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109 Sentences With "held fast"

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Andrew M. Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio held fast.
For 30 years, Reagan's historic achievement largely held fast -- until Trump.
Mr. Solomon held fast to the tether nonetheless, unwilling to let go.
Meanwhile, the rest of the classical music world held fast to tradition.
It held fast in my mind even after I bought a new iPhone.
Yet at its July meeting the MPC held fast while awaiting more data.
But the company held fast in a blog post announcing its decision Thursday.
McConnell held fast to that warning with the backing of fellow Republican senators.
These works are an attempt to hold fast to something that can't be held fast.
Both Mr. Hernández and his opponent, Salvador Nasralla, held fast to their positions on Tuesday.
She weathered the recession in 2008, and held fast as many of her competition shut down.
In the face of this upheaval, I held fast to something my father had told me.
For 25 years in Congress, Mr. Sanders has held fast to his progressive message and principles.
The Rangers held fast to their rebuilding strategy, resisting trades and drafting seven players on Saturday.
But the proposed deal isn't finalized yet, and G.M. has held fast on several key points.
Construction projects add stress to any relationship, but the friendship between tenant and owners held fast.
His bass playing was serviceable, but nowhere near the level of proficiency that otherwise held fast onstage.
Courts would later determine largely that such bans were unconstitutional, but Pence held fast to his position.
I have always held fast to the notion that velvet is for life, not just the holiday season.
Even so, plenty of religious leaders held fast to King's belief in the separation of church and rock.
But Susanna Frongia held fast to her manual loom, working in a way unchanged for thousands of years.
We kind of held fast to pitching him in a starting role, and he's pitching well for us now.
Once the insect held fast, the fungus sprouted the three growths (topped with spore capsules) seen in the photo.
The Horned Frogs held fast and forced Purdue to settle for junior kicker J.D. Dellinger's 31-yard field goal.
In his 20s, Nono joined the Italian Communist Party, and loudly held fast to the party line for decades.
In Game 6, he held fast in the face of a full-out Montreal assault during the first period.
It's not the first time someone has challenged the Redcode patents and each time our patents have held fast.
The mattress was rolled up, held fast by bungee cords and stained by the oil that saturated the garage floor.
Amelia Greeley looks over old photos taken in the South Pacific during World War II. But their friendship held fast.
So far, he has held fast to his insistence that he wants $5.7 billion in funding for a border well.
He's tried snarling, and he's tried to be vulnerable; he's held fast to some convictions and has reluctantly sacrificed others.
Each team had chances on the power play, and Minnesota had a two-man advantage briefly, but the goalies held fast.
The company has held fast to its "It's always Day One" mantra, a mindset Del Rey has reported on in depth.
The Senate adjourned for the Christmas holiday on Saturday as Trump held fast to his demand and Democrats refused to budge.
As the 18th century dawned, the attention of one of France's greatest writers was held fast by the finances of its capital.
But the city's police chief, who had arranged for the private viewing, held fast to his decision not to release the recordings.
Only as a picture, which flashes its final farewell in the moment of its recognizability, is the past to be held fast.
Many a social reformer has held fast to the idea that the arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice.
For 92 years, the firm has held fast to the dictum of never disclosing names of clients or the advice it gives.
Despite the bleak state of online discourse in 2018, McCarthy has held fast to what he's called a "do no harm" trolling policy.
For half a century, amid an industry that places a premium on cool and edge, he has held fast to a different ideal.
And, like Patrick, Mr St Aubyn spent a good many years addicted to heroin and held fast in the grip of his own demons.
I said goodbye to what I'd known as we ascended, held fast to my seat I stared out at the blue and rotting landscape.
But while left-of-center parties ran into the waiting arms of bankers, Mr. Sanders and Mr. Corbyn held fast to left-wing politics.
Reviled by Internet Freedom advocates, Williams held fast to her belief that the Internet was simply too dangerous for the average consumer to navigate.
"Jim Kirk can be held fast while Edith Keeler is run over and it can shatter him, but next week, he's fine again," Goldsman says.
Musk held fast even following Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's departure from Trump's economic advisory council, when Kalanick left following the issuance of the immigration order.
In recent years, Facebook has faced multiple outside proposals from shareholders to remove Zuckerberg from his chairman position, but his board has historically held fast.
Yet even as Trump sought to play down his hyper-incendiary tone, he still held fast to several of his most well-worn, and false, claims.
But as his hot streak has gotten progressively hotter, Driver has held fast to the awkwardness and unease that initially set him apart from his peers.
Democrats, on the other hand, held fast to their consistent position: Trump should agree to reopen the government -- and then they would talk about border security.
As the crowd left the grove, the bride and groom held fast to each other, and the quirky brass quartet broke out in a Beatles tune.
Even when the Republican National Committee decided to resume its support for Moore's campaign, despite cutting ties just weeks earlier, Gardner and the NRSC held fast.
