Sentences with phrase «final holdouts»
The phrase "final holdouts" means the last people or things that persist or resist change when everyone else has already given in or changed their position. Full definition
Everyone now loves the US stock market bull and utterly detests the ugly image of the gold stocks in the fun house mirror as the public has finally decided to run with the aging US stock bull and the final holdouts are throwing in the towel in the precious metals.
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Some GOP senators are the final holdouts on the bill that would extend the statute of limitations and open up a one - year window for victims to file civil lawsuits.
Some GOP senators are the final holdouts against a bill that would extend the statute of limitations and open up a one - year window for past victims to file civil lawsuits.
Bronx Democrat Annabel Palma, who wanted the speakership herself before dropping down and backing Garodnick, was one of the final holdouts, several sources said.
Researchers have since made monolayers of metals, semimetals, insulators and more, but magnetism was the final holdout.
By the early 17th century, the final holdouts survived in the Jaktorów Forest of Poland, protected by noblemen who also liked to hunt them.
Child receives oral polio vaccine; image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / USAID The deaths this week of nine polio vaccine workers in Pakistan at the hands of gunmen indicate a threat not only to workers but also to the effort to eradicate the disease — locally and globally.Earlier this year, the international push to eradicate the crippling — and sometimes deadly — childhood disease from its final holdouts (Pakistan, Nigeria and Afghanistan) was still in full force.
We can't get rid of Science, you'll hear the final holdouts yelling as the National Guard uses bolt cutters to free them from whatever they've chained themselves to, because only Science has the Scientific Method!
Planning to change the mining culture by turning the mountain into an open pit excavation, the corporation tries to convince the final holdouts to sell, and the community to move the town to a safer location (the old - fashioned mining techniques have left the area prone to landslides and other dangerous conditions).
Plastic has quickly fallen out of favor, and while LG was seemingly the final holdout in this regard, the company has finally given in to the trend this year with the LG G5.