Democratic Senator Charles Schumer of New York says it would help if the government-sponsored agencies were allowed to hold more mortgages on their books, something the Bush administration has been reluctant to permit.

NPR: Adjustable-Rate Mortgages Fuel Foreclosure Crisis

As the picture goes along, you actually start to wish it were a little squarer, that the filmmakers would give you something more to hold on to than the grinding pulp momentum that substitutes here for true dramatic structure.

NEWYORKER: Menace II Society

But the sugar has given him something to hold on to.

BBC: Family sugar remedy tested for healing people's wounds

And, of course, he and all the small carmakers have something else to hold on to: Toyota and GM are facing some of the same hurdles--and doubts.

FORBES: Caution: High Voltage

It said the money saved by cutting the size of the House of Lords could be spent on a bigger assembly - something that was needed to hold the Welsh government to account.

BBC: Wales politics

Many Afghans find it bizarre that the West should devote so much money to Mr Karzai, yet be unable to hold him to account over something so basic as stuffing ballot boxes on an industrial scale.

ECONOMIST: The war in Afghanistan

Casual sex is not something imposed by wily young men on young women too dumb to hold out for a ring.

WSJ: Best of the Web Today: Susan Patton Told the Truth

Inadvertently, Mr von Matt had put his finger on something big: that, at least in democratic societies, everybody does have the right to hold opinions, and that the urge to connect and converse with others is so basic that it might as well be added to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

ECONOMIST: Blogging is just another word for having conversations