Sentence examples for would hold over from inspiring English sources

"I'm surprised that they would think that these general patterns would hold over large landscapes," he says.

Of course, both these scales are relatively large, and many researchers use narrower scales (e.g., 1 4), so one can wonder if the conclusion would hold over a wider variety of scales.

He also has qualities and attributes that could nullify many of the advantages Obama would hold over a number of other potential Republican candidates.

We do not know whether these relationships would hold over a longer period of time.

It is important to note that the performance increase of our method over the pairwise method of Wang et al. (2007) would hold over all set similarity measures that are inherently pairwise-based computation.

The Justice Department, meanwhile, is mainly concerned about the power a combined Sprint-WorldCom would hold over the long-distance telephone business in the United States, according to people close to the negotiations.

It would eventually hold over 10,000 inmates.

Well, it's like this: my husband had loved "How the Mind Works," and as he and I are competitive readers, I knew that if I gave up on it, I would lose the advantage I'd held over him ever since I'd finished reading Thomas Mann's "Magic Mountain" while I was pregnant with my first child.

It gave the Crusaders control over an unfortified Jerusalem for over ten years, although the Muslims would hold control over Islamic holy places in the city.

"I have gone through many different motions to try to find my groove again and something that would hold up over many matches".

He said today he was pessimistic that the city's current revenue projections would hold up over the next nine months.