Holding may refer to:
- Holding (law), the central determination in a judicial opinion
- Holding (aviation)
- Earl Holding, the majority owner of Sinclair Oil
- Michael Holding, a cricketer
- Holding company, a company that owns stock in other companies
- Holding (American football), a common penalty in American football
- Therapeutic Holding, a method to manage violence and aggression in children
- Billy Holding, rugby league footballer of the 1920s, '30s, and '40s for Cumberland, Warrington, Rochdale Hornets
Other articles related to "holding":
... Holding was much admired during her day ... during its golden age of 1920–1940, said of Holding that she was “the top suspense writer of them all.” Literary critic Anthony Boucher wrote “For subtlety, realistic conviction ... Boucher also praised Holding's Miss Kelly as "one of those too-rare juvenile fantasies with delightful appeal to the adult connoisseur." Holding's novel The Blank Wall (1947) was so popular ...
... path, the solitary rocks
... a mobile licence in 2000, is the kingdom's first private operator, holding 36.69% of the market ... Meditel's biggest competitor is Maroc Telecom, holding 60.71% of the market ... Though holding a tiny share (2.6%) of the voice market, this new player has captured a majority of the 3G market (69.11%) ...
... interview with writer Tommy Murphy and lead actor Guy Edmonds for 2008 Melbourne season of Holding the Man The Long Embrace - Interview with actors Guy Edmonds and Matt Zeremes Holding the Guy ...
Famous quotes containing the word holding:
“The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry.”
—Raoul Vaneigem (b. 1934)
“Our star was brighter perhaps when it had water in it.
Now there is no question even of that, but only
Of holding on to the hard earth so as not to get thrown off,
With an occasional dream, a vision ...”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)