"They usually don't hold up too well, or too long, " says Bert Ely, a banking analyst.
If you take the tube and are late they won't hold up the race.
This occasionally worked, but mostly it produced a flood of dubious genetic findings that didn't hold up.
These big state arguments don't hold up in a general election as you're comparing apples and oranges.
So your comparison of Mr Obama to Vladimir Putin, though worthy of a titter, doesn't hold up.
Provigil could conceivably face cheap generic competition within a few years if a key patent doesn't hold up.
Even when these patents don't hold up, they can tie up generics in court for a few years.
But if the volumes aren't there, a Web-only distribution center won't hold up.
"During the financial crisis these products didn't hold up, " he says.
When one Florida lawyer recently told a client that the foreign currency phony-loss scheme he wanted to use wouldn't hold up in court, the man was unfazed.
You see a number of -- you see a number of these straw men arguments made by lobbyists that when you look at, they just don't hold up at all.
Nevertheless, one of the easiest criticisms one can make of Apple--that it moves to bump off older models with stylish new ones as often as it can--doesn't hold up this time.
Kozmo is a cool idea, and may have even looked like a good company back when everyone was riding the dot-com high, but it just doesn't hold up in the real world.
Though that excuse doesn't really hold up with the geofences alert system, unless the employer's going to claim it's aiding with employee alcohol abuse.
Once the pane had survived gravity's examination, we took it out and started bending it, and while no-company would let anyone play with something it wasn't sure would hold up, this model did appear to be hardier by a small margin.
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In some places, the kids couldn't even hold the letters up correctly.
If they don't give up, don't make excuses and hold themselves to high standards, they can do anything they want in life, break through any barrier and never have to care what other people think.
But he needs some sort of super sat nav, because the road map isn't working, whichever way you hold it up.
We can't predict whether natural gas prices will hold up, but we can report that witness comments at Wednesday's congressional hearing suggested demand would likely remain brisk.
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.
"The structure couldn't hold the weight and it couldn't go up there because it's mostly all rocks, " she said.
It might have been a single mom with a couple of kids who's looking to stabilize her family, who was aggressively marketed a loan without always being given the full details on the loan, who now finds that that mortgage is going up and up and up, and she can't hold onto it.
The service will reportedly be available on Windows and Mac next week, with iOS, Blackberry and Android by October, but speaking of promises, Borislow said plans for the company's legally-ambiguous femtocell are now on hold -- the device can't legitimately muster up enough power without a cellular carrier on board.
It wasn't clear if RIM had completely given up its fight to hold onto the BBX name.
Brunswick's bowling and fitness divisions, which throw in a fifth of sales, should hold up until boats begin selling again, figures T.
But wedding enthusiasts needn't fret: Other economists say most of the predictions fail to hold up to scrutiny.
But I mean it's definitely a very cheap and, you know, you don't need some, you know, crazy structures to hold this thing up, so.
First, with so many new holders who aren't price-sensitive, Treasurys are more likely than ever to hold up in a crisis as they did in 2008 and 2009.
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Motorola doesn't hold the profile of Apple, but the handset maker has put up very strong numbers recently, provoking activist investor Carl Icahn to increase his ownership stake.
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