Goldstone has urged Israel to hold an independent investigation of the Gaza offensive.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

They still hold gold and right now the Federal Reserve System has about eleven billion dollars of gold.

他们仍然持有金子,并且现在，联邦储备系统拥有价值,一百一十亿美元的金子。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The answer is that he can, and actually does, hold property in his fellow, all over the world, in a variety of forms, and has always done so."

但是事实上他可以,他完全有权利,把他的奴隶当作财产,甚至在全世界范围,不管以何种形式,他一直是那么做的

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The property company has been hard hit by the global financial and real estate crises, putting on hold many of the grandiose projects for which Dubai has gained fame.

VOA: standard.2009.11.30

They have a formula that defines how much Tier I and Tier II capital a bank has to hold and the amount depends on the risk class of their investments.

有一个公式可以计算出,一个银行到底需要持有多少一级和二级资本,其数量取决于他们投资项目的风险等级

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Those who have managed to get hold of tickets have no doubts it will be an unforgettable match, like this Spanish fan who has high hopes his team will win.

VOA: standard.2009.05.26

It's - a suture or a stitch has to hold the wound closed so it has to have certain mechanical strength and imagine the problem of making something that's dissolvable so it disappears but also is strong enough to hold a wound closed reliably for a length of time.

能够拉紧切口的缝合线,就必须具有一定的机械张力,大家想像一下制造这种缝合线的难度,身体组织不仅要能吸收这种缝合线,而且这种线必须有足够的张力,一定时间内能够拉紧切口

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To do this, Pelosi has to try to hold on to the Democrats' current majority in the House of Representatives when the entire House is up for re-election this November.

VOA: standard.2010.05.11

But the decision to hold most of the exercise in Kitgum has raised questions as to whether Natural Fire 10 is part of preparations for a renewed military effort against the Ugandan rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

The effort has been to squeeze the Taliban out of certain areas and the challenge now is to hold those areas and maintain dominance of those areas that is surely what the whole operation has been, has been all about,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.27

Kaitlin Horst is the cemetery's spokeswoman. "As Americans, I think we have a sense of pride, pride in our country, pride in what we stand for and we also have a sense of pride in our military - what our military has done over the course of our nation's history, to defend the rights and freedoms that we hold dear."

VOA: standard.2010.05.26