Sentence examples for they formerly held from inspiring English sources

Under its terms, approved by Greece among other nations, the four powers renounced all rights they formerly held in Germany.

Boko Haram had been driven out of most of the territory they formerly held, he said, and had been reduced to launching suicide bomb attacks.

Of the seven directors, three of them are best known for roles they formerly held, at least in Microsoft's eyes.

Hizbul Mujahideen is now confined to a few isolated pockets, with its militants based in mountain hideouts instead of villages over which they formerly held sway.

On Saint Leger's advice they were given titles to lands that they had formerly held in defiance of English law.

Although their caffè-espresso color was the same, the shyness, any traces of real vulnerability that they had formerly held, had left them; now he looked at people with assurance, and with what can only be called a pitying expression, as though he dwelt in spheres of enlightenment where they, to his regret, did not.

HASAN AL SHAM, Iraq ― When Sarbast Salih and his men enter a house formerly held by ISIS, they don't go through the front door.

They could also mean that potentially harmful organisms, formerly held in check, might take on the status of pests.

In another, the owners pointed to a cluster-munitions canister on the floor as they looked at the shattered display cases that formerly held cellphones.

At the Norman conquest, most English cathedrals were already richly endowed, and as major centres of Norman power they were then able to acquire further lands formerly held by dispossessed English landowners.

" What is unusual is that normally members added in this way are more centrist than the base, because they have to be in order to win in districts that were formerly held by the other party," Mr. Cain added.