Sentence examples for was repeatedly held from inspiring English sources
In the 1980s an Olympic qualifier between Algeria and Egypt was repeatedly held up by brawls.
Mr. Agarwal and other current and former city workers recalled that progress was repeatedly held up as city agencies squabbled over the system's design.
The case decided Monday involved a South Carolina man, Michael D. Turner, who was repeatedly held in civil contempt and jailed for as much as a year at a time for not paying child support.
They can get a lot of money if we can kidnap them.' " The husband of another participant in the Dream Nine was repeatedly held up at gunpoint in Mexico, her lawyer said, with his assailants using the same logic.
The case involved a South Carolina man, Michael D. Turner, who was repeatedly held in civil contempt and jailed for as much as a year at a time for not paying child support.
Its construction was repeatedly held up by disputes with its main rival, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, which attempted unsuccessfully to use all means at its disposal to maintain its rail monopoly south of the Tees.
Exercise of the latter power has been repeatedly held to be ineffectual to impair the obligation of a contract.
The Doha Round of global trade talks has been repeatedly held hostage to India's fears for its "subsistence" farmers.
It has been repeatedly held in this court that the object of the statute authorizing such certificates is to present some one or more well-defined, clear-cut questions of law which arise in the progress of the case in the circuit court, and on which the opinions of the judges holding it are opposed.
It has been repeatedly held by this court that counsel for the accused cannot, as a matter of right, ask the accused questions or make suggestions to him when he is making his statement to the court and jury.' 215 Ga.
Efforts to clean up the site have been repeatedly held up by obstacles blocking remotely-controlled devices, as well as high levels of radiation inside the power plant.
