Sentence examples for strength holding from inspiring English sources

They pressed with renewed vigour and Costa's plunder took over, the hosts' strength holding sway.

She does a good job using her strength, holding off defenders, which gives her the option to keep possession or look to turn and combine with the others going to goal.

Brünnhilde is the ultimate strong woman of opera, and Rachel Nicholls dominates the stage as the ex-Valkyrie, her inner strength holding fast even when Siegfried is conned into betraying her.

HLW slurries have a capacity for retaining gas characterized by the shear strength holding the bubbles still.

But by 09 30 the 10th Light Horse Regiment (3rd Light Horse Brigade) reported Ottoman units in strength, holding a high ridge 1.5 mile north-east of the town.

For forelimb strength, holding the mice by the tail, the front feet were allowed to grip a grate, and then they were pulled from the grate, generating a force measured by the force transducer (Columbus Instruments).

Everything about Menna's boyfriend suggested the capable male, his strength held decently in reserve.

As you bite down, the tensile strength holds for a fleeting second, before a pop and the flow of juices.

The conservative Canadian Alliance has not come close to the national strength held by the Progressive Conservative Party in the past, and it has nothing close to the popular support needed to be seen as a potential governing party.

If she stays fit, if the strength holds, if she keeps winning, if young rivals prosper temperately, maybe she can hurl herself through the narrowing gap of time to leave a new number in the record books.

That strength held up in the fourth quarter, when JPMorgan handily beat Wall Street estimates with earnings up 47 percent, to $4.83 billion, or $1.12 a share, from $3.28 billion, or 74 cents a share, in the quarter a year earlier.