Sentence examples for hold the valuable from inspiring English sources

He built a reputation as a military commander that later inspired even Napoleon, fighting a series of wars against the Habsburg Empire to win and hold the valuable province of Silesia.

Snowe walked away from a seemingly assured victory (she won reëlection in 2006 with nearly seventy-five per cent of the vote) and left state and national parties, both Democratic and Republican, scrambling to assemble a plan to either capture or hold the valuable seat.

On almost every continent, seed banks hold the valuable material breeders need to improve crops critical to the world's food supply.

You can't be open and hold the valuable stuff in reserve for yourself.

Or when the Rangers installed a new safe in the dressing room to hold the players' valuables.

The second Prime Minister of the Federation, Roy Welensky, was determined to hold onto the valuable mines in the north rather than handing power over to the blacks.

Afterward, Stephenson was holding the most valuable player plaque in his left hand and four fingers up on his right hand.

If the projection holds, the most valuable player on any Power 5 conference team should get that win in emphatic fashion, likely similar to the Ducks victory over defensively-oriented Michigan State earlier this season.

The deal includes a slight redrawing of the boundaries of Gabon's Lope Reserve, subtracting 400 square miles of land on the southeastern flank that holds the richest stands of valuable okoume trees, and adding about 200 square miles of previously unprotected terrain that includes remote upland forests that have only rarely, if ever, felt the footfall of a human.

"That's black gold, right there," he said of a mound of dark humus, urging an eager Angeleno to cup his hands, hold some of the valuable commodity and breathe in its rich funk.

He suggests that he and the wholly non-racist Scout find themselves "believing the very same things" on the biggest issues and holding valuable the same ultimate ends, while simply not yet agreeing as to the means that might be best to achieve those ends.