Sentences with phrase «of holding on»

His majority over Ms Ewing then was just 688, making this the second closest marginal in Scotland, but he's happy to remind people of the result when I ask him to assess his chances of holding on this time around.

Even then, MacLeod only had a majority of less than 2,000 votes to defend, but came within 400 votes of holding on.

Bradshaw has a decent chance of holding on, despite the national polls.

Any slim hopes the Tories had of holding on to the seat may disappear as a result of this latest development, which Nigel Farage has already described as a «humiliation» for Cameron.

Those emails — along with constant in - person donor - stroking by President Obama, his wife and other Democratic Names — pay for the TV ads and the grassroots organizing that give Dems their only real hope of holding on to the Senate... and perhaps beating expectations in the House.

Romania, who conceded the fewest goals (two) in qualifying looked more than capable of holding on for a draw, until Payet's late strike.

A couple of neat touches, intricate ball movements in the box, but also showed his usual weakness of holding on to the ball far more than what was needed.

It's a worrying time for Chelsea as the Sun also linked Hazard with Manchester United, though the west Londoners generally have a strong record of holding on to their best players.

According to a Daily Star report, Ronald Koeman has suffered a major blow in his hopes of holding on to his star player, as the 25 - year old has rejected the offer of a new contract with his current club.

Instead of holding on to a 4 - 0 lead and heading home with a commanding 3 - 2 series lead, Kershaw finished the game with an ugly line that will continue to haunt his playoff reputation unless they can string together back - to - back wins.

This could see Kane move to United instead as Tottenham surely stand little chance of holding on to their goal machine for much longer after another outstanding campaign.

Walcott is a prime example of holding on to players too long and overpaying them which in turn creates a wage issue and therefore the chaos that is Arsenal today.

A few games ago, the south coast club had a much better chance of holding on to the Frenchman as they had a realistic chance of a trophy and place in the EPL table high enough to see them in Europe next season.

Wenger has a history of holding on to players but not playing them much.

Chelsea don't tend to bow to pressure to sell their stars to big clubs, so should be reasonably confident of holding on to Alonso, even if Barcelona can be very persuasive.

The best players are player who are capable of holding on to the ball without running with it.

He has a habbit of holding on to players he loves even poor form.

Jasenn and Morata still up for grabs too and we can even test Dortmund's resolve of holding on to Auba with a bumper offer.

Liverpool fans will certainly hope so, but the Merseyside giants don't exactly have the best recent record of holding on to their star names when elite European sides come calling.

Rather than leave a blathering comment on the useless nature of religion, you may want to consider the ultimate ends of holding on to a belief system (assuming atheism here) that can not sufficiently explain where meaning, purpose or value (ethical right and wrong) could come from.

This theological tradition was able to portray a striking and even heroic faith, a sort of holding on by the fingernails to the cliff of faith, a standing terrified before the enemy - God, present to man as terror or threat, comforting only in that he kept us from the worse terrors of life without him.

It is utter exhaustion of holding on to here.

The other reaction, which is characteristic of Stanley Hauerwas, John Howard Yoder, Michael Baxter, and a host of Christian pacifists, is to point out the incoherence or even hypocrisy of holding on the one hand that we should be merciful and forgiving towards all men everywhere, and on the other that the U.S. is justified in its war on terrorism.

A noteworthy section is that analysing the implications of holding on to the conviction of Edward Schillebeeckx that «extra mundum nulla salus,» pp. 113 - 117.

But despite intellectual challenges, issues in his personal life and emotional swings, Lewis is ultimately remembered for his writings on faith: Even when it meant putting aside momentary feelings of uncertainty: «Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods... That is why Faith is such a necessary virtue: unless you teach your moods «where they get off,» you can never be either a sound Christian or even a sound atheist.»

I, again, state that it takes someone willing to learn and grow and be big about it, instead of holding on to their beliefs at all costs

If one pierces beneath the veneer of pop - cartesianism the old way of holding on to what is important and desiring for wholeness in even an infinite can make itself shown.

We see the consequences of this quite regularly at the Cardinal Winning Pro-Life Initiative when women in crisis pregnancies weigh up the benefits of keeping their unborn child with that of holding on to a second car or a Sky box.

That is an unfortunate way of holding on to the past, and specifically to the last remnants of a particular kind of a call.

Feldman's piece sparked responses from virtually every major Jewish notable and brought to the fore the challenges of holding on to the sacrosanct concept of Jewish peoplehood in an age of intermarriage.

Hauerwas and the other essayists are on firmer ground when they write of the importance of holding on to the Christian story, which gives meaning to individual stories and provides «rich resources to make possible friendship between the elderly and, perhaps most important, becoming and remaining friends with ourselves as we age.»

I am going onto almost 6 years of investing with 3 - 4 real years and I'm starting to see the dramatic effect of holding on to strong companies.

When banks and other private - market intermediaries acquire base money, they do so, not for the sake of holding on to it, as they might were they mere warehouses, but in order to lend or otherwise invest it.

Clearly, AT&T has done a much better job of holding on to its iPhone customers than was expected.

The company is accused of holding on to the data after Facebook asked it to delete the files.

And if you feel too slippery to hold on to, hold on to the idea of holding on to yourself.»

«You need to let go instead of holding on so tightly,» says Mathile in the book.

Many companies make the mistake of holding on to control from headquarters, even though people there may lack the experience or ability to manage a remote operation.

Why do so few of us take a flexible, nimble approach to unfamiliar challenges while the rest of us hold on to outdated or incremental solutions?

If the results from ESPN (which is traditionally seen as almost immune to market forces, because of its hold on sports programming) got the market nervous about cord - cutting and the loss of traditional TV subscribers, Thursday's comments from Sanford Bernstein analyst Todd Juenger poured gasoline on those fears.

Mutual funds, for example, have to determine the value of their holdings on a daily basis.

Furthermore, hedge funds in particular may have highly tactical investments along with less frequent and less stringent reporting requirements which does not provide investors with a picture of holdings on any given day

Picked up one of the holdings on my watch list and further capitalized on the selloff of anything steel or aluminum related thanks to President Trump's hint at a tariff or reciprocal tax.

That there is a gaiety, an absence of alienation, a vigorous and contagious hope at the center of this movement is obvious and this optimism is the main source of its hold on the conscience of America, particularly young America.

A big club first of all holds on to its big players and gives a message out to all the other big clubs they just can not come in and take them away from you.

-- Gabor Maté, M.D., co-author of Hold On To Your Kids: Why Parents Need To Matter More Than Peers

Tinubu rose to the position of real influence and prominence because of his hold on Lagos politics and the roles he played in breaking the dominance of the Peoples Democratic Party in Oyo, Ogun, Osun and Ekiti states as the leader of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria.

Not exact matches

''... Because we can't hold public stock as a fund, it's sort of a bummer for me when the company goes public, because then it moves on to someone else's plate and we don't hold the stake in it.»

She, along with several of her classmates, have held gun control rallies in their Florida community and called on government officials to act now to prevent future mass shootings from taking place.

With today's pace of change, businesses can't afford to hold on to outdated management structures and workplaces.