Sentence examples for withheld meaning from inspiring English sources

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Although the FAI eventually dropped the Argentina date from its tour, it was too late to summon the players who had initially been withheld, meaning Ireland were forced to pad out an improvised squad with lower-league shufflers and League of Ireland stalwarts.

Rare, too, are the companies that submit executive pay to a vote or allow shareholders to vote down a director (in most companies, all the No votes are "withheld", meaning that they do not outweigh a single Yes vote).Fortunately this is beginning to change as a number of big companies such as Intel and Pfizer have switched to a majority-voting system for directors.

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Unlike some of his Dutch contemporaries, who crammed their compositions full of material objects and narrative detail, Vermeer got a kick out of teasing the viewer and withholding meaning.

This was a movie which withheld its meanings, and distributed clues and hints around the screenplay, it allowed the audience to experience a kind of drip-feed of meaning, which became a sudden, shocking deluge in the semi-intentional event which forms its catastrophe.

And she will recount a joke but withhold its meaning.

I was more amazed by how much you couldn't observe — how the things you saw seemed to withhold their meaning.

"We decided for some time longer to have confidence in the unknown," but if life continued to withhold its meaning, "the solution would be suicide".

Denying them that power by withholding epochal meaning from their crimes would be a stronger response than countries have managed so far.

The Treasury Department has significant discretion over whether to adjust the withholding tax tables, meaning it could choose to keep last year's rates and avert much of the blow from the tax increases.

If aspects of its meaning are withheld, sense and utterance are once again separated.

The symbol and its reticence about revealing the withheld aspects of its meaning do not connote something utterly alien to us.

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