Sentence examples for given or withheld from inspiring English sources

Like good looks, it seems to them something given or withheld by nature.

The Constitution authorizes Congress 'to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization' (Art. I, § 8, cl. 4), and we may assume that naturalization is a privilege, to be given or withheld on such conditions as Congress sees fit.

Those agreements, intended to put the region on the path to Union membership, are in the form of contracts, with leverage -- aid given or withheld in return for performance.

In conditioning, the behavior in question is made more (or in some paradigms less) likely to occur in response to a given environmental cue by the imposition of an appropriate 'schedule of reinforcement': rewards or punishments are given or withheld as the subject's response to the cue varies over time.

They may view human rights work as insincere public relations cover for selfish agendas; they may buy into the idea that all peoples are not ready for human rights; they may be persuaded that rights are able to be given or withheld according in part instead of their universal nature.

The reasons why care was given or withheld were not assessed.

This paper is an attempt to expand the current knowledge and exploits the rich resource of the BHPS data about those individuals who gave or withheld their consent.

We can choose to give or withhold them as we see fit.

By giving or withholding support, that jury greatly influences the middle manager's career.

O'Brien worked on ministers' special advisers, exploiting an awareness that Osborne had power to give or withhold government jobs.

He has expressed recurrently his belief that the American people are entitled to give or withhold that informed consent.