Sentence examples for was held down from inspiring English sources

He was held down and bound with chains.

They tried to escape but Junaid was held down while his assailant stabbed him multiple times.

The producer index was held down by a 4.9percentt drop in wholesale cigarette prices.

In mitigation, Longbridge's performance in 1997 was held down by the phasing out of the Rover 100.

In America, hospital spending growth, which was held down in the mid- to late 1990s, has rebounded.

She refused to hand them over and was held down while the offending garments were sliced off her.

Lower prices of imported goods were a major reason the inflation rate was held down in recent years.

But as Floyd Norris notes, in 2009 a lot of investment income – including Mr. Romney's – was held down by the financial crisis.

Thus even when the rupee's nominal rate against the weakening dollar was held down, India's real exchange rate rose because of high inflation.

Once, when I was seventeen, I was held down by two of my male friends while they forced bread into my mouth.

At least one detainee was held down while Mr. McKenzie and two other soldiers badly beat and kicked him, according to testimony presented in a court-martial.