But Mr Maliki has been doggedly seeking to cling on in other ways.
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"At one point, I resorted to wrapping my bottom half in cling film before a session at the gym in an attempt at reduction, " says founder Dessi Bell, a former J.
Not surprising, then, that Britain's government should grab hold of the word and cling to it in the buffeting the coalition has had since the budget on June 22nd proposed higher taxes and even sharper spending cuts.
In private, Mr Clegg and his inner circle cling to reason as closely as in public.
According to Professor Win Vandebergh and his colleagues at the University of Brussels, the cytoskeletal proteins that evolved to help the tree frog Hyla cinera cling to wet surfaces in its niche environment also passed down to mammals and eventually to us.
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What took many aback, however, was that in France's regional elections last year some members of the centre-right took the hand of the National Front, thus offering it a degree of respectability, in order to cling on to power themselves.
Mr. GRAY: Well, it's more just to incorporate the world of production completely and utterly, to surrender the music to it, in the faith that you will be able to cling on to the sort of integrity of the music, in spite all the sort of gilding and ornamentation.
"The early pictures cling onto the idea of royalty in a conventional way -- the Queen with a crown and sceptre, in coronation robes, " says the exhibition's curator, Paul Moorhouse.
Its dedicated GPU certainly outpaces the integrated graphics its competitors cling to, though it trades in a little screen real estate and visual fidelity for the privilege of calling itself a gaming rig.
As we approach the hospice, children from the orphanage cling to my clothes, begging in Creole for me to take their picture so they can see themselves on the display of my digital camera.
In general, as people cling ever more tightly to markers of elite status as a ticket to success, their actual cultural cachet is declining, due to everything from the atomizing forces of the Internet to the culture war and political gridlock.
Those that cling on are told they must specialise, in finance, marketing and so on.
Instead, Lehman adds, many sellers are desperately trying to cling to their original list prices by throwing in added incentives.
His fate is believed to have been sealed on Wednesday, when deputy chief whip John Randall reportedly had to be talked out of quitting in protest at his determination to cling on.
Mr Mitchell's fate is believed to have been sealed on Wednesday, when deputy chief whip John Randall reportedly had to be talked out of quitting in protest at his determination to cling on, following a stormy prime minister's question time.
In the trade town of Scarport, buildings cling to canyon walls above canals of lava and provide shelter from the toxic volcanic atmosphere.
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In a sense, but only if we cling to a linear scale of intelligence that places sea sponges at the bottom and humans at the top.
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The window cling itself was designed to be the largest size that fit in a standard mailing envelope so as to avoid excess postage charges.
Alternatively, another segment intermodal freight has displayed encouraging results in the recent past and rail companies would look to cling onto this very segment to ride out the coal mess.
In sharp contrast, the Europeans, Japanese and Americans still cling to the idea that inflation is the answer.
We still cling stubbornly to the idea of an animating soul, a spiritual ghost in the biological machine.
In the vacuum, the sharp edges of the lunar soil cling together, leaving a smooth surface much as moist sand does on a beach.
None of their scheming would count as more than two old men's efforts to cling to their jobs, except that shareholders everywhere also have a stake in this fight.
For example, Labour might have escaped its humiliation in London if Mr Blair had not tried so transparently to cling on via his party to the power he claimed to be surrendering to a mayor.
Other countries to have experienced a similar bounce in fortunes on the back of sporting triumph have also struggled to cling to the moment.
India's political families may come in all shapes and affiliations, but many have one thing in common: Once power brings them an official residence, they cling to it like a Ganges crocodile to a bather's leg - sometimes for decades after they cease to hold office.
In the madness and the agony that is to come, we must cling fast to these principles.
But the pressure some Americans feel to cling to a corporate job chiefly for the health insurance could, conceivably, ease in coming years.
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