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Example sentences for "holders"

Lexicographically close words:
holcus; hold; holde; holden; holder; holdes; holdest; holdeth; holdfasts; holdin
  1. The American Express Company, I believe, paid all holders of its checks.

  2. The banks sent out circulars to all holders of safe deposit boxes, asking them to disclose the contents.

  3. Female holders of licenses are not required to report themselves once a month.

  4. The trouble was, however, that the office-holders did not live up to the standard inculcated by their teachers.

  5. The opposition was so general that the offensive announcement was withdrawn, and a new programme substituted, in accordance with which holders of season tickets were allowed to be present.

  6. No little surprise and indignation were aroused by the announcement made on the 15th of April, that the Queen would open the Exhibition in person, but that the holders of tickets and exhibitors would be excluded from the ceremony.

  7. This was virtually a bonus to holders of her scrip, which from seventeen cents the dollar instantly rose to par.

  8. Clay complained once that Abolitionists denounced him as a slave-holder, slave-holders as an Abolitionist, while both voted for Van Buren.

  9. The holders of the bills becoming extremely uneasy, I wrote the Count the following reply to his last note.

  10. Have promised the holders to accept them.

  11. I was obliged to wait with patience, and endeavor to keep the holders of the bills from returning them, noted for non-acceptance.

  12. The holders of the bills became importunate, and insisting on my accepting or refusing them.

  13. Having first visited the holders of the bills, and obtained further time till Monday next, on the 24th I set out for St Ildefonso.

  14. I ought to mention, that the holders of the bills here begin to grow impatient, and frequently repeat their applications to me for acceptance.

  15. The first notes were paid at maturity and the other two some months before they were due, the holders discounting the interest.

  16. Splinter-holders of many types have survived, but most of them are of the form of a crude pedestal with a notch or spring clip at its upper end.

  17. They can find where the holders of fixed investments have declared for a gold standard, but not where the masses have.

  18. This particular line of argument he may carry no farther, taking it for granted that everyone will recognize the connection between honest office holders and material gain.

  19. Riddled through and through, their gas-holders collapsed, and their cars plunged downwards from a height of more than 5000 feet.

  20. At other universities the term is applied to the members of the governing body or to the holders of certain sums of money for a fixed number of years to be devoted to special study or research.

  21. Quills of various sizes are extensively employed as holders for the sable and camel hair brushes used by artists, &c.

  22. The train, besieged by a multitude of ticket-holders for whom there were no places, was nearly an hour late in getting off.

  23. But such was the universal good nature and indifference to business exactitudes, that neither artists nor ticket-holders took this curtailment of their rights in umbrage.

  24. With few or no party spoils, attention to public business, and not to patronage or private privilege, is profitable to office holders as well as to the political press.

  25. The people had grown tired of being beheaded by the office-holders after every election.

  26. Removals of federal office-holders in order to repay party workers are unheard of.

  27. One police authority threatened the license holders "that if they continued to allow these machines to be used in their licensed premises they did so at the risk of prosecution for allowing gaming.

  28. And now after the infliction of woes which no finite imagination can gauge, these very slave-holders declare with one voice, that nothing would induce them to reinstate the execrable institution.

  29. They regarded Americans as slave-holders were accustomed to regard the negro.

  30. Thus all the partisans of the Penns, and all the office holders of the crown and their friends, and there were many such, became not only opposed to Franklin, but implacable in their hostility.

  31. Franklin's object was to cause these traitorous office-holders to be ejected from their positions of influence, that others, more patriotic, might occupy the stations which they disgraced.

  32. Now, by comparison it will be seen that at both dates there were sixteen tates in the bailebiatagh, and that the holders were evidently blood relations.

  33. The villani were holders of virgates, &c.

  34. Sometimes the services are to be performed with one or two labourers, showing that the cottier tenants were labourers under the holders of virgates, or indicating possibly in some cases the remains of a slave class.

  35. The following are instances of the villein plough teams:-- The holders of 40 virgates hold 22 plough teams.

  36. The number of tenants with smaller holdings was considerably larger than the number of holders of virgates and half-virgates, but their holdings were so small that in the aggregate they held a much smaller acreage than the other class.

  37. The monasteries also at the time of Edward the Confessor were holders of many manors, often in various counties, and the Survey shows that they were generally permitted to retain them after the Conquest.

  38. The great marquee was already erected on the lawn, and many of the stall-holders were arranging their stalls and giving directions to different workmen.

  39. The marquee was full of guests, the band played cheerily, the notable people from all the country round arrived in carriages, and bought the pretty things from the different stall-holders and went away again.

  40. The stock-holders of the Federal Imp Company will be the ruling class of the world, a perpetual aristocracy; and the man with fifty-one per cent.

  41. Some big holders hung on, and they had to make the play strong.

  42. To such a length have these communist and socialist projects proceeded in Paris, that a great effort of all the holders of property was deemed indispensable to arrest them.

  43. Adams reported that the news had caused a panic among the holders of the Cotton Loan bonds and that the press and upper classes were exceedingly glad they had refused support of Roebuck's motion[1109].

  44. This to Northern view, was a sad relapse from that high moral tone earlier addressed to the South notifying slave-holders that England would not "stultify the policy of half a century for the sake of an extended cotton trade[79].

  45. Although there has been and is more or less of sympathy with the slave-holders in certain circles, they are not so powerful as to overbear the general sentiment of the people.

  46. My new master was one of the owners or holders of the salt ponds, and he received a certain sum for every slave that worked upon his premises, whether they were young or old.

  47. As a consequence of their fears, men were rushing to protect their business interests, loans were called in, collections were pressed, lenders became wary, and weak holders of stocks were forced to sell.

  48. Dey slipped and done this, for it was a law among slave-holders that a slave not be caught wid a book.

  49. Master would take them back and tell the slave-holders how to treat them so dey wouldn't run off again.

  50. De slave holders had most of de money and de land and dey wouldn't let de poor white folks have a chance to own any land or anything else to speak of.

  51. The onlooking land-holders were at first amazed and delighted.

  52. The aristocracy is a land-holding one, untrained in the responsibilities of land-holders who grow up a legitimate part of the body politic of their country.

  53. As a result of joint deliberations they resolved to make no additional charge for war risks to all their policy-holders who had, as civilians, assured and have joined the Active Forces.

  54. The Chancellor of the Exchequer replied that such a body was apt to present a conflict of large interests, and the small holders and agricultural labourers would not come forward.

  55. The absence of rain was felt early in the year, and by mid-winter it was clear that both small and large holders would suffer severely.

  56. But the liners leaving for the United States were overcrowded; even the steerage was given up to cabin passengers; berths were sold by holders at a huge premium, and a group of Americans even bought a steamer, the Viking, and charged 100l.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "holders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.