Yet in the past couple of cycles, the once-tight Republican hold upon the county has loosened.
Henriette's image conjures her "perpetual air of criticism hanging over her every word …" but also her hold upon him.
Amanda and Laura are closer to Tennessee Williams's heart than any of his later characters, which may explain the play's permanent hold upon us.
That expedition did much to free the frontier from Indian raids, gave the Americans a hold upon the northwest, and encouraged expansion into the Ohio valley.
Moreover, his lavish creations of new peers and, later in his reign, his subservience to various recently ennobled favourites loosened his hold upon the House of Lords.
Their strident hold upon the back roads pulls our morning drive, out to where Oak Woods Road crosses the river that they call Great Works.
Subsequently and in the absence of his mistress, he has discovered the churches, the Vatican and their hold upon him, a passion shared by his wife and not by Cecile.
Of course it no longer has the remarkable hold upon the national consciousness that it had in the mid-twentieth century, when almost anyone would have known the name of the Derby winner.
The Delaware Gazette reported afterward, "The game was a spirited one, and, from the interest aroused, it is safe to say that foot ball has taken a firm hold upon both students and citizens".
Locke argued that atheists were not capable of being included in this social contract, because "promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist".
I never wanted to be editor of Commentary, at least not after the age of 7, when children seem to think, largely because of fairy tales, that they ascend to the position their parents hold upon their parents' death.
