Sentence examples for its holders from inspiring English sources

THE PRIME MINISTER: THE OFFICE AND ITS HOLDERS SINCE 1945.By Peter Hennessy.Allen Lane, The Penguin Press; 720 pages; £25FOR almost 40 years students of British politics have been debating the thesis propounded by the late Richard Crossman, an Oxford don and Labour minister, that cabinet government has been superseded by prime ministerial or quasi-presidential rule.

And yet parts of the book now bear rereading, in particular Gorz's definition of revolution: taking power implies taking it away from its holders, not by occupying their posts but by making it permanently impossible for them to keep their machinery of domination running.

The productivity of human resources determines employee wages; the productivity with which capital is employed determines the return it earns for its holders.

The conference might also have booked prominent scientists, like Stephen Jay Gould, who argue that consciousness, as powerful as it necessarily seems to its holders, may be just an accident of evolution.

Louis XVIII, reviving it after the Restoration, gave its holders definitive precedence between dukes and counts.

(This is a curious type of meme whose explicit content is true even though its holders do not believe it)." Another chapter is devoted entirely to the evolution of creativity.

Gently line up the new card and slide it into its holder.

This was a more important post than it appeared, for its holder bore considerable responsibility for the conduct of foreign policy.

Set it upright in its holder to dry.

If that is what the office offers its holder, what does it offer everybody else?

He lifted one of the wood and coconut shell constructions from its holder and lit it with a cigarette lighter.