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  • My unmarried survey respondents seem to understand that friendship is the basis of a good marriage even as they hold out for chemistry and thunderbolts and soulmates.
  • The pressure has now reached such a pitch that White can no longer hold out in the centre, but must declare his intentions. Times, Sunday Times
  • The doctors did not hold out much hope for her recovery.
  • The pair maintained their concentration and composure throughout the various interruptions for drizzle and bad light to hold out. The Sun
  • I can't hold out ( ie retain my urine ) much longer; I must find a toilet.
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  • It appears that the charismatic Parker's first contribution is to hypnotise Zuckerberg, his second to marginalise Saverin, his third to hold out the prospect of big hedge-fund money, and the fourth to suggest shortening the title to "Facebook". The Social Network – review
  • Few people hold out any hope of finding more survivors.
  • Scotland will need industrious and intelligent defensive work to hold out against these giants. Times, Sunday Times
  • “We thought about erecting a few more buildings, adding more space for berthing and labs, but we decided we could hold out until it was time to move.” Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony
  • With the imperial household out of the way, the Senate enfeebled by dissension and apathy, the civil service terror-stricken, and the military under flabby command, the throne seemed well within Faustinus's grasp.
  • I don't hold out much hope for a dialogue with people who go in wholeheartedly for the rapture stories. November 2004
  • The parley, so far as Raoul was concerned, proved fruitless, and he went back into his own lines convinced that the men on the Big Rock could hold out for years, though he would have been swiftly unconvinced could he have observed Tehaa and the Raiateans, the moment his back was turned and he was out of sight, crawling over the rocks and sucking and crunching the scraps his dog had left uneaten. THE DEVILS OF FUATINO
  • But that ablative armor of your's isn't going hold out under this punishment.
  • An easier option would be to hold out for a white knight, but that would require yet another costly restructuring. Times, Sunday Times
  • He would then hold out his gold-headed malacca cane to be taken from him, and slightly spread his hands, gloved in bright wash-leather, to indicate that his coat, blue, lined with squirrel and collared with astrakhan, should be removed. On Forsyte 'Change
  • New rapid methods of drug screening hold out the promise of much faster identification of novel antimalarials in the longer term.
  • BERG: Yes, well, I don't believe that scenario because every time that news of new atrocities committed by Americans in Iraq becomes public, more and more of the every day Iraqi people who try to hold out, to try to be peaceful people, lose it and join the -- what we call the insurgency, what I call the resistance against the occupation of one sovereign nation. CNN Transcript Jun 8, 2006
  • The democratic leadership denies progressives and liberals all ammendments, liberals and progressives lay down for leadership and just go along, though they won nothing, and yet conservatives hold out and get allt hey want, and I'm suppose to be quiet? House Passes Health Care Bill 220-215
  • The far western edge of the yard held back the weeds, wild alfalfa, buckbrush and whatever else could find a toehold out there.
  • Italy is the last country to hold out against the European arrest warrant that lists 32 different crimes, including the hard-to-define one of xenophobia, that will do away what is often described as the cumbersome system of extradition. Italians block European arrest warrant
  • I hold out the can to Ethelred the Cheap, a guy who's been banned from Ye Olde Friars Club for always deducting the assize from his bill before computing his tip. At the Juvenile Bubonic Plague Telethon
  • The director, one gathers, wants a Paris Commune purified of all its difficult and perhaps unpleasant associations, a kind of utopian model to hold out to today's radical protesters.
  • Some economists hold out hope the current oil-price surge won't be as devastating as some in the past.
  • Even if some prisoners had seized their guards' weapons, as US officials and the media claim, they did not have the manpower or ammunition to hold out against the tanks, jets and the superior ground forces arrayed against them.
  • The constant practice of the churches in former ages, in all their meetings for advice and counsel, to consent unto some form of wholesome words, that might be a discriminating "tessera" [symbol] of their communion in doctrine, being used in prime antiquity, -- as is manifest in that ancient symbol commonly esteemed apostolical (of the chief heads whereof mention in the like summary is made in the very first writers among them), -- having also warrant from the word of God, and being of singular use to hold out unto all other churches of the world our apprehensions of the mind of God in the chief heads of religion, may be considered. The Sermons of John Owen
  • Bilateral agreements may hold out more promise, if only because they are easier to administer.
