Sentence examples for Hold short from inspiring English sources

There are many gimmicks designed to hold short attention spans.

"You start to say it at home, to tell your kids to stand by, unable, hold short.

In the procedure, called "land and hold short," the tower asks a pilot to land normally and then pause at an intersecting runway to allow another plane to take off before continuing on to the terminal.

"If I'm landing full length on the runway, I need some assurance that another pilot who has been told to land and hold short of my runway knows how to do that," said Capt.

Whatever the situation at HBOS, regulators in New York and London have grown increasingly concerned at the market-moving power of those hedge funds that circulate critical research or publicly attack companies in which they hold short positions.

It even spawned an annual contest since 1991 called the Loebner Prize, where judges hold short conversations with concealed artificial-intelligence programs and humans, and then have to decide which is which.

One way would be to announce that it will hold short-term rates at zero for an extended period.

But when the Fed said last August that it intended to hold short-term rates near zero at least through the middle of 2013, confusion ensued.

But when the Fed said in January that it intended to hold short-term rates near zero until late 2014, the same debate sprang back to life.

The Fed also said that it planned to hold short-term rates near zero even longer, at least until the unemployment rate fell below 6.5 percent.

In December, it said it would hold short-term rates near zero at least so long as the jobless rate remained above 6.5 percent.