Sentence examples for held action from inspiring English sources

The Action Researcher noted that each forum held action planning workshops when local people watched a video made by community researchers in which interview results were presented by them using a journalistic 'in-field' style.

Famine relief is a holding action, not an agricultural strategy".

In a way, Bonnaroo 2012 was a holding action.

Now that the Strokes are a known quantity, "Room on Fire" sounds like a holding action.

This experiment in collective leadership soon became a holding action until the orchestra could find the right music director.

It's a battle Cagney has to win, but his victory feels hollow, a holding action against the inevitable future.

The Marble Twins were simply a holding action, a large investment aimed at locking up the use of the land.

At best, analysts say, the deals have been a holding action, helping the Big Three tread water in a market that officials acknowledge would collapse without incentives.

Washington, NATO and the governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan must stop fighting it like a holding action and develop a strategy to win.

Quick application of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, can force blood into the body, particularly the brain, as a holding action, but the heart must be started again.

In essence, the administration is saying the military should reduce forces to what is required to win one war decisively and carry out a holding action elsewhere.