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The Moors suffered a major setback in 1212 at the battle of Navas de Tolosa in northern Andalusia, but they still clung to the kingdom of Granada and were only finally evicted from there in 1492.
This is a pretty slim reed to hang Reagan on; he was clearly obsessed with the hostages, and clung to any hope of setting them free.
Despite the initial lack of any evidence of foul play in the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 off the coast of Massachusetts, European newspapers clung hopefully to that possibility Monday.
Thirty years ago, when John Kenneth Galbraith published The New Industrial State , he was sure he knew where the modern economy was going and was contemptuous of economists who clung to their old ideas about the primacy of markets.
England clung to it even when Bourbon forces captured Mallorca at the end of the war.