Example sentences of "hold [adv prt] against " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only Rugby Union holds out against the commercial tide despite widespread speculation about covert payments to players . |
| 2 | Hold the tape measure loosely round the pulled back curtain and hold back against the hook . |
| 3 | The same was true of Eliot but he was luckier in one way : he could give a little here and hold out against them there . |
| 4 | Look , ’ he said , holding up against her a dress encrusted with embroidery . |
| 5 | The story is an intricate one , as Herbert Schneidau acknowledges ; and Pound 's holding out against Ford for the Dantesque principle of a ‘ curial ’ diction ( see his introduction to the poems of Lionel Johnson ) represents to my mind an objection that can still be raised to Ford 's principles of diction , salutary as Ford 's polemics undoubtedly were for Pound at this time . |
| 6 | But it is clear the Treasury is holding out against providing substantial extra central funds , arguing it has no way of being sure that extra money will go into reducing the impact of the tax , rather than into increased spending . |
| 7 | As in the lowlands , the traditional landscape has to some extent been preserved by the economic irrationality of farmers — although in the uplands it consists of their ability to hold on against all the odds rather than disavow the pursuit of maximum profits . |
| 8 | However there seems to be little of worth in the other characters to hold up against Thersites 's world view . |
| 9 | However , National Home Loans said it was ‘ virtually certain' it could hold out against a rise until Christmas . |
| 10 | Among the speakers who had convinced the Bosnian Serbs that they must hold out against the world was a guest of honour , a painter called Milic Od Macve . |
| 11 | If you just try to defend and hold out against them , it wears you down . |
| 12 | If everyone who agreed with us wrote to his or her MP , no government could hold out against us ! |
| 13 | It was four years ago , and that was when it was clear that they could n't hold out against comprehensivization any longer . |
| 14 | This was followed by an interview between the President and Von Papen : and I can not help thinking that , during their conversation together , the former must have assured the latter that , so long as she could hold out against Allied demands , Turkey would abstain from hostile action towards Germany . |
| 15 | She glanced nervously at the windows , wondering how they 'd hold out against fiercer gusts than those already battering the house . |
| 16 | You can not will yourself to hold out against reality . |
| 17 | Do it when times are bad and that is an excuse for those whose jobs are threatened to pin the blame upon — and to hold out against — the proposed innovation . |
| 18 | I was never sure about their ability to hold out against physically stronger packs , but they have proved me wrong time and again with Paul Arnold and Richard Moriarty back to their best . |
| 19 | Despite an obvious desire to hold out against its bigger competitors , Phillips have been forced to give in on the issue of increased buyers ' premium . |
| 20 | It was a strongly-built castle on an excellent defensive site and the garrison of thirty knights was able to hold out against Richard 's artillery train for nearly two months , but eventually its lord , Arnald de Boville , was forced to capitulate . |
| 21 | An example of her power : scared as he was , the boy Nikolai had managed to hold out against telling them of her destination until it was too late for them to prevent her from reaching it . |
| 22 | All they have to do is to hold out against substandard systems and apply pragmatic criteria in the face of technical jargon . |
| 23 | On Oct. 8 the United Kingdom had entered the exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) of the European monetary system of the European Communities ( EC ) , but at the subsequent European Council meeting in Rome Thatcher had been isolated in her opposition to an early move towards the second stage of economic and monetary union ( EMU ) and in the strength of her determination to hold out against the possible ultimate introduction of a single European currency [ see pp. 37782-73 ] . |
| 24 | The pro-Gamsakhurdia forces , who organized strikes and demonstrations and a media and transportation blockade of the East , were demoralized by their leader 's failure to make further public appearances , and ultimately lacked the necessary firepower to hold out against superior forces . |
| 25 | France was virtually the only kingdom of central Europe to hold out against papal influence . |
| 26 | There has been much conjecture about a lack of motivation at lower levels in the Iraqi formations , as contrasted with that displayed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards , or Pasdaran , whose commitment and capacity to hold out against Iraqi superiority in equipment were important features of the war 's early years . |
| 27 | Handsome , confident , knowing exactly what he wanted , and what she ought to want , it had been hard — no , virtually impossible in her depressed state — to hold out against him . |
| 28 | But still she doubted her ability to hold out against him . |
| 29 | Further preparation of collections of calcareous and phosphatic shelly Cambrian fossils may well produce dividends , and such disarticulated remains that are etched out of the rock should be held up against articulated scleritomes , either actual or hypothesized . |
| 30 | Like death he looked , with a handkerchief held up against his face all bloodied , and his black eyes glaring over the top of it . |