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Could he have kept hold of it if The Faller hadn't pantsed him?

The Wildcats started fighting back, but the Highlanders kept hold of their lead.

But the Jaish al-Islam group has kept hold of the town of Douma.

The gang kept hold of Wong Yuk-kawn, the chairman of a Hong Kong-listed oil company, for 38 days.

He'd kept hold of the master tapes for that album's five vocal tracks, and 30 years later, he's finally happy with it.

Greg Garcia added an RBI single for the Cardinals, who have won six of seven and kept hold of the top National League wild-card spot.

A police K-9 also indicated it found drugs in a package that Bricker's former landlord had kept hold of, after he suspected Bricker of dealing drugs.

We haven't had a major oil spill since 2001, but we've kept hold of all the sweaters, as we occasionally get a penguin come ashore covered in oil.

Democrat Bill Clinton lied to a grand jury about his affair with an intern but kept hold of his own party and won over some Republicans in the Senate.

The deal sees Alibaba buy shares from existing backers, including Rocket Internet — Singaporean sovereign fund Temasek and the Lazada management team are the only investors that kept hold of their stock.

Kidnappers freed about 80 school children and a driver in west Cameroon on Wednesday, but kept hold of a principal and one teacher, two days after snatching them in a school raid.

They have refused to hand over keys to many rooms in the magazine's offices, and they have also kept hold of financial records and the official chop, needed to stamp documents, Mr. Wu said.

The results of the 20063 midterms — Republicans kept hold of the Senate and Democrats took control of the House — will usher in an era of divided government that could stifle the White House's agenda.

DRESDEN, Germany — Germany's leading far-right populist party made significant gains in elections in two eastern states on Sunday, as Chancellor Angela Merkel's party and her governing partners suffered losses but kept hold of power.

Dutchman Steven Kruijswijk (Lotto NL-Jumbo) finished in the main pack and kept hold of the pink jersey while maintaining a three-minute advantage over his nearest challenger, Colombia's Esteban Chaves (Orica-GreenEDGE), with four days left.

The club has kept hold of Koke and Saúl Ñíguez, a pair of talented young midfielders, and cheaply re-signed the striker Fernando Torres and the club captain Gabi, both of whom had departed in leaner years.

Steel guitars and lonesome whistles are one of the few cherished roots I kept hold of when I eventually packed my bags and hauled ass to the big city, and having the opportunity to talk to the Queen herself was, honestly, a dream come true.

The performance that lingers, once the tale is told, is that of Jay Pharoah as Nate, a fellow-patient on Sawyer's ward, who has furtively kept hold of his cell phone (she was deprived of hers), and who lends the film an understated calm.

Then he pulled out a pack of cigarettes and a lighter, and we sat next to each other on the bench, beneath the silky black sky and the bright white moon, and lit our cigarettes, and for a while we didn't say a word, for enslaved by the darkness we could barely see each other, we simply glided forward, at times he kept hold of the rudder, at times I did so, and together we broke the sound of the quiet night and the gently rushing sea, its surface like a freshly lacquered floor.

But Leyland kept hold of their registration of the name, and it came in handy for the Project B45 Leyland Olympian in 1980. LW was the bodybuilder's identity for the vehicle, it could have stood for Leyland Weymann, or Light Weight, probably the latter. One of the Fishwick buses is preserved.

In the 1980s, Madagascar moved back towards France, abandoning many of its communist- inspired policies in favour of a market economy, though Ratsiraka still kept hold of power. Eventually, opposition, both within and without, forced Ratsiraka to consider his position and in 1992 the country adopted a new and democratic constitution.

Schädlich kept hold of the Commando Diary once the Commandos were taken away to Berlin. Later in the war Schädlich was to lose his life in Italy, dying of a wound to the stomach. His family kept his diary and many years later his journal was published by his grandson, Thomas Schädlich.

Here as quoted by Fritz Hennenberg 1990, p. 34. Bruiniers work with Brecht was completely forgotten for decades: Brecht never mentioned it in his "Hauspostille" compilation or anywhere else. That began to change only in 1973, when the fourth volume of the inventory of Brecht's literary estate was published. It included Bruinier signatures on a succession of Brecht songs from 1925 and 1927, which Brecht had kept hold of.

