"hold" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- By this I mean that those who hold nominally powerful jobs ought to exercise correspondingly real power.
- Each nominally held powers equivalent to a third of a president's powers in most other presidential systems.
- Thus Fulvia's many properties and businesses were buried in sleeping partnerships or nominally held by someone else.
- Though the dates have been adjusted to reflect the Academy schedule, since 2001, it is nominally held the first week in May.
- At the end of 1916, he was appointed Financial Secretary to the Treasury, usually a political office, and nominally held the post until 1921.
- Although he nominally held the third-highest state office in East Germany, he was left with little political influence.
- Before the 1773 treaty, Poland had nominally held the right to bail out Draheim, which however was never actually pursued.
- It is distinguished from most coaches by being of slightly smaller size, holding nominally four passengers, and being much less ostentatious.
- Although Spain nominally held possession of the area for more than 150 years, few Spaniards entered Alabama.
- The alcaldes of the small pueblos (towns) nominally held local executive and judicial control in local matters.
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