Example sentences of "[vb mod] hold out for " in BNC.
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1 | Having realised how crucial START 1 and NPT ratification are to the West , many Ukrainians — 90% , according to the latest opinion polls — believe their country should hold out for financial compensation ; the current price tag , described as covering the costs of dismantling the warheads , is $1 billion . |
2 | This is the issue which occupies Anne Phillips , Sylvia Walby and Michèle Barrett in particular , with a certain consensus that , after all , we must hold out for a version of modernism ( against post-modernism ) , and what Phillips calls a ‘ middle route ’ which retains its aspiration to universalism . |
3 | But I doubt he 'll hold out for the money . |
4 | ‘ She 'd hold out for a while but it would always be made up after he came back with the roses . |
5 | I debated whether to be sick or not myself , and decided that I could hold out for another half hour . |
6 | The main argument from the Corsican was that they could hold out for ever . |
7 | We can hold out for days . |