Sentence examples for slight hold from inspiring English sources

There was a slight hold up to the deal being finalised as negotiations had to be thrashed out over the scale of his pay rise - from a reported £2,000-a-week to nearer £30,000.

I felt confident of the protection of the Almighty that the name of enchantment and the idle stories that were told of the place had but a slight hold of my mind".

Astronomers once thought the gravitational pull of small bodies like asteroids and comets to be too slight to hold onto moons.

He stood alone, a slight figure, holding a twelve-string guitar in front of the microphones.

This position can be traced back to Suppes (1960) and is now, with slight variants, held by most proponents of the semantic view of theories.

Ask any judge, and they will tell you that they are worn out from baby-sitting lawyers who cannot get along with one another, who quibble over the most mundane aspects of their case, who accuse other lawyers of misdeeds, who complain about imagined slights, who hold hard-and-fast to deadlines without accommodation or courtesy, and the list goes on.

are slight favorites to hold their seats — but a medium wave could unseat them.

And Senator Chafee is a slight favorite to hold his seat against the Democratic challenger, Representative Bob Weygand.

Give the pants a slight shake and hold the fabric taut to smooth the leg out.

It still holds slight majorities in both houses of Congress.

Her smoothly muscled arm bulges with the slight strain of holding it aloft.