Sentence examples for holdup on from inspiring English sources

Hill was convicted of acting as an accomplice in a Glendora liquor store holdup on Jan . 24 , 1979in which one man was killed.

Yet Marvel has greenlit eight movies led by male superheroes for debut between now and 2020, so why the holdup on confirming concrete plans for one of its more popular costumed titans?

Every building in America has running water, electricity and ventilation; what's the holdup on universal wireless Internet?

"At the time," Mr. Segal recalled, "it looked like it was just another holdup on Main Street".

The dependency of Pe and liquid holdup on feed velocity and temperature was examined.

That holdup, on Jan . 9 was the first in an unusual series of armed robberies that has caught Greenwich Village off guard and put some store owners and residents on edge.

Prosecutors say the men, Michael Hamlin and Percy Jordan, conspired not only in the robbery that led to Mr. Rosenbaum's death but also in two other holdups — one on Jan . 6 the same day Mr. Rosenbaum was attacked.

A set of quick closing valves was used to acquire the in situ holdup for the on-line calibration of the CCCS system.

Beyond the fact that we're working with such a massive amount of data, one of the holdups on our recovery is acquiring a LSI Logic PCI-X SAS/SATA host controller that supports Sun Solaris SPARC so we can setup a staging area to backup our disk array.

"There have been some, ahem, holdups on the trains," he said.

Tony Fisher, who took over the store his father, Bob, opened 31 years ago, remembers when holdups on the block were routine.