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Discover LudwigThe term "holding statements" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to statements made by individuals or organizations in response to a situation or issue that needs immediate attention, while they gather more information and formulate a more comprehensive response. Example: The company's spokesperson released a holding statement in response to the recent controversy surrounding their product. They stated that they are actively investigating the matter and will provide a detailed response once all the facts have been gathered.
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But so far, the FSCS has limited itself to issuing holding statements.
"There is a sense that the series of strong announcements earlier has been replaced by mere holding statements," said Gary Dugan, chief investment officer for Asia and the Middle East for the wealth management company Coutts.
The Premier League club released the blandest of holding statements on Thursday but they understandably need time to take stock and, technically with no means of appealing against Fifa's decision themselves, seek legal advice on their own position.
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Perform today issued a holding statement advising its shareholders to take no action.
A canny holding statement, and not as warm as Brown might have liked.
"However, this looks like another holding statement from Karen Bradley.
Physicalism holds statements to be cognitively significant if they can be reduced or evidentially related to statements about physical states of affairs.
Phenomenalism holds statements to be cognitively significant if they can be reduced to statements about about one's experience, be it outer (senses) or inner (introspection).
11.54am: News Corporation has issued a holding statement: "News Corporation is carefully reviewing the Select Committee's report and will respond shortly.
In a holding statement, the sports retailer said "due to an administrative delay" the update would be released later this morning.
The relation is thus quite different than the usual relation of justified on the basis of which holds between statements and statements.
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