Sentence examples for hold fast from high-quality English sources.

• Can governance then hold fast and sustain it?

• ., one whom they ought to hold fast” (Supplement to Book I: Ch. 8).

• No better man living to hold fast by what Tellson's had in keeping, and to hold his peace.

• Yale pledged to fight the order, saying Thursday that it would hold fast to its admissions process.

• He has travelled too widely and interviewed too many people to hold fast to simple explanations.

• Hold Fast Your Crown, by Yannick Haenel, translated from the French by Teresa Lavender Fagan (Other Press).

• The MPC must hold fast and keep interest rates to a minimum to encourage confidence and growth for UK businesses.”

• Through the years, he has called repeatedly for greater democracy among Tibetans in exile, but his people hold fast to his leadership.

Use hold fast in a sentence.

• "Though we are deeply disturbed, we hold fast to the hope that our Alma Mater will take the necessary steps to champion the values it espouses.

• Ah, was it easy here to believe and hold fast the great password of Christian faith, that “God IS, and is the REWARDER of them that diligently seek Him”?

• Thus, Glaucon, the tale has been saved, and will be our salvation, if we believe that the soul is immortal, and hold fast to the heavenly way of Justice and Knowledge.

• Sowing doubt turns out to be relatively cost-efficient, because dissent only needs a few exceptions to the orthodoxy, whereas consensus requires everyone else to hold fast to it.

• Not until months afterward did Jo understand how she had the strength of mind to hold fast to the resolution she had made when she decided that she did not love her boy, and never could.

• “It takes a certain amount of irrationality to believe that the world could be dramatically different, and a certain amount of dogmatism to hold fast to that belief while everyone else says you'll likely fail,” she says.

• Mr Vladeck would also like the justices to own up to their votes by identifying themselves and, for important issues that do not require immediate resolution, hold fast-tracked oral arguments before rendering a judgment.

• The form that the station eventually takes will be an expression of the city’s priorities, Calatrava told me, and he did not seem convinced that New York would have the self-confidence necessary to hold fast to its vision, and his.

hold fast sentence examples

• Saying that Britain was a tolerant, inclusive nation, the spokesperson said: “Those views and that value of our nation existed long before we were members of the EU and we should hold fast to that value and stand up for that value in the days and weeks ahead

• “I continue to hold fast to the belief that it is the right thing to do,” she said in a televised interview on Wednesday, as tens of thousands of protesters surrounded the legislature and police officers forced them back with batons, tear gas and rubber bullets.

• Rieux to hold fast to two not entirely contradictory truths: the understanding that we must remain ever vigilant because the plague bacillus, like the poison of fascism or tyranny, “never dies or disappears,” and the optimistic belief that “what we learn in time of pestilence” is “that there are more things to admire in men than to despise.”

• I am asking you to hold fast to that faith written into our founding documents; that idea whispered by slaves and abolitionists; that spirit sung by immigrants and homesteaders and those who marched for justice; that creed reaffirmed by those who planted flags from foreign battlefields to the surface of the moon; a creed at the core of every American whose story is not yet written: