Sentence examples similar to they were held dear from inspiring English sources

They are held dear by millions of Iranians who, like Ahmadinejad's family, migrated from remote villages to the cities amid a great wave of social and economic change during the reign of the last shah.

Food was held dear by all members of the court with the exception of Queen Aigle.

Yet it survived – because informing, educating and entertaining the public meant that it was held dear.

His memory is held dear among ordinary folk in the northwestern extreme of Ireland where he was born.

The rimmed metal baking pan that has long been held dear by American cooks is the rectangular half sheet.

Reforming public services has been held dear by most recent governments – and all have found it a struggle.

Food was held dear… Elphenor, a fairy from the Elfin Court of Zuy, was sailing on a ship when a storm caused a wreck.

In Italy Catholicism, as a mark of cultural difference in a homogenising world, is held dear in some unlikely quarters: among atheist intellectuals, for example.

In a country where secularism is held dear and religion is regarded as a private matter, there's relatively little debate over the merits of the ban even now, five years later.

Similarly, Clegg was acutely aware his party's pledge for an amnesty for asylum seekers was proving damaging on the doorsteps, but could not move away from a policy that was held dear by his activists.

But it was felt keenly in Herefordshire and in other parts of the country where non-league traditions are held dear.