Sentence examples for was held flat from inspiring English sources
At 15, he got his first steel guitar, a Sears Silvertone that was held flat on the lap, unlike the table-style steel guitars he would later play.
In the Hand Away condition participants were told to search for a knife while the left hand was held flat against the table to the left of the keyboard.
The muscle was held flat on an optically clear viewing pedestal and was secured along the edges with five 4.0 sutures.
Small sharpeners come in three types: hand-held ones that are drawn across a blade; sharpeners that are held flat against a counter while the knife is drawn through sharpening blades or wheels; and stationary ones that can be attached to counters or cabinets.
While the performance of a number of big hedge funds has been held flat this year by choppy markets, Paulson & Company began experiencing big losses early on.
If it were held flat for the next three years, that $47 billion cumulative deficit would drop down to something more like $11 billion, all else being equal.
Predictably, the big losers in Mr. Bush's budget are domestic-spending programs — including medical research, environmental protection and education — which will either be held flat or cut.
Over the life of this parliament, the BBC's £3.6 billion ($5.8 billion) budget has been held flat, even as its commitments have multiplied, the coalition government having transferred responsibility for the World Service from the Foreign Office to it.
He has found a hefty £700m in annual savings by 2016/17 to ensure that the licence fee is held flat, but he has done it in such a way that there will be little impact on viewers.
By contrast, if state spending were held flat next year — an impossibility in some categories, like debt service —the projected gap would be cut by more than half, to about $5.8 billion.
It will be the seventh time in 11 seasons at Emirates Stadium that prices have been held flat, meaning the cost of season tickets has fallen around 19% in real terms against inflation in that time.
