Sentence examples for held to lie from inspiring English sources

Corneille's excellence as a playwright has long been held to lie in his ability to depict personal and moral forces in conflict.

Anthropologists have applied Freudian concepts to their studies of primitive cultures, seeking to assess comparatively the universality of states of the unconscious that Freud and his followers held to lie in the whole human race.

Her worry about press pools stems from the kind of arrangement news organizations made during the 2000 election year, a practice she describes this way: "The value of a free press in our society was always held to lie in competition.

(2) Insofar as the pantheist assertion of unity may be understood as an assertion of complete and coherent integration, and disvalue held to lie in conflict, disharmony or incompleteness, then it may be possible to argue that the culmination of metaphysical unity constitutes also the culmination of value.

The isthmic serotonergic populations are represented mainly by what we call the isthmic dorsal raphe nucleus (isDR), which is the largest part of the conventional dorsal raphe nucleus (commonly wrongly held to lie in the midbrain; compare Fig.  1); this is composed of dorsal, ventral, lateral and wing subdivisions (isDRd, isDRv, isDRl, isDRW).

During 1994, two major conferences were held to lay the groundwork for the TRC's work.

The intrigue is explosive....what will it feel like to hold hands? to lie next to each other with a shared view of the stars, talking and laughing all the while?

Politicians are held to account for outright lies, but there seems to be no sanction against saying things you obviously don't believe.

At those early meetings held to discuss the problem, lay out the issues clearly, demonstrate you've studied them from all sides and present your straw-man recommendation.

It is not known where this point is, however - a professional trustee obviously cannot be held to the standards of a lay trustee, but it has been seen as equally unfair that a lay trustee would be held to the standards of a professional one.

Democrats, after all (so this punditocracy-cocktail-party chatter held), were supposed to lie down, roll over, and play dead until the Republicans took over a few months from now.