Sentences with phrase «n't keep hold of»

The wind turned the river into peaks and humps, which jostled [Pearl], which slopped her about; she couldn't keep a hold of anything... Things she loved about the river: its endlessness.

Spurs got too much joy down Arsenal's righ - hand side as Mathieu Debuchy struggled, and for a period in the second half, it felt as if Arsenal couldn't keep hold of possession.

We can't keep hold of our best players» «We have money, Wenger should have given him what he wanted»

We can't string 2 passes together when pressed, even against low opposition, can't keep hold of the ball and I really can't understand why.

There is no valid reason / excuse why we can't keep hold of Alexis, what he can get somewhere else he should be able to find at this club.

Very hard to digest this Adam and not feel as though the club are OVERPAYING some players.What I would say in the clubs defence is that we had a decade of being told the Stadium debt was holding us back.Like it or not this was the reason we either could not keep hold of players due to their wage demands or could not compete to buy the quality players when up against the bigger clubs not restricted by finances.

I know this may sound a little crazy but if there were no defender's available then why not keep a hold of Vermaelen and Jenkinson???

Mentality comes from success, Not buying 80 mil players is not a failure, but not filling the holes in the squad with required players and the tactical drawbacks and not keeping hold of the youngster we grew and breed is..

United had the chance to create something with Burkart on the ball, he then passed to Puigmal, who could not keep hold of the ball with City regaining possession and pressing United.

I have learned to release anything that I can not keep hold of.

Not exact matches

«Look, I'm not saying we can't keep rallying here,... but here's what worries me: what if all we do is hold, then bounce, then sell - off again before yet another retest of the lows?»

The central message of Diebert's stark - and - sometimes - grim book, and the Citizen Lab in general, is that tabs must be kept on those who hold power so that they do not abuse it through technological means.

Brendan Kennedy, the cofounder of Privateer Holdings, which owns various marijuana companies like Marley Natural and Canadian pharmaceutical - grade cannabis producer Tilray, says his companies are expanding abroad while the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Food and Drug Administration debate whether or not to treat the plant as a medicine or keep it in the same category as heroin.

Your focus is what will keep you from succumbing to pressure, so hold onto your goals and don't lose sight of them.

Emotional intelligence doesn't just make you aware of your emotions; it equips you with strategies for keeping them from holding you back.

Personally, I don't hold to the idea that as a veteran you need to maintain the same level of fitness you had when you were in, but an easy way to keep from packing on the pounds is to either a) keep working out, or b) just cut down on the late night Domino's and 12 - packs of light beer.

VIOV does nt charge the lowest fee of the trio, but it tracks the index closely, keeping realized holding costs down.

One example of this process, confusingly, might even be the United States in the 1920s, as Marriner Eccles (the brilliant Federal Reserve chairman under then - president Franklin D. Roosevelt) explained endlessly to an uncomprehending elite: if all the chips at the poker table are held by the same few players, the only way the rest can keep playing with them is to borrow chips, even though in the end they will not be able to repay the loans.

Being able to tell the difference between a legitimate business expense and one that doesn't really hold water not only saves you money, it's also important for keeping you out of the sights of the IRS.

Either it means that other members of his party — the finance minister, who is against the referendum — will come in and not hold a referendum at all, and try to keep Greece on the austerity plan, or there will be a fall in the government, a no - confidence vote, and people will presumably vote for the Conservative Party, which is very much like the Republican Party in the United States.

Their managers sell losing securities, match up losses and gains, hold stocks at least a year so that their gains count as long - term, choose stocks that don't produce a lot of taxable dividends, and try to keep taxable transactions low.

Investing in pieces of companies through the stock market as well as wholly owned subsidiaries using value investment methods; Buying old economy industries; Purchasing with the intention to keep not trade; Focusing on durable competitive advantages; Centralizing capital and reallocating to highest and best use; Being paid (with float) to hold capital to invest

You won't see a rise in the value of your holdings with cash during a recession and if you're keeping it in fixed term accounts then it will be adversely affected by rate rises, same as bonds.

Keep enough of an eyeball on your retirement accounts to ensure you don't consciously, or unconsciously, end up holding too much cash.

The Fed is thus able to reward non-banks for holding (instead of lending or investing) cash, despite the fact that they can't keep interest - bearing balances with it.

Also, users do not technically hold the Bitcoin they purchase through the app themselves, as Square plans to keep safe all bitcoins on behalf of its customers.

This is not about mindlessly holding an entire position indefinitely for «the long term,» but rather keeping in mind that the potential gain could be all out of proportion to what we now think is possible... and acting accordingly.

In a floor system, banks are kept flush with excess reserves, and monetary control is exercised, not be adjusting the quantity of reserves so as to achieve a particular equilibrium federal funds rate, but by manipulating the interest rate the Fed pays on banks» required and excess reserves holdings, alone or along with the Fed's overnight reverse - repo (ON - RRP) rate.

