They are essentially holding auditions again for middle relievers, no matter what they are paying them.
The three are essentially holding a hearing about the diary, as judges, to determine whether they, as the jury, will be allowed to hear about the diary.
"We are essentially holding our own relative to other players," said F. Duane Ackerman, BellSouth's 59-year-old chairman and chief executive, a reserved Florida native with an engineering degree from M.I.T. and a career-long Bell worker.
Republicans are essentially holding that seat open for Trump to fill, should he win in November, by denying a vote to President Barack Obama's nominee, Merrick Garland.
Advocates for reform say that the unions are essentially holding accountability hostage and blocking a technology that should be fundamental to transparency.
It's true that some members, most recently Rep. Henry Waxman of California, say they won't be asking for any earmarks this year, but others are essentially holding an open house.
He closed a wood factory in Brittany and was essentially held hostage by the employees for a day.
Much of his imagery is too fragmented or opaque to make accessible sense, and the show is essentially held together by his presence.
And as long as the lien is on the property, he said, the owner is essentially held hostage by the person who filed it.
The stimulus bill was essentially held hostage to the whims of Collins, Snowe, and Specter, but if Al Franken, the apparent winner of the disputed Minnesota Senate race, had been seated in Washington, and if Ted Kennedy, who is battling brain cancer, had been regularly available to vote, the White House would have needed only one Republican to pass the measure.
