How To Use Holding In A Sentence

If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex. Goodnight Tweetheart
On land, giant reservoirs holding saline water could be built to offset the rise in sea levels caused by the melting of the polar ice-caps.
He argues that the two main parties are no longer capable of holding together the divergent views within them. Times, Sunday Times
The pictures show squares within squares - the water-holding depressions that in ancient times made the gardens fruitful.
To the left a small party was holding an entrenched position on rising ground. Times, Sunday Times

Reagan advanced on her, holding his gun steady.
It was the least encumbered of all the tenures with obsolete and burdensome features, reminiscent of an older day, when land-holding involved public rights and duties as well as private rights of ownership.
Virgo has been depicted as a winged maiden holding a palm branch in her left hand and an ear of corn in her right.
‘This is evident in a number of markets where rents are falling, but yields are not only holding steady, but in most instances hardening,’ he said.
I turned to air kiss Mr. Bailey and instead found myself falling as if in slow motion into the throne r oom where the Queen was holding court. A Royal Engagement
Such techniques are not available to middle-class families with modest savings, or to small business owners holding long-term capital gains.
These malignant Las Vegas showgirl lookalikes are holding Earth hostage, controlling the monsters with shrewdly hidden remote devices.
Complicated cross-shareholdings in the keiretsu style are typical in Asia, where controlling families and their cronies siphon much wealth away from shareholders.
Ever since, leftish malcontents have taken every opportunity to condemn the iniquity of holding all applicants for admission to the same standards.
Whether or not delegates were so tightly bound by their constituents and the record is by no means clear, they acted as if they were, holding firmly to their preconvention positions. Ratification
The demand for land focused hostile attention upon the graziers, who reared cattle and sheep commercially on extensive pastoral holdings.
They have a smallholding in Devon which is home to a host of animals, including a flock of pedigree Black Welsh Mountain sheep.
By holding the mobile to your ear, the death-dealing atomic waves penetrated your skull and a cancer was formed.
The Queen pulled back on the cross, leaving the Governess holding the thin tapered dagger that had been concealed inside. 365 tomorrows » 2008 » May : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Between 1921 and 1925 he began to develop new colemanite holdings in Clark County, Nevada.
‘Welcome,’ the empress said to them, her voice holding false modesty.
Those labels in a holding pattern failed to generate excitement. Times, Sunday Times
Speaking of rounding tight corners, the Daily News reports that some messengers attempted to promote cycling in Queens this past weekend by holding an alleycat called "BLVDS of DEATH: Archive 2010-09-01
An arbitration tribunal from the International Chamber of Commerce ruled Cukurova Holding, owned by Turkish businessman Mehmet Karamehmet , must pay the amount, plus interest dating back to June 2007, after withdrawing from a deal to sell a stake in the company. TeliaSonera Wins Damages
Holding the chain railing, we followed our leader and had up-close encounters with yellow tails, sergeant majors, blue tang, trumpet fish, and other reef dwellers.
This ensured that the beaglers could not use the traditional Wiltshire Police tactic of letting the hunt drive away while holding sabs up.
Located between the teeth, hinge sockets provide the space for holding the tooth of the opposite valve.
She is wearing blue eye liner and blue eye shadow and blue lip gloss and she has her hair tied up high with a blue hairband and two blue barrettes holding her hair in place.
Fossilized distrust indicates failure at this key democratic task of holding majorities and minorities together.
I'm not sure the term insufferable boor is quite adequate here, I'm not saying that he's entirely without humor, but it's the sort of humor that is always tempered by a reminder of how much money he has and how he is holding it over his adult children. Outfoxed Diary Entry
There too, one May, I had identified a garden warbler singing hidden within a huge candled horse chestnut that spread its great branches across the road as if it were holding its own skirt. A Year on the Wing
This ability is a major incentive within fundholding.
Developers and speculators were left holding thousands of new unsold condos creating the greatest buyer's market ever experienced in this part of the world, i.e. the supply (glut) of new condos far outnumbers the demand. Herd Mentality As it Applies to Real Estate in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
As institutionalized censorship defines real experience by what it disallows, we assume the unseeable must be more real that our own perceptions, holding secret truths known only to higher powers.
The discovery of a small planetoid in the Kuiper belt, the distant disk of debris whose chunks eventually formed the solar system, make Pluto's chances of holding onto its status of bona fide planet weaker.
Will sighed and turned around slowly, holding his hands up in a gesture of surrender.
In response to a recommendation of the Calcutt Committee made in 1990, the press set up in 1991 the Commission and it was charged with upholding and enforcing the code, which was framed by the newspaper and the periodical industry.
