How To Use Hold off In A Sentence
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It was clearly a case of workers trying to use union muscle to hold off reality.
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In view of the uncertainty of the price movement, we deem it advisable to withhold offering.
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But … we should deffo hold off on offering our congrats just yet.
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Tracking back in support of his besieged full-back, Arjen Robben seemed in control as he nursed the ball towards the end-line and used his superior size to hold off Messi.
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Well, are McCain and Palin are holding this girl now -- who apparently got impregnated at age 16, which is something that doesn't sit well with many of us, including those of who thump Bibles as if they were tympany -- in front of themselves to hold off the inevitable:
McCain Campaign: Palin's 17-Year-Old Daughter Is Pregnant
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North Americans often hold off a certain distance in conversation, which is about 21 inches apart found by studies.
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Could you hold off your decision until next week?
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Ideology could not be allowed to obstruct his party's historic duty to hold office.
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Just hold off telling the little darlings, we suggest.
Times, Sunday Times
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But that tends to shrink in uncertain times, so I would hold off until the outlook becomes less cloudy.
Times, Sunday Times
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In view of the uncertainty of the price movement, we deem it advisable to withhold offering.
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Whoever is elected will hold office for four years.
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The football match had to hold off for about half an hour because of a driving rain.
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Directors continue to hold office until the shareholders elect their successors and the latter take office.
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And retaining a small threshold offers at least some incentive for prospective investors to spend the hours leafing through the company's financials and gaining a more thorough understanding of the business.
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I think you might have to hold off on Mark for a while… sorry!
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In fact, if you are a "birther" - a term coined by the mainstream press to disparage those who doubt Obama's eligibility to hold office based on his citizenship - even so-called conservative icons like Ann Coulter and Glenn Beck consider you a nut.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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Your recitation leader also hold office hours, a resource you should not overlook.
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The owners have recently refurbished the attic space and now regularly hold offbeat theatrical events and musical evenings up there.
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Well, I'm giving a hit to President Obama this week for releasing his long-form birth certificate and squashing the so-called birther conspiracy theory that alleged that he wasn't somehow born in the United States and thus isn't fit to hold office.
Obama's Oil Panic
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North Americans often hold off a certain distance in conversation, which is about 21 inches apart found by studies.
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Consider my exercise some kind of incantatory ritual -- a talisman -- meant to hold off the bad spirits just as, when I arrive in Beijing in winter and find the mercury near zero (an increasing rarity these last years) or stumble into a snowstorm in New York City, I’m relieved.
Orville Schell: The Melting of America: The Story of a Can't-Do Nation
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Sherry persuades Maureen Kingsley to hold off on the Keith story by offering up another story for her -- that a government agent was involved in a conspiracy to kill Palmer.
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Hold off making your decision until Monday.
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But that tends to shrink in uncertain times, so I would hold off until the outlook becomes less cloudy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Politicians hold office only with the support of party members.
Times, Sunday Times
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Let's hope the gunmen will hold off for the duration of the cease - fire .
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To the extent that the freedom of prelapsarian man survives the fall - and Milton is ambivalent about this - so does his end, which is not to found and hold office in republics, but to serve God out of the care to please him.
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Because then we can go down that path and I can bring up examples of other people widely regarded as leaders of the party who do not hold official titles overplayed example: Rush Limbaugh.
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A lot of corporates and individuals hold offshore accounts legitimately.
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Israel's defense minister, Ehud Barak, coined the phrase "zone of immunity" to define the circumstances under which Israel would judge it could no longer hold off from an attack because Iran's effort to produce a bomb would be invulnerable to any strike.
NYT > Home Page
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You do not hold off just because you have a dry well in one area.
Times, Sunday Times
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North Americans often hold off a certain distance in conversation, which is about 21 inches apart found by studies.
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You do not hold off just because you have a dry well in one area.
Times, Sunday Times
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Directors continue to hold office until the shareholders elect their successors and the latter take office.
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In fact, the unadjusted number of permits on homes not yet started jumped in March, suggesting snow and heavy rains forced builders to hold off on some new projects.
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My surmise is that anyone who has a patent to prosecute will hold off until the European software patent decision is made.
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If there was some way that protection for MAKE against litigation could be guaranteed, I'd say go for it; failing that though, I'd hold off, maybe make it an article like Bunnie Huang's piece about the LED "blinky" thing.
MAKE Magazine
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Between August 8 and September 21, the Braves went 32-7 to take a grip on first place, but were still hard pressed to hold off the unyieldingly stubborn Giants.
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The football match had to hold off for about half an hour because of a driving rain.
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How he manages to stay so calm and hold off his anger for so long is beyond me.
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Goku seems like teenage goku (before he had gohan or even married chi-chi) I'll hold off my judgement on the actual movie for now, but no blue hair for bulma? as long as krillin is still bald I'll be fine.
First Look: Justin Chatwin as Goku in Dragonball « FirstShowing.net
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I also hold off cutting back anything that needs extra protection from frost over winter, adding a layer of mulch around the dried stems as a precaution.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was considered unfit to hold office because of moral turpitude.
