More telling, when pollsters asked Americans whether the year ahead would be a time of opportunity and expansion for their families, or a time to hold back and save for harder times ahead, 60% said it would be a time to hold back.
After Senate leaders jockeyed for days over procedural issues tied to consideration of the bills, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, unexpectedly announced Wednesday morning that Republicans would agree to Democratic demands and hold back-to-back votes requiring neither side to garner a filibuster-proof 60-vote margin.
"They kind of hold back a bit when they see the cost of benefits, " he says.
In theory, a government could use monetary and fiscal policy to hold back inflation.
His son Jared has Cerebral Palsy and does not let that hold him back.
The World Bank did, however, identify some problem areas it felt could hold back economic growth.
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Some of the world's best athletes, all seated courtside, didn't hold back their approval.
But if he is to succeed, he must hold back his bad, populist instincts.
We had a view of the grassy levee meant to hold back Lake Pontchartrain.
Poor education systems and rigid immigration rules hold back the supply of skilled labor.
The judge said the state can't hold back the money until the lawsuit is resolved.
Moreover, it reckoned it would actually hold back Britain's goal of spreading new communications services.
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We may believe that ourselves, but this is a myth that continues to hold women back!
This time I feel his heartbeat on my palm when I hold his back.
Efforts to hold back these changes with laws guaranteeing workers job protection are growing ever costlier.
It requires us to constantly learn something new and unlearn something that can hold us back.
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He should not hold back from stimulus packages to help America out of recession.
Foreign firms, even in infrastructure and consumer goods, also hold back, unsure of the politics.
They're very protective of me, but that doesn't mean they hold back in the boat.
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But in life as in study, I was too ambitious to let my nerdiness hold me back.
"It was hard to hold myself back and I deliberately didn't fetch my racing shoes, " she said.
And Mr Pinta Gama told me that the Latin American bloc is not intending to hold back.
Profits have already recovered from the Great Recession, and inflation constraints ought to hold back profits now.
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But it says weakness in the eurozone could hold back growth and weaken the government's debt-cutting plans.
The American Cancer Society agrees, saying that the tobacco industry in Africa tries to hold back legislation.
And until companies are operating much closer to that long-term average, they will hold back on hiring.
Even better, it might persuade the government to remove some of the barriers that hold Brazil back.
Sometimes they hold back as Jobs did with the iPad (cautious no doubt after his Newton moment).
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The Hatchet displayed his ability and eagerness to strike, while the Scalpel proved able to hold back.
They are quicker to adopt the new and have less of the old to hold them back.
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