How does the theory hold up today?
Border towns could in theory hold local referendums and secede in a piecemeal manner.
This would mean they could, in theory, hold the balance of power in a hung parliament while having little legitimacy to be in government.
Although any of them could in theory hold the project hostage, the Met, with its huge endowment and clout, is in a special position to flex its muscles without mobilizing strong allies among the other groups.
In a letter to members of the Politburo Standing Committee, Mr. Wen staunchly defended himself and his family and offered to submit to punishment if they were found to have violated laws or disciplinary rules that, in theory, hold top leaders responsible for relatives who trade on their proximity to power.
(More nuanced proponents of this theory hold, in a "fair and balanced" sort of way, that over-savers in China and under-savers in the United States — and other countries, like Spain, Britain and Ireland — are equally to blame; in any case, it's the imbalance that's the problem).
If you like, you can start cooking now; otherwise summon up all your patience and shape your handiwork one by one, using the back of a fork to give each gnocco (the correct singular, and a word worth remembering for the next game of Scrabble) a set of grooves that will, in theory, hold more sauce.
But does that theory hold under a test?
In the 1950s Erich Frauwallner proposed a thesis that there were two separate Vasubandhus, whom the traditional biographies mistakenly combined into one figure.[7] Versions of this theory hold sway in some areas of the academy.
Kale and Noe (1991) Two-period model with information asymmetry regarding the investment quality Does the pecking order theory hold under asymmetric information regarding the quality of investment opportunities and a tax advantage to debt?
The general trend, however, is that the stronger the kinetic asymmetry between the mass transfer coefficients of the reactants, the slower the reaction rate can be and still have the quasi-equilibrium theory hold.
