Sentence examples for tightly held that from inspiring English sources

But given how tightly held that information was, at least some of them had to be close to the president.

The record of donors was so tightly held that it was kept in a locked drawer by Rose Mary Woods, Nixon's secretary.

But it was so tightly held that most of the American team engaged in tortuous negotiations on Iran's nuclear program were not told about it.

The negotiations were so tightly held that only Mr. Crone, Mr. Myler and Mr. Murdoch knew about them, said two company officials.

This is a country where authority is so tightly held that businessmen say that decisions as minor as whether to permit the importation of canned sardines must be made by a committee headed by the Prime Minister, Mahmoud Zubi.

Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton have kept their conversations tightly held, but that silence has only convinced some associates that the prospect is serious.

Bow, Italian arco French archet German Streichbogen, in music, curved stick with tightly held fibres that produces sound by friction when drawn across the strings of a chordophone, such as a rebab, violin, or erhu.

I held that image of becoming a writer so tightly, that I brought it into being.