It's the sense that the glue that held together the Conservative Party is weakening.
Stars, such as our sun, are giant balls of gas held together by gravity.
But she held together a crumbling party, and almost got enough seats to rule.
In place of the old communities these spaces held together, we have autonomous, atomistic individuals.
Tata is also held together by a common culture that has been marinating for 140 years.
Many asteroids are weakly bound piles of rubble, held together by their own minute gravitational attraction.
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The wooden plane, held together with piano wire, was classified as a yacht by the customs officer.
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It was unrecognisable, badly eaten away, and held together largely by the limpets and barnacles attached to it.
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The broken leg, held together by two metal plates, will heal in eight to 12 weeks, he said.
The wonder may be that Lebanon has held together at all, and even maintained a veneer of democracy.
He held together his loyal base and reached out to new constituencies to put together a governing coalition.
The network was held together by a number of coordinating committees, which resolved any conflict between the two.
He was allowed back permanently into the UK as a UK citizen, and the family was held together.
After Mother passed away, he and I came to resemble two flat-sharing bachelors held together by circumstance or obligation.
In the wake of his death the country has held together remarkably well.
The whole thing is held together by what looks like eight wood screws.
Constructed by Sir William Arrol, it is supported by 1000 ton counterweights and comprises three double cantilevers held together with girder spans.
The talks are held together by Christiana Figueres, chair of the UN process.
Buildings of the finest neoclassical style hover in mid-air, floating individually yet held together by skylines and an unseen gravity.
The Standard Model, though it has stood the test of time, is held together by a number of mathematical kludges.
Reading and listening to the comment, it is easy to believe that the financial world is held together with tissue paper.
Mr Prodi's coalition, though fragile, has been held together by the threat of Silvio Berlusconi returning to power if it falls.
If Bosnia is to be held together, the West will have to vanquish not only Mr Karadzic, but also his friends.
For nearly two decades, ETFs in the U.S. have been held together by a series of private-letter rulings and so-called exemptive relief.
Lombard cautions, however, that the Seleka coalition is very loosely held together.
Moreover, many asteroids are chunky masses of rock and dust loosely held together by very little gravity, like loosely packed peanut clusters.
And Mr Tusa believes a break-up could loosen the US-UK "special relationship", which is in part held together by mutual defence interests.
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But what I confronted back then were zip guns and Saturday Night Specials that were held together with masking tape and electrician's tape.
According to the National Union of Teachers, London's schools are held together only with antipodean short-termers, earning money to go backpacking in Europe.
They were held together by friendship and a wish to be rid of the hobbling academicism of much American poetry in the 1940s.
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