His narrative may not quite hold together, but it has very good bits.

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But Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland have kept it smart and irony-free -- there isn't a trace of condescension in their evocation of working people trying to hold it together, if not get ahead, or in their concentration on familiar, even timeless themes.

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Providing he can hold his party together and ensure this vote is not seen as a referendum on him - both big ifs - Scotland's First Minister may consider more powers a pretty good consolation prize.

BBC: David Cameron, Alex Salmond and Scotland's referendum

Indeed were it not for the Bauhaus name, there would be nothing to hold these strains of modernism together.

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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.

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Against that risk, the appointment of a clueless dauphin as the next leader might not be so bad, if his membership of the Kim clan enabled him to hold the country together.

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What is not in question is the formidable force of personality and political skill that enabled him to unite and hold together a broad leftist alliance always bubbling below the surface with ideological idiosyncrasies and internal divisions, and of the deeply personal bond of loyalty that Chavez commanded among the millions who made up his red T-shirted chavista power base.

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The concept of banding together as one glorious generation or group of people to stand up and make one common statement does not hold sway with this generation of young people.

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