Instead it is being framed as a last ditched attempt to hold on to power.

COPENHAGEN All over Europe, budgets are being pared as a new age of austerity takes hold.

It initially started in the 1997 98 season and played for two years before being put on hold.

It will be a Day when no human being shall be of the least avail to any other human being , God alone will hold command on that Day .

It will be a Day when no human being shall be of the least avail to any other human being , God alone will hold command on that Day .

Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!

Woe , then , betide those who disbelieved in that Day of theirs which they are being asked to hold in dread .

Woe , then , betide those who disbelieved in that Day of theirs which they are being asked to hold in dread .

They all hold swords, being expert in war every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.

And hold it there, hold it there, both of you, hold it there.

In a sense, to hold Israel to the highest standards is to pay it the compliment of being treated like a normal democracy.

However the recent initiatives by the Government and the civil society hold promise of being able to combat this menace to some extent.

These countries may not yet be full democracies, but, because they hold competitive elections, they have met a necessary condition for being a democracy.

As free market thinking has taken hold and similar reforms have proliferated, the social welfare state is being transformed into a social welfare society.

Strip farming helps to prevent mass erosion by having the roots of crops hold on to the soil to prevent it from being washed away.

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COPENHAGEN All over Europe, budgets are being pared as a new age of austerity takes hold. Defense expenditures are proving to be the easiest of targets.

But they are liable to being overturned suddenly in the face of passing bad news, because there is no firm basis of conviction to hold them steady.

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Hold on.

Now, here's the Virgin Mary made her appearance on a cheese sandwich which I got to actually hold in a Las Vegas casino, of course, this being America.

This makes populist pressure to abandon the euro correspondingly less severe the key questions, of course, being how much less severe, and whether the political center can hold.

And whosoever submits his will to God , being a good doer , has laid hold of the most firm handle and unto God is the issue of all affairs .

And whosoever submits his will to God , being a good doer , has laid hold of the most firm handle and unto God is the issue of all affairs .

All United Nations Member States therefore have a right to hold the Conference accountable for its failure to move forward on negotiations that have been identified by the international community as a whole, and to hold the Conference responsible for the resources that are being expended.

DH Please hold my wrist, will you. BF Yeah, hold this a minute.

Please hold on.

Hold this, please.

Jamal, hold on.

Hold your breath.

But, however understandable Israel s sense of being wrongfully treated might be, it should hold itself to higher standards, and avoid entrenching itself behind the walls of its own convictions.

Through regulation and administrative directives, banks, insurance companies, and pension funds are being forced to hold much higher shares of government debt than they might voluntarily choose to do.

I have a storybook on hold to write, and another on hold to be published.

They hold potluck dinners.

Hold on, I'm coming!

Don t hold your breath.

But hold the applause.

The Centrists Cannot Hold

On the key issue of being able to issue a reserve currency that investors and governments want to hold, Subramanian is correct that China has many of the prerequisites in place.

After a procedural discussion, the Board decided to hold a resumed session to finalize its agreed conclusions on agenda item 5, the indicative date for the session being 3 November 2005.