Sentence examples for held wide from inspiring English sources

A woman runs away from her bewildered partner, standing, arms held wide apart, in a park.

He then held wide sway over investment decisions made by the pension fund.

A careful and conservative practitioner, he wrote the first illustrated surgical text, which held wide influence in Europe for centuries.

He proved that there was not only a place in the UK for new classical music that held wide audience appeal, but a positive hunger for it.

Mr. Obama, who appeared to be building momentum in recent days, held wide leads in states like Minnesota, and ran close behind her in states like New Jersey.

He oversaw the church for slightly more than a year starting in the summer of 685, ruling during the so-called Byzantine papacy, when Byzantium, which had previously controlled parts of Syria, held wide sway over the papal affairs.

This made for a shoot characterised by beatings, bruisings, near-drownings and extreme torture in the name of the notorious "Ludovico treatment", during which McDowell's eyes were held wide-open by clamps.

Officials at Maximus Inc. of McLean, Va., the company that was awarded the largest share of the contracts, held wide-ranging discussions with the Giuliani administration on its "welfare reform efforts" starting in early January 1999, according to internal Maximus documents obtained by The New York Times.

True, the novel is a comparatively recent phenomenon in Arabic literature; poetry, an ancient art, has traditionally held wider prestige.

But Mr. Boehner's remarks held wider implications, effectively putting him on a war footing with the independent analysts whose calculations generally guide discussions about the projected cost or savings of any legislation.

Shaheen held wider leads over three lesser-known potential GOP rivals: activist Karen Testerman by 17 points, former state Sen. Jim Rubens by 16 points, and former Rep. Bob Smith (R-N.H).