She stubbed her toe and managed to release the guitar from its holding and it twanged on the ground, waking the two very unstable-temperamental parents below.
Company is also engaged in production of downstream products from polyurethane-coated yarn, while equity participation, or holding a number of real estate companies, food and beverage companies.
It may also give other associations who are holding their fire at the minute out of party loyalty, the push to declare for the DUP.
What we have here are two heavyweights not so much leaning on each other as holding one another up. The Sun
Using laser cooling, scientists trap the atoms, holding them within carefully tuned beams of laser light.
The bank has been discussing a possible sale of the platform to local wealth manager IOOF Holdings Ltd. and a newspaper report Wednesday claimed that NAB has lodged an updated version of its bid with the ACCC, including a plan to sell North to IOOF for less than A$50 million. AXA Asia Profit Falls 19%
The breakout brings to 15 the number of awaiting-trial prisoners who have escaped from police holding cells in the Transkei since the weekend.
By beatifying him, Pope Benedict is holding up to the whole Church the life and teachings of Cardinal Newman as a sure guide for us to follow, and as an inspiration for the Church today. " Te Deum Laudamus "
The group that had been holding service behind the nursing home got the buildings and some church funds, while the ultraconservatives got some cash and church heirlooms.
I sat in the buggy, holding the reins over the trembling, wild-eyed bay, while William descended and, with great dignity, tied up the disabled swingletree. A Circuit Rider's Wife
Holding the rod high whilst playing a fish is often a recipe for disaster, especially when the fish is close to the boat.
Watching their hand-holding shadows, she was embarrassed at being dressed for church.
The most moving moment, and one that I had not anticipated, happened during my descent to the sepulcher holding the body of St. James.
The heraldic lion across the top is holding a cocoa pod.
He strove so hard to rival Holding that he strained stomach muscles in the Kingston Test against England in 1981.
The idea of holding a series of dinners, similar to the first event, was agreed upon.
A scientist who discovered that by holding down the shift key on your PC can bypass the copyright protection on music CDs has been threatened with legal action under America's infamous Millennium Act.
She suffocated him by holding a pillow over his head until he stopped moving.
Problem is, they're too busy raising money for charity or building an electric bike to care that their dad is holding out an olive branch. The Sun
The map gone!" and he seized the candle from Bud's hand, and, holding it so that its light illuminated the whole bunk, stared wildly down on the rumpled surface of the rude bedtick, which now, the blankets having been thrown off, showed its entire surface to the light of the candle. The Cave of Gold A Tale of California in '49
The heart of woman is a glass holding water. It is full but seems to have nothing inside.
He possibly could have cautioned him for holding and hitting as well, or he could have simply ordered them to break.
a painting, remaining alwaies vnhurt, with their deawie freshnesse, reseruing and holding their colours without interdict of time. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
The term corporate will be used here to describe the traditional conception, since that conception presents a right-holding group as a unitary entity. Group Rights
The two could no longer coexist and it was therefore a class struggle between the Southern slaveholding aristocracy and the Northern capitalist democracy.
Your hands will be shaking and they'll all be able to tell because you'll be holding your crib sheet.
Despite the entry of a myriad of new age sports onto the community calendar, traditional leisure pursuits such as shooting seem to be holding their own.
The image of their son holding up the championship trophy would be etched on their memories forever.
But some two dozen states collect delinquent taxes on property by holding lien certificate auctions.
Those labels in a holding pattern failed to generate excitement. Times, Sunday Times
[443] We could use the term partial defeater 'for defeaters that don't require withholding B but do require holding it less firmly. Warranted Christian Belief
And when they farm - if they farm at all - they do so inefficiently, in smallholdings, largely at the mercy of nature.
A village postwoman has been branded a ‘nasty busy body’ for deliberately withholding mail from a resident who was an ‘outsider’.
One can apparently hold that transworld identities may be ˜bare™ without holding that they are constituted by any properties at all, even unanalysable haecceities Transworld Identity
Long pole holding back maggots good.
In the study, he pulled the drop cloths off the crates holding his books-his and his great-aunt 's and his father's and his mother's. NEW YORK DEAD
But he is still carrying almost $400 million in debt secured by his extensive music-publishing holdings, in addition to the smaller loan backed by Neverland.
It isn't a disease but may be a symptom of severe constipation or emotional difficulties related to stool holding.
‘Zero visibility means holding a 50,000 - candlepower light in your hand and not knowing it's on,’ explains Butch Hendrick of Lifeguard Systems.
