Sentence examples for issue had held from inspiring English sources

The issue had held up a $1.1 trillion bill to fund the federal government through 2016 as the Senate's Democratic minority extracted a price for lifting the ban.

By October 2014, when the Supreme Court rejected appeals from five states that wanted to bar gay marriage, every federal appeals court that had addressed the issue had held same-sex marriage bans unconstitutional.

"Belgian courts, perhaps the only ones to have previously considered the issue, have held that environmental activism qualifies as a private end," he wrote.

Their impasse on the issue has held up most other state business, and is one of the main reasons that they have been unable to pass the budget that was due on April 1.

Fortunately, however, most state supreme courts that have looked into this issue have held that no legislature ever wrote the criminal laws with the intention to reach the relationship between a pregnant woman and her fetus, and that if they did it would in all likelihood be unconstitutional.

It's the same in our own country; many of our attitudes in the past, whether it's to do with racism, attitudes to do with disability, to do with homosexuality – lots of different issues have held back different constituencies from being able to fulfil their potential.

At a press conference held at the Sharks' Carrington training ground, the club had hoped to announce the signing of two players for next season but legal issues have held up their unveiling.

The deal reached today by Mr. Pataki, Mr. Bruno and Mr. Silver settles the main issue that had held up negotiations for weeks: an overall spending figure that all sides could accept.

As residents of one of the most water-blessed regions in the world waited in lines to buy bottled water, an issue that had held little political urgency rose near the top of Ohio's gubernatorial and legislative races.

The event raised the issue of whether the temple had held a political fund-raiser in violation of its tax-exempt status as a religious institution and whether temple monastics were illegally reimbursed for contributions.

A judicial inquiry concluded that he had shot himself in the head with a round fired from left to right from his police issue Walther pistol which he had held in his left hand.