hold together

Takaichi’s brand of conservatism is unpopular with some opposition parties, and analysts say she might struggle to hold together a governing coalition.

She believes that while people are happy to cast a protest vote, they currently question whether Reform are really a government in waiting - so challenging them on whether their policies hold together, or whether their numbers add up, is a way of undermining their support.

The chief justice clearly had to hold together a six-justice majority that did not fully agree on its rationale for upholding Tennessee’s law.

"His argument is that most of the rest of the world does not want to be stuck with this dichotomy and wants to hold together some version of global order - that's what a number of states in Asia would agree," he said.

Across his many books, including the dense and wondrous "Underland," he takes in everything around him with fluid, impeccably crafted prose —somehow managing to hold together science, myth, memory and movement in a single voice.