Sentence examples for it once held from inspiring English sources

It once held to its utopian aspirations.

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The group is also said to have lost all but one of the border crossings to Turkey it once held, as well as its headquarters in the rebel-held half of Aleppo, Syria's biggest city.ISIS is also under fire in neighbouring Iraq.

Socialism seems to aim at that goal most directly, but demands a generosity that only a few people are either psychologically or spiritually mature enough to possess, leaving it vulnerable to cheaters and especially defenseless against any hypocrisy in its leadership that quickly undermines whatever ideals it once held.

It once held a functioning nuclear reactor in its basement and a research wind tunnel, both now dismantled.

Mr. Heins, who came to RIM from Siemens about four years ago, emphasized the company's continued profitability and growth while playing down its precipitous drop in American market share — where it once held more than 50 percent it is now under 10 percent — and a 75 percent drop in the company's share price over the last year.

Cincinnati is renovating its Music Hall, and plans to reduce its capacity by roughly 1,000 seats from the 3,417 it once held.

The group, he said, was "under more pressure than ever before," and had lost more than a hundred and twenty of its military commanders and nearly half of the populated territory that it once held in Iraq.

It once held a clay letter.

It once held as many as 50,000 spectators.

It was transported here, accompanied by a detailed roster of the chattel it once held.