You just want to cling onto this.

I tried to hold on to her.

Don't need to stick to it, just in here.

Don't kick the stones. You stop grabbing my leg.

Sustaining the American Dream has never been about standing pat.

For both men, the goal of clinging to power was a top priority.

And if anyone should be clinging to the former glory of the coal mining history, and of the town, it should be Judy.

But blindly sticking to principle would have been a highly risky option for the ECB.

And it would be a catastrophe if the recovery were derailed by excessive devotion to anti inflation shibboleths, much as some central banks were excessively devoted to the gold standard during the 1920 s and 1930 s.

The goal of clinging to power remains the priority, and risk aversion the main guideline.

Instead of clinging to general principles that have been enunciated a thousand times, we must look for new ideas, new and concrete ideas.

And if anyone should be clinging to the former glory of the coal mining history, and of the town, it should be Judy.

By that, the Buddha did not mean stupidity he meant clinging to the illusion that life is static and predictable.

Any more than I could bring the spring weather before its time or keep the winter from clinging to the earth.

A dictator who has shown no concern for his people might actually prove quite talented at clinging to power.

It can cling to office, as José Zapatero is doing in Spain and Gordon Brown is doing in the UK.

Chen s record suggests he will hang on to his failed presidency. He will use his legal training to fight on technicalities.

So long as the façade holds, Russians will continue to cling to Putin s illusion of power.

The press agencies have been called upon by national and international observers to adhere to a policy of avoiding incitement to hatred, intolerance and xenophobia.

The NPT is not a license for the five original nuclear powers to cling to these weapons indefinitely.

But the Bank of England s direct intervention prevented these images from gaining a foothold on our collective psychology.

A breakthrough appears to be at hand, though all the parties still seem to be clinging to their traditional positions.

Now, after the third round in Moscow, they are holding on by not much more than their fingernails.

And now that you ve acknowledged history, stop holding on to it as if electricity were running through it, as if your hand can t let go.

Nothing like this existed in China, where there was one monolithic state covering a fifth of humanity, and anyone with any ambition had to pass one standardized examination, which took three days and was very difficult and involved memorizing vast numbers of characters and very complex Confucian essay writing.

As most of the world knows, America s quest to maintain its claim to the title of greatness, has, of late, also been elusive.

Clinging to the hope that it is all chance, and all natural, seems naive.

In that case, Raúl may seek to cling grimly to the fossilized system that he helped build and maintain with such brutality.

The main uncertainty in life the destination of one s immortal soul nudges one toward morality.

In this context, the persistence of racial policies adopted by certain groups constitutes a serious threat to the efforts that have been made to lay the foundations for national reconciliation.

A president s modernizing vision degenerated into a dictator s power driven myopia.

Opposition to globalization and market forces has often been the preferred way of trying to hang on to an idealized view of what life used to be like.

Arguably the most damaging is to stick to a successful growth strategy (a combination of comparative advantage and supportive policies) for too long.

True, faced with the choice of keeping the constitutional name of their country or compromising with Greece for the benefit of joining the Union, Macedonians are sticking to their guns.

Today, it sounds old fashioned to describe the university s purpose as being to cultivate people, as if it were a glorified finishing school.

Second, the bloody 1959 revolution in Rwanda, a country mirroring Burundi's ethnic and social structure, induced Burundi's Tutsi to cling even more tightly to power.

Brussels There is no more depressing sight in politics than a leader who, desperate to cling to power, ruins his country in the process.

Never mind that this logic is now in danger of unraveling along with the US housing market Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson will stick to it.

They were indeed a queer looking party that assembled on the bank the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable.

Many families now face stagnating wages, owing to the kinds of jobs now available, but are determined to cling to a lifestyle that they can no longer afford.

I want you to say, or I want you to convey, that you are going to die if you have to, with your very last breath, with your fingernails scratching as they drag you out.

Rather than continuing to adhere to policies that do more harm than good, policymakers should consider a new approach one that actually contributes to their countries social and economic progress.

I want you to say or I want you to convey that you are going to die if you have to, with your very last breath, your fingernails scratching as they draw you out.

Much of the fiscal stimulus to consumers causes companies to hang onto employees a little longer rather than to release them to export and import competing industries that are expanding.

So the government will prefer to muddle through the crisis, rather than risk any decisive reform. The goal of clinging to power remains the priority, and risk aversion the main guideline.