Whatever the American election outcome, experts say, American negotiators next year will have to deal with a prickly nation, deeply insecure about American military power, clinging to nuclear bombs for their defense.
With the streets still full of thousands of protesters, and Yemen's economy in a tailspin, Mr. Saleh's relatives have insisted on keeping power, clinging to a narrative that paints them as all that stand in the way of Islamist militants' seizing control.
He alleged that the current incumbents might cling to power through a military coup.
Power clings to the passé, retreating from the cutting edge, running safe TV shows, choosing scientific stasis.
Jon Snow remains heroic, which is to say he resists temptations of sex and power, clings to his principles, takes on dangerous and foolhardy missions, defeats lieutenants of the Big Bad, and is prepared to do anything in order to find allies.
Healed by a gecko: Bandage that mimics lizard's power to cling [Daily Mail].
Since 2008, the story of American politics has been the Republican Party's long, vicious struggle to regain power and cling onto it by whatever means necessary.
Bigger and heavier species need more sticking power to cling to vertical surfaces, but have less body surface available, he said.
But the Kremlin's effort to cement Russia's status as world power by clinging as much a possible to the post-1945 era was short-sighted.
One doesn't know what he believes, the other doesn't know what to do with the power he clings to so desperately".
