Sentence examples for recently been held from inspiring English sources

He had recently been held at gunpoint during a bank robbery in Venice.

That post had most recently been held by James Oates, who retired late last year.

He was also a medical doctor who'd recently been held hostage by ISIS.

It's one of those beards that London types have which might lead the non-clued to think he'd recently been held hostage.

Several national and international conferences have recently been held and the National Archives has created special resource centers for Mohandas K. Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru.

Some of the pubescent girls had recently been held in seclusion, so that their bodies were paler than those of the men.

The head of Turkish intelligence, Hakan Fidan, has recently been holding talks with the imprisoned P.K.K. leader, Abdullah Ocalan.

The number has recently been holding steady, in part because of a lull in the pace of retirements.

The Somali government has recently been holding a series of reconciliation and national policy conferences in Mogadishu, inviting expatriate Somalis to return in light of the improved security.

Congress has recently been holding hearings on online advertising, quizzing executives from sites like Facebook and Yahoo about the privacy and data practices at their firms.

The Census Bureau began adding temporary offices across the country in the fall and has recently been holding open houses to encourage people to sign up for a half-hour test that is the first step to a job.