They bespeak no particularity, and thus hold no interest.
Its mandate is to enforce world-trade rules and thus hold the line against protectionism.
After all, terrorists hold no territory and thus hold no territory dear.
But their presence is seen as a stabilizing influence that could discourage Turkey from dispatching troops into northern Iraq, and thus hold off armed clashes between Turks and Kurds.
When we fear for our environment, we seem easily to fall victim to short-term, feel-good solutions that spend money on relatively trifling issues and thus hold back resources from far more important ones.
The reason is the Bank of England has intervened in the market to hold up gilt prices (and thus hold down yields) by quantitative easing, which has reduced the supply of gilts in the market.
However, if we do not teach our children to recognize this fact, they will continue to be alienated from the environment, and thus hold themselves unaccountable for its fate.
Despite the interest that collaborative authorship would thus hold, the idea still seemed somehow insulting to the reader: as though the novels were cooked up by focus groups bent on exploiting our narrative desire and producing escapist diversions.
Load-fund investors thus hold on longer than they would otherwise in order to avoid the painful realization that the money paid to the fund's sales representative was a total waste.
The CDU looks likely to keep two state premiers it thought it would lose and thus hold on to more of its clout in the Bundesrat, the legislature's upper house.
The commissioner explained that he hoped to use the precinct commanders' meeting reports and the survey to measure how well the police respond to neighborhood issues, and thus hold commanders responsible for improving community relations, an area where progress has long been difficult to document.