I visited her for a little while yesterday afternoon, mindful of Rayna's kind advice, crying like the most unstaunch of sheilas, and, in the end, just holding her hand to my face, which she recognised.
Two girl-sized statues of angels holding fonts of holy water stood by the main door.
A lead trader in a bank, he is complicit as his company tries to divest itself of toxic holdings before they destroy it. Times, Sunday Times
Each sub-contractor holding a certificate will subsequently be assessed for tax and pay the Inland Revenue direct.
Pasgen allowed himself to be divested of three of the amulets he had marked because to fail to chaffer would also mark him as unusual; however, he was growing impatient and finally made as if to throw down the amulets he was holding and walk away. Ill Met By Moonlight
The new powertrain lowers the car's centre of gravity, which ought to improve roadholding. Times, Sunday Times
The parent firm in France will increase its holding in Thai operations and the company is trying to catch the wave of returning consumer confidence.
The reason why girls consider flowers as the most valuable gift among other gifts is that men have to overcome the shyness of holding the flowers in streets before sending them to girls.
But the Lion explained that the animals were holding a meeting, and he judged by their snarling and growling that they were in great trouble. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
We decided that in the future, when a truck returned from a pickup, we would put all the boxes in a temporary holding area marked by a cone.
That meant withholding some of the farmers' irrigation water and sending it downriver - at least until the drought broke.
Call me a fool to be holding onto this unrequited love for so long.
Omi, "grandee", title, applied to chiefs of conquest, and to subjects holding court office; higher than muraji; inferior title in Temmu's peerage A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
Anyway after holding him up with a knife Ivan has put Dave through a window so it really is time to run away.
It is holding its annual conference in west London tomorrow where an unholy row is brewing between two otherwise natural allies. Times, Sunday Times
With the other he seized the top of a wooden packing-box, and holding this in front of his chest and abdomen as a Kaffir would hold his pavise, or rawhide shield, to ward off a thrust from an assagai, he walked straight toward his adversary. With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon
The heart of woman is a glass holding water. It is full but seems to have nothing inside.
They were also undelighted by the jester holding a parrot. Times, Sunday Times
We did some, not enough" in shedding holdings in response to the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico's Macondo field, he said. Energy Fund Largely Passed Oil-Spill Test
But shareholding rules make hostile bids hard to win.
She was dressed in a beautiful soft pink chiffon dress and was holding a cherry red heart-shaped box. Magic Hearts
Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves. Robert Frost
The glass she had been holding shattered on the ground, falling from her nerveless fingers.
In any case, such setbacks have been rare in a career that has seen the Barr group's parent company, Barr Holdings Ltd, grow from eight employees to about 1,500.
Passengers holding tickets will receive refunds.
False-firecracker Thrower @ 11: 49: Better than your boy, bushie, who kissed the terrorist-Saudis on the mouth, while holding their oil-encrusted hands. White House: Obama monitoring terror situation closely
Many languish unseen in studio vaults, in the holdings of amateur and professional archivists and at the Library of Congress.
The typical holding, the group of scattered acres cultivated by one man or held by some two or three in common, was known as a "virgate," or by some equivalent term, and although of no universal equality, was more frequently of thirty acres than of any other number. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England
They were given forms on which they must list their directorships, property interests and shareholdings worth over £10,000.
Besides, to acquire a holding, ‘the standard of farm competence required was very modest’ (so modest in fact as to necessitate in his opinion that each allottee be placed under an instructor).
Even three years ago a stabbing was serious but now you could get shanked for dissing someone's trainers or holding a stare a second too long.
Some have suggested she was holding a spear and shield proudly aloft, others that the goddess of beauty held a mirror - to admire her own reflection. Times, Sunday Times
Will be used in a holding role. The Sun
Many of the targets were basic silhouettes, though others were figures wearing traditional Arab head scarves, called kaffiyeh, and holding rocket-propelled grenades. Latest Headlines - ABC 7 News
To-day I became strongly impressed with the idea, that the balloon was now actually running up the line of apsides to the point of perigee -- in other words, holding the direct course which would bring it immediately to the moon in that part of its orbit the nearest to the earth. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1
The teabagger view of Massa's Town Hall Phillip Dampier: More importantly, Randy Kuhl ended his term holding town hall meetings in a back room, where ... Rochesterturning.com
Every year, they have a mela (a fair) there called Suarastra Sabha for the express purpose of holding an auction.
Usually obvious by the outstretched arm holding the cameraphone. Times, Sunday Times
Native Lands attempts to protect indigenous land holdings and reserves.
