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The wedding was held last week.
The Olympic Games are held every four years.
She held him by the sleeve.
They held hands.
Tom held the knife like this.
Tom held a gun to Mary's forehead.
He held the picture up and showed it to the class.
There are people who are not held back by anything in life.
I request that Tom be held responsible for his wicked deeds.
Tom was held in captivity for two months.
The shareholder's meeting was held.
The conference is to be held in Tokyo.
The meeting will be held tomorrow.
The meeting will be held this afternoon.
The meeting was held here.
Whether it will rain or not, the game is going to be held.
The picnic was held in the gym on account of the rain.
In a similar situation, the company was held liable.
We all held our breath while we watched it.
The party was held on May 22.
A party will be held next Saturday, that is to say, on August 25th.
Ned held the flag erect.
Tell me where the meeting will be held.
In 776 B.C., the first Olympic Games were held at the foot of Mount Olympus to honor the Greeks' chief god, Zeus.
We held a party in honor of the 20th anniversary of our company.
The meeting is held twice a month.
The meeting is to be held next week.
The meeting will be held regardless of the weather.
It has been agreed that the meeting will be held on Friday.
Meetings are held every other week.
To our great surprise, she held her breath for three minutes.
Unless it rains, the game will be held on Sunday.
Movie subtitles
It's been five years since I made love without the TV on. And ten years since somebody held my hand. I-I miss my dead wife.
He's held office for a long time, right?
Held my grandfather's bowels intact in the trenches in the Great War.
So, someone held her down?
And you held her in your arms, and she lived.
Is it possible someone who held a grudge against you took it out on your wife?
We think she's being held at Halifax Agro-Chem in Falls Church.
Mr. and Mrs. Van Waldheim have the honour to invite... to the ball that will be held the 23 this month.
Mr. and Mrs. Van Waldheim invite..mister baron Van Alfred..to the ball held on the 23rd.
In the shelter led by the poverty preacher Elias Renato and his helper Brother Matthias, another party is being held. under different circumstances.
A couple of hours went by but Dame Margarete held out bravely.
She'd been stricken with galloping consumption and had only held out for the space of a year.
He held onto his fallen friend the whole night, and thus sacrificed himself.
Do you expect the entire machinary of Scotland Yard to be held up to please you?
Her figure dances before me, peers out of bushes, here and there her dress glitters like a will-o'-the-wisp she rushes me, uphill, downhill, into the air, into the swamps. and yet I held her, after all she was mine!
And a ceremonial banquet is held.
You've held me back for years and I'm sick of it!
That's one thing they can never say about me, that I ever held anything private from a friend.
The joint's been held up, that's all.
Held up?
It was Rico's gang that held up the Bronze Peacock.
And then he held up his hand, and they all stopped.
She told how she picked up the wounded and held each one to her breast.
I've held my tongue because i hadn't the heart to open your dear eyes.
You wish to have the rooms held?
Why should the signing of these articles be suddenly held up?
Bad enough before he held up the train but after he tortured Mr Baum. I think youre doing the woman an injustice.
And, oh, have you ever, like, held a girl's hand while eating a PBJ?
You saying you don't control what you sell? We can't be held responsible for every sandwich that we sell!
They also held a World Officers Sports Competition last year.
And ten years since somebody held my hand.
She's being held at Halifax Agro-Chem in Falls Church.
If consulting hours aren't held soon, the patients will sober up on their own.
His life. His pathetic life still held him back.
And so the party was held.
The wedding party's to be held here?
You never held anything out on me before, honey.
He held me in his arms.
I'VE BEEN HELD UP AND ROBBED.
News and current affairs
He could hardly have been held responsible for the hubris which led to the avalanche of 1973, yet it nonetheless brought him down as well.
Shell, the largest foreign operator in the Niger Delta, has been criticized repeatedly for its egregious practices and its unwillingness to be held to account.
Attracting even a fraction of the assets held by institutional investors, sovereign-wealth funds, and public pension funds could boost development finance substantially.
An international conference on Afghanistan should be called by the US and held under UN auspices.
Earlier this year, they staged partial, and tightly regulated municipal elections, with no independent opinion permitted to influence when and how the ballots were held.
Simply put, surging capital flows into the US artificially held down interest rates and inflated asset prices, leading to laxity in banking and regulatory standards and, ultimately, to a meltdown.
While product markets have held center stage in the creation of the single European market, services continue to be fragmented by national regulatory, anti-competitive practices.
It is a sad reflection on the state of the EU that it seems unable to agree on the one clear productivity-advancing piece of legislation when improving productivity is held out as a shared goal.
Of course, the idea is held back by the inner workings of both parts of the proposed alliance.
North Korea's fragility is suggested by the fact that even such an important political event as the Worker's Party conference, held for the first time in three decades, was abruptly postponed earlier in September.
For sovereign bonds held by other sovereigns, the Paris Club of creditor countries has developed procedures for handling the debt.
But some creditors held out, and sued Argentina in New York (as the bonds were issued under New York law).
The two of you also went against conventional Israeli thinking by breaking away from your Likud party, greatly weakening the ideological stranglehold that Likud's far-right central committee held on Israeli politics.
An independent Palestinian state that did not include all of Israel held no appeal to him.
But, while putting the ECB in charge of banking supervision solves one problem, it creates another: can national authorities still be held responsible for saving banks that they no longer supervise?
The task of remedying it must begin at the meeting on climate change that will be held in Copenhagen in December.
Yasir Arafat appears, once again, to have held off challenges to his rule.
That's why market interest rates on privately held Greek bonds and prices for credit-default swaps indicate that a massive default is coming.
The decision triggered a severe response from China, where students held demonstrations against his visit.
In the US, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the length of the average workweek has held steady at about 34 hours since the advent of the Internet two decades ago.
It is hard to recall, but a little over a decade ago, conventional wisdom - both inside and outside the US - held that America was in decline.
We held a prestigious Panel at Davos with these leaders in January 2011, where, on the occasion of our Interim Report, we gave full-throated support to concluding Doha.
As recently as 2010, the regime held elections so blatantly rigged that the main opposition party refused to participate.
Weak governments can be made stronger; governments that tolerate or support terrorism must be held accountable.
And yet he controversially but rightly held out a hand of friendship to the breakaway region of Somaliland, before it became fashionable, and went as far as he could short of formal re-recognition of that ray of democratic hope in the Horn of Africa.
At noon on July 5, Colombians throughout the country poured into the streets to show their outrage at the news that 11 provincial politicians had been killed while being held by leftist rebels.
It is held culpable for the near financial meltdown.
The case of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction is a historic example of a willingness to go to hell with your head held high.