She wants to hang on to it until it's time to pass it on to her three children.
True, the outgoing president of the French Senate was forced by public opinion last year to leave his official residence, after he tried to hang on to it.
He cannot open the fist to look at the thought, for fear that it will fly away, but he knows that it is very important and that he must hang on to it, no matter the cost.
Put an outspoken democrat in charge, deprive critics of their strongest point, his own authoritarian use of power and his keenness to hang on to it, and he may convince others that they can safely let him do so.
But Mr Chirac is determined to hang on to the benefits it gives France and French politicians, always vulnerable to the farm lobby for as long as possible.
But Mr Chirac is determined to hang on to the benefits it gives France and French politicians, who are always vulnerable to the farm lobby for as long as possible, however much this upsets his European colleagues in the process.
Everyone knows that our tax structure is broken-it is built on an Edsel frame and our legislators want to hang Ferrari parts on it.
Under ex-President Suharto, himself a general, Indonesia was seen as a model which the regime in Myanmar could use to enable it to hang on to control.
For Fox, a success with "The X Factor" could help it hang on to its lead among the 18- to 49-year-old viewers prized by advertisers, where it is being challenged by CBS Corp.
"If it had managed to hang on for another decade it would have possibly been celebrated as an historic structure, " he said.
Samsung was the leader in the smartphone market in in the first quarter of 2013, according to research firm IDC, and it looks like its latest offering will help it hang on to that top spot for the time being.
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The NHS will want to hang on to the extra doctors it has spent much energy training and recruiting.
In any case, hang on as it figures to be a bumpy ride until the music stops for coaches and fans alike.
It is that time in a summit where you hang on to ever precious rumour and squeeze it dry for meaning.
The government's wish to expand the black middle class could cause it to hang on to a controlling stake in Telkom for longer than is economically sensible.
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As an incentive for investors to hang on during the transition, it announced plans in June to start paying a regular quarterly dividend.
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That's probably because many entrepreneurs and executives who accumulate super-wealth through company stock tend to hang on to many of the shares for life, leaving it to the kids to diversify the money into real estate and other assets after they die.
If he used to love going out to breakfast with you and doesn't totally balk at it now, hang on to that special routine.
If so, Isaac may want to hang on to the apartment and rent it out.
And she kept on trying to hang onto it because she was worried she'd get that cancer back.
In 2003, the then-little known Banksy sneaked a painting into Tate Britain and managed to evade guards to hang it on a wall.
The government's strategy may be to hang on grimly until after the vote, when it expects to stay in power, and then act.
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They should be left in no doubt now that the world will not allow Indonesia to hang on to East Timor, as it did in 1975.
Yet banks have not historically stuck to daily payment schedules: they like to hang on to their cash and deliver it as late as possible at the end of the working day.
"Learned to Surf" is evidence that a band can age gracefully if it can just hang on to its nerve.
When the market loses its momentum leaders, and you start seeing technical damage to individual stocks charts while the indices hang on by a thread, it is a sign of things to come.
And how do you explain a near pathological obsession with trying to hang it up on there.
Simply put, despite all of the above, it's difficult for it to hang on to its best players.
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The French government has indicated it might hang on to its shares, but accept being diluted to 9%.
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