Best of all as training for literature, it seems, was being forced to hold one's own in a house full of thespians.

Or at least, at having held one's own.

According to Rand, therefore, possessing free will, human beings must choose their values: one does not automatically hold one's own life as his ultimate value.

"Anne Neville, there is nothing so wonderful in the world as holding one's own child in one's arms.

To hold one's own life as one's ultimate value, and one's own happiness as one's highest purpose are two aspects of the same achievement.

The message would be that Americans, too, hold certain things sacred - and among them are liberty, equality, the pursuit of happiness and the right to hold one's own beliefs.

This moving space with its own sound system not only opens a door for musical self-expression but encourages fantasies of holding one's own with Sinatra or backing up the Beatles.

I can't think of any better training for the lifelong struggle with good books that Harold Bloom believes is the prerequisite for serious reading than learning to hold one's own against a group.

Omorashi: The act of holding one's own urine until the need to urinate is urgent, making another hold in their urine, or watching another person with an urgent need to urinate.

For all its imperfections this is the the fairest system going, and the one that offers the greatest chance of individual freedom, including the freedom to hold one's own beliefs, and the freedom to dissent.

To submit tamely and meekly to theft, or to any other injury, is to invite almost certain repetition of the offense, in a place where self-reliant hardihood and the ability to hold one's own under all circumstances rank as the first virtues.

If the needed Safety is known to be unavailable to the threatening team then one may continue to hold one's own Safety, as it will take 3 distinct turns for the opponents to correct the Hazard, Roll, and play any Distance.