  • Captain Davis let us have five pairs of light bluchers out of the ship's stores, and we reckoned that these with extra soles and a few hobnails would hold out till August or September, when a sealing vessel was expected. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
  • Although this scoreline flattered the Seasiders, there was a fair chance that they could hold out for the next 34 minutes.
  • They won't be able to hold out much longer under this sort of bombardment.
  • Also while there is possibly a game to made about high level peace concords (press x to concede demands for territory. o to hold out for arms concessions) these are FPS, & therefore shooting kind of goes with the territory.
  • But other early monastic texts hold out the hope of a different, nonviolent, world, one that restores the prelapsarian harmony between human beings and animals.
  • Attention, ancon joint does not get prolapse, antebrachium is become " one " glyph, hold out a bosom to look up, cooperate deep breathing.
  • Ballina responded, but were repelled by a resolute defence to hold out for a hard-earned victory.
  • The rescue team hoped the men on the boat could hold out till they arrived.
  • Hold out an olive branch. The Sun
  • At the same time, to clear his way, and the better to enable him to take a good mark, he gave James Batter a shove, that made him stoiter against the wall, and snacked the good new farthing tobacco-pipe, that James was taking his first whiff out of; crying, at the same blessed moment -- "Hold out o 'my road, ye long withered wabster. The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
  • The director, one gathers, wants a Paris Commune purified of all its difficult and perhaps unpleasant associations, a kind of utopian model to hold out to today's radical protesters.
  • To allow buildings to fall into such a state of disrepair that the council has to hold out its begging bowl is beyond belief.
  • The fuel cell cars featured in this issue hold out the tantalizing prospect of eliminating the automotive tailpipe, replacing smog-causing emissions with the drip of clean water.
  • Hold out your hands with your palms facing downwards.
  • She knew her crew was getting tired and restless, and the supplies wouldn't hold out forever.
  • The only sound was the occasional creak of the weathered ropes straining to hold out weight.
  • To hold out a little longer means the victory of the battle when it comes to head out.
  • Hold out their hand and people put money in it? The Sun
  • Hold out one arm, say the left, straight in front at shoulder level; holding the ball in the right hand, swing the right arm outward in a full circle; toss the ball upward from under the outstretched arm, and catch with the hand that threw, palm _outward_. Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium
  • The cap is then sent round for contributions towards a further instalment of the foundation of conviviality, which is fetched from the canteen or the sergeant's mess; and another and yet another supply is sent for, as long as the funds hold out and somebody keeps sober enough to act as Ganymede. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places
  • The pair maintained their concentration and composure throughout the various interruptions for drizzle and bad light to hold out. The Sun
  • The long post-war boom seemed to hold out the prospect of former colonies industrialising and catching up with their former masters.
  • I hold out hope that our response will be measured and set a better example than previously.
  • Utopias hold out for a vision of the future - a vision of how society ought to be.
  • England was an ally and they couldn't hold out for too much longer if the Jerries kept up the relentless bombing.
  • Sweden would somehow hold out without him, but when he returned in 1714 to renew his obsessive campaigns his officers would assassinate him to end the nation's suffering.
  • Brodlieians continued to attack but Pocklington dug deep to hold out and preserve their unbeaten record.
  • I hold out the can to Ethelred the Cheap, a guy who's been banned from Ye Olde Friars Club for always deducting the assize from his bill before computing his tip. At the Juvenile Bubonic Plague Telethon
  • Hold out your arms, smile and breathe your new fantastic life with HOUSEMATE.
  • Every era has its utopian movements that hold out the promise of social perfectability.
  • I don't hold out much hope of finding a buyer.
  • The pawpaw didn't hold out both hands and I took the grapefruit, which had more pith on it than an Oscar Wilde aphorism. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
  • Wales did indeed hold out against France. Times, Sunday Times
  • You can recharge the Coleman Sentinel in any household outlet, or when the power is out, just crank the handle.
  • I've got a surprise for you! Shut your eyes tightly and hold out your hand.
  • He tried to hold out for higher paying by rejecting signature to the contract.
