Sentence examples for only hang on from inspiring English sources

Mugabe can only hang on now by rigging.

The other members of the band could only hang on for the ride.

With the coalition too fractured and fragile to change direction, Cameron can only hang on in the hope of something turning up.

Once it lashed itself to the mast of a broken financial industry, however, putting the entire economy at the mercy of people focused on the size of their bonuses rather than the health of the economy, the administration could only hang on, silently and single-mindedly working to recapitalize the banks.

Their bogey team Middlesbrough handled Cristiano Ronaldo and everyone else with composure and confidence, Milan scouts would not have recognised the side who slaughtered Roma and, with disputed penalties stubbornly refusing to come to their rescue and Rio Ferdinand's groin injury flaring up again, United could only hang on for a barely deserved point.

Even if they lose MPs (and many of their southern ones are vulnerable to the Tories), they need only hang on to third place for Mr Clegg to remain kingmaker-in-waiting.

Elsewhere, form team Crystal Palace assured their place in the play-offs by crushing Burnley 5-0 at Selhurst Park, while jittery Watford drew 1-1 at Blackpool and only hung on to sixth in place of Wolverhampton Wanderers on goal difference.

You might wonder, at this juncture, how it is that such an elementary confidence game could have not only hung on but continued unstoppably, and still be thriving after more than a century and a half.

But despite calls for his head, Sir Martin not only hung on to his job, but negotiated himself a fat compensation package for rescuing a company he had almost killed.Having made an acquisition, in Y&R, that skews half his business to America just as an American recession threatens, Sir Martin might be forgiven for feeling a touch of déjà vu on the timing front.

While most parody acts end up becoming, well, a joke, Yankovic has not only hung on -- he's thrived.

Charley Hoffman wastes the par five 15th and only pars, but hang on... hang on... this tee shot is juicy and on 16 he has five feet for birdie.