Sentence examples for maintained its hold from inspiring English sources

It retreated, but it maintained its hold over parts of the system -- hence the duality that we observe today in the Saudi attitude towards ISIS.

Star Trek, in the meantime, maintained its hold on the public imagination.

Franz Xaver Süssmayr's completion of Mozart's Requiem has been roundly skewered as semicompetent, and though several compelling replacements have been proposed, the Süssmayr version has maintained its hold.

Mr. Bush's party maintained its hold on the House of Representatives and defeated attractive Democratic Senate candidates in states like Georgia, Colorado and New Hampshire.

Despite the attacks and the image problems, the Twinkie maintained its hold on American taste buds for a surprisingly long time.

In the presidential and parliamentary elections of November 2009, Pohamba was reelected, and SWAPO maintained its hold on the majority of parliamentary seats.

Three times since the 1880s, the two clubs have competed for a silver Tiffany trophy, the Van Nostrand Cup, with the Red Bank club maintaining its hold on it in 2003, on home ice.

These parties stood little chance against the privileged Golkar, and together mustered only 30% of the vote in parliamentary elections, leaving Golkar with an unassailable majority.Golkar has now severed its formal ties to the bureaucracy and the military that helped it to maintain its hold on power, and is registered as a political party.

Just as Leninism was pragmatic in its choice of means to achieve political power, it was also opportunistic in the policies it adopted and the compromises it made to maintain its hold on power.

We are a nation of transplants, pulled this way and that by job opportunities or promising relationships, and that constant reshuffling of the population makes it harder for any local party or machine to maintain its hold on our loyalties from one election to the next.

The Horatio Alger narrative maintains its hold in the United States.