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Clung in sentence

106 examples of Clung in a sentence

They clung to their belief in the shining ideals of this country, and they proved that being an American is not just for some people, that race is not how we define being an American.
They clung to certainty in the belief that doubt would undermine them.
I clung to her again, as I had when I was a child, and I let go, and then I promised that I would call.
The anger, the anxiety, the guilt, the depression ... it just clung to me.
But they offered me this little piece of reassurance, and I clung to it.
In these desperate circumstances, North Korea’s leaders clung to their strategy of developing nuclear weapons as a last resort to defend the security of their regime.
Instead, it has clung to the view that the government is the main source of soft power, promoting ancient cultural icons that it thinks might have global appeal, often using the tools of propaganda.
Indeed, the failed Greek “fiscal consolidation and reform program,” and the way the EU’s leaders have clung to it despite five years of evidence that the program cannot possibly succeed, is symptomatic of a broader European governance failure, one with deep historical roots.
The more the scheme was exposed as unsustainable, the more doggedly officials clung to it – and the more optimistic their narratives.
At the same time, economic modernization brought social mobility to the conservatives, which led to the emergence of a new bourgeoisie that clung to its traditional religious values and viewed the Kemalist elite – ensconced in the army, the bureaucracy, the judiciary, and the universities – as oppressors.
Instead, they clung to hard-line positions, leaving Mubarak unable to find a solution to the impasse.
At the same time, Northern Ireland’s dwindling Protestant majority clung ever more fervently to the British connection.
And he has long clung to this rule, despite a lack of evidence that it would have delivered better results than the Fed’s actual policy decisions since the 1970s.
Despite these experiences, Europe’s leaders clung to the nineteenth-century military theorist Carl von Clausewitz’s dictum that, “War is the continuation of politics through other means.”
A few people, of course, clung to the possibility of what was once called “actually existing socialism.”
Mbeki is culpable, not for having initially entertained a view held by a tiny minority of scientists, but for having clung to this view without allowing it to be tested in fair and open debate among experts.
We have clung to this faith in technological salvation as the old faiths waned and technology became ever more inventive.
Yet Trump and his advisers have clung to the false claim that growth will increase to 3% or even 4%.
The Kim regime has clung to power despite being subject to severe economic sanctions, perhaps because China, fearing a united Korea on its border, has not yet been willing to withdraw its support.
Indeed, the Awami League rightly pointed out that the caretaker government that took power in 2006, backed by the military, clung to power for two years, instead of the constitutionally mandated maximum of 90 days, and even tried to prevent Hasina from returning to the country from abroad.
For too long, developed countries have clung to their outsize influence in the international financial institutions, even as their fiscal fitness has dwindled.
Three months ago, the Bush administration still clung to its devil’s sound bite, “We don’t torture.”
While still emphasizing family values and traditional morality, they lost the whiff of incense that had clung to the Christian Democratic parties at the beginning of the century – by the 1970’s, they even began to stress that one didn’t have to be a believer to join.
Since the 2013 election, when Najib lost the popular vote but clung to power, thanks to electoral gerrymandering, he has worked to bring Hadi on side, for example, by facilitating the potential introduction of harsh hudud punishments (mandated by God under Islamic law) for crimes like adultery, drinking, and apostasy.
Uncertainty about what happens the day after is one reason why Maduro has clung to power.
The right has clung to a belief in “trickle-down” growth, which translates into doing whatever is good for business, because corporate profitability will boost investment, employment, and wages.
Nonetheless, in a 2013 commencement speech, Obama clung to hope: “the cynics may be the loudest voices – but I promise you they will accomplish the least.”
Enjoying the benefit of the doubt, Argentina clung to the fixed-rate regime.
The memory of the evil done to her husband aroused in her a feeling akin to repulsion, such as a man might feel who when in danger of drowning had shaken off another who clung to him.
While he was turning him, with the enormous lean arm about his neck, Kitty quickly and unostentatiously turned and beat the pillow, and arranged the invalid's head and the hair that again clung to the temples.
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