Sentence examples for hold placed from inspiring English sources

One year, it was a hold placed on the reform measure by an anonymous senator.

The Protect I.P. Act would have easily passed the Senate last summer if not for a hold placed by Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat of Oregon.

The legislation was adopted by the Judiciary Committee, but Mr. Leahy said it was being blocked in the Senate by an anonymous "hold" placed on it by a Republican senator.

"The fact that you could meet an Egyptian on the street who would know that there was an executive hold placed on the Apache helicopters is crazy," one U.S. official who frequently travels to Egypt told me.

The groups pointed to a similar hold placed on green card cases by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services when Congress was debating a change in the law allowing widows of American citizens to obtain the visas.

However, the bill has had a "hold" placed on it, an archaic Senate procedure that any senator can use to freeze a bill anonymously.The hold may be encouraged by the Bush administration, which disapproves of bills like that of Messrs Brownback and Obama.

They were being been paid to hold places for others.

They were "line standers" who had been paid to hold places for others.

It was a holding place for young fighters waiting to go to an Islamic State training camp.

Instead, the slot is a holding place for an enormous, working controller.

A basket could hold your latest magazines or be a holding place for incoming mail.