• He told her if she could hold onto the back, he'd give her a lift downtown.

    CNN: A momma's love

  • She is likely to be busy, to go by the example of one mother among the most recent arrivals, who said she had to leave her youngest child - a three year old - behind in Somalia because she feared he would hold back her flight with her other children.

    BBC: East Africa drought: Somalis engulf Ethiopian town

  • She knew that she could not hold him by the shoulders to lay him back against his pillows because of his pain there, so she kept her arms around his ribs and leaned him all the way down as if she were embracing him.

    NEWYORKER: The Visitor

  • The health visitor was horrified and didn't hold back in telling us what she thought - essentially that a child, particularly that young, shouldn't be outside in weather like that.

    BBC: Napping in a hutch and other tales of outdoor snoozing

  • But I just keep waiting for a little hint that she sees that there are systemic problems that hold women back.

    FORBES: Lean Out | We Need a Movement

  • In her TED talk, for example, she talks both about things women do that hold us back and about the societal attitudes and assumptions that still work against us.

    FORBES: Sheryl Sandberg Is Taking a Hatchet to the Glass Ceiling

  • In the second set, Clijsters gained an early break, saw off a break point in the fifth game to hold for a 4-1 lead, and she fought back from 0-40 down to serve out the match.

    CNN: Clijsters makes triumphant WTA comeback

  • Presuming, as one must, that she did greatly influence her husband, she earns credit for feeding the humane impulse that made him hold back from unleashing the organs of repression still very much at his disposal when the Soviet empire began to unravel from 1989 on.

    ECONOMIST: Raisa Gorbachev

  • Her eureka moment came when she noticed that sandals and other walking shoes had straps on the back to hold the heel in place.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • "It was hard to hold myself back and I deliberately didn't fetch my racing shoes, " she said.

    BBC: Pavey hopes to make the transition to marathon running

  • Since she does not hold a ministerial post, Sonia Gandhi can appear detached from government policy, and row back from difficult decisions when they prove unpopular.

    ECONOMIST: How Sonia Gandhi exercises power

  • Last December, business was so slow she almost closed, but news that Chrysler planned to bring several thousand workers back to the plant convinced her to hold on.

    WSJ: Car Plant Brings Wary Hope

  • She closed with a 1-under 71, overcoming two bogeys and some shaky putting on the back nine to hold off South Korea's Na Yeon Choi by one stroke.

    NPR: Stacy Lewis Holds On To Win Singapore LPGA Event

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