For weeks, the press had been reporting on the use of silent filibusters to hold up nominations and on the attempts at filibuster reform.
Clinton sounded frustrated with the hold up on Capitol Hill.
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So, what's the hold up on the slate?
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Regular self-reporting on how well cars hold up or how often planes leave on time would pay off.
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Kraft has had to pay up to hold on to executives wooed by other teams.
The President has -- not because he got help from Capitol Hill on setting up a deficit commission, but had to set one -- hold on, had to set one up.
Mr Perrins said mobile phone data placed Mr Cowan outside West Suffolk Hospital on the day of the hold-up, and his DNA was found on a balaclava and on the inside of a case which the prosecution say contained the gun.
When they call the IRS with questions related to these notices, they end up on hold.
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We've got a huge backlog of folks who are unanimously viewed as well qualified, nobody has a specific objection to them, but end up having a hold on them because of some completely unrelated piece of business.
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Europe has hesitated more than the United States to subject its banks to measures like stress tests because of an entrenched belief that it would be better to wait for the market to recover and for the bad assets that banks still hold to pick up on value.
The card's a bit pliable, with rubberized edges -- one gets the feeling you might be able to snap it in half, if you really had your heart set on it, but as it stands, it should hold up to more than a few aggressive sitdowns on your billfold.
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E-Commerce China Dangdang, profitable but recently so, also continued to hold up well after nearly doubling on its first day.
If the wind was against you, the ball would hold up allowing it to drop on the green and stop it rolling through.
Now, Mr. Petzel points out, much of the demand for U.S. debt comes from "uneconomic" buyers who scoop it up and hold on to it at any price.
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"Craig's going to hold the ball up, get on the end of crosses and bring other players into the game, but don't get him to chase a 50-yard through-ball, " he said.
When a passenger steps forward to get on a flight, an agent could hold up the boarding pass and passport in front of their smart glasses, scanning barcodes on the two documents simultaneously.
Many put their own lives on hold to lift up someone close to them.
The Secure Digital (SD) memory card will hold up to two hours of video on 64 megabytes.
Mr Allawi is tightening his hold on government, setting up committees for oil, security and media policy to ensure the key portfolios remain in his, not his ministers', hands.
The service will reportedly be available on Windows and Mac next week, with iOS, Blackberry and Android by October, but speaking of promises, Borislow said plans for the company's legally-ambiguous femtocell are now on hold -- the device can't legitimately muster up enough power without a cellular carrier on board.
It then uses that data to predict how well cars on sale now will hold up.
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Sports bettors want to be paid right away and they may not want to take a chance on any sort of hold up.
He and others describe how American and British representatives on the Sanctions Committee hold up everything they suspect, however remotely, to be of dual use.
If shoppers start hoarding their cash and buying less stuff, it could spell big trouble for the retailers that are relying on high volumes to hold up their profits.
If Android is one of the Windows versions that actually worked, how are sales going to hold up with a 50% price differential on almost exactly the same hardware spec?
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Because the men and women who go to war will tell you that the loved ones they leave behind have a profound effect on their ability to hold up under fire.
And just when they need more from you, you're stuck with falling revenues, leaving you with impossible choices that keep mounting up -- putting projects on hold or having to furlough key employees.
That is why prior to that fateful date of February 6th, grown men hold up in hotels and driveways for hours on end, waiting for a return call and opportunity to be an influencer with a teenager.
Of course, politicians are never far away from banking related matters and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday that the European Union will disclose the test results showing how individual banks would hold up to economic and market shocks, on July 23rd both in the aggregate and individual level.
It's largely untested whether email disclaimers can hold up in court and at least one ruling on the matter was mixed.
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