Sentence examples for hold back advancing from inspiring English sources

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British warplanes struck a large bunker in Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte, his largest remaining stronghold, as Nato focused on loyalist forces trying to hold back advancing rebels.

The addictive Monster Mayhem (Chillingo, iPhone) is one such title, with players using a variety of weapons to hold back advancing tides of zombies, werewolves and assorted menaces.

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The Kurdish defenders of the Syrian border town of Kobane have held back advancing Islamic State fighters, with the US supplying air support.

The approach to interoperability and standards lays a solid foundation to extend application development within the broader developer community to establish computing capabilities that are sorely missing in the field of predictive toxicology today, and which are holding back advances in both R&D and the application of R&D project outcomes to meet industry and regulatory needs.

Indeed, in summarising these reviews, West notes that "…the problems with the model are so serious that it has held back advances in the field of health promotion and, despite its intuitive appeal to many practitioners, it should be discarded".

Proponents have argued that application of the model has revolutionized health promotion, but others have suggested that the problems with the model are so serious that it has held back advances in the field of health promotion and, despite its intuitive appeal to many practitioners, it should be discarded [ 27].

It was fought in what became known as the France campaign of 1814, as the emperor tried in vain to hold back the advancing coalition armies.

Even if it became clear that the chemotherapy could not hold back the tumors advancing into his lungs, liver and, most painfully, his spine, he would not be allowed to switch, lest it muddy the trial's results.

They may be able to retard the growth of copying on the internet for a time, but they cannot hold back the advance of technology altogether.

We can no more hold back the advances of automation and computational power than Sophia can understand romantic infatuation or a desire to binge-watch box sets.

Kurdish fighters, backed by US-led air strikes, are trying to hold back an advance by Islamic State militants.

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