Sentence examples for was initially held up from inspiring English sources

Publication of the report was initially held up by a refusal of senior British civil servants to hand over minutes of conversations between Blair and Bush.

His nomination to serve as the chief American envoy in Damascus was initially held up by senators who were opposed to the policy of filling the vacant ambassador post in Mr. Assad's Syria because of Syria's meddling in Lebanon.

Fulfillment of the accord was initially held up by the change of administrations at the beginning of this year and then by the crisis caused by the collision of an American surveillance plane with a Chinese fighter jet off China's southern coast in April.

Release of the video evidence was initially held up by the criminal cases of two men who were allegedly with Chatman at the time of his death.

The clip was initially held up due to what Marina, who drastically shifted directions -- at least aurally -- from slightly kooky folk pop to club-ready dance when she released her second album, "Electra Heart," nearly a year ago, referred to in a tweet as having to do with her looking too "ugly" in the video for her U.S. record company's tastes.

The House fulfilled Gingrich's promise to bring all ten of the Contract's issues to a vote within the first 100 days of the session, even though most of the legislation was initially held up in the Senate by the objection of liberal/progressive interest groups and President Clinton, who called it the "Contract on America".

It was involved in further fighting north of Grey Farm, where they were initially held up by German machine-gun fire, but after this was overcome they continued to advance to their final objective, eventually digging-in 100 yards beyond the farm, having managed to capture all of its objectives.

The oven temperature was initially held at 60 °C for 3 min and subsequently increased up to 190 °C with a rate of 10 °C/min.

Ben Bella was initially held incommunicado, but later under house arrest.

Another man, a chef at the restaurant, was initially held by the police, but was released.

Barnes was initially held on $1 million bail.