"Adding compost to the soil dramatically increases its ability to hold water, aiding in water conservation, " he adds.
Arguments such as Apple is fundamentally cheap close to its cash value will not hold water.
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That argument that opponents are making against this bill does not hold water.
Also, if the U.S. and China economies manage to hold water in 2012, that could bode well for Brazil.
The Japanese, for instance, used teapots to hold the water, and cellophane is sometimes used instead of a cloth.
The suggestion that speculators deliberately manipulate markets to earn profits through bubbles and busts simply does not hold water.
To link these two issues together actually to politicize the Olympic games, does simply doesn't hold water and is ridiculous.
Fact is, the common wisdom--that 1.2 billion Chinese actually want to get on the information superhighway--does not hold much water.
How credible is the IPCC?. The old 2000 scientists cannot be wrong argument also does not hold water(it is actually 2500).
However, Sony cautions that the device's port covers need to be sealed up tight for its claim to ... well, hold water.
So, history buffs, marine historians, tell us: Does this theory hold water?
"The dams are no longer sufficient to hold the water, " he said.
They are not tangible, they hold no water, and, yet, the best ones have the power to immediately elicit potent, visceral, human emotion.
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Where there is less sand they, like Mr Serrato, can mix it into the soil, but the mixture does not hold water so well.
Residents were seen waiting patiently in long lines to fill up anything and everything that could hold water -- from plastic jugs to metal drums.
And there's been an increase in rainfall at higher latitudes as a consequence because the atmosphere can hold more water if it's a little bit warmer.
China's thirst for industry and irrigation has combined with climate change to drain the aquifers, some of which hold fossil water that has lain undisturbed for millennia.
This argument might partially hold water if it were true.
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The more optimistic interpretations do not quite hold water either, especially in Chechnya, where Mr Putin unfortunately shows no shortage of decisiveness along with ill-disguised contempt for European peacemongers.
That excuse would not hold much water in this case.
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Suddenly, he remembered how he had to hold two water buckets up in the air in primary school, along with the faces of the headmaster and his homeroom teacher.
The argument that countries holding SWFs will have too great an economic interest to use such transactions as anything beyond furthering their own economic interest does not hold water.
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Dams for irrigation, meanwhile, have a doubly damaging impact on fisheries: they not only hold back water, but also encourage the conversion of forest to farmland in the flood-plain.
And while this segment of the population continues to hold significant water with marketers and ad agencies, brands would be wise to turn their attention to a key target audience: moms.
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As an explanation for the conundrum of the ice ages, this notion could only hold water if a mechanism for such large changes in atmospheric composition might be found in the real world.
That argument might hold water to some degree, but when it starts to intrude on your overall well-being, or sanity, or it takes precedence over time with your kids or spouse, then it might be time to cut back.
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