The Armenians were able to take Lamballo once again but failed to take Sadakhlo entrenching themselves at the nearby railway station while the Georgians kept hold of the town itself. The Georgians on the other side were not able to retake Lamballo after several attempts even when reinforced. Both armies rested on irregular lines. On 1 January 1919 hostilities ceased and the two nations' army commanders held peace talks which continued in Tbilisi.

He also explains that the pendant was given to him by a woman he had gone on a date with. She had kept hold of the other half and Brad realises she was involved in the robbery. Guy later recognises the woman as Paige Sneddon (Tracy Callander), Brad's boss and girlfriend. Guy struggles to tell Brad and tries asking Paige out on a date in a bid to get the truth about the robbery out of her.

Lieutenant Edgar Newland, commanding a platoon of 30 Leicesters, held the most forward position of the battalion. His platoon was surrounded and cut off for most of the battle but Newland and his men fought off all attacks and kept hold of their isolated position throughout the two days. For his actions Newland later received the Military Cross. During the two-day battle Japanese troops managed to capture trenches on the eastern sector of Thompson Ridge.

After Ladysmith was relieved, the Boer armies retreated over the Biggarsberg, and for two months they kept hold of the northern portion of the railway. During that time, Paul Kruger took a train ride to encourage Boer soldiers in Glencoe. When the Boers retreated, they damaged many bridges and tunnels, especially the bridge over the Tugela and the Laing's Nek tunnel. The hallmark of the last phase of the war was the Boer forces' guerrilla warfare and the British forces' building of blockhouses to counter these techniques.

When he entered the hall, all the Nazi leaders were present making the Hitler salute, but Furtwängler kept hold of his baton and began the concert immediately. Hitler probably could not have imagined that such an affront was possible but decided to put up a good show: he sat down and the concert went on. At the end of the concert, Furtwängler continued to keep his baton in his right hand. Hitler understood the situation and jumped up and demonstratively held out his right hand to him.

"FA approves Cardiff for UEFA cup" BBC Sport Retrieved on 25 April 2008 However, Cardiff lost the FA Cup final 1–0 against Portsmouth, who hadn't already won a qualification place. In the following 2008–09 season Cardiff made a serious attempt at getting promotion, finishing 7th losing out on a play-off spot through goals conceded. During the January transfer window they kept hold of star players, such as £2M rated Joe Ledley and added Quincy Owusu-Abeyie, Chris Burke and Michael Chopra to the side.

Nick van der Velden, the 2008–09 Eredivisie winner with AZ was signed as marquee player. The club kept hold of Ahn Byung-keon as their Asian quota player. Several players were released before the campaign got under way; defender Bobby Satria left to play for Sriwijaya, Rully Desrian joined Bhayangkara while Zoran Knežević, Nemanja Vidaković, and Daniel Heffernan were without a club. Bali United were also left by their first manager, Indra Sjafri who was appointed as Indonesia national under-19 football team head coach.

The club kept hold of its captain Patrick Vieira after much transfer speculation over his expected move to Real Madrid. Several players left Arsenal before the campaign got under way; defender Martin Keown left to play for Leicester City, Ray Parlour joined Middlesbrough while Sylvain Wiltord signed for Lyon. Arsenal began the season in good form and equalled Nottingham Forest's unbeaten league run of 42 matches against Middlesbrough. The team set a new English division record and went a further seven games unbeaten before losing to Manchester United in controversial circumstances.

Under the control of Ron Coles, Midlands Radio plc was floated on the full stock market in 1990. Following the introduction of the Broadcasting Act of 1990, a number of major groups began to lead a consolidation of the market. This led to Midlands Radio plc being purchased by for 18 million by Capital Radio plc, who then sold Trent, Leicester Sound, and Mercia Sound to GWR in 1993, but kept hold of BRMB. As Mercia and its medium wave frequency were sold in the bundle, GWR announced that 1359 kHz would be rebranded as Classic Gold.

Trailing by two goals halfway through the second half, Bolton pulled the goals back, first through a Martin Petrov free kick and then a team effort completed by Mark Davies. Bolton finished the month in fifth place and challenging for European football. December opened with a game at Manchester City who, despite having Aleksandar Kolarov sent off in the second half, kept hold of their one-goal lead, given to them in the first half by Carlos Tevez. The week after, Bolton themselves had a man sent off, with Mark Davies receiving his marching orders for elbowing Phil Jones with the game goalless.

