The practice still obtains in Wales".
Something like this obtains in the movie industry.
The same wonderfully fixed cast of characters obtains in my two favorite restaurants.
The same sense of contraction obtains in art, literature, and philosophy.
Something similar obtains in the case of the tzitzit (fringes), or "twisted cords".
Given the bleak situation that currently obtains in the Middle East, such fragility is a major source of concern.
The hope of securing respite in the EU from corrupt and discredited national elites still obtains in the Balkans and in Ukraine.
The opposite obtains in the horse world - horsemen, and especially horsewomen, are repeatedly warned not to sentimentalise or anthropomorphise their animals, and so they keep their attitudes private.
With a population-age profile similar to that of Florida, the Japanese government is paying more for social security than it obtains in contributions and taxes.
The rule obtains in the political and the recreational realms alike: there is, as it were, a physiognomy of fortune, and sooner or later it alters.
A high degree of centralization obtains in the Commonwealth countries and Scandinavia (except for health care and social assistance, which are decentralized to lower levels of government).
