Sentence examples for ordinarily held from inspiring English sources

Thus, like an ox or an ax, the slave was not ordinarily held responsible for what he did.

The agency denied her request for a public hearing; the agency's deliberations with athletes are ordinarily held in private.

A slave was considered by law as property, or chattel, and was deprived of most of the rights ordinarily held by free persons.

They are ordinarily held in the teeth by means of a strap of leather or rattan that has been fastened across the inside.

Treasury bills are ordinarily held as secondary reserves by commercial banks and by other investors as a means of temporarily employing excess funds.

At the Medicare agency, Ms. Block's job is ordinarily held by a political appointee, but she is a civil servant, a member of the Senior Executive Service.

The idea of the university has carried a weight in this campaign which it doesn't ordinarily hold.

But that is because sunlight suppresses immune cells in the skin's surface that ordinarily hold cancer at bay, he said.

A 1,000m heat, even in the Olympics, would not ordinarily hold much fear for Elise Christie, the British speed skater who is a former world No1 at the distance.

Scientists seldom hold this belief that there has been a past as a result of empirical investigation; nor do they ordinarily hold it in that tentative, critical way, always looking for a better alternative.

In these times of crisis, it is common for people to say that the morality and values we would ordinarily hold to should justifiably be abandoned.