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Sentence examples for hold against from inspiring English sources

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hold against

verb

Think less of someone for something they have done wrong.

  • He was awful to me when we were young, but I don't hold that against him. We were children then.

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'hold against' is a phrase commonly used in written English to mean to remember or to use as a basis for judgment.
For example, "I will never hold his past mistakes against him."

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People don't have your past to hold against you.

It wasn't anything that we'll hold against one another.

That's something else we have to hold against Blagojevich.

Capital is often described as a cushion that banks hold against losses.

The debate about how much capital banks should hold against unexpected losses has captured much attention.

"To hold against him one unfortunate loss in the trading area, I think, is quite unfair".

The rules will increase the amount of capital banks must hold against certain kinds of assets.

Whether those impressions would hold against the 2013 Boxster remains to be seen.

That in effect almost triples the amount of capital banks must hold against home loans.

"What do we hold against the drug addict?" the theorist Avital Ronell asks in "Crack Wars".

A determined prosecutor managed to make arson charges hold against six more, and they were found guilty.

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