Sentence examples for held the line from inspiring English sources

But the governor held the line.

After a few weeks we held the line at Hungnam.

We held the line for a second day".

Tuesday's contingency plans seem to have held the line.

Where floodwalls and dykes proved inadequate, sandbags and manpower held the line.

"I believe I held the line," he wrote proudly as the last line in his autobiography.

SWAT occupied a string of houses and held the line there.

In Florida and Michigan and Ohio, Romney held the line against the conservative insurgency.

Other Panhandle canvassing boards held the line on counting ballots with missing postmarks.

"Jim McGreevey held the line on property taxes," the ad says, "but not Bret Schundler.

But Mrs Thatcher can at least claim to have held the line for another year.