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24 Sentences With "holds out for"

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He holds out for a few more minutes and gets back into this car.
She holds out for the smaller blue-black Italian plums that arrive in early autumn.
Go deeper: China cancels U.S. farm visits while Trump holds out for a "big deal"
Such a deal would value Tiffany at roughly $14.5 billion, but analysts believe there's a good chance that Tiffany holds out for a sweeter offer.
While Apple holds out for those phones and the hope that they will end up being blockbusters for the company, it's trying to build out consistent revenue streams.
He is in far worse shape if he caves than if he stands his ground on the government shutdown and holds out for a bargain that fundamentally makes good on that promise.
Little Yan finds work at a nail salon for $50 a day, but Zhuang holds out for a higher position that befits his status, one that he can boast about to his friends back home.
Squeezed by smaller but efficient twin-engined jets, Airbus has announced plans to lower A380 output to 12 aircraft in 2018 and 8 in 2019, down from an annual peak of 30, as it holds out for what its forecasters believe will be a recovery in demand.
Some posted photos of their empty earnings statements on social media as a rallying cry to end the shutdown, a jarring image that many in the White House feared could turn more voters against the president as he holds out for billions in new wall funding.
Squeezed by smaller but efficient twin-engined jets, Airbus has announced plans to lower A220 output to 2380 aircraft in 20193 and eight in 22019, down from an annual peak of 2380, as it holds out for what it believes will be a recovery in demand.
Whether a new headset comes forth mid-cycle for the S7 around the Galaxy Note 6/7 launch (expected next month, so perhaps a bit unlikely) or holds out for the S8 launches will pretty dramatically impact what the headsets are capable of specs-wise and just how progressive Samsung seems amongst its mobile VR competitors.
Even the more fantastical moments in Piccioli's couture collections tend to be defined by a sort of cleanliness, and the quietest details can be the most astonishing: The fine pleats of a simple emerald chiffon skirt are lined with the tiniest of bird feathers; the white cotton shirt he holds out for me to examine is actually hand embroidered throughout in all-white stitching.
He couldn't stop laughing. And if > that ain't enough, Paruta holds out for his end of the loot. His reasoning > is that they never would have got inside the place without his talents. So > you know a guy like that is all right.
The public surrounds the police station, demanding to be compensated for their misguided efforts. To prevent a riot, Tony agrees to donate half a million to the poor and the same amount to the city, but only if Jean will marry him. She holds out for a while, but then gives in.
In police cells, the informant is roughly hauled from a group with whom he has been picked up. But in the privacy of an interview room the mood is quite different. He holds out for £5,000 to name the men who set the bomb. The RUC's Special Support Unit (SSU) undergoes practice training for a hostage release, briefed to use "speed, firepower and aggression".
The story begins with the šarkan general, Petr Drakanov besieged in his family's castle. Nestled safely behind the walls of the Drakánc Hrad, Petr sees his time coming to an end. Petr's uncle, the šarkan king Král Groznyj has sent forces to capture and kill him and his family. Well Petr holds out for sometime, eventually the betrayal of his own soldiers draws him into battle.
Adding to the tragedy, Grace's leg has to be amputated due to gangrene. The situation forces Pacita to seek a reconciliation with her wealthy, status-conscious mother (Armida Siguion-Reyna). Although initially Pacita holds out for a miracle and hopes for the recovery of her daughter, she relents and seeks to allow Grace a dignified death by turning off her respirator. The emotional battle accompanying this decision becomes a personal epiphany for Pacita.
He is brought to trial and Grace is drawn on the jury. At trial the six shooter is brandished per custom before the accused and jury with the usual effect. The circumstantial evidence convinces the eleven men on the jury that the defendant is guilty, but Grace holds out for acquittal. The judge directs that the jury be locked in for the night on Christmas Eve, and the men on the jury try to convince her of the man's guilt, but she is obdurate.
The men form a bond as Sommer shares his collection of pornographic films, including one that shows the abuse of an adolescent girl, with Timo. Timo leaves after Pia's murder, to Sommer's dismay. Mittich, the retired detective, visits Pia's mother and rails against the false hope that detective Grimmer holds out for Sinikka's parents, who grow increasingly upset at the lack of progress in the investigation. Timo, who has married, taken his wife's last name, and had two children of his own, is now an architect.
The affable Nandu (Sanjay Dutt) is a small-time crook who is hired to deliver a mysterious package to a notorious criminal named Pinky (Paresh Rawal). Feeling that he's being cheated out of his delivery fee, Nandu holds out for more money, and soon finds himself on the run from both the angry gangsters and the police, who have launched a massive manhunt. Nandu and Bhavani (Urmila Matondkar), the lovely cabaret dancer who's tagging along for the ride, assume the package contains gold; both are unpleasantly surprised when it turns out to be something deadlier: a nuclear bomb.
Back in the jury room, Brian questions the witness' testimony of seeing the crime during an orgy. Quagmire tries to prove that it could really happen, but finds that Brian may be on to something when his demonstration proves that the witness' position could not have allowed her to look out a window during the orgy, admitting that Brian was right. The jury finds itself dead locked at 6-6 and Tom Tucker still holds out for a guilty verdict until Dr. Hartman convinces him otherwise. Peter changes his vote after he finds out what "guilty" means.
Disgusted, his wife and family are walking out on him. As he sits down on the car's running board, the car collapses under his weight. However, just when Harold is about to lose all hope, his luck takes a dramatic turn: a neighbor informs him that a developer is desperate to acquire his land in order to build a grandstand for a race track. Finally standing up for himself, and to his nagging wife, Harold holds out for a large sum of money (including a commission for the friendly neighbor), as well as a demand that the developer buy him an orange grove like the one in the brochure he has been carrying throughout the film.
In January 1966, Helen donated funds to the University of Kansas for the construction of a library in honor of her late husband Kenneth. Helen's gift was, at the time, the largest single gift ever given to KU or to any institution in Kansas. When the gift was announced, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe declared that the library "will stand as a living memorial not only to an outstanding man and his equally distinguished wife but to the pursuit of learning that holds so much promise for the future and to the spirit of philanthropy which holds out for the University of Kansas the promise of future greatness.". Construction of the library began in January 1967.
The story is set in the town of Krishnapur, and tells of a besieged British garrison which holds out for four months against an army of native sepoys. Among the community are the District Collector, a father of small children, who is an extreme example of Victorian belief in progress, and can often be found daydreaming of the Great Exhibition; the Magistrate, a Chartist in his youth, but who sees his political ideals destroyed by witnessing the siege; Dr Dunstaple and Dr McNab, who row over the best way to treat cholera; Fleury, a poetical young man from England who learns to become a soldier; and Lucy, a "fallen woman" who is rescued and eventually runs a tea salon in the despairing community. By the end of the novel, cholera, starvation and the sepoys have killed off most of the inhabitants, who are reduced to eating dogs, horses and finally beetles, their teeth much loosened by scurvy. "The final retreat of the British, still doggedly stiff-upper-lipped through the pantries, laundries, music rooms and ballroom of the residency, using chandeliers and violins as weapons, is a comic delight".

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