Sentence examples for mainly held from inspiring English sources

Anti-immigrant politicians mainly held their thunder.

The rain had mainly held off.

For pragmatic reasons (she was already a bestseller), he mainly held his tongue.

These countries' foreign reserves, mainly held in US securities, topped $8tn at their peak last year.

Unwilling to take losses, banks have mainly held onto these homes.

They are mainly held by foreign banks' local subsidiaries, which are puny.

The facility, which mainly holds failed asylum seekers who have not committed a crime, has long had a troubled reputation.

This may partly explain why investors in recent years have poured more money into stock funds with mainly foreign holdings than into those that mainly hold domestic stocks.

Although a cease-fire to end fierce fighting in the capital between government forces and tribal rivals working with the opposition was mainly holding, mortar fire could still be heard in at least one neighborhood.

During most of the central episodes they mainly hold one picturesque tableau after another, but the way those tableaus melt into one another (sometimes it happens the very moment a soloist enters; sometimes it reflects a change of tone in the center-stage dance) is part of the poem.

But he mainly holds the prayer sign outside a gay bar called Progress in the predominantly gay area of the city known as Boystown. .