A group of divinity students at the Princeton Theological Seminary were told that they were going to give a practice sermon and they were each given a sermon topic.

And, as many people do, he was dozing off during the sermon.

Then one by one, they were told they had to go to another building and give their sermon.

The preacher delivered an extra long sermon, so that they were still out of harm's way when the wave struck.

I have a whole global governance sermon that I will spare you right now, because I don't think that's going to be enough anyway, although it's essential.

At the next Friday sermon, the women who were sitting in the side room of the mosque began to share their distress at the state of affairs.

DH Please hold my wrist, will you. BF Yeah, hold this a minute.

A Centerless Euro Cannot Hold

Hold on! Wait a minute!

Then Fir'awn disobeyed the apostle, wherefore We laid hold of him with a painful hold.

Then Fir'awn disobeyed the apostle, wherefore We laid hold of him with a painful hold.

We hold a meeting once a month.

Please hold the line a moment.

Take a breath and hold it.

Grab a hold of the rope.

Can you hold on a second?

Several authors hold a different view.

And hold it there, hold it there, both of you, hold it there.

We hold it with a magnetic field.

SINGAPORE Not a week passes, it seems, without a big picture thinker releasing a big picture book or giving a big picture sermon describing the gradual eclipse of American hegemony in Asia. True, American power will inevitably decline in relative terms as Asian giants such as China and India rise.

Even Helen Mirren can hold a gun these days.

To give a few examples in August, officers of the National Intelligence Agency in Lubumbashi raided Radio Hosanna, confiscated equipment and arrested six staff members after the broadcast of a sermon by the Rev. Albert Lusuka, who was accused of inciting people to rebel in a speech criticizing corruption and bad governance in the country.

And I hold in my hand a tissue mimicking phantom.

They will hold a meeting at 2 o'clock this afternoon.

Then We hold it in hand for a brief grasp.

Then We hold it in hand for a brief grasp.

Lay hold on him, then put a chain on him,

Lay hold on him, then put a chain on him,

Therefore do thou hold Patience, a Patience of beautiful (contentment).

And when they see some trade or sport, they move towards it and leave you standing delivering the sermon proclaim, That which is with Allah, is better than sport and trade and the sustenance of Allah is the best.

And when they see some trade or sport, they move towards it and leave you standing delivering the sermon proclaim, That which is with Allah, is better than sport and trade and the sustenance of Allah is the best.

Hold on.

Hold on.

Hold fire.

Hold this.

We had to hold up an hour of a movie with a character.

What a personal connection, to hold that letter in my hand.

MO We're recommending to our clients a buy and hold strategy.

Hold on a second, I'll be right back. Don't hang up!

That is too small a box to hold all these things.

They said, Hold him and his brother off for a while

They said, Hold him and his brother off for a while

The proposal to hold a seminar was welcomed by several members.

Using hold in this way is both completely conventional and deeply misleading. In any other common English language usage, hold is an active verb or a noun with a similar connotation.

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