They must hold together a coalition that is sliced apart by the abortion issue.
If South Sudan is to hold together and prosper, it has to overcome many hurdles.
He has managed to hold together its patchwork of fiercely independent ethnic groups and tribes.
Karachi manages to hold together because bouts of brutal, though contained, violence are interspersed with dealmaking and calm.
His narrative may not quite hold together, but it has very good bits.
We believe for the Euro to hold together, the ECB must be allowed to print money to buy debt.
The football family need to hold together in sport at this difficult time.
That it will then fail to hold together seems equally difficult to contradict.
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Prosecutors "put their case together with Band-Aids and it didn't hold together, " Lewis' attorney, Ed Garland, told CNN this week.
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So, the question is not what would cause Europe to break up, but rather what would cause it to hold together.
Can the Americans remove themselves entirely from fighting in little more than two years and expect the country to hold together?
If Mr Milosevic survives the war, a federal Yugoslavia is unlikely to hold together, especially if Mr Djukanovic keeps his job.
To hold together the disparate nature of economic conditions in the former west and East Germanies, citizens openly accepted the costs involved.
Now two titanium plates, which will remain in place for the rest of his life, hold together his cheekbones and top jaw.
Like Ashoka and Gandhi, Akbar constructed a religious ideology that served to hold together a diffuse polity as it fed his own soul.
In the meantime, it remains unclear if Iraq can hold together and become a peaceful, liberal democracy in which no group subjugates any other.
But it takes hundreds of thousands of pounds of the stuff to hold together even a small city--most of it laboriously buried beneath the streets.
But is this not all romantic nonsense when Belgium, a founder of the EU as well as the host to its capital, struggles to hold together?
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is trying to hold together his political alliance -- an alliance that includes the political wings of the militias he's fighting, Sheppard said.
His successor's first task will be to hold together a disparate parliamentary group, divided between left-wingers and moderates, between vestigial socialist centralism and the Quebec contingent's desire for devolution.
"What we're doing here in this immigration battle is testing our willingness to hold together as a nation or split apart into a lot of Balkanized pieces, " he said.
Unless there is a balance between Juba and state capitals and between Dinkas and other groups, South Sudan may prove too big and diverse too Yugoslav, in other words to hold together.
It has rejected both the defensive strategy and the assimilationist strategy for dealing with the Muslim world, opting for multiculturalism, a non-adhesive glue with which to hold together a press-board empire.
However, the defeats in the regional elections may make it much harder to hold together his governing block, which is a disparate group of regional and national parties with conflicting aims.
"I couldn't get it to hold together, " she says.
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"We have been able to hold together a coalition that includes the Chinese and the Russians to really apply some of the toughest sanctions we've seen, and it's having an impact, " the president said.
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The Nomura-Lehman hybrid may be able to hold together for a year or two, but ultimately it's doomed, says Edwin Merner, manager of Atlantis Japan Growth Fund, who has spent more than two decades in Japan.
The Dutch, for example, have been discussing a scheme for crowded motorways for years, but no coalition government has ever felt that it could hold together in the turbulence that would follow such a radical scheme.
When you aggregate all this it yields the prediction that the eurozone is - on balance - likely to hold together (just), but at an enormous social and economic cost for Spain, Greece and a few others.
As someone who occupies the centre ground among the senior figures in Mr Chavez's powerbase, analysts say he may be able to hold together the various factions such as the military and those groups more ideologically driven.
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