Sentence examples for was held up until from inspiring English sources

The agreement to start the talks was held up until late Monday as European members haggled over an Austrian demand that the talks include an alternative to full membership, giving the union a diplomatically palatable option to inviting Turkey to join.

Money for construction was held up until 1982, however, and the project was plagued by further shortages of funding and political support.

The first two changes were passed in 1979, but the third was held up until a special conference in January 1981.

That approval was held up until Pace complied with the village's requirements that they find parking for students away from busy Main Street, where the parochial school is situated.

The World Health Organisation's Interphone report [pdf] was due to be published in 2006, but was held up until today because scientists from 13 countries interpreted the results differently.

The English translation of this bestseller - more than 2m copies sold in the US alone - was held up until 1994 so that the innocently inclusive language of "the human person" could be replaced by "man" and "men".

announced that the Sentinel program would be held up until it had been reviewed.

That must be held up until Mr. Bashir negotiates a settlement for Abyei.

She needed to be held up until the last minute, and I left it too late.

And because spring has been held up until now, events could unfold rapidly – unless there is another cold snap.

The committee eventually released $2 million in humanitarian aid, but the rest has been held up until now, he said.