Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.
To be selected was an honor, and in respect of the family member chosen to run, families held feasts and gave away prized beaver coats, quilled tobacco bags and buffalo hides.
My family and I held no hatred for those people because we realized they were victims of their own ignorance.
That's a paradox I've noticed, too: The news business held little romance for me, yet writing about it somehow stirred my affections.
I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.
The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.
I had been, you know, held in the closet for two months and, you know, abused in all manner of ways. I was very good at doing what I was told.
I'm very interested in soldier recovery projects and in Bradley Manning's story, the army intelligence officer who's being held as a detainee and is going to trial for crimes of treason.
Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
Despite the sometimes sordid turns his life took, Michael Jackson always held my fascination, like he did for most of us.
A lot of people often forget that the main purpose of being in a circle is to continuously grow with it, and never to be held back by it.
You wanna know people are held accountable if they engage in misconduct and that no one is above the law.
It is quite wrong for party conferences to be used as an excuse for the Commons not to sit. Conferences could be held at weekends.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
I was eleventh-grade class president. That was the first elective office I held until I came into Congress.
I think if you've held onto a character for several years and then you're getting rid of that character, it's going to be traumatic.
I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only.
Moreover, in Russia there was an enormous amount of landed property to be divided, large estates, crown lands, government land, and the estates held by the monasteries.
And I believe in having an administration that has clearly defined goals, objectives and time lines such that it and its people can be held accountable.
I spent some time back in Mexico at 16 because my parents thought it would be prudent for me to learn Spanish, because I held a Mexican passport.
V: Certainly there are those who are more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable.
