Does it matter that four clubs relentlessly expand their overseas support-base while the rest cling desperately to what they have?

Now, most of the greenery that survives, clings desperately to the banks of the spring water stream running between the two hills.

He mixes with outlaws while clinging desperately to the last of his principles.

In a life where we all cling precariously to our dignity, their masterly indignities are a balm and a release.

Prisoners clung precariously to life amid a vast tundra wasteland in baking summer heat and winter temperatures that sometimes fell to -50 degrees.

A misshapen ball of sticky rice clings precariously to a slice of raw tuna.

The stony track continues (another half-hour's walk), to the entrance to the monastery, which clings precariously to the sheer north face of the gorge.

During the 1980s until the spring of 1998, the last part of the broken lighthouse clung precariously to the bluff.

The road ahead clings stubbornly to hillsides and makes tight turns at the top of gaping, hungry chasms.

They said he was a stuffy old man who clung stubbornly to obsolete forms of music.

And yet, the nobles clung stubbornly to power, and they, not the bourgeois, continued to be the model that everyone wanted to imitate.

Half an hour or so into the journey, we pass within three miles of a ruined castle, clinging tenaciously to a clifftop.

But here they clung tenaciously to their rocky territory - and their equally unshakable beliefs.

More poems appeared last autumn, evoking his wretched physical state, but he clung tenaciously to life.

A dictator clings tenaciously to his job because of desperate private need.

Grey clung tenaciously to his ground, dreading only that he might be driven from it before assistance could arrive.

I cling tight to my course on the sidewalk.

Some may naturally cling tight to the wall, others may be trained to do that, and others may be happy scrambling through and above large shrubs in front.

At deserted honey-combs, the bird clings tight and presses its tail on the surface of the comb.

We have been taught to cling tightly to our money, as if our money represents that perch of safety and security.

The bees cling tightly together on the combs in the hive.

The lemurs often adopt an upright vertical posture, using enlarged and fleshy digital pads on their hands and feet to cling tightly to tree branches.

The story clings tightly to that of the film.

Clinging tightly to routine can hold back happiness.