hold to

1. Remain loyal or faithful to, abide by, as in She held to her resolutions, or He held to his view that the interest rate should be lowered. [c. 1200] Also see stick by; stick to.

Example Sentences

“And now that Hopwood has spent £1 million and volunteers are getting the grounds and interior into shape, the RBC wants it back and is claiming that Hopwood didn’t hold to his plan.”

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That’s unusual: Wall Street typically moves one notch at a time, from Buy to Hold or from Hold to Sell, and vice versa.

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It also carefully selects the sites it is willing to finance and hold to ensure it could sell them if necessary.

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The second and biggest part of the plan—which includes a proposed change in how much capital UBS’s parent bank is required to hold to cover its foreign subsidiaries—is subject to a separate consultation that began last week, and could face a longer legislative process.

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The Coventry South MP said that they were "baseless attacks on my character are politically-motivated and I intend to hold to account those responsible for making them".

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