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hold over example sentences
hold over
1. He knew Sandini had had some sort of hold over him
2. The theory proved true, the giant’s telepathic hold over them vanished
3. He wouldn’t know what had hit him! She’d always had this invisible hold over him; he would do anything for her, she was sure of that
4. She had no leverage to hold over Hollowcrest to make him answer her questions
5. Blackmail? What could she hold over both parties? Economic trouble? That would be a disaster for government and business alike, but she could hardly start a recession by willing one into existence
6. Grindel had realised early on that he needed some hold over Cherva, something to keep him compliant
7. His hold over me was so complete that I didn’t think I could refuse him even if I knew that this time I would die
8. It stunned me that as badly as they had been treated, their parents continued to have an extraordinarily strong hold over them
9. ” She said and I nodded knowingly, but I could hope right? “She still has some hold over him and I hate that
10. a hold over me, that I could be so finitely certain of taking any
11. Zerch’s hold over her had been alarmingly strong but after she had discovered how life could be on the other side she began to crave it more and more
12. long as greed has hold over us, a relationship with another does not exist;
13. Most likely Calvin thought the image of them cooperating would help secure his hold over the ship
14. They probably have a hold over him like everyone else
15. consolidate their hold over the region
16. Created by those hoping to hold over you, a debt
17. But what he’ll do with this hold over me- I cannot fathom
18. There was hollowness in her tone, something that told June her best friend was a little distressed by no longer having anything to hold over her head
19. Extend sympathy to the brave and courageous while you withhold overmuch pity from those cowardly souls who only halfheartedly stand up before the trials of living
20. It had nearly taken a hold over me
21. This was the key to his hold over the camp
22. But Sam’s father knew Hurd was planning to build another scent tower to insure his hold over the people, and more specifically, his hold over the rebels
23. the air—as though resistance and gravity have no hold over him
24. to stay in the fridge and hold over until Monday
25. Without our unquestioned predictable response to the story being fed to us, the forces exerted from the shadows would have no hold over our world
26. Similarly the empire like Crowngland that had occupied several countries of Europe and Asia could not continue its hold over its colonies for long and hence it was a time like Kazussia, it broke into pieces
27. which can hold over 4 hours worth of video
28. It is something alive, operative, active, wanting to increase its hold over your life and produces death
29. “First I will release, just a little, the thin control that I hold over myself
30. He could not hold over her, like an awful rod, that she owed her very existence to him
31. weakening of the federal government"s hold over the provinces" fresh-water resources
32. It almost seemed as though she must have some secret hold over him, be in possession, perhaps, of some fact connected with a guilty past
33. The Anzarins, after throwing off their Trohman overlords, mercilessly took over the mining operations of Mergoran crystals, and held a stranglehold over every facet of their use
34. “I know Kurt has this weird, immature hold over his friends
35. Rami had a stranglehold over me
36. What is entertainment? It is undead ghouls and half-human reptilian bird entities ENTERING your body: TAINTING your awareness: MEANT to distract you from becoming aware of their vicarious desire to live through you,: so you the living will not become aware of their hold over you, as they make sure you become a passive spectator
37. ‘His hold over the church is
38. The baby cried out and I knew it was all over in that moment except…… except for the truth of El Elyon’s hold over the realities of my existence
39. realised the power I could hold over him if I gave in
40. Even the wooden ships at anchor looked of a more recent construction than a hold over remnant from the Civil War era
41. Some part, big and vital in him, she had no hold over; nor did she ever try to get it, or even to realise what it was
42. Over the years, the Prophet had gained more and more of a hold over the agent’s mind
43. To have you as long as possible near me, to hear your eloquent speech,—which embellishes my mind, strengthens my soul, and makes my whole frame capable of great and terrible things, if I should ever be free,—so fills my whole existence, that the despair to which I was just on the point of yielding when I knew you, has no longer any hold over me; and this—this is my fortune—not chimerical, but actual
44. Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici wanted a threshold over 1 percent—and I was pushing for a threshold of 2 percent
45. Clyntahn had enough swords to hold over Earl Thirsk’s head without a daughter whose ecclesiastic superiors could order her to Zion at any moment
46. If he hadn’t already, he would quickly realize that the loss of his family had removed the only sword the Inquisition truly had to hold over Thirsk’s head
47. “You’d think I’d coerce you into something you don’t want to do, and then pretend that I have a legal hold over you?”
48. It was a giant puppet, a white screen he could hold over his head
49. (There are trades we will hold overnight
50. “You can be a day trader and still hold overnight