  • In this allocution the pope expressly distinguishes between true and false civilization, and declares that history witnesses to the fact that the Holy See has always been the protector and patron of all genuine civilization; and he affirms that, if a system designed to de-Christianize the world be called a system of progress and civilization, he can never hold out the hand of peace to such a system. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
  • An easier option would be to hold out for a white knight, but that would require yet another costly restructuring. Times, Sunday Times
  • Scotland will need industrious and intelligent defensive work to hold out against these giants. Times, Sunday Times
  • As the President said in his inaugural address, we will hold out our hand-they have to unclench their fist.
  • When the Reclusiarch passed back again, each initiate must hold out his middle finger, pointing stiffly forward from his fist.
  • When the Reclusiarch passed back again, each initiate must hold out his middle finger, pointing stiffly forward from his fist.
  • When trainer M.E. Hampton had me hold out my hands and repeatedly flick my fingers to get Naya to "vocalize," I nearly squealed with delight. DailyHerald.com > News
  • Most with-profits policies hold out the prospect of a terminal bonus, but this is discretionary and only paid where justified by investment performance. Times, Sunday Times
  • As long as the Confederacy held the breadbasket of the Shenandoah Valley, the cattle herds of Florida, and the cities of Atlanta and Richmond, they were in reasonable shape to hold out through election day.
  • I don't hold out much hope of finding a buyer.
  • He tried to hold out for higher paying by rejecting signature to the contract.
  • Two Latvian anarchists hold out for seven hours in a gun battle with more than 200 armed police following a botched robbery at a jeweller's shop in Houndsditch.1912 Sylvia Pankhurst, left, forms the East London Federation of Suffragettes1915 Aerial bombing comes to London with a Zeppelin raid dropping incendiaries on Shoreditch, Spitalfields, Stepney, Stratford and Leytonstone1936 The battle of Cable Street. How power, money and art are shifting to the East End
  • Do not flatter yourselves that you should hold out; there are secret lusts that lie lurking in your hearts, which perhaps now stir not, which, as soon as any temptation befalls you, will rise, tumultuate, cry, disquiet, seduce, and never give over until they are either killed or satisfied. Of Temptation
  • The pawpaw didn't hold out both hands and I took the grapefruit, which had more pith on it than an Oscar Wilde aphorism. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
  • Can the plaintiff hold out, or can we starve her out?
  • Roadmaps" and "peace processes" which hold out the possibility (indeed, the likelihood) of near-term statehood tell the Palestinians that terrorism succeeds and that they can reap enormous benefits while continuing to work toward Israel's demise. Israelated - English Israel blogs
  • My advice would be to hold out for a rent abatement of some sort.
  • He tried to hold out for higher paying by rejecting signature to the contract.
  • Fortification, or military architecture, is no other thing than an art, which teaches men to fortify themselves . . . to the end the enemy may not be able to attack . . . without great loss of his men; and that the small number of soldiers which defend the place may be able to hold out for some time. George Washington’s First War
  • I mean, you get people who blow a couple of bars on a mouth organ and then hold out their hands.
  • The pressure has now reached such a pitch that White can no longer hold out in the centre, but must declare his intentions. Times, Sunday Times
  • 'fedayeen' - whose aim is to kill as many as possible and to hold out as long as possible, knowing they will probably be killed - are now regarded by terrorist commanders as effective a weapon as the suicide bomber. Latest News Breaking News and Current News from the UK and World Telegraph
  • They won't be able to hold out much longer under this sort of bombardment.
  • They won't be able to hold out much longer under this sort of bombardment.
  • It was impossible for even the most shameless shammer of sleep to hold out any longer. The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
  • They won't be able to hold out much longer under this sort of bombardment.
  • Hold out their hand and people put money in it? The Sun
  • My style is to hold out until Good Friday, and then cram as many as possible into my diet until they disappear from the shelves or, at least, from the promotional hotspots and back into the muffin and teabread aisle. How to cook perfect hot cross buns
  • Here the high notes, mostly, and the tenuto notes, even more, hold out.
  • Without such living arrangements it would not have been possible for thousands of Messenians to hold out as suppliants in the sanctuary of Zeus on Ithome in the 460s BC until they finally obtained safe conduct to their new home at Naupactus.
  • Servers would hold out a dish of food, and we would each take a serving.
