Sentence examples for position it held from inspiring English sources

In 1642 Lhasa was again the seat of the central government, a position it held into the 20th century.

Vanderbilt (11-1) moved up one spot to No. 3, the position it held in the preseason poll, and Oklahoma 10-11) slipped one place to No. 4.

Their traditional business in consumer electronics will never recover the position it held in the 1980s and '90s, and is basically being managed for decline; they spun off their TV division to a Hong Kong-based company earlier this year.

In this time the king established France as a great European power, and from about 1660 France became the unchallenged leader of European fashion, a position it held until 1939 and even later.

Granted, classical music has lost the central position it held in American culture in the mid-twentieth century, when the NBC Symphony Orchestra blared through home radios and Presidents regularly shook hands with conductors on television.

No pure tech company ranked in the Top 10 back then, not even IBM, which soon became the dominant tech company, a position it held until Microsoft surpassed it in the mid-1990s.

The Bulls needed more scoring and defense from their power forward position to held balance what Taj Gibson has been shouldering for years; they've got it.

She is expected to restate the agency's long-held position that it could do a lot more if it had more resources - it only has one full-time investigator - and additional powers to investigate.

The 99th division drew back to a defensive position and held.

Fortunately, a more considered position eventually held sway and the markets settled down.

There is something incendiary in seeing a black man in a position historically held by white men who were subjugating people of colour.