But the things that divide the party are minuscule compared to the things that hold it together.
At the end of last year, Chancellor Merkel and President Sarkozy said emphatically that they would hold it together.
And then you have to somehow hold it together until growth resumes.
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If Europe can hold it together with the Greece and PIIGS fiscal-train wreck, then Franco-German-Brussels EU federalists may get their FTT in the euro-zone or entire EU-wide.
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Whenever a superstar implodes like a supernova and is able to hold it together psychologically, refusing to act-out in self-serving ways, he sends an invaluable message to his teammates.
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The result, in a mountain range characterised by soft, crumbling rock which desperately needs strong roots to hold it together, has been an increasing number of landslides, which block roads, railways and even rivers.
But Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland have kept it smart and irony-free -- there isn't a trace of condescension in their evocation of working people trying to hold it together, if not get ahead, or in their concentration on familiar, even timeless themes.
Whenever somebody cries in an office, they are simultaneously losing it while trying to hold it all together.
They are trying to hold it all together at the expense of their time, their energy and in many cases their family.
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Ms. PARKER: You know, some days I do because, you know, it does put a lot of stress on myself and my husband, and it's hard to work two jobs and hold it all together.
For two years, I traveled this country with you, and everywhere I went, I heard stories of folks who were trying their best to hold it all together while working harder and harder for less money.
In some ways it is like a biotech company doing all it can to hold things together to bring a promising new drug through trials to Phase III testing before selling it off to a major with the sacks of money to bring it to market.
So, the question is not what would cause Europe to break up, but rather what would cause it to hold together.
"I couldn't get it to hold together, " she says.
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The Dutch, for example, have been discussing a scheme for crowded motorways for years, but no coalition government has ever felt that it could hold together in the turbulence that would follow such a radical scheme.
But while Mr Hasenstab forecasts recession for Europe, he still thinks it will hold together, and is more upbeat about the global economy as the effects of quantitative easing by central banks in the developed world are exported to emerging markets.
Prosecutors "put their case together with Band-Aids and it didn't hold together, " Lewis' attorney, Ed Garland, told CNN this week.
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His narrative may not quite hold together, but it has very good bits.
Beijing worries it cannot hold the country together without sufficient control.
But it takes hundreds of thousands of pounds of the stuff to hold together even a small city--most of it laboriously buried beneath the streets.
If South Sudan is to hold together and prosper, it has to overcome many hurdles.
Why get rid of a system that helps hold the country together to replace it with one that would balkanize it?
He said fencing and encouraging maram grass, which helps to hold sand dunes together, after it was found growing in the area had stabilized the dunes.
However, the defeats in the regional elections may make it much harder to hold together his governing block, which is a disparate group of regional and national parties with conflicting aims.
For decades the main glue binding it together has been its hold on power and on the spoils thereof.
That it will then fail to hold together seems equally difficult to contradict.
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Like Ashoka and Gandhi, Akbar constructed a religious ideology that served to hold together a diffuse polity as it fed his own soul.
She also found it increasingly difficult to hold her cabinet together.
Ultimately the decision whether to "do what it takes" to hold the euro together is a political one, which the ECB, understandably enough, wants to be taken by politicians, not the central bank.
Mr. Silver had developed an extremely weak glue, a paste so feeble it could barely hold two pieces of paper together.
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