taken hold

Harris said he has seen the number of unique visitors to his website double over the past year as the recession has taken hold.

Yet despite much speechifying from banker-bashing politicians, such views do not seem to have taken hold.

"The culture of endless money that has taken hold must be replaced by a culture of savings and restraint, " he said.

However, as anyone who has wrestled with a persistent case of athlete's foot knows, it's not easy to root out a fungus once it's taken hold.

The extent to which this conventional wisdom had taken hold came out clearly in both Iran and Afghanistan.

As the young try to cling on to the vanishing old ways, a new age of conservatism has taken hold.

We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.

A year later, the talkies had taken hold, and it's fair to say they have dominated the awards ever since.

These services are all building on the collaborative consumption trend that has taken hold over the last four years.

Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it.

Legitimate or not, those concerns have taken hold across a wide swath of private companies, interviews show.

Before long, the myth that you could never have enough of the stuff had taken hold.

And in some of these economies, the slowdown that these policies were intended to produce has already visibly taken hold.

A world in which that were not true would be one in which a dangerously narrow consensus had taken hold.

Gone is the fuzzy rhetoric about co-operation to boost global growth. A more combative tone has taken hold (see article).

The idea of the autistic savant, with prodigious, sometimes jaw-dropping, talents has taken hold in popular culture.

In Brussels, the headquarters of the European project for more than five decades, a siege mentality has taken hold.

Now, the center is eerily quiet, as moves by the national government to rein in the country's once-roaring property market have taken hold.

Just recently, a heat wave of tomb raiding and archaeology has taken hold of the book market recently.

For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.

In still more distant Rome, Caesar Augustus had taken hold of the reins of government and had turned the Republic into an Empire.

By that time the Cold War had already taken hold, and the position of the U.

Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: [yet] thy commandments [are] my delights.

A young but flourishing literature of the Iranian Diaspora has finally taken hold.

In the area of criminal justice, the whole idea of less government, less intrusion, less regulation has taken hold.

The theory of relativity has taken hold in a majority of scientists.

As America's subprime-mortgage crisis has taken hold, credit conditions have suddenly tightened.

I asked Judt how such a bizarre theory could have taken hold.

'Concerns about deficits and government spending have really taken hold. '

NEAT equation governing presidential popularity has taken hold in France.

Long-established niceties of face-to-face behaviour haven't yet taken hold online and, in the absence of precedent, we have to wing it.

what's more, a La Nina effect, bringing cold water to the eastern equatorial Pacific, has taken hold.

The eurozone came late to the party, but growth has finally taken hold there too.

The complacent belief that a double-digit growth rate is India's birthright appears to have taken hold.

Later, the government introduced more moves, and this year the measures seem finally to have taken hold.

Turkey has largely escaped the Mediterranean sickness that has taken hold in Greece, Spain, Portugal and even Italy.

eg: From the Walkman to instant noodles, myriad Japanese inventions have taken hold in the West.

However, capitalism has really taken hold in Prague and the Czechs are spending like never before.

In South Korea, a reluctance to issue sell recommendations has already taken hold.

Nevertheless, many of his ideas have taken hold. Why?

The energies of duality had taken hold of you, which means that, for a long time, you have believed in the illusions it creates.

A more combative tone has taken hold (see article).

Unfortunately, such healthy scientific revolutions have not yet taken hold in economics, where ideas have solidified into dogmas.

And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

There are other possible remedies, including a constructive idea that has taken hold in Ireland.

Once an idea has taken hold of the brain, it's almost impossible to eradicate.

But as recession has taken hold, disappointment has set in.

Be taken hold of "hold" of he, have already can'ted be like just so headstrong.

The idea of suzhi has also taken hold in recent years, a wordhard to translate but usually rendered as 'population quality'.

The idea of one child only has taken hold in many Chinese families.

Now hyperinflation has taken hold.

But Islamists participate in elections in countries such as Turkey, Malaysia and Indonesia where democracy has taken hold.

E urope's recovery in the real economy has taken hold and is becoming self-sustaining.

Similar models have taken hold in Germany.

Once an idea's taken hold in the brain, it's almost impossible to eradicate.

We have seen how H1N1 has taken hold in richer nations and in the southern hemisphere.

Now the opposite fear has taken hold.

Part 5: Has your mind taken hold again, dear Professor?

Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.

Songs about a mythical alpaca-like creature have taken hold online in China.

The trial began in 2009 and has taken hold quickly.

In any case chaos has taken hold.

That is likely because the virus had already taken hold before his body produced the antibodies.

There are some things that time cannot mend some hurts that go too deep that have taken hold.

How do I want to know you are taken hold both the bounds between?

What madness taken hold of my heart,