Hold up Pronunciation, Meaning, Synonyms & phonetic transcription

Workers recruited to be drillers end up as bandits who kill, rob, and hold up their colleagues or steal equipment, they're turning the oil industry into a no man's land where no one can instill order.

Greek words have o, Latin words have i, but it doesnt always hold up and it adds another layer of confusion, its just kind of a mess.

We learnt a lot from what happened the last time around, and took the time through the research to get this right, if we are sued after we issue a final rule, we strongly believe this will hold up under any legal challenges.

It was a strong quarter (for Exxon), their diversified model tends to hold up better in a weaker oil market and that is seen in this quarter.

Appeals, in my view, are just wasting the time of people who are very sick, like Kevin Turner, for a small group of guys to hold up the 99 percent that have accepted the deal, well, it would just be selfish.

We have used the reference of standards from Japan, the structure of the tunnel and the viaduct can hold up against a magnitude of 8 or equivalent.

It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything.

That is the whole appeal. He is willing to hold up that mirror, he still has that fire, that passion for real reform.

We had a good morning for it, so I had to take advantage just for the sake of getting back in the tournament, i guess it's fun to shoot a course record. I'm pretty sure it might not hold up for the rest of the week but feels good anyway.

Now, the question is, what do we need to do to get them to recover ? said Dr. Frank Ridgleyhead of conservation and research at Zoo Miami. Biologists believe they have the answer. Executives of the Patch of Heaven Sanctuary, a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating habitats for wildlife, in February finished building what they claim is the largest bat house in the world in an effort to save Floridas high flyers. Nobody else is doing this kind of work. Not on this scale, said Frederick Hubbard, the sanctuarys executive director. The two-tier structure can house up to 250,000 bats. The University of Florida boasts large bat houses of The University of Florida own.According to the [ UF ] web site, theyre the biggest occupied bat houses in the world, Frederick Hubbard told the Miami Herald. Our bat house is technically bigger. Were trying to get the wording right on that. Frederick Hubbard says the batstend to form colonies, living together and procreating. The new two-tier bat house can hold up to 250,000 total bats. ( Elina Shirazi/Fox News) Theres usually a dominant male, a large male who establishes and claims these coveted kinds of spaces and then he tries to attract females and the females tend to then be attracted to a male who is going to defend the territory and keep a safe space for them, Ridgley said. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Ridgley says the bats are vital to biodiversity and in fact helpful to humans. Theyre cleaning up our skies. Theyre providing all these services and in some parts of the country, you know, bats literally provide billions of dollars of services to the residents, Ridgley said. Ridgley said its hard to know the history of the bats since they were only discovered as a unique species in 2004. There was very little known about this bat just about a decade ago. I mean they only knew of one place where they were roosting and it was a mystery across their whole range here in South Florida. Anything about them, you know, what kind of groups they had, what they need to survive. So there was a lot of intensive study going into answering some of these questions, said Ridgley. Ridgley estimates their population is now only in the hundreds, and technology is helping them to keep track. One device they use, an echo meter, plugs into a cell phone and identifies the type of bat and itslocation based off of sound. They do a type of echolocation and supposedly they have some recorded sounds that theyre going to be able to put up into the bat-house that will attract them, said Frederick Hubbard. Creators claim this bat house at the Patch of Heaven Sanctuary is the largest in the world. Frederick Hubbard said that if their project accomplishes its aim, it may help rewrite the fate of these bats who have lost almost all of their habitat. For now, Frederick Hubbard said they are patiently waiting for the bats to rent out their space. Come home.