The phrase "holds material" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means that something contains or can contain material. Example: "The bookshelf holds a lot of reading material."
It added: "We are requesting that you exercise your powers to carry out a ports stop against David Miranda … There is a substantial risk that David Miranda holds material which would be severely damaging to UK national security interests.
Following a parliamentary question tabled by MP Paul Flynn, the solicitor general, Robert Buckland, confirmed that he held regular meetings with the director of the Serious Fraud Office and said it was "following closely the emerging allegations and holds material which it is actively reviewing".
It also holds materials related to North Carolina, the tobacco industry, worldwide missionary activities, and American military history.
There's no substitute, he said, for holding material in your hands.
Assange gave interviews in June in which he claimed that WikiLeaks held material relevant to the White House race.
The two libraries hold material which was originally in the same collections, or even the same volumes, so the four-year project will reunite material separated for centuries.
Rumford believed heat to be a form of energy, and worked to demolish the widely held material theory of heat.
Since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the courts have made conflicting rulings on the legality of holding material witnesses without charging them.
Violators of immigration laws, such as those who overstay their visas, have always been subject to detention; and prosecutors have always had the power to hold material witnesses.
And galleries that were originally Louise and Andrew Carnegie's bedrooms hold material from the museum's founding collection, assembled by a pair of enterprising sisters, Eleanor and Sara Hewitt.
We frequently see celebrities go from billions to zero, and this should serve as a reminder never to hold material wealth too close to our hearts.
