Sentence examples for held substances from inspiring English sources

The unglazed African ceramics may have held substances such as copal but were also likely used by emigrant Africans living in the settlement.

Results: Chemical engineers have developed a simple "mix and shake" technique for producing microcapsules – tiny shells that can hold substances such as drugs and medical imaging dyes.

Though fines were dropped for petty drug possession, police are mandated by law in Costa Rica to confiscate drugs and offer voluntary addiction treatment to anyone they catch holding substances.

In Connecticut, 62 high schools have announced plans to hold "substance free" graduation events, said Gregory E. Futoma, a state police spokesman.

When these concert goers finally find that diamond in the rough they hold onto it for dear life because it holds substance.

Although evidence to the contrary had begun causing concern at FDA, medical dogma at the time still generally held that substances such as drugs and alcohol did not cross the placenta from the mother to the fetus.

The present study developed a Nicotine and Other Substance Interaction Expectancies Questionnaire (NOSIE) to investigate the expectancies held by substance abusers in treatment about the effects of smoking on substance use, the effects of substance use on smoking, smoking to cope with recovery, and receptivity to smoking cessation during substance abuse treatment.

Criticizing the neo-Platonic approach of Solomon ibn Gabirol, who held that substance and accident are relative terms, so that the selfsame thing can be a substance in one respect and an accident in another, he insists that substance and accident are absolute terms and that a thing is either a substance or an accident, but not both.

Afterward, Iversen held the substance in a small glass vial.

Russia, which is heavily backing the Assad government, said a Syrian government airstrike had hit a "terrorist warehouse" holding "toxic substances".

Technical experts from the military and the F.B.I. used plastic to seal off a car and containers believed to hold the substances and took them to Nellis Air Force Base near here in preparation for testing.