Sentence examples for holding action from inspiring English sources

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.

But these victories are only holding actions; the afflictions of the spirit Mr. Schwartz deals with are part of the very grain of living.

Many of those who defend abortion rights, or affirmative action, have spent decades of their careers on patched-together holding actions to preserve gains that have come under assault.

Paulus called for a series of holding actions, although the Germans still made local counterattacks.

The convergence between the connectivity patterns of regions supporting memory for object identity and object location and those for ventral and dorsal premotor areas as well as the performed functional characterization (Fig.  7) hence provides evidence that the mentioned cognitive facilities are supported by networks also holding action-related functions.

Thus the treatments are effective holding actions while we await more practical applications of genetic information and (hopefully) the identification of unique bacterial pathogens, the removal of which would (as in peptic ulcer) truly produce cures.