What holds them back?

A belt keeps your pants from falling down.

People change us. Nothing is secure.

It is the violence that keeps us here, he said.

Its policy of opting out keeps Britain on the sidelines of the EU.

You had to learn what made an airplane stay in the air.

That holds the long strand like this.

She holds the lead position in this year s season.

Only Cuba holds out against the continent's push toward democracy and open economies.

The economy remains the one area of Iranian life where Ahmedinejad retains considerable power.

For her, illiteracy is what keeps people from being people .

Then there is a utilitarian argument capital punishment deters many criminals from murder.

This hope alone keeps the country from disintegrating into a thousand warring parts.

State handouts can be reliably financed only by controlling the economy s productive sectors. But in the Arab world, as everywhere else, this leads to theft, corruption, uncompetitive monopolies, a stifling of enterprise, and, eventually and inevitably, to decline and decay.

Clinton maintains a large lead among women and moderates, but those leads have narrowed.

However, the TPLF is the core of the EPRDF, holding absolute power over the last quarter of a century.

The solenoid (5) keeps the contacts closed when the reset button is released.

In other words, weak networks are part of the glue that holds diverse societies together.

In Germany, the Chancellor holds the strongest position among the key political players.

You're not sure if the ceiling's going to hold up, you're not going to listen to any speaker.

Yet Saleh retains the loyalty of the interior ministry, the Republican Guard, and part of the air force.

The regulatory authority has held rates at 10.5 , which doesn't have the best impact on the real sector.

These events are too rare to estimate probabilities reliably, so risk return calculations are useless.

The war was atrocious and divisive with each party dug in firmly in their respective trenches.

So, for now, China can bring monetary expansion under control while keeping the exchange rate fixed.

The siloviki , however, prefer Russia isolated and authoritarian, with power securely in their hands.

A chemical process produces calcite, which is a kind of natural cement that binds the grains together.

The French economy could be slightly more stable in the medium term insofar as it seems to have more solid internal sectors.

The army does not appear to be reliably under civilian control, and the brutal war in Chechnya festers.

The only thing that seems to be holding us back from the brink is that dictatorships are out of fashion nowadays in Europe.

There have been embarrassing security lapses at nuclear facilities, and sensitive material is often inadequately secured.

None of this augurs well for the future of what we should get used to calling the former Iraq.

The events of 1989 remain so sensitive, and Tiananmen Square so securely guarded, that it is hard to imagine a protest happening there soon.

In August of that year, then President Boris Yeltsin declared, There will be no devaluation that is firm and definite.

Mrs Megawati's challenge is to keep these Islamic parties firmly within Indonesia's conventional political framework.

The ICC has opened four active investigations, issued public charges against twelve people, and to date secured custody of four.

Aware of a potential threat from within their ranks, Musharraf has populated his inner circle with relatively junior (and reliably loyal) officers.

Indeed, many European intellectuals argue that not just capital punishment, but punishment in general, does not deter criminals.

Emerging slowly, but I believe surely, is an international norm against the violent repression of minorities, which will and must take precedence over concerns of state sovereignty.

Mrs. Karenina got into her brother's carriage, and Oblonsky noticed with surprise that her lips were trembling and that it was with difficulty she kept back her tears.

Thus, the greenhouse effect keeps the atmosphere and surface much warmer than if the infrared absorbers were absent from the atmosphere.

With no progress toward trying Qaddafi for war crimes, the NTC is holding him on the innocuous charge of failure to possess a camel license.

The Volkswagen law also deters private investors from acquiring shares in the company, despite the principle of free capital mobility within the EU.

Only our children keep us together, Elzada now confesses.

Migrant workers still feel unable truly to integrate into cities, because their social safety net remains anchored to their rural origins.