Sentences with phrase «of holding on to»

Going by the early reception, it stands a great chance of holding on to that title right up to the last few weeks of December.

And at this exact moment, she has crossed over the threshold of holding on to any last vestige of passive innocence — hat in hand, this is her decisively leaving the nest.

And when you do that your character holds his arms wide open instead of holding on to your opponent.

In the interest, I suspect, of holding on to the film's PG - 13 rating, Forster never lingers on any of the gory details, which renders the zombies a bit, heh, toothless.

It's suggested that constipation may be a sign of holding on to old resentment, experiences, or negative emotions.

One way of holding on to your identity is to keep doing your job, even if you're officially retired.

This led one GOP insider to accuse Cuomo of holding on to the cash to pad last week's reported numbers.

Few MPs will have greeted the snap election with less enthusiasm than Catherine West, who knows her chances of holding on to this Labour - Lib Dem semi-marginal depend on fighting a hard Brexit.

My colleague Steven Morris has sent me this from Cheltenham, where the Lib Dems seem confident of holding on to their control of the council.

The bulk of its holdings are concentrated on thew Upper East Side, and it has a reputation of holding on to properties — since 2005, it has only made three sales, Real Capital Analytics data show.

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.

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.

It is utter exhaustion of holding on to here.

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.»

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?

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

It doesn't fit — How many of us hold on to things that are too small because we're holding onto losing that 10 lbs?!

It's officially spring season but the cold won't leave, so one has to still kind of hold on to the jacket.

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.

«I will say that both pursuits appeal to a sense of aesthetics and elegance, and that the self - officiated nature of Ultimate conforms to philosophies of truth and honesty which I hold as a mathematician,» writes Peter Behr, a designer who studied math, on Quora.