"It's the community again coming together to show its strength... it is holding tight, it will not break, " he added.

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While Democrats and Republicans fritter away the time politically posturing and holding tight to their party lines, the U.S. comes closer to losing its coveted Triple-A credit rating.

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Holding tight to his characters with long takes and closeups, capturing them only at the breaking points in their lives, Garrel balances a hypnotic romanticism with the frightening lurch of unsteady emotions.

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The still life depicts a blue-and-white vase holding a tight bouquet of yellow flowers atop a tablecloth of deep blue and pink.

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Now, with UBS giving McCann more clout it seems that that the Swiss bank is indeed holding on tight to a valuable and profitable asset.

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He thanked Sulzberger and Abramson, before holding his wife in a tight hug as the newsroom awarded him a sustained round of applause.

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' And I am holding on to her so tight.

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The alternative, a foreign-owned holding company, must operate under tight restrictions that forbid, for example, inter-company loans, foreign-exchange balancing, import-export, or even consolidated accounts across the subsidiaries.

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Had anyone seen the child during these two- and three-hour sessions, bringing his soles together and in to train the pectineus, bobbing slightly and then holding a deep cross-legged lean to work the great tight sheet of thoracolumbar fascia that connected his pelvis to his dorsal costae, he would have appeared to that person either prayerful or catatonic, or both.

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