Mr. Pierce yearned for years to work with Mr. Kander, though held back from pushing himself on the composer.
Though I try to hold back from eating too many cakes, this one had me sneaking back late at night.
Most white farmers, though sorely needed, will not return.Bobbing awayAs the 84-year-old Mr Mugabe enters his last lap, Western governments, particularly those of Britain and America, would be wise to hold back from overtly backing either of his challengers.
Government agreed to hold back from legislation.
I cannot hold back from that!
Still, though, it held back from any military action.
Sanders, who sounded a bit more grounded in world history this time around, went as far as to make a link between the Iraq War and the rise of the Islamic State, though he held back from holding Clinton personally responsible (which probably makes sense, given that a majority of Senate Democrats voted to authorize the invasion).
Though he is held back from change, from the risky and foolish plunge of marriage, he sympathetically participates; it was Larkin's capacity, for all his caustic shyness, to embrace the common experience of a depleted, post-imperial England that made his poetry beloved.
However, when she was later offered meatier parts she proved herself up to the task, and was nominated for three Emmy awards and five Golden Globes, though the juries always held back from giving her the actual prize.
"The Crown" is set in the birth of a new world whose freedoms its royal subjects are held back from enjoying, though not from recognizing.
Though information in the United States is frequently held back from reporters by federal, state or local governments, it is often done in defiance of an overall philosophy, if not actual laws, supporting the public's right to know.
