"hold" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Even as the epidemic has subsided and receives far less attention, women like Maria are testament to its long reach and tenacious hold.
- Life had a tenacious hold, leaving only an occasional peninsula or mountain range gray and bone.
- For fifteen years the western powers maintained a tenacious hold on West Berlin under periodic harassment of the Soviets.
- The characteristic of tenacious hold on life of A. koraiensis makes it possible for massive breeding.
- Reflecting a widely held frustration with Mr. Hussein's tenacious hold on power, 58 percent said the bombing should continue until he was toppled.
- His final collection of poems nakedly chronicles his losing battle with cancer and celebrates his tenacious hold on the world he was leaving.
- The cigar has long had a tenacious hold on the business culture.
- Its tenacious hold on the public imagination suggests a power that transcends most critics' dismissals of the piece as naive and overwrought.
- Ieyasu's recovery after a two hour nap was a testimony to his tenacious hold on life.
- They have a tenacious hold on life which mere physical disability will not quench.
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