The Qatar Holding division now controls a 17% stake in German carmaker Volkswagen, as well as News24 Top Stories
We will continue to exert our best efforts to secure the liquidity and safety of our reserves holdings, while enhancing returns under the given constraints. Times, Sunday Times
Current bets - The biggest single holding is in gold bullion. Times, Sunday Times
And not only the punters: TV's Angular Ex-England Fast Bowler Punditry Eminence could be seen holding court in raddled picnic pose, a tiny plastic Viking hat on his head. Sozzled - how English cricket got lost in drink | Barney Ronay
Uzbekistan is holding the rotating presidency of the SCO and this year's SCO summit will be held in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan.
The finial for all ground force colours is the crest of Canada (a lion statant guardant royally crowned and holding a maple leaf in his right forepaw) cast in gilt brass.
Almost flawless in his midfield holding role. The Sun
We walked up to the whites hill reserve and I got mud all over my white denim jeans, Anthony holding onto my waist and being a perfect gentleman.
The group is known to have been holding at least a dozen western hostages. Times, Sunday Times
In the Netherlands, England, Wales, and parts of Scotland, tenants generally had good-sized holdings and relatively secure tenure.
As we came level with the silver saloon, I was absolutely amazed to see the driver holding a camcorder to his face.
The survey revealed that many of the academic libraries have very few holdings, and most of the collections are outdated.
Although it's fairly obvious that he's innocent and that the evidence against him's shaky at best, the victim IDs him and he's sent to a holding cell to await trial.
He was holding a staff that was a bronze color, and was crested with a bronze moon.
Holding a barbell, stand with your knees slightly bent, your chest out and your back slightly arched.
In addition to such verbalized utterances there will be a number of sighs, suspirations, and ritual gestures: rapid and repeated finger tapping, holding of the head in one hand, or two hands, and so forth.
It requires holding your nerve, being totally committed and believing absolutely that's what you have got to do.
The surface hardness of rubber object mounted on the equipment can also be tested by holding the head of the sclerometer in hand.
By upholding the principle "to each according to his work" and by recognizing material interests we intend to increase the material well-being of the entire people.
Keane's mastery of the holding role in midfield gave the Reds the chance to go out and attack Olympiakos, contradicting the notion that they will have to bore in order to succeed.
She raised both hands above her head, holding incense sticks, while praying.
He caught Nina into a tight embrace, holding her close.
She was holding a tea cloth in one hand and several forks and spoons in the other. MURDER MOVES IN
But it's the willingness to indignify others, and the fact that we are still collectively holding our tongues -- as previous generations did about racism -- that lies at the root of many of the problems that vex us today. Robert Fuller: Racism and Rankism: We Won't Eradicate the One Until We Take on the Other
Maybe he could benefit from being one of the ‘people dancing around in circles, holding hands with daisy chains in their hair’.
Nine months later - or two hours in TV drama time - she was back on the diving board, with her dreams revised and a doting dad holding the baby by the poolside, minutes after a snottery-nosed declaration that he and his gymslip mum were about to ruin each other's lives by staying together. The Daily Record - Home
He sat down beside her, holding her hand as she lay down on the couch, already looking sleepy, yet ready to go back home.
I grabbed his wrist and broke it, spinning him round and holding him up.
The only good of worldly riches to the possessor is the beholding them with the eyes. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
A champion of privatization, he's been holding closed-door meetings with moderate Democrats in the hopes of forging a compromise.
Then he picked up the Grail, holding the torch to illuminate it, looking at it properly now. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
In using this ingenious wire stretcher, he stapled his wire to post number one, carried the length past post number two, looped the chain around post number three, having the chain long enough so that he might tauten the wire and hold the crankhandle steady with his knee or left arm while he drove the holding staple in post number two. Hiram the Young Farmer
The card features a bunny holding a tube of toothpaste.
The tenants-in-chief, and their undertenants, were always battling for their holdings.
She was still holding the book and just staring at it when a scratch sounded at the door.
Catching her wrist, Holman smacked her face viciously, sending her to her knees, but still holding on to her.
Actually, he's mimicking the action of holding a palette. Times, Sunday Times
Cut up some pieces of plywood ahead of time to use as holding forms, and clamp every thing down.
To prepare for the listing, it was created as a holding company for the assets and its domicile moved to Britain.
Two of the Task Force's twenty recommendations were that government should not impose any extraordinary tax on non-resident landowners or limit the size of their holding.
Net foreign investment into South Korean debt rose in July at its fastest pace since last October, boosting those holdings to record levels.