  • Two Latvian anarchists hold out for seven hours in a gun battle with more than 200 armed police following a botched robbery at a jeweller's shop in Houndsditch.1912 Sylvia Pankhurst, left, forms the East London Federation of Suffragettes1915 Aerial bombing comes to London with a Zeppelin raid dropping incendiaries on Shoreditch, Spitalfields, Stepney, Stratford and Leytonstone1936 The battle of Cable Street. How power, money and art are shifting to the East End
  • I prefer the magic of ghosts I think, they at least hold out the promise of the escape from embodiment and hitting the singularity.
  • It was over three hours until the band were on, I wasn't sure if my notoriously thimble-sized bladder would hold out that long.
  • If you just try to defend and hold out against them, it wears you down.
  • In the end, it was horribly tight and it looked as if John Emburey would hold out for the Poms, but [leg spinner] Peter Sleep got him with a grubber, with eight balls to spare.
  • Before that happened, Flinx promised himself, they would have found their way to the vast common storage room beneath the port and worked their way up to join its stalwart defenders-assuming any had managed to hold out against the attacking fanatics and provided that they did not encounter any more haustorium-firing fungi or pseudo-vexfoots along the way. Flinx In Flux
  • Personally i am still looking for a girl of this type, but im trying to hold out for tiffany lakowski Girlfriend easing into archery...suggestions
  • Yes, there is no question that Thatcher did hold out for the British rebate, famously in popular myth, going to Brussels and "handbagging" the opposition. The "handbag" ploy
  • The young man looked stricken and alarmed, jumping up quickly to hold out a hand.
  • They kept battling and could have equalised, but great goalkeeping and a goal-line clearance saw them hold out.
  • Sea cucumbers, invertebrate animals of the phylum Echinodermata, might hold out some hope for the afflicted.
  • Two Latvian anarchists hold out for seven hours in a gun battle with more than 200 armed police following a botched robbery at a jeweller's shop in Houndsditch.1912 Sylvia Pankhurst, left, forms the East London Federation of Suffragettes1915 Aerial bombing comes to London with a Zeppelin raid dropping incendiaries on Shoreditch, Spitalfields, Stepney, Stratford and Leytonstone1936 The battle of Cable Street. How power, money and art are shifting to the East End
  • Objectively, the Lefty activists who wanted to hold out for a “worthy” bill, while undoubtedly something of a demotivator for genuinely Progressive legislators, are probably the very least of the dilatory factors in getting this bill passed. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » School Uniforms
  • The home side managed to hold out for the rest of the game to record a famous victory.
  • These meetings put into practice and hold out hope for a utopia based not on economic but spiritual prosperity.
  • Lo and behold out of the surf popped a little critter, and he proceeded to waddle up the beach and then up the banking for a bit of kip.
  • The pawpaw didn't hold out both hands and I took the grapefruit, which had more pith on it than an Oscar Wilde aphorism. INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS
  • Wales did indeed hold out against France. Times, Sunday Times
  • They won't be able to hold out much longer under this sort of bombardment.
  • If you couldn't hold out the hope of being able to deal with the problem, there would be no point in therapy at all.
  • No theater could hold out against the laughter of apery at this sight. The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories
  • He tells her to hold out her hand, and he hits it several times, then makes her stand in front of the class until recess.
  • Still, many hold out hope that we're getting close and that experiments such as the newly built Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator in Geneva may finally solve the puzzle.
  • The expectant father is due to leave for home tomorrow and he's only hoping his beloved wife Marie can hold out on delivering their third child until then.
  • - This is from a survey conducted in the UK and reported on in the Bookseller: The lack of devices from Amazon and Apple could "inhibit" the UK's e-book market "in the short term", as people hold out for products by preferred manufacturers, a YouGov survey has concluded. Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • Plug-in hybrids will use larger battery packs and recharge from a household outlet for 10 to 30 miles of electric-only driving. Run Your House on a Prius | Impact Lab
  • Consumer groups still hold out hope that the president will change his mind.
  • When Topaz arrived at the residence of Lord Oswin Lovat she didn't hold out much hope of prising his purse open.
  • So I beleive that campaiging for something you believe in strongly is fantastic, but one should not hold out any expectation that it will impact on you other career. What's the Point?

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