Hold 'em English

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Hold 'em properNoun

— (poker) Texas hold 'em

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If you are a high-net-worth investor, a sovereign wealth fund, or a central bank, it makes perfect sense to hold a modest proportion of your portfolio in gold as a hedge against extreme events.

Less certain is whether he will feel secure enough to hold a presidential election (or any other kind of election) if he cannot change the constitution in a way that guarantees his continued misrule.

History cannot be put on hold as Europe sorts out its internal balance of power.

For example, he allowed a private press to flourish, and in 2000 he became the first Ethiopian leader to hold multi-party parliamentary elections.

For much of the past 60 years, it would have been impossible to hold such a fundamental dialogue without US participation.

Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential.

NAIROBI - With unemployment soaring, bankruptcies climbing, and stock markets in free-fall, it may at first glance seem sensible to ditch the fight against climate change and put environmental investments on hold.

After all, by capping spreads, the buyback facility would limit the downside risk while providing incentives to hold the bonds and wait for the upside - a good reason, perhaps, to make the facility a temporary offer.

What Iraq has taught is the importance of developing civil society and the rule of law before trying to hold broad-based elections.

Indeed, no one even knows how many guns Americans hold.

By contrast, skeptics hold that the US economy already contains the seeds of its own socio-economic decline.

But coalitions do not hold together forever, and the pain of sanctions often cuts both ways, affecting buyers as well as sellers.

Should Mousavi persuade Khamenei to reconsider his position, the Supreme Leader's hold on power will be shaken.

For example, the General Assembly should hold public hearings in which candidates are interviewed, thereby greatly enhancing the stature of the candidate who is eventually selected.

Those negotiations should have begun seriously last year, but the war in Georgia intervened to put them on hold.

Instead, the EU's structure now demands not only a new consensus about Europe's role in the world, but also new means to achieve consensus. History cannot be put on hold as Europe sorts out its internal balance of power.

Only by demonstrating professionalism in its work, and willingness to hold senior government figures accountable where appropriate, can the ICC engender broad and lasting support.

This reflex has left Zimbabwe practically a journalism-free zone, with only the foreign press seeking to hold President Robert Mugabe to account.

But it is condescending to refuse to hold many of them partly responsible for their own plight.

They hold different religions and backgrounds but common dreams and aspirations.

Foreign investors now hold more than half of that debt.

While it may be convenient to hold others accountable for America's problems, this is bad economics driving bad politics.

At the same time, emerging-market central banks need to accumulate gold reserves, which they still hold in far lower proportion than do rich-country central banks.

Agriculture there has been damaged by the cutting of walnut, apricot, and mulberry trees for winter fuel, and by a failure to replant poplar, willow, and tamarisk - the trees that hold fragile meadows in place.

Indeed, Chinese President Hu Jintao continually affirms that he will not hold a summit with a Japanese prime minister who goes to Yasukuni, which most Chinese regard as a glorification of past Japanese aggression and colonialism.