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stay

Law the suspension of a judicial proceeding, etc.
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stay

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(engineering)
In a structure, a tensile member which holds other members of the structure rigidly in position.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

stay

1. Anything that stiffens or helps to maintain a frame or other structure, as a strut or brace.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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But I know a few students who took failure as an opportunity to show how to 'stay the course.'
Stay the Course students are paired with a Navigator--a case manager who walks with them for up to three years of their college career, helping them traverse the school system and overcome the obstacles that normally derail their education.
If we do not, then we will see thousands more of our heroes lost for nothing other than a stubborn, "stay the course" mentality (THE NEW AMERICAN, "Rumsfeld Goes," November 27).
It is possible the result will be nothing more than another new slogan, since the phrase "stay the course" has already been replaced with the amorphous adjective "flexible." And though George Bush has yet to demonstrate he possesses the flexibility to bend down and undo the Velcro fasteners on his shoes, he has bet a large amount of his political capital on trying to sell us on his transmogrification into a limber fourteen-year-old female Olympic gymnast.
Not with a bang but a whimper did "stay the course" fade away as the sound-bite synopsis of President Bush's strategy in Iraq.
A business plan helps provide a road map-a sound investment approach based on the tenets of prudent investing-and the discipline to stay the course.
This is a wonderful opportunity to be among friends and supporters as I convey to you how our Air Force will, in fact, stay the course and yet mind the future.
It has become easier to stay the course and go 100% hotel than it was couple years ago."
I do hope he can stay the course because whatever your politics this country does need an Opposition leader who can take on the Government.
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