Sentence examples similar to on-hold order from inspiring English sources

Dunn also claimed that Lodge put Diệm on hold in order to inform Conein where the Ngô brothers were so the generals could capture them.

Having just finished book three, he has put the next one (about the global history of slavery) on hold in order to co-present Civilisations alongside Simon Schama and Mary Beard.

(She later put her studies on hold in order to do advocacy work).

He knew when Phelps slept and when he ate; he persuaded Phelps to put his social life on hold in order to concentrate on the Games.

The party's executive committee has decided to put plans for a so-called "democracy day" on hold in order to focus on election strategy.

Mendelssohn rediscovered the neglected genius of Bach; Rimsky-Korsakov put his own music on hold in order to help his struggling friends, not least the brilliant but dissolute Mussorgsky.

Julia, who put her own plan to become a doctor on hold in order to help her husband establish his practice, tells Sean that she feels taken for granted.

One of the many remarkable things about "The Two-Character Play" is that it is a play about theory, a drama about playing, about how performers put real life on hold in order to enact it.

Study the cars waiting at a drive-through McDonald's, and you'll find that many people have to put their cellphone conversations on hold to order their Big Macs.

It has now been put on hold in order for councillors to "get enough detail" before agreeing a way forward.

Emmeline Pankhurst encouraged WSPU members to put their demonstrations on hold, in order to focus on the war effort.