 bank accounts described as affiliates of American Tissue, but held apart from it by the Gabayzadeh and Elghanayan families.

Balanced journalism had long separated these young reporters from their older counterparts, and when the revolution began, it also, crucially, held them apart from more strident young writers.