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hold good

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hold good
if a statement holds good for something or someone, it is true of that thing or person. The saying 'good things come in small packages' holds good for this excellent miniature TV set. (often + for) It looks as though my predictions for snow at Christmas are holding good.
See also: good, hold

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Then, say I, in the first place, that the Confederation is chargeable with the still greater folly of declaring certain powers in the federal government to be absolutely necessary, and at the same time rendering them absolutely nugatory; and, in the next place, that if the Union is to continue, and no better government be substituted, effective powers must either be granted to, or assumed by, the existing Congress; in either of which events, the contrast just stated will hold good.
But as to your other objection, I am afraid it will hardly hold good.
It should be emphasized that to no other form does what we have said of the similarity of medieval literature throughout Western Europe apply more closely, so that what we find true of the drama in England would for the most part hold good for the other countries as well.
 
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