Map of the Baluchistan Agency From the 15th century onward, the area was ruled by the Rind tribe which was headed by Mir Chakar Rind. Which led by Hooths and Khosags and in small particular part governed by Gorgeig and Sardarzahi. In the late 18th century, the Khan of Kalat is said to have granted sanctuary at Gwadar to one of the claimants for the throne of Muscat. When that claimant became Sultan, he kept hold of Gwadar, installing a governor, who eventually led an army to conquer the city of Chabahar some 200 kilometres to the west.

She remained with her mentally unstable mother until her eldest siblings, Eleanor and the future Emperor Charles V, arrived in Spain, coming from Flanders. All of her five older siblings, except Ferdinand, were born in the Low Countries and had been put into the care of their aunt Margaret of Austria, but Joanna kept hold of young Catherine. Catherine actually stayed with her mother during imprisonment at Tordesillas during her grandfather Ferdinand of Aragon's time as regent. When the time came for her to marry, Catherine was released from the custody that her mother was to endure until her death.

The Orangist majority in the States of Utrecht did not accept this and moved the States to the Utrecht city of Amersfoort, while the Patriot minority remained in Utrecht. For the time being the Amersfoort States kept hold of the seat of Utrecht province in the States General, however. Meanwhile, the Amersfoort States convinced the stadtholder to garrison Amersfoort with States Army troops under his command. These troops threatened the safety of Utrecht city, as witnessed by the fact that the Amersfoort garrison in early May 1787 made an attempt to occupy the sluice in Vreeswijk, a strategic object.

Now Hai will do anything to protect her new home - even if it means betraying the very people who need her most. In order to protect the people and the world she loves from the future she sees in increasingly horrific visions, Hai is forced to throw away her own happiness and ascend the serpiente throne. Using all the power she had at her disposal, she split her soul and pushed into him her serpiente magic. Nicias kept hold of her to keep her from diving too deep into Ecl, and they were unconscious for a few days.

GWR's argument was that the use of higher profile presenters would allow listeners a better quality of service. The Radio Authority agreed to the change and all the stations began sharing the programmes produced in Dunstable in Bedfordshire, more than 100 miles from the Norwich studios. At this stage, the only local programme remaining on Classic Gold Amber was the Breakfast Show, this was later changed to Drivetime to allow Mike Read and later Dave Lee Travis to present a networked breakfast show. Due to GWR exceeding the ownership limit of stations, the Classic Gold stations were sold to UBC Media, although GWR kept hold of a 20 per cent stake.

In January 1967, there were mass riots by NLF and FLOSY supporters in the old Arab quarter of Aden town, which continued until mid February, despite the intervention of British troops. During the period there were many attacks on the troops, and an Aden Airways Douglas DC-3 plane was destroyed in the air with no survivors. At the same time, the members of FLOSY and the NLF were also killing each other in large numbers. The temporary closure of the Suez Canal in 1967 effectively negated the last reason that British had kept hold of the colonies in Yemen, and, in the face of uncontrollable violence, they began to withdraw.

TLLC kept hold of Travelodge, and The People's Restaurant Group Ltd was founded by the new owners of Little Chef, however they continued trading under the same name. In March 2006, the People's Restaurant Group sold 65 of its sites under a leaseback deal for £59 million to Israeli property group Arazim. In December 2006, it was reported that Little Chef was undergoing serious financial problems; the business was said to be losing around £3m a year, struggling to keep up with rent payments and had lost nearly half of its branches in five years. Furthermore, Laurence Wosskow suffered a heart attack and subsequent ill health earlier in the year, and was unable to help turn the company around.

In reward for his role in the victory the royal court celebrated Christmas at his expense at Northampton, but this proved the climax of his career. After the battle he was one of the many fighters who was alienated by Hubert de Burgh, Justiciar of England, over them keeping the castles they had captured for their own profit. Due to his role in the campaign and the victory at Lincoln itself he was unassailable for many years; he deflected judgements made against him in 1218 and 1219 and kept hold of his High Sheriffdoms, including that of Rutland. Between 1218 and 1219 he also served as a Justice of the Peace for Essex, Hertfordshire and East Anglia, and when William de Redvers, 5th Earl of Devon died he was given the castle of Plympton.