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hold out

verb

tr to offer or present
intr to last or endure
intr to continue to resist or stand firm, as a city under siege or a person refusing to succumb to persuasion
to withhold (something due or expected)
hold out for
to wait patiently or uncompromisingly for (the fulfilment of one's demands)
hold out on informal.
to delay in or keep from telling (a person) some new or important information

a person, country, organization, etc, that continues to resist or refuses to change
Honecker was one of the staunchest holdouts against reform
a person, country, organization, etc, that declines to cooperate or participate
they remain the only holdouts to signing the accord

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As long as Western governments talk tough one minute and hold out the begging bowl the next, not much is likely to change.

I am not sure we can hold out,” Mohammad said, but “all the major brigades are fighting there, including Jabhat al-Nusra.

Few here believe Kobani can hold out much longer and Tuesday the Kurdish defenders ordered remaining civilians to flee.

Otherwise, the Queen will just have to hold out for one of those miraculous letters.

Here, he has to hold out the option of force as a negotiating position.

Not being sufficiently numerous to hold out the town as well as the Alamo, they retreated into the latter.

And not only the ladies, but some of the harder sex: the Earl of Athol, Barbour says, could hold out no longer on any terms.

Without the fever, I would say he had a chance, but now I can hold out little hope.

Yet it should seem that he was not able to hold out against the skill and energy of the assailants.

In this respect, at least, the fashionable novels hold out brighter hopes to the heart of woman.

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