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One chapter which promises drama and then withholds it is lesson six, 'The Problem of Evil'.
It becomes impossible to move the story forward without returning to the past, and so the past both predicates the future and withholds it.
Then - just in case you were to dismiss them as clever-clever – they close with a tender singalong, which promises a goofy punchline then disarmingly withholds it.
Every year, Merrill takes a small percentage of each broker's earnings and buys shares of the firm's stock, and withholds it for 10 years.
The inner shape of the novel in this way imitates our experience of living: it promises pattern, then withholds it, insisting on a formless banality; it describes intensity, but as part of a grudgingly accepted monotony; it glimpses poetry, but only from the corner of its eye.
In a block withholding attack, a miner who finds a winning solution, withholds it from the pool.
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Perhaps what's most remarkable about the nom de plume, and rarely talked about, is its power to unlock creativity — and its capacity to withhold it.
It withholds and it tells too much.
If it withholds support, it stands accused of driving the economy into an even deeper slump, with the risk of political instability and social unrest.
Did I willfully withhold it?
"In this case, the Senate will withhold it".
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