Sentence examples for she held fast from inspiring English sources

Although Ms. Forrest liked him, she held fast to her decision that she would not date until the new year — a very personal decision that the co-worker who introduced them had unknowingly shared with Mr. Richards.

Although she held fast to the traditional skill of well-crafted plots, she brought a modern perspective to characters and situations, creating a series of thoughtful and engaging police procedurals.

For the next nine days, as her family gathered, friends rang and Simon's brother, Keith, and his friend Pete headed off to New York to find out what they could, Elizabeth retreated into herself where she held fast to the hope that her husband had somehow escaped.

She held fast to this when she was finally released from prison in 2007.

But despite sometimes overwhelming grief, she held fast to her Quaker belief in humanity's goodness.

Until the very end she held fast to the hope that she would beat it, or at least gain a few more years.

And she holds fast to her dreams.

"She holds fast to the notion that if you are in the aura of a black walnut tree there's a healing effect," Mr. Lemkay said.

While she holds fast to the assertion at BAM's core and its political necessity, Shockley also brings nuance to caricatured images of its militant and rigid dogmatism and notes its ongoing history of reflective transformation.

Dr. Bin-Nun may be swimming against the tide in this age of hyper-sexualization with curvaceous tween role models like Kim Kardashian, Selena Gomez, and Kesha, not to mention cyber bullying -- hateful hash tags and fake accounts that impersonate others -- but she holds fast to her advice to parents to set clear rules and boundaries, which means logical consequences that fit the crime.

She has been saving her money to open a beauty parlor in Harlem, and she has held fast to her dreams of a love match.