Sentence examples for be held for a while from inspiring English sources

Abramson says she is unfazed by that, pointing out that the Times won a Pulitzer for the story that it did eventually publish Snowden may have seen it as a problem, but "at the time there were considerations that caused the story to be held for a while".

They continued to a navy camp, where they were held for a while before being driven on to a school hall, arriving around 9pm on 6 July.

After the formal dances were stopped, it was renamed the Teddy Bear Disco for a short time and disco dances were held for a while.

The truck was held for a while, but following the intervention of government officials a safe passage into Syria was granted.

Such talks were held for a while during the Clinton administration and then suspended several years ago after the NATO bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade during the war with Yugoslavia.

The archbishop said the women said they were held for a while by the gang before being taken to Morocco and back again to Peru.

It emerges in one place, is held for a while in one entity, but is then moved from one form to another.

A London court ordered today that three North African men charged with terrorism offenses be held for a month while investigation into their possible connection to a reported plan to attack the city's subway system continued.

[New York Post] The funeral was held for a Brooklyn woman killed while shielding children from gunfire.

Mousa, 26, died while being held for a weekend in a British detention centre.

While being held for a week in jails in New Jersey clearing up the mistake, he was strip searched twice.