• The holding-down bolts of twelve boilers and three triple-expansion engines, unintended to hold such weights from a perpendicular flooring, snapped, and down through a maze of ladders, gratings and fore-and-after bulkheads came these giant masses of steel and iron, puncturing the sides of the ship .

    NEWYORKER: Unsinkable

  • It would also increase the demand for long-term bonds, thereby holding down long-term interest rates a little longer.

    FORBES: Is Fed Policy Twisted Or Merely Sterile?

  • Cas had Chase sin-binned for holding down Jonny Lomax after he denied him with a brilliant try-saving tackle and Saints took advantage with McCarthy-Scarsbrook forcing his way over for a third try in five minutes.

    BBC: Castleford Tigers 26-46 St Helens

  • Top holding Exxon Mobil ( XOM) is trading down 1.1%, while holding Chevron ( CVX) trades down 1.4% today, and third-largest holding Schlumberger (SLB) trades down 1.5%.

    FORBES: Trade Deficit Flat; Jobless Claims Dip

  • He has been willing to take small steps, he says, as long as they move toward a larger goal of covering more people and holding down health-care costs.

    NPR: One Senator's Solution for Health Care Expansion

  • In short, by implementing anti-deflation and economic growth-stimulating deregulation, while holding down increases in social welfare spending, above-listed objectives 1. and 2. can be realized without increasing taxes.

    FORBES: Takenaka Heizo's Reform Plan

  • With the Federal Reserve holding short-term interest rates down to next to zero, cash balances have indeed yielded nothing.

    FORBES: How Cash Became Cool

  • But that raises the question of whether Mr. Lew was merely holding down a non-job reserved for those with political juice.

    WSJ: Review & Outlook: Treasury Gets a Citibanker

  • The president expects the Senate to have begun work by then on a national health plan that expands coverage while holding down rising health-care costs.

    WSJ: Coming Next: The Act II Blueprint

  • For instance, holding down the on-off button or removing and replacing the battery typically causes an Android device to reboot and close all apps, including MDM.

    FORBES: Parents Need Mobile Device Management, Too

  • At the time, he was studying history of art in Geneva whilst holding down two jobs - in a pub and a petrol station - "to support the car habit".

    BBC: Selling James Bond's Aston Martin DB5

  • Dragons prop Adam Black was sin-binned for holding down at a ruck and, moments later, number eight Kingi romped through a gap 15 metres out to put Treviso back in front.

    BBC: Dragons 22-24 Benetton Treviso

  • Hopefully sooner rather than later, all these domesticated, master-serving robots will be able to handle even the most mundane of tasks for us without botching our reputations, like holding down the 9-5 for us while we tee it up.

    ENGADGET: NCTU's Vision One domesticated servant bot knows your face, follows enemies

  • The 67-year-old Earl Holding sometimes gets down on his knees to plant flowers around the property of his Salt Lake City hotel.

    FORBES: Remembering Robert Earl Holding, Billionaire Owner Of Sun Valley Ski Resort

  • Matt Sing was stopped just short of the line by Mark Calderwood, who was sin-binned for holding his man down, while Sean O'Loughlin did well to stop Thomas Lee over the line.

    BBC: Hull 18-21 Wigan

  • After Dureau added the extras, the scrappy nature of the game saw Bulls' Paul Sykes sin-binned for repeatedly holding down the tackle, with Dragons' Sebastian Martins following him to the cooler for a high tackle.

    BBC: Catalan Dragons 8-8 Bradford Bulls

  • Purcell acknowledged at an investor presentation in January that share growth and other performance measures had lagged those of peer companies in the last year, and he promised to devote more attention to holding down costs and developing high-growth businesses.

    FORBES: Purcell's Purge

  • He proved his ability to appeal beyond the Republican base in 2002, when he won the Massachusetts governorship by bringing out large numbers of conservatives, running even in working-class districts, and holding down the Democratic vote in urban areas.

    CNN: Why Romney is stronger than he seems

  • It will also be a chance for the parties to shake off some of the challenges that are holding them down, such as the right-wing drift of the GOP -- which could hurt the chances of the Republican candidates in 2016, regardless of how charismatic and talented they are.

    CNN: Why 2014 is the year to watch

  • The Crimson (20-9) put the clamps down on New Mexico's Tony Snell, holding him to nine points on 4-for-12 shooting after he dominated in the MWC tournament.

    WSJ: Harvard Crimson Upset New Mexico Lobos in NCAA Basketball Tourney

  • Warrington's Vinnie Anderson was sin-binned in the 23rd minute for holding down Kirk Dixon.

    BBC: Castleford 31-34 Warrington

  • You have no bearing on how the car is going to hit something - you are just holding on and everything slows down.

    BBC: Mark Webber column

  • "The Fed will drag rates down everywhere just by holding the short-term rate lower in the U.S., " says Dan Dektar, chief investment officer at Smith Breeden Associates in Durham, N.

    WSJ: The Intelligent Investor: Why Bondholders Should Be Worried

  • If you're scoring at home, NVIDIA currently holds the lead in single-GPU graphics cards with its GeForce GTX 580, but ATI's dual-chip Radeon HD 5970 has been holding down the absolute speed crown for a good long while.

    ENGADGET: AMD launches Radeon HD 6990 powerhouse for $699, maintains 'world's fastest' title

  • In April 2009, when talks about saving Chrysler through a bankruptcy filing bogged down, the president faulted bond-holding hedge funds for the delay.

    WSJ: Financiers Switch to GOP

  • The next morning, she walked to the Preobrazhensky market to get groceries and fresh fish, following the crowds rolling their handcarts down a footpath lined with pensioners holding up hand-knitted shawls and strings of dried mushrooms.

    NEWYORKER: The Repatriates

  • Junior year, I worked part-time at a local PR firm, while simultaneously holding down two waitressing jobs to try to pay off my credit card debt from a semester spent in London.

    FORBES: How To Get--And Keep--A Job After Graduation

  • In reality, however, by 1960 there were as many women working as there had been at the peak of World War II, and the vast majority of them were married. (Young single adult women were, as we'll see, as rare as female action heroes at this point in history.) More than 30 percent of American wives were holding down jobs, including almost 40 percent of wives with school-age children.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'When Everything Changed'

  • Some animal-lovers also argued that the image of a boy holding the frog upside down was cruel, our correspondent adds.

    BBC: Venice removes Charles Ray Boy with Frog statue

  • With a six-hour rechargeable battery, you won't have a power outlet holding you down.

    ENGADGET: Logitech unveils new Ultimate Ears range, includes $99 mobile boombox (video)

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