Example sentences of "hold out [prep] the [adj] " 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 Mitchell is amongst those who argue against Firestone and hold out for the continuing relevance of Freud 's work .
3 A Goebbels article in Das Reich at the beginning of March , in which he had emphasized ‘ the great honour of the victims and of holding out for the new Europe ’ , for which it was worthwhile ‘ fighting to the last man in order to go down in history ’ , met with heavy criticism .
4 Most people in the territories feared the PLO was in danger of rushing into some unsatisfactory settlement rather than holding out for the right conditions .
5 Mahdi Mohammed loyalists were holding out in the northern fringes of the capital .
6 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 ] .
7 From his point of view , Modernism as a sub-species of romantic anti-capitalism is one partial moment in the rejection of the consequences of Enlightenment properly understood : understood , that is , in terms of a Marxism which is itself held out as the genuine heir to the Enlightenment narrative of emancipation and its romantic critique .
8 She said that while the carrot of jobs was being held out to the local community , local people would only be used for the most menial of tasks .
9 What is important to highlight at this juncture is the attraction that such a possibility held out for the intellectual workers of the time .
10 Charles swept the land twice with his armies , burning and killing wherever he could find victims , but the Saxons held out in the impenetrable forests and marshes , closing in behind the Frankish military movements .
11 When they saw Frick , whom they had been told to expect , the Sturmabteilungen snapped to attention , their arms held out in the traditional Nazi salute .
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