Sentence examples for were essentially held from inspiring English sources

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Initial Rifts were essentially held together with duct tape and glue.

The ring was a grossly exploitative scam in which humans were "essentially held captive, crammed into substandard housing, and charged huge fees".

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He closed a wood factory in Brittany and was essentially held hostage by the employees for a day.

Much of his imagery is too fragmented or opaque to make accessible sense, and the show is essentially held together by his presence.

The stimulus bill was essentially held hostage to the whims of Collins, Snowe, and Specter, but if Al Franken, the apparent winner of the disputed Minnesota Senate race, had been seated in Washington, and if Ted Kennedy, who is battling brain cancer, had been regularly available to vote, the White House would have needed only one Republican to pass the measure.

And how can freeholders be allowed to fleece residents who are essentially held to ransom, not able to sell, so forced to live there forever and pay the spiralling ground rent charges?" After last week's story many readers asked why conveyancing solicitors appear to fail to warn buyers of the potential costs.

A macroscopic material body is, essentially, held together just by the relative rest of its constituent material parts.

The capital of the three concession-holding companies or companies having a high speed railway line partnership contract is essentially held by institutional investors (between 20 and 50% of the capital) and by building and public works contractors (between 33 and 50% of the capital).

Car dealers, restaurants and furniture stores traditionally have inflated the costs of such advertising, since they're essentially held hostage to local media and may not apply a strict ROI lens to their media buys as they try to achieve strong reach in certain metro areas.

The FIRENPP model depicts what the change in fire distribution might be if the future global pattern of NPP remained constant; we did not generate climate change projections from the CASA productivity models, so NPP was essentially held constant in our FIRENPP model projections.

The reader is essentially holding fragmented lives in his or her hands.

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