Pale skin, smooth all over, little pink nipples on a smooth, flat chest, snub nose with a little pale spray of freckles, big, _big_ blue eyes, naked as a jaybird, but for the brass-colored bobby-pins holding up her braids. Asimov's Science Fiction
In the coming months the City of Montreal will be holding public hearings regarding its first by-law limiting the uses of pesticides on the island.
Gibraltar has had to set up special holding zones for cars and pedestrians stuck in stifling heat. The Sun
Sample move: While pulsing in a plie, extend one hand that's holding a weight to the side and perform small arm circles. Exercise DVD gifts: Keeping up with Jane Fonda?
As Malcolm had said years ago, Dominic was playing a game, slowly moving Jeremy into a leadership role, while holding fast to the reins of power.
The hedge funds claim that shareholders are being denied the real value of the property holdings. Times, Sunday Times
He's rock solid holding me in place. The Sun
HOT: in reference to a sonobuoy, holding enemy contact. Terror At Dawn
Less than two weeks earlier, she had discovered that the crematorium was holding an open day. Times, Sunday Times
They have always a mosque joining to them, and the body of the hann is a most noble hall, capable of holding three or four hundred persons, the court extremely spacious, and cloisters round it, that give it the air of our colleges. Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e
In front of him was a man holding a pitcher filled with some liquid.
The first time we met this ragamuffin she was very shy, but this time she was so friendly, full of confidence and holding our hands as we walked around.
In both instances, wrangling over how much information should be made public is holding up the process. Times, Sunday Times
The card features a bunny holding a tube of toothpaste.
After weeks and weeks of blurred vision and of holding books and paper at arm's length, the whole world, near and far, leapt into sharp focus once more.
The opinion referred to a prior decision holding that courts were bound by the applicable customary law.
The first samizdat were typed carbons, definitely not books, just as the Samizdat you are holding now is definitely not the usual literary journal.
He arrived to find them holding a wake. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
One blond girl is cozying up to her, and the other identical-looking one is trying to, but Reba is holding her away, squishing her face.
Danlo inclined his head toward the heaume that Hanuman was holding. THE BROKEN GOD
He was photographed holding the team selection and game plan. The Sun
A fifty-pound chunk of steel was missing from the reactor, and the only thing holding the coolant in was the stainless cladding, which is paperthin, and which bulged out the hole like bubblegum. Think Progress » Jonah Goldberg: Concerns About Climate Change Are ‘Millenarian Battiness’
Where was my mother in her white apron and holding aloft a wooden spoon?
After a while their mother was back, holding a tray of glasses that fizzed.
These holdings would provide investors a partial guaranteed return, denominated in their own currencies, and the government securities would explicitly guarantee the value of the fund's capital.
He stated he had approximately 180 acres of his own land but also had rented other holdings throughout the area.
Wilfred had screamed Cora's name, and she'd flown down the stairs to find Wilfred holding a senseless Jane in his arms.
The fact that the plane is in a holding pattern is a metaphor for Spain's political stasis. Times, Sunday Times
Two of them wrapped him in an embrace of mateship, holding his arms to his side.
Sir Evelyn's squire bowed, holding out the reins to the horse.
The outstanding singer, songwriter, musician and producer did the majority of work on his new album himself, holding a tight rein on its creative direction.
However, passive organic matter acts much like a sponge, holding a lot of water.
District Court Judge Leonard Davis in Texas erred in upholding, and adding to, a jury verdict that the company describes as a riddled with mistakes. National Business News - Local Business News | bizjournals
The exception is the discovery of such lists in the archival holdings of the presidential library system managed by the National Archives and Records Administration.
Most of the other creations showed doves, the symbols of peace, holding on to strings attached to planet earth.
This was a heavily populated region of numerous towns and nucleated villages, with dispersed patterns of landholding, small parishes and manors, and political power shared between the nobles, rich merchants, and a prosperous gentry.
It includes an old gas holding tank that served as a space tunnel. Times, Sunday Times
It was holding two brown, dried and dead flowers that were shaped like cones with lots of buds covering it.
The Company magazine is also criticised for carrying another controversial Benetton advertisement showing a black soldier holding a human thigh bone.
The boat then sheered off into safety and lay to its oars, a young midshipman, sitting in the stern and holding the yoke-lines, in charge. The Lost Poacher
Sir Bobby Charlton and George Best were among VIPs holding the hi-tech baton, flanked by flag bearers carrying the flags of the Commonwealth nations.
This is just a holding operation until we get the new management structure sorted out.
By holding down your wages, corporations fatten their profits, stock prices rise, and Wall Street's high-rolling investors rejoice.
Suddenly, I find myself holding up one of the tiny outfits with the same cooing glee as my wife had just held up the pinafores and gingham sun dresses.

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