The following year, the two countries signed what amounted to a digital truce, one that more or less held fast throughout the remainder of the Obama administration.
With the belief in a better future that he, Cal Ramsey, has held fast to across six decades of Knicks performances that were good, bad and abominable.
The Saudis and Turks wanted to replace Assad with a reliable Sunni client, while Iran and Hezbollah held fast to their one foothold in the Arab world.
Shares of business-facing companies like Robert Half, Insperity, Automatic Data Processing and Paychex have also held fast in the face of rising U.S.-China tensions, Cramer said.
Just how they were moved, what values they held fast to and which became dispensable, tells him — and us — more than just what kind of witnesses they were.
Even after Vermont first recognized civil unions in 2000 — creating "same-sex marriages in almost everything but the name," as The Times reported — the paper's position held fast.
In its main stage program on Wednesday evening, the North Carolina Symphony held fast to an admirable idea: to perform only music by composers associated with its state.
During a long, refreshingly substantive discussion of health-care policy, Mr Sanders held fast, blaming "the profiteering of the drug companies and insurance companies" for America's health-care woes.
There are also many feminist brands to support with leaders who stuck out their necks during the election, and held fast to it even when the pile-on followed.
Whether or not anyone actually bought into the ruse, the tactic is emblematic of a conviction still widely held: Fast food is, by and large, food of the poor.
In the vigils that have grown with every day of fruitless searches, families and friends have prayed, made offerings, and held fast to the possibility of signs of life.
Still, he held fast to tribal networks and continued to exercise power behind the scenes, undermining the rule of his former vice president and successor, Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
They are the ideas to which McCain held fast in his torment, to which billions worldwide aspire, and to which every American implicitly subscribes, even those who pretend otherwise.
In an interview with state media agency, SANA, last December, Assad said the then President-elect would be a "natural ally" if he held fast to his hard line on terrorists.
Agonizing wait In the vigils that have grown with every day of fruitless searches, families and friends have prayed, made offerings and held fast to the possibility of signs of life.
So far, the Obama administration has held fast, reaffirming its commitment to the alliance while issuing statements against Mr. Duterte's violation of the rule of law and disregard of human rights.
And he has held fast to that argument even after House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal of Massachusetts formally asked Rettig to release six years of Trump's personal tax returns.
Although he briefly suggested that the new airport could be paid for with private money, Mr. Lopez Obrador has largely held fast to his promise to cancel it and find an alternative.
Still, Appleby held fast, and referred Mr. Ryaskov to other firms; by 2015, Mikhelson's aircraft account had been transferred to Fedelta Trust Limited, a financial services firm on the Isle of Man.
Denying Trump influence Members at times read out loud or displayed past statements from the President and Sessions as they questioned him, but Sessions held fast that his department has not been influenced.
This compromise was put into practice and it held fast under the guidance and support of Gorbachev, the US, Europe and Pope John Paul II. The Communists did not meddle in economic management.
The rest of the LA rave's heyday had subsided, but one reason Insomniac's parties like EDC continued to do well is that they held fast to the scene's cartoonish iconography and carnival atmosphere.
" But Pao didn't think much about those incidents at the time and held fast to the doctrine in which she was raised: "I had faith in the system, because it seemed to work.
The mafia had a lot of rules, most made to be broken, but always one held fast and true for the wiseguys' self-preservation: Saturday night is for wives; Friday night is for girlfriends.
No one is more plausible than Damon at playing battered heroes with their backs against the wall, yet even at his most thuggish, in the Bourne films, he held fast to a rueful integrity.
While that utilitarian calculation downplays the negative consequences of an unmoderated platform, including the facilitation of the spread of disinformation and the incitement of violence, Acton has held fast to the idea of not interfering.
On the other hand, Trump has held fast to limits on legal immigration as he tries to appease the voters who put him into the White House as he pledged to crack down on immigration.
But institutions held fast, most of the time and in most countries; democracy was threatened only by an increasing number of leaders who wished to perpetuate themselves in power through electoral means, although dubious ones.
Republicans, who control the Senate, do not want to be complicit in confirming a justice who tips the Court's balance from majority conservative, where it has held fast for the past two generations, to majority liberal.
Then again, it's no secret that many metalheads are conservatives, and that metal (especially its more extreme forms) has long held fast to an unhealthy flirtation with the far-right and outright white supremacy, racism, and misogyny.
The atmosphere can chip away at a young doctor's idealism, he said, yet he was impressed by how strongly Dr. Tam, who had been an attending doctor at the hospital for a year, held fast to hers.
For years in the face of declines, PC company execs have held fast to the belief that consumers and businesses would continue to buy about 300 million units a year, and that the vendors could fight over that pie.
A few skipped prayer services and kiddush — a blessing recited over wine — but others held fast to tradition, which prevents practicing Jews once a week from preparing food, switching lights on or off, or caucusing in the presidential election.
