Sentence examples for which still held from inspiring English sources

There was a wide wooden bath rack across it, which still held, she saw now, her mother's private things — a loofah, a sponge, a pumice stone.

France, which still held the strings decades after its colonies' declaration of independence, did not want a strong bloc to undermine its influence.

A husband of another victim recalls hearing somebody remotely accessing his home answering machine, which still held the final, reassuring message left by his wife shortly before the crash of Flight 93.

It was a full-blooded refutation of the Black Arts Movement's down-with-honky, misogynistic approach, which still held sway over black playwrights and directors more than twenty years after Amiri Baraka had instituted it, in 1965.

Robbie notes the "improbable" effects of light on a baking evening; Briony records the smells of "the hard-fired earth which still held the embers of the day's heat and exhaled the mineral odour of clay".

It was interesting to note, though, that shares of Wendy's International — which still held about 85percentt of Tim Hortons shares after Friday's spinoff — did not go along for the ride.

Egypt's military, which still holds many levers of power, called the attackers "infidels".

There are two problems with this system, which still holds sway today.

The Catholic church, which still holds sway in Uganda, has also spoken out against artificial contraception.

In the years following independence, blockades with Turkey and Azerbaijan, which still hold today, killed trade.

The Pakistani military, which still holds most power, has shown little interest in taking on extremist groups in Punjab.