Sentence examples for held- from inspiring English sources

Our vote held up, we had not anticipated the Tory vote collapsing quite so dramatically.

We work very hard and I am just pleased our vote held up.

"People must be held to account for their actions under the rule of law and in the case of Mr Downey clearly a dreadful mistake was made by him receiving that letter".

All presidential and parliamentary elections held during the independence era have been deemed flawed by independent western monitoring groups.

"It is in our vital national interest that we avoid the fatal mistake that would be a no vote if a referendum is held in the next few years".

Clarke held talks on this at a recent EU-Latin America summit in Chile with Karel De Gucht, the European trade commissioner.

Far more fossil fuels – about 2650GT – are held by state-owned companies, meaning that in total there are four to five times more fossil fuels in existing reserves than can be safely burned.

If there is one thing that has occasionally held her back, it has been her movement, with her tall frame not always easy to manoeuvre quickly enough.

His colleagues, he wrote, were being held in worse conditions than he was.

The bay colt, owned by Zayat Stables and trained by Bob Baffert, was installed as the 3-5 morning-line fatorite at Wednesday's draw, held for the first time at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan instead of Belmont Park's Garden Terrace room.

The Tories sought to portray the result as a blow to Labour, which held the seat until 2010 on different boundaries.