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He is, instead, just a hold-over from a time dominated by tired old ideas.

Stupak to announce retirement 2010

- As time goes on, and if the money can be found, do we continue increasing side-mounted configuration or is that design a necessary hold-over until an In-line can be developed some decades later?

The 1990 Augustine Commission Revisited - NASA Watch 2009

He is a government bureaucrat and Bush Administration hold-over, who is the acting director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which manages Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the behemoths that own hundreds of billions of dollars in mortgage debt.

Gordon Whitman: Time for New Leadership at Fannie and Freddie: Obama Should Side With Homeowners Over Wall Street Gordon Whitman 2012

It could be just one of those hold-over Pavlov-type conditioning reflexes from the last administration.

Think Progress » Citizens United Decision: ‘A Rejection Of The Common Sense Of The American People’ 2010

Which raises the question: given the McDonnell Administration's fervent claim that we need to jettison our current ABC system because it is a hold over from Prohibition, would it not logically follow such a hold-over from hated English rule a 150 years before Prohibition should be on their "reform" agenda for elimination?

Killing the Messenger: Who will dare give His Excellency the bad news? 2010

The comic itself was tolerable up until the point that two of the hold-over characters Iron Man and Captain America talked in a Mamet-in-spandex way about how awesome the previous 15 pages had been.

Last straws 2010

Kumar says the politicians 'tendency to dramatic gestures is a hold-over from India's struggle for independence, when Mahatma Gandhi used strikes and non-violent protest to overthrow British rule.

Brawls, Sit-Ins: Politics As Usual In India 2010

The comic itself was tolerable up until the point that two of the hold-over characters Iron Man and Captain America talked in a Mamet-in-spandex way about how awesome the previous 15 pages had been.

April « 2010 « The Manga Curmudgeon 2010

Might he have been a hold-over from the Bush Administration, or someone who lost a design competition to Inhabitat recently?

New York City Rebuilt From Its Own Trash | Inhabitat 2010

Unlike most states, Governor McDonnell is officially "His Excellency", a hold-over from British rule.

Killing the Messenger: Who will dare give His Excellency the bad news? 2010