Sentence examples for selected to hold from inspiring English sources

"This is 2002, we've joined the W.T.O., we've been selected to hold the 2008 Olympics," said Shi Sizhi, a private Beijing businessman who organized the Miss China contest, with approval from the Miss Universe organization in New York.

For the experiments, the inputs are selected to hold a relationship with a statistical distribution.

The input plaintext to a cryptosystem is selected to hold a uniform distribution with respect to the Hamming weight of its integer values.

Before setting out on fieldwork for data collection, clan leaders, religious leaders, agricultural experts, village administrators and elders were selected to hold group discussions.

Two methods are selected to hold DRM to a vibrating steel beam, one is to attach DRM by the magnetic attractive force (called DRM beam) and the other by adhesive bonding (called AB-DRM beam).

A single micromotor manufactured by Faulhaber (02/1) (Table 2) has been selected to drive the holding mechanism).

Women make up 27.2% of Labour's 294 PPCs but 20 of the 43 candidates selected to contest seats currently held by Labour are women.

The top 44 student entrepreneurs were then selected to compete in GSEA Global Finals held in Washington, DC USA last April 15-17.

Changes introduced in 2008, allow for select committees to hold pre-appointment hearings with government nominees for major posts.

The health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has apparently asked the health select committee to hold a public pre-appointment hearing to check out Prior's suitability for the post.

The reforms are also likely to give new powers to parliamentary select committees to hold senior officials to account.There is an element in all this of wanting to shift the blame for ministerial mis-hits, such as a proposed holiday from national-insurance payments for small firms, which has had low take-up.