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 Translation for 'to hold' from English to Bulgarian
VERB   to hold | held | held
holding | holds
SYNO appreciation | cargo area | cargo deck | ...
to hold {verb}държа
to hold sb. accountable for sth.държа нкг. отговорен за нщ.
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Usage Examples English
  • Compound bows are designed to reduce the force required to hold the string at full draw, hence allowing the archer more time to aim with less muscular stress.
  • As William says, "he was a man of wisdom and discretion, fully competent to hold the reins of government in the kingdom."
  • In religion Alaric was an Arian, like all the early Visigothic nobles, but he greatly mitigated the persecution policy of his father Euric toward the Catholics and authorized them to hold in 506 the council of Agde.
  • Shinto tends to hold negative views on death and corpses as a source of pollution called "kegare".
  • He captured the old people and children and sent them to his army to hold them for ransom.

  • Austrian opposition to mathematization extends to economic theorizing only, as they argue that human behavior is too variable for overarching mathematical models to hold true across time and context.
  • The practice of using certain letters to hold vowel values spread to Aramaic-derived writing systems, such as in Arabic and Hebrew, which still follow the practice.
  • "Joe Pillow" was the name given on the ticket for the extra airline seat purchased to hold the first Amiga prototype while on the way to the January 1984 Consumer Electronics Show.
  • Without the manpower to hold the roads, his unit took to making offensive hit-and-run raids on Arab forces in the vicinity of Kfar Malal.
  • The NLD confirmed that it had received the invitation to hold talks with Aung San Suu Kyi.

  • Early in the Civil War, Confederate President Jefferson Davis decided that the Confederacy would attempt to hold as much of its territory as possible, and therefore distributed military forces around its borders and coasts.
  • The right to hold two weekly markets and three yearly fairs, beginning in the 13th century, was held ever since as confirmed in 1657.
  • After the Corsican Republic was declared in 1755, the Genoese continued to hold several citadels, including Ajaccio, until the French took control of the island.
  • In another occasion, Maximilian noticed that the ladder Dürer used was too short and unstable, thus told a noble to hold it for him.
  • However, it was an advantageous position to hold because it demonstrated the aspiring politician's commitment to public service, as well as giving him the opportunity to hold public festivals and games, an excellent way to increase his name recognition and popularity.

  • Other studies by Taylor find that all tetrapods appear to hold their necks at the maximum possible vertical extension when in a normal, alert posture; they argue the same would hold true for sauropods barring any unknown, unique characteristics that set the soft tissue anatomy of their necks apart from that of other animals.
  • The South ignored the warnings; Southerners did not realize how ardently the North would fight to hold the Union together.
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