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.

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The suggestion that speculators deliberately manipulate markets to earn profits through bubbles and busts simply does not hold water.

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How credible is the IPCC?. The old 2000 scientists cannot be wrong argument also does not hold water(it is actually 2500).

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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.

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The saying the good die young does not hold water.

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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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That excuse would not hold much water in this case.

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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.

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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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