holding power

Gompers may have overstated the power of resistance of the unions, but their holding power upon the membership cannot be disputed.

We were confident that it could stand the strain, but we doubted the holding-power of the stays that held the mast.

These wondrous waterways have little part in that mystical holding power of the Never-Never.

The soft metal had not much holding power and had been used to fill up the crevices.

Certainly no executive holding power by any tenure less independent and secure can ever effect this.