Sentence examples for powerful hold from inspiring English sources

Slavery may have been abolished, but now we see racism and oppression in a new power structure in which the powerful hold the data on the less powerful.

Horses exercise a powerful hold over the public imagination.

That's been conservative dogma for decades, with a powerful hold over many Americans.

The image of the lone inventor has long had a powerful hold on the public imagination.

But the original books retain a powerful hold on China's popular imagination.

Why do islands have such a powerful hold on our imaginations?

Manufacturing retains its powerful hold on the American imagination for good reason.

Mr. Rutherford, though dead for 35 years, still has a powerful hold on Mr. Steel.

Yet for something imaginary, it retains a powerful hold on modern thinking.

But for better or worse, Vietnam retains a powerful hold on American life.

Strip clubs, in particular this one in Queens, had a powerful hold on him.