cling-on

Should they cling on to a slim ray of hope and wait for a miracle, or should they give up and be surprised by a miracle if it happens?

As the young try to cling on to the vanishing old ways, a new age of conservatism has taken hold.

Even if they cling on, Mr Obama will not be able to muster the 60 votes in the Senate needed to surmount Republican procedural obstacles.

In fact it's the possibility of learning just a little more that makes me want to cling on to life.

It's symbolic of an attempt to cling on to an identity that is being eroded in a hostile environment.

We should not like or desire anything of this world. If we do then we would cling on to it. Our hearts should not be attached to anything.

He was previously expected to cling on until the last possible date the following summer.

The fear is that those regimes might be ruthless enough to cling on.

Japanese often complain that their neighbours cling on to historical baggage. In fact, it is the Japanese themselves who are guilty of this.

Appearances, she tells me, are everything if one is to cling on to one's dignity.

And most analysts in Greece doubt Mr. Papandreou will cling on to power for long, despite his proven tenacity.

They cling on to the far-fetched notion that their favourite players wouldn't even think of playing anywhere else.

She managed to cling on to life for another couple of years.

But the greasy pole is getting harder to climb and, once you've climbed it, harder to cling on to.

Throughout this 15-year ordeal, Japan has struggled with the difficult issue of what to jettison and what to cling on to.

While banks cling on, the market for traded peripheral debt remains thin.

And you wonder why can't it be like that all the time? You just want to cling on to this.

I am sympathetic to those finance professionals who, through little fault of their own, are now out of work or struggling to cling on.

She had one last hope to cling on to.

For those desperately seeking to cling on to their comfortable existence, it is also self-serving.

In theory, this could allow humans to walk up walls, but also could allow astronauts to cling on to things efficiently in space.

But Mr Maliki has been doggedly seeking to cling on in other ways.

It's probably why they cling on so desperately.

Tony Blair will cling on as prime minister for another five or six months, insisting that he can still accomplish something useful.

Then they cling on even tighter.

Is it that so many choose to cling on to a fairy story . . . through desperation because of the world they find themselves living within?

I saw a boat-cling on the waves.

Cling on or you may fall.

So he is likely to cling on until 2012.

Mr Huang's attempts to cling on to control of his Hong Kong-listed company are damaging shareholder value.

They have just one thing to cling on to, that they are playing their part in the history of space exploration.

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