I spend some of my time keeping an eye on the positions I'm holding, to make sure the algorithms don't run off and do something unreasonable.

«Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self - abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind and not holding fast to the head, Christ, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments, grows with a growth which is from God.»

I'm more interested in people taking responsibility for their own actions (a rape victim shouldn't be held responsible for the actions of her rapist, and so should have the choice to abort or keep.

The old alliance between sensible LIBERTARIANISM and SOCIAL CONSERVATISM can't hold in the face of the vanishing middle class, the birth dearth combined with increasing longevity, the depoliticizing challenges of the 21st competitive marketplace, the irresponsibility of our techno - meritocracy, our inability to keep Locke in the Locke box on issues having to do with families and our erotic lives, and the connection between increasing individualism and growing dependency on the state summed up in the phrase «single mom.»

I don't want the gov» t to come into my home checking that I'm being a responsible adult... In New Hampshire, where I live, there are few gun laws... one of them is you can store and keep a firearm however you want... but if a child gets a hold of it, whatever happens is on you the owner of the firearm.

You keep holding up pieces to the puzzle and telling me it does not fit with the vision you have of the picture of creation.

If they should keep it in the museum I feel like it shouldn't be a «center piece» but more or less as a reminder to those who held it as a sign of hope in those days.

You can not hold the position that we should keep the status quo of letting people sell whatever giant clips and assault weapons to whoever they want whenever they want can you?

Whether their assessment of the Eastern position is correct is debatable, as it is also whether continence was universal (northern European Councils had to keep on enforcing this, and the protests of the East also suggest that they did not hold it as an apostolic essential).

So, I have to wonder why these Bishops want to keep holding onto their medieval «beliefs» when they know the majority of their followers don't.

Not only Popes but councils have held St. Thomas in singular honour, with the Council of Trent even keeping a copy of the Summao n the altar along with the scriptures and the decrees of the Popes, to consult for enlightenment.

It's not about keeping hold of our sacred cows and our love of a law we can't keep.

If someone can not further explain an answer without being accused of attempting to change their «wrong» answer (in your view) without admitting mistake then I guess you hold people to an impossibly high standard and as you say «one that you can not keep yourself.»

For me there's something inside me that I hold to be true and I will keep it true, while the rest of the world seems to spinning out of control I will remain true to the truth and allow every one else to be where they are with this of belief or none belief but I will without hate or malice vote my truth not the way of the day.

Toward my belief system, religion is a personal belief and should not be a sociable consideration... Anyone's beliefs upon religious conjuring séances should be held personally and not be centered by any socialism of the religiously clairvoyant which tends to conjure their weekly seminary séances upon the weakly enamored folks ever forsaking the doctrines oaths... Emotionalisms are where religious circles are deemed rented and the renters pay steeply for a yarn's worth... Therefore keeps one's faith separated from religious teamsters who take and never give their folded flocks any causally rational explanations as to why there are reportedly many more of God's many sons then what Christendom so portends there to be...

Toward my belief system, religion is a personal belief and should not be a sociable consideration... Anyone's beliefs upon religious conjuring séances should be held personally and not be centered by any socialism of the religiously clairvoyant which tends to conjure their weekly seminary séances upon the weakly enamored folks ever forsaking the doctrines oaths... Emotionalisms are where religious circles are deemed rented and the renters pay steeply for a yarn's worth... Therefore keep one's faith separated from religious teamsters who take and never give their folded flocks any causally rational explanations as to why there are reportedly many more of God's many sons then what Christendom so potentially claims there to be...

For thus says the LORD, «To the eunuchs who keep My sabbaths, And choose what pleases Me, And hold fast My covenant, To them I will give in My house and within My walls a memorial, And a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name which will not be cut off.

I think it can — I think we hold to keeping the scriptures at their best intent — and we don't need to call someone an «apostate» or «hellian» or go into name calling over something none of us have the right to do (ie: hate our neighbor).

«I have fallen on my knees with great regularity since that moment — asking God for guidance not just in my personal life and my Christian walk, but in the life of this nation and in the values that hold us together and keep us strong,» he said.

tradition hard to break.the tradition of marriage is older and more meaningful than any other we know it crosses all religions and non religions, and races and cultures.it won't change easy.calling it something else for some people may make it easier to change.but what about those people who want that time tested tradition for themselves for their own self worth.it is a civil right give it to them today.this issues has divided my community as much as any other, but as we have fought to gain right after right, we have lost sight that all deserve the right of freedom of happiness.No gayness here, just can't fight the battle to keep someone down after being held down

I have a lot of trouble requiring others to keep to do certain things or hold to certain standards that I'm not willing to hold myself, so in the places where I don't measure up, I don't have any trouble admitting it.

Fortunately the Founding Fathers were wise enough to insist on our freedom to pray to whatever God helps us keep our lives in some kind of perspective but at the same time insist on there being something that we hold true above all else that we don't create.