If South Sudan is to hold together and prosper, it has to overcome many hurdles.
Karachi manages to hold together because bouts of brutal, though contained, violence are interspersed with dealmaking and calm.
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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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.
Like Ashoka and Gandhi, Akbar constructed a religious ideology that served to hold together a diffuse polity as it fed his own soul.
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.
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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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.
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.
Our reasons included concerns about the ultimate market cap the market would allow the company to achieve, rising competition from Android devices, the release of the iPhone 5 with a sub-par mapping application and concerns about the ability of the company to hold together its management team in the post-Steve Jobs era (a concern that was validated when the company announced management changes).
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"What is actually most remarkable is the finding of a matched pair together without the skull to hold them together, " he said.
By urging his troops to fight back, Mr Chuan also intends to hold them together.
There was no alternative, it was said then, and a strong man was needed to hold Congo together.
Coming up the last I had tears in my eyes and I had to hold myself together for those last two putts.
This invisible substance apparently makes up five-sixths of the universe's matter, and its gravitational attraction is what's thought to hold galaxies together.
So obviously the economy as a whole has an enormous impact on women and everything that women are doing to hold families together during extraordinarily rough times.
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Whenever a superstar implodes like a supernova and is able to hold it together psychologically, refusing to act-out in self-serving ways, he sends an invaluable message to his teammates.
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The result, in a mountain range characterised by soft, crumbling rock which desperately needs strong roots to hold it together, has been an increasing number of landslides, which block roads, railways and even rivers.
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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