He was old, and aging, and though everyone around us seemed fixated on the possibilities of other planets and their atmospheric levels in terms of treating this or that disease, my father held fast to his associations with earth.
Washington has held fast to its policy of exerting "maximum" economic and diplomatic pressure on North Korea, even though President Trump has claimed progress in denuclearizing the North since meeting its leader, Kim Jong-un, in June in Singapore.
Himes held fast to these relationships to maintain order amid the tumult of artistic labor and alcoholism, and he drew heavily on his experiences, especially his partnerships with white women, in his writing about the psychosexual dimensions of racism.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that trade talks with China are "moving right along," striking an upbeat tone even as Chinese officials held fast to their line that existing tariffs must come off as part of an interim deal.
Their sturdy tents flapped in the first storm and shook and gusted but held fast, and they sat huddled, all six seimei around the blue illumination of their dataslats, and sent in their silent manner about the possible damage the next morning.
One of them—based in San Francisco—changed their name to Succumb and released a brilliant death metal record earlier this year; the one we're discussing today is much more traditional, hails from Atlanta, and has held fast to their original moniker.
The government held fast through Hong Kong's Umbrella Revolution and the protests didn't dent the economy in the way they'd hoped, and the students who led them were jailed until democracy activists won an appeal to have their sentences overturned in February 2018.
He held fast to his view that Planned Parenthood does good work in some areas of women's health; he asserted that he had the capacity to expand the GOP's appeal; and he made a vigorous attack on the greed of health insurance companies.
Enlightened but self-centered, introspective but reckless, they are known among the cohorts that followed them — and even to some boomers themselves — as the generation that failed to live up to its lofty ideals, but still held fast to its sense of superiority.
Trump expressed support for a number of gun control measures, including strengthened background checks and stricter age limits, even as he held fast to his insistence that schools should be made "harder" targets by permitting teachers and other personnel to be armed.
From Reich's perspective, this archaeological truculence represents a stubborn attachment to the old, complicated stories in the face of new molecular data — just as some archaeologists held fast to their tall tales despite what Renfrew called the "mysterious boffinry" of radiocarbon dating.
But its tart critique of a modern world increasingly homogenized, and individuals shorn of individuality through their reliance on devices sold by the millions, has been imbued with such hallucinatory visual allure that your attention is held fast throughout its 90-minute running time.
Even as Beijing has shown a willingness to talk and make peace offerings in the form of multibillion-dollar import contracts, it has held fast to its refusal to make any commitment for a fixed reduction in its trade gap with the United States.
The snowpack, which the state counts on to melt in the spring to fill reservoirs and streams, hit normal levels for the first time in three years last month and has held fast throughout January, according to electronic measurements by the California Department of Water Resources.
In recent months, President Trump has held fast against bipartisan congressional efforts to rebuke his fierce support for Saudi Arabia and its de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has pressed for his kingdom to rise as a global player in international finance and politics.
During its first decade of existence, Andreessen Horowitz — one of Silicon Valley's premier venture capital firms — held fast to a seemingly minor rule about the types of people who comprised its top investors: To become a general partner, you had to have founded or led a company as CEO.
Despite the withering diminishment of the physical gifts for which he was known, and the silencing of the tongue that once flamed with timeless truths, Ali soldiered on and held fast to his beliefs—that Islam brings peace, that blackness brings greater humanity, that protest and resistance bring greater justice.
Though some Israelis like Shaul held fast to their peacenik commitments during this tumultuous time, frequent Palestinian suicide bombings on Israeli civilian targets, like nightclubs and buses, convinced many Israelis that they had no partner for peace — and that taking the Palestinians seriously was what had brought them to this point.
Discussions are "moving right along", U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday, striking an upbeat tone even as Chinese officials held fast to their line that existing tariffs must come off as part of an interim deal to de-escalate the 17-month trade war between the world's two biggest economies.
They attribute it to the government of President Xi Jinping and its efforts to centralize power and encourage a personality cult around Mr. Xi while silencing dissenting voices within the C.C.P. When the Cultural Revolution threatened to engulf Hong Kong 50 years ago, the British were in power and they held fast.
I have a vision of my own now: in her dark cell, Christina stands from her prayers and staggers to her bed, where she is, in the words of the chroniclers, held fast in the sickness of death: she lies stretched out after the manner of corpses, and passes to the immortal age of ages.
The Eagles held fast to that same belief across their final four regular season games, all victories, and the prevailing reason they were even playing on Sunday — why they clinched the N.F.C. East title, why they hosted a playoff game — clashed with what has become their standard operating procedure come January: Their quarterback was healthy.
With President Trump's trust and reliance on former senior military officers, like Secretary of Defense James MattisJames Norman MattisOnly Donald Trump has a policy for Afghanistan New Pentagon report blames Trump troop withdrawal for ISIS surge in Iraq and Syria Mattis returns to board of General Dynamics MORE and National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, the leading lights in his inner circle have long held fast to the importance of the nonmilitary assets in our national security toolkit.

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