Sentence examples for hold previous from inspiring English sources

"We firmly believe Daesh is on the defensive throughout Iraq and Syria, attempting to hold previous gains, while conducting small-scale, localized harassing attacks, occasional complex or high-profile attacks, in order to feed their information and propaganda apparatus," Weidley said, using a dismissive Arabic acronym for Isis.

These things should be understood by now: The present is diverse beyond knowing, history is never completely on anyone's side, and what we ignore today will be excavated later and held against us the way we hold previous oversights against past generations.

He said: "We firmly believe Daesh [Isis] is on the defensive throughout Iraq and Syria, attempting to hold previous gains, while conducting small-scale, localised harassing attacks, occasionally complex or high-profile attacks, in order to feed their information and propaganda apparatus".

She spent the previous summer as a production assistant for CBS, and held previous internships at the National Zoo in Washington.

In silence, they shed tears, joined in a chorus of La Marseillaise and held previous covers of Charlie Hedbo.

The Jayhawks shot 61percentt (43 for 71) from the field against Texas Tech, which had held previous opponents to 40percentt shooting.

He is the artistic director of the Epic Repertory Theater in New York and held previous positions with the Signature Theater and the Actors Studio Drama School.

He held previous coaching roles with Northampton and Wasps, and is synonymous with the British and Irish Lions, having headed four tours during a 20-year spell.

One of the three men he travelled with, Don, had also left the University, and had suggested the job, (which he had held previous summers).

The festival had held previous African editions in Bamako, Mali, but decided to change venue even before the current conflict flared up there, and Mabanckou, its co-director, helped steer it to Brazzaville.

It held previous auctions of his wildfowl decoys (bringing in $2.8 million); African, American Indian and Oceanic art ($3.3 million); vintage firearms, antique arms and armor, militaria and a sporting library ($1.8 million); sporting guns ($223,252); and American paintings, drawings and sculpture ($985,495).