Sentence examples for serious hold from inspiring English sources

By then, testing mania had already taken serious hold of the process, throwing it absurdly out of whack.

If screws are cost-prohibitive, try ring-shank nails for serious hold... but they must be driven carefully, or they'll bend.

Bite your tongue and pull your cheeks back or, if you are at a funeral or something serious, hold your hands up to your face, and smile and laugh as much as you want but, try to make the laughing sound like you're crying.

Lord Lawson sets up straw men ("it is popularly supposed by politicians and the media"), credits them with beliefs that nobody serious holds ("that the sole cause of global warming is the growth in man-made carbon-dioxide emissions"), then knocks them down.

He didn't live long enough to read Proust, let alone view films by Alain Resnais, but "Les Coquillettes" makes the point its loopy and unstrung frivolity is deadly serious, held together by an exquisitely and (seemingly) effortlessly complex structure reminiscent of Resnais' work, with the thread of identity being spun forward even as it's pulled along, with its knots and breaks and tangles.

Theologians may be more intrigued by how thin a line divides the outlooks of these new new atheists from things many serious believers hold.

That few if any serious people hold the views Third Way and Wall Street's other funded groups, organizations and people ascribe to them doesn't matter.

I was serious about holding the U.N. to account.

His opponents are typically "dead serious" when holding good cards, "nonchalant" when bluffing.

This was a very serious affair, held before an audience that was large (the auditorium was packed) and attentive.

Palestinians contend that Mr. Sharon is not serious about holding negotiations, and they seized on Mr. Weisglass' remarks.