Sentences with 'holder'
Example sentences and phrases with the word holder and other words derived from it.
• « The central idea of absolutism was that the king or queen was, firstly, the holder of (theoretically) absolute political power within the realm and, secondly, that all action by the monarch was to be taken in the name of preserving and guaranteeing the rights and privileges of his or her subjects, including occasionally even the peasants. »
• « A university degree does not guarantee that its holder is already an educated man. On the contrary: it means that for the graduate the door has been opened to a state of perpetual ignorance and thus to a lifelong hunger: hunger for more ideas, for more knowledge, for more good thoughts, for more challenges, for more of all this. »
• « Albert Camus, the French philosopher and writer, described him as follows: "The Devil, elegant, distinguished, wears a dinner jacket and smokes blond cigarettes in a gold cigarette holder". »