Economists tend to cling to whatever assumptions are required to use the techniques they favour.
Some of the smaller ones throw their arms around your waist and cling to you.
Yet some still cling to protectionist tariffs like an overgrown child to a security blanket.
People are less optimistic now than ever before, and they cling to their jobs.
Power flows up and congeals, and those who have it cling desperately to it.
Dealers who cling to tradition are bound to be road kill sooner rather than later.
I, for one, still cling to the belief that certain tasks require skill and training.
International institutions tend to cling tenaciously to life long after their value might have ebbed away.
The simple answer is that we cling to the misguided belief that humans are rational creatures.
In private, Mr Clegg and his inner circle cling to reason as closely as in public.
Many companies cling to the misguided notion that their strategic plans will unfold exactly as written.
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For instance, getting rid of industrial and agricultural subsidies makes sense, but politicians cling to them.
For years, the state has sought to attract new businesses and cling to existing ones.
Those that cling on are told they must specialise, in finance, marketing and so on.
Some see it as a last-ditch attempt by Turkey's old guard to cling to power.
This swirling slows down the flow, and thus helps the fluid to cling to the surface.
But now they face a battle to cling on to their way of life.
But it was politically important for the chancellor that he could cling to that tiny continued fall.
In the madness and the agony that is to come, we must cling fast to these principles.
The same principal seemed to apply, and we considered adding a date (the year) to the cling.
These cling to their political autonomy, which, as they see it, includes total control over local transport.
Less tangibly, the attacks may have made voters cling to the familiar from fear of the unknown.
In sharp contrast, the Europeans, Japanese and Americans still cling to the idea that inflation is the answer.
Early gains dwindled, though the Dow Jones industrial average managed to cling to an 11-point advance at 13, 118.
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Mubarak had sought to cling to power, handing some of his authorities to Suleiman while keeping his title.
That Mr Mori is being allowed to cling on to office for a few weeks more is typical.
We still cling stubbornly to the idea of an animating soul, a spiritual ghost in the biological machine.
Politicians cling to their party lines with no vision for how they are actually going to get anything done.
As many major stock market averages cling near all-time highs, commodity and mining investors are feeling acutely heightened pain.
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These weaknesses may play to pessimists' fears, but at least for now the optimists have something to cling to.
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