Sentence examples for holdouts from inspiring English sources

"It forced people to look at the issue and to take it seriously," says Cohen. "Dude conferences are the last holdouts.

And the total settlement may well increase if holdouts among Enron shareholders succeed with their lawsuits.

Chris Christie, New Jersey's governor, has threatened the holdouts with compulsory purchase of the strip of land in front of their homes.Mr Christie, like many New Jerseyans, holidays at the Shore and has done since he was young.

Argentina has been mulling a plan to replace some of its foreign bonds with locally issued ones ever since a New York court ruled in 2012 that it could not pay creditors who accepted its debt swaps of 2005 and 2010 without fully compensating "holdouts" who jibbed at the deal.

Georgia fattened its tax incentives after "Ray" (2004), about Ray Charles, a Georgia native, was shot in Louisiana Nevadaa, one of the last holdouts, approved a credit last year after being passed over in favour of New Mexico for the filming of "Vegas", a period television drama.The other answer is that handouts for moguls are not as popular as they once were.

The refusal last month of the United States Supreme Court to hear its appeal against a lower-court ruling in New York that it must pay in full the 8% of bondholders who refused both the 2005 bond swap and a second one in 2010 means that it has no practical alternative but to negotiate with these holdouts.

Even Greece, one of the last holdouts, is reviewing a policy under which gay soldiers can be dismissed and barred from public-sector jobs.Having handled the generals rather successfully over the past two years, Lord Robertson will now be able to tell them that on this very sensitive question, Britain has no choice but to loosen up.

Among the assets that the holdouts have tried and so far failed to get are shipments of natural gas and satellites.

Such clauses have since become commoner in emerging markets, and are due to become standard in Europe as part of the European Stability Mechanism, a planned replacement for the euro zone's current bail-out fund.The holdouts are a motley crew.

Argentina has in the past argued that settling with holdouts would activate a Rights Upon Future Offers (RUFO) clause in the exchanged bonds, which expires at the end of this year, meaning that they would be eligible for whatever terms the holdouts got.

She paid off Repsol after Mr Kicillof stated the government would not give it "even one cent" and devalued the peso earlier this year after promising not to.A second issue is what to do with other holdouts.