Sentence examples for purposefully held from inspiring English sources

So when he showed her the birth date on his driver's license, he purposefully held his thumb over the year and also hoped that his winter beard would divert any suspicion.

What do you think are the appropriate changes that should follow the shooting of a US Congresswoman while she purposefully held a meeting in a public place in her district?

Exams were purposefully held constant across the two semesters to allow for performance comparisons.

There is also a school of thought that by purposefully holding shares in companies that are unethical, charities can influence them from within.

They are rectangular in shape, fastened with a zip and should be held purposefully under one arm.

Fenley's movement still bears significant traces of Merce Cunningham's vocabulary, which she studied when she was younger, the body tilting to the sides, front, and back as the arms are held purposefully rounded, away from the torso, or slashing straight through the air, the hands flattened like blades.

Qualitative, semistructured interviews will be held with purposefully selected sample of patients from the intervention group.

Each was purposefully abstracted in a way that held the melody aloft over whirlpools of rhythm.

In 1986, the Supreme Court held that prosecutors could not purposefully exclude African-Americans from trial juries "on account of race, or on the false assumption that members of his race as a group are not qualified to serve as jurors".

Participants were purposefully selected by virtue of the positions they held either in the district administrative office, in the CHMT, the health facilities, or in the community (see Table 3 for a list of respondents).

In each sub-county 4 focus groups were held, two with community leaders and two with purposefully selected traditional practitioners.