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How to use the word holds in a Sentence? Page #9

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What makes a good recruit is somebody who is already disenfranchised, someone who is anti-establishment, who holds some kind of resentment.

Adam Deen

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The answer is to finally make trade work for us, not against us, so my message to every worker in Michigan and across America is this : I will stop any trade deal that kills jobs or holds down wages, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Bill Clinton

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Tribal communities in the affected region have been devastated and the EPA has not taken responsibility for the mess it made, i hope this investigation uncovers who is at fault and holds them responsible. We will be watching closely.

Chairman John Barrasso of Wyoming

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Whatever trait it is in you, whatever your personal quirk is that makes you obsessive compulsive or sloppy about your pill taking, that holds true for your chronic disease pills or oncology pills.

Alfred Neugut

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I still haven’t been told where he is, how he is being treated, or what his legal status is — which is especially shocking in light of the fact that my father holds Swedish, and only Swedish, citizenship.

Angela Gui

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

That is what we do today in the car business, so we will have to see what the future holds.

Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The Ted Cruz campaign said in response to Manafort's comments : The Cruz campaign's no surprise that Trump's team will lash out with falsehoods when facing a loss to distract from their failure. … We have earned our success by working hard to build a superior organization and are working within the process and rules. Anticipating a fight for every delegate, Ted Cruz was campaigning Monday in California, which holds a delegate-rich primary on June 7. David Payne, a Republican strategist and Vox Global partner, suggested on Monday that Cruz’s efforts to win delegate support will be indispensable if Donald Trump fails to get to 1,237 delegates -- as the candidates would have to compete for them during balloting at an open convention in July. Ted Cruz will be on familiar turf, consider that Ted Cruz is likely to win a handful of the remaining winner-take-all states … coupled with proportional delegate wins for Ted Cruz and Ted Cruz and John Kasich, this makes it mathematically difficult for Donald Trump to win the nomination according to the current convention rules.

David Payne

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The pace of demolitions has exceeded any previous records and we are only in the fourth month of the year. We are very worried about what the rest of the year holds.

Robert Piper

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Whatever his aims are, he is OK, depending on what the future holds for him over the next six months he can adapt his new tool to his own needs.

Gael Sliman of pollsters

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If this result holds in every single congressional district, Trump will walk away with nearly all of New York State’s delegates.

Patrick Murray

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

For me, we’ll see what the future holds, i can run for re-election [as governor] in 2018. I‘d love to join a Republican president, not in his Cabinet, but as a leader of Republican governors across the country.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I'm sure you hear this all the time, but your country holds a special place in the imagination for so many people.

Prince Harry

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In the video, someone has taken a pig and holds its rear leg in the air while another animal, a dog, runs to attack it, that, in and of itself, is a penal code animal cruelty violation in the state of California, but the office still needs to investigate the circumstances.

Aaron Reyes

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's hard to know what their future holds, i hope and pray that they will be OK, but we can't know.

Tamara Rubin

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's a fascinating area of research and it holds a lot of promise, if someone said to me 10 to 15 years down the road this would be a routine thing we'll be doing, that would be great and I don't even know that I'd be surprised. But you can also imagine that in 10 to 15 years, we'll look back and say what is that crazy thing we were doing.

David Hackney

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It only impacts the government's interaction with faith-based organizations or a person who holds faith-based, sincerely held beliefs as it relates to marriage.

Greg Kirk

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Children will not vote this Sunday, their voices will not be reflected in the ballots, but the most serious political mistake would be to ignore those who will determine if the future holds a lasting peace.

Mohamed Malick Fall

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There's a whole lot of people are who just holding back, you got all these damn also-ran candidates that just don't have a chance in the world, and that kind of holds people back.

Top Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The primary originated because we wanted to get rid of what was essentially a caucus, we wanted to give power to the people. That is a tradition that still holds true today –the primary is about the people.

Neil Levesque

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

This lady holds up her hand and starts talking about her 31-year-old addicted daughter and the whole place is like weeping. ... It's just amazing to me.

Ohio Gov. John Kasich

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They can do silly things, what creates bear markets differs, but the process that investors go through is the same. You'll get denial because people think that the old paradigm holds.

Dominic Wallington

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We're still discussing, in the short term, meaning 2016, I don't see that type of rebranding happening. But you never know what the future holds thereafter.

Aston Martin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's the manifest revenue capabilities that Los Angeles holds both in terms of the market and then in terms of a new stadium development, so the idea for The Raiders and Chargers is that whether it would be the Carson project developed with the Chargers, or even a partnership with the Rams, Oakland Raiders are well equipped to step into a much bigger market, one The Raiders and Chargers abandoned.

Robert Boland

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The governor holds Catholic Charities in the highest regard but respectfully disagrees with their decision to place a Syrian refugee family in Indiana at this time.

Mike Pence

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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