We hold them up as an example of unconquerable nature even as we applaud the daredevils and power-brokers who conquer them.
And they graciously allowed me to hold them up to the audience as living proof of how to change careers successfully, to keep working in retirement years, and to make a difference in this world.
"We have been reviled as a patent troll, a renegade outfit that buys up patents and then uses them to hold up innocent companies, " Myhrvold wrote in a 6, 479-word Harvard Business Review article published last year.
We've got a huge backlog of folks who are unanimously viewed as well qualified, nobody has a specific objection to them, but end up having a hold on them because of some completely unrelated piece of business.
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The high-tech bins use solar power to compact materials, allowing them to hold up to eight times more rubbish than a standard model.
For believers in Netflix, those looking to pick up shares and hold them over the intermediate term, for example, the potential for lower prices in the stock over the next few days is a good reason to remain sidelined for now.
Many put their own lives on hold to lift up someone close to them.
Those models may not hold up once people start working them or the markets shift for unpredicted reasons.
We should not hold them to a situation where they may end up having to pay higher taxes just by hiring more workers.
Insurance companies receive premiums from the policy owners up front and then hold onto them until claims arise that they need to pay.
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For those mulling locations for that most special and anxiety-filled popping of questions, I can't recommend them highly enough, and they hold up very well in subtle "whose engagement was better" contests.
Like beyond urging members not to hold it up, what do you actually expect them to do?
In that sense, they're ideal for Mr. Marcus, Mr. de Lardemelle and other bargain hunters who scoop up unloved stocks and tend to hold them over many years.
The new rules require them to hold core capital of 10% and up to 9% of contingent capital, a type of debt that converts to equity in times of trouble, and to show how they would wind up their business in a crisis.
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This year, in this election, we are called to reaffirm our values and commitments, to hold them against a hard reality and see how we are measuring up, to the legacy of our forbearers and the promise of future generations.
The conglomerates' revenues and share prices should hold up better than those of other mining firms, allowing them to buy struggling firms at a discount provided, of course, that they can keep their hunger at bay until then.
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Far more risks will end up with those investors most willing and best able to hold them.
Other plans include stopping delays to Ofgem rulings by giving firms a right of appeal - rather than allowing them to refer rulings to the Competition Commission, which can hold up the process.
He must hold up the jeans with one hand in order to avoid tripping over them on his way to the mirror.
And our job is to harness those ideas, to lift up best practices, to hold states and schools accountable for making them work.
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Ms. McDonald now likes to hold up two jars of cocoa beans under potential customers' noses and ask them which one looks nicer and smells better.
For those who consider gaming their utmost priority, they take things one step further, telling them flat out to hold off on upgrading until ATI and NVIDIA get their software up to speed.
When Aerie hosted the first face-to-face gathering with all of them last fall, Aaronson hoped to give up only 20% equity to get hold of 14, 400 miles of rights-of-way.
"Many of us have grown up with Islwyn and Norman regard them as the elder statesmen of the choir and we hold them in high esteem, not just as first-class choristers but true gentlemen, " he added.
If you find yourself always having meetings cooped up in the same conference room, trying moving them to a different space, or hold the meeting in a coffee place, a park, or while walking around the block.
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The team has now picked up more fans, though few expect them to replicate the central role the Dodgers and Lakers hold in the city.
Serious buyers cluster hungrily around the gallery directors, eager to nab their favourite pieces (the more experienced of them employ strategic body-blocking techniques: they hold plastic champagne glasses aloft and to one side, taking up more space and threatening to spill upon their competition).
It is possible to ask to see the data that companies and organisations hold about you, but a very small number of people take up this opportunity to vet what is known about them.
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