Sentence examples for is holding around from inspiring English sources

2pm Reports say the man suspected of killing a policewoman in Paris on Thursday is the hostage taker at the supermarket, and is holding around five people.

At its naval base in the Cuban enclave, America is holding around 600 prisoners, almost all captured in the early months of the war against the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.

The US military is holding around 14,000 Iraqi suspects, and US commanders say they will not transfer the prisoners to Iraqi custody until they are sure of better standards.

The Justice Ministry, which is holding around 5,500 people, is struggling to maintain the rule of law.

LONDON (Reuters) – North Korea is holding around 200,000 people in huge political prison camps where inmates are forced to work in conditions approaching slavery and are often tortured, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.

Isaac Ortiz, a corrections officer and union representative at La Tuna federal prison outside El Paso, which is holding around 200 detainees, said La Tuna hasn't been hit as hard by the staff cuts, and the staff are having an easier time housing the detainees.

At Rib America, which is held around Labor Day, crowds are huge.

The meeting is held around a long mahogany table in one of the conference rooms.

Rib fractures usually result from anteroposterior compression of the rib cage when the child is held around the chest and violently shaken back and forth.

The scheme is held around Easter in Germany and the UK with places for 32 PhDs in their penultimate or final year of study.

A discussion is held around current work on a number of applications.