Sentences with phrase «clinging to power only»
The level of agita over the mayor's role in campaigns outside the city underscores the uncertainty over the Senate: The Republicans, who have ruled the chamber for most of past 50 years, are clinging to power only by dint of an alliance with a Democrat, Simcha Felder of Brooklyn.
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The government clung to power only by negotiating a «confidence and supply» agreement with the 10 MPs from the Northern Ireland Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), at a reputed minimum cost of a # 1bn «bung» for public spending there.
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The only thing that I can cling to is the power of Christ in me and even then at times I have found myself backtracking to find where I have left his presence again.
There is not a more hypocritical or repulsive group than those who are not only so distressed by people accepting what they view as nothing more than a fairy tale, but who reject a higher power for lack of proof, only to cling (defacto) to the idea that everything came into existence without any sort of guidance, intent, or intelligence behind it.
Of course, the connection is back to point 1 above, that a LibDem surge now seems to be the only way for Labour to cling on to power.