Example sentences of "hold to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doubtless some protestant paramilitaries — though there have been fewer religious persons among them than in the case of the provisionals — hold to similar religious understandings of the necessity of violence under certain circumstances . |
| 2 | At the same time , sociologists of education generally hold to the view that schools can have an important role in both conservation and social change . |
| 3 | Pastor Albani urged his congregation to follow Christ 's way of non-violence : ‘ We must try not to be another lot of historical victors … hold to God 's word and love your neighbour as yourself . ’ |
| 4 | I can not go into detail on the issues which members of one of those movements — the environmentalists — hold to be most vital . |
| 5 | Limited by what , in a recession , it could realistically claim to be spending , and obliged to exaggerate its fiscal rectitude to appear electable in the City , Labour had either to trim its sails to an economic situation it assured us was dire — thereby undermining the main reason why people supported them — or hold to its promises , confirming the impression that , once the party was in power , taxation and spending would soar . |
| 6 | In this way he saw that Man was truly made in the Image of God : ‘ The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception , and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM ’ ( Biographia Literaria , xiii ) . |
| 7 | This view affects more than just clever scholars ; I believe that for the same reason many Christians who hold to some belief in the Devil do not believe in evil spirits either . |
| 8 | The King 's own statements , however , show the extent to which his view of the Church was political : ‘ It is not the change of Church government which is chiefly aimed at ’ , he wrote in 1646 , ‘ ( though that were too much ) but it is by that pretext to take away the dependency of the Church from the Crown , which , let me tell you , I hold to be of equal consequence to that of the militia ; for people are governed by the pulpit more than the sword in the time of peace . |
| 9 | If I say ‘ Prostitution is on the increase ’ I express my belief that it is on the increase , but what I put upon the mat for discussion is not my holding the belief , but rather the state of affairs , which I hold to be actual , but which others may not , of prostitution being on the increase . |
| 10 | But if we hold to the idea of democracy as popular power , then it is clear that the concentration of so much power in non-accountable hands , outside the control of elected bodies , is incompatible with democracy . |
| 11 | Few nowadays hold to the ‘ medical ’ or ‘ treatment ’ models of punishment , or claim that science can provide a cure for all criminality . |
| 12 | Even if some of them come for what others hold to be a wrong reason , they should not be discouraged or their motives despised . |
| 13 | The student has to be able to take yet a further step , and to be able to take up stances , hold to particular theories , or simply to act . |
| 14 | A further formulation might come from those who hold to a wider sense of the mission of higher education . |
| 15 | Few elitists now hold to the notion of a single dominant elite effectively exercising or directing the exercise of all important functions , and few now use the term ‘ elite ’ as the all-embracing explanatory concept which it is for the classical theorists . |
| 16 | On Aug. 17 IRNA reported Rafsanjani as having told the Turkish President Turgut Özal during a telephone conversation that " peace with Iraq is a different issue , and we hold to our view that Iraq must evacuate its forces from Kuwait so as to create the necessary conditions for the re-establishment of peace and tranquillity " . |
| 17 | They may not , it is true , hold to the conception of meaning which , for example , many interactionists would , but this is , again , a matter for serious analysis and argument rather than sloganeering and posturing . |
| 18 | Few Marxists now hold to the traditional claim that the state is nothing but the executive committee of the bourgeoisie . |