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The football match had to hold off for about half an hour because of a driving rain.
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North Americans often hold off a certain distance in conversation, which is about 21 inches apart found by studies.
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She carried only three Turbo Las canons, just enough to inflict damage on a modern enemy ship, and just enough Laser canons to hold off a squadron or two of enemy fighters and shuttlecraft.
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Both camps - the ecstatic Sundance fans and the confused multiplex frequenters - will have to hold off until then.
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Nissenbaum argues that when the head of household offered presents largely to social inferiors who appeared at the door, it made sense to offer practical items from the home's own store.
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Court society in Berlin includes the German "higher" and "lower" nobility, with the exception of the so-called Fronde, who proudly absent themselves from it; the Ministers; the diplomatic corps; Court officials; and such members of the burghertum, or middle class, as hold offices which entitle them to attend court.
William of Germany
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Our leaders are unlucky to hold office when the world has become dismayingly complicated.
Times, Sunday Times
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North Americans often hold off a certain distance in conversation, which is about 21 inches apart found by studies.
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You will hold off until everything meets with your approval.
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My only training was in how to hold off the rooster when I was scattering the wheat grains to the hens.
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If that is too abstract an observation then there is the simpler truth of politics: Britain is a middle class country and all parties now hold office on the sufferance of the bourgeoisie.
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I'm disappointed, but I'm going to hold off any kind of hissy fit mode until we see what actually happens with the immunity fight.
Obama Backing FISA "Compromise"
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If you can hold off eating your Halloween candy until the following summer, as I do, you're eating virtually calorie-free candy.
Maggie Lamond Simone: Avoiding Holiday Weight Gain the Smart Way: Rationalization
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Javid Milton scored from a yard out on fourth down to make it 24-14, but the Leathernecks couldn't hold off the Razorbacks much longer.
USATODAY.com
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I saw their escorts, some of them guards, some of them officials, all around them to hold off the press of the crowd.
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But if I were going to Tokyo tomorrow, I would, on arrival, hold off on the "maid cafes" in the nerds 'electronic hive of Akihabara, on the Hysteric Glamour fashions around Harajuku, even on the gleaming shops of the Ginza that have long made Tokyo seem an early visitor from the 23rd century.
Big in Japan: why Tokyo is top
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First-time jugglers are advised to hold off on the chain saws.
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The skirt barely covered my rear but the sleeves were choirgirl wrist-length and the top had a prim little mandarin collar that would convince any vamp to hold off on his neck lunge until the after-dinner mints.
Dancing with Werewolves
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Even Alexander Hamilton, a prominent fellow Federalist, ripped into Adams, saying his defects of character made him unfit to hold office.
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The politicians, both those who hold office and others who aspire to displace them, are yet to show such mettle.
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North Americans often hold off a certain distance in conversation, which is about 21 inches apart found by studies.
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There were doubts about her fitness to hold office.
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Otherwise you are asking him to hold off two centre-halves and a defensive midfielder!
The Sun
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We could get a new computer now or hold off until prices are lower.
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Originally purely a household officer, the task of the steward, or seneschal, was to place dishes on the royal table, but like many comparable offices it gathered other duties and rose in prestige.
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North Americans often hold off a certain distance in conversation, which is about 21 inches apart found by studies.
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I protest in the name of my countrywomen against the aspersion which is cast upon them by those who say that woman is not fit to hold office or discharge public trusts.
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II
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But the household, like the king, was omnicompetent and any great household officer, the steward for example, was likely to find himself entrusted with essential political and military tasks.
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Both parties know they must do their all to hold off another deeply unpopular and damaging general election.
The Sun
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If the 28-year old PGA Tour rookie is able to hold off Lucas Glover and other challengers, he might rewrite some records in the book.
Late-bloomer Barnes is blossoming at Open
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She always likes to hold off for rent.
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So let's hold off on giving Hyundai the OBE, or the Presidential Medal of Freedom, or the Star of Zanzibar.
Hyundai, Your Accent Has a Pleasing Ring to It
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Both leaders gave their support for voters to popularly elect a council mayor to hold office every four years.
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And the man hugged me thus for an horrid time, the while that I did hold off from me the brutish face, and gript very savage into the haired throat.
The Night Land
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You do not hold off just because you have a dry well in one area.
Times, Sunday Times
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I also hold off cutting back anything that needs extra protection from frost over winter, adding a layer of mulch around the dried stems as a precaution.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rockets and automatic fire stream over your head as you try and hold off the assault on your position.
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Hold off planting caladiums until soil temperatures have warmed evenly to about 70 degrees F., otherwise they may chill and rot without sprouting.
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How much longer will the resistance fighters be able to hold off the enemy?
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Strong and aggressive, he is not averse to a bit of shirt pulling and uses his arms effectively to hold off defenders.
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Which is that it is practically axiomatic that no decent progressive can really hold office - and remain worthy of support.
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he will hold office until the spring of next year
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Her office has directed department heads to evaluate expenses and hold off spending whenever possible.
