| But then again, is it fair on the staff who live nearby to be expected to hold the fort when their colleagues can't make it in? |
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| Sue asks her colleague to hold the fort while she pops outside for a moment. |
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| The new arrived delegates who are here in week two, and the delegates who participated in COP15 hold the fort in Cancun Messe in Moon Palace. |
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| It is important to mention the devotion and work of the many supporters and volunteers who managed to hold the fort over the years. |
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| They keep a low profile, but remember that our soldiers do an excellent job because their wives hold the fort while they are away. |
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| Every emergency is a local event, and for the first 72 hours, local must hold the fort. |
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| It can maintain this status because the function of Judaism in diaspora-existence was, as we said, merely to mark time and hold the fort. |
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| In the meantime, it's up to the handful of officers on Canada's frozen northern border to hold the fort. |
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| To be able to have accomplished what he has over the years, there was always someone back home to hold the fort down. |
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| In the Solomons, Alfred Maesulia's only other colleague in the Agricultural Information Unit has been made redundant, leaving him to hold the fort alone. |
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| Reggie Miller and Jalen Rose cannot hold the fort forever. |
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| I would like to take this opportunity to pay special tribute to the team in my riding office who agreed, in completely appalling conditions, to hold the fort and continue to provide service to the public. |
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| So the board asked me to go out and hold the fort. |
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| I say hold the fort because we have worked under conditions that are almost unthinkable: without electricity, without heat, without running water and with only very limited telephone services. |
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