Sentence examples for Briefly held up from inspiring English sources

At 4-1 a shower briefly held up Henin's victory charge, but only delayed the inevitable.

He was briefly held up at the NATO airfield there, when sirens blared, signaling a rocket attack in the vicinity.

Many in the crowd booed when another officer pulled over a driver who had briefly held up traffic while commiserating with a protester.

Mr. Pena's nomination as Energy Secretary was briefly held up while the Justice Department investigated whether he had improperly intervened, as Transportation Secretary, in a Coast Guard contract.

When Mr. Nujaifi recently crossed the unofficial boundary on his way to Tall Kayf, his convoy was pelted with stones and tomatoes and briefly held up by Kurdish troops, the pesh merga.

The squabble over talks with Turkey briefly held up consideration of Croatia's European membership talks, which had been frozen since March over the country's poor cooperation in arresting a fugitive war crimes suspect.

Two construction workers stopped in the street to watch, briefly holding up a moving van that ruined a few shots.

The scene as the pair of langurs languidly gambolled across the outfield, briefly holding up play, was in a tie for first place as the most entertaining moment of the day.

In the film's most chilling moment he responds to the question of how many killings he has truly been responsible for by briefly holding up seven fingers and then collapsing in fits of laughter.

From time to time, one or another of the dancers would slip to the front of the stage and briefly hold up a small Polaroid portrait, often taken during the dance, for the audience to inspect.

Our eyes met briefly, and he held up the shopping bag.