• One is an immigration bill, which according to the Global Times and Shanghai Daily would shorten the minimum stay for foreigners holding a work permit from 180 days to 90 days.

    BBC: China morning round-up: Copyright treaty signed

  • While we educate the best talent from the four corners of the world, we have forgotten to keep the pick of the litter in the United States to develop economic prosperity and instead have contributed to the purge of technical talent back to where it came from by holding back work visas and making residency nearly impossible.

    FORBES: Immigration And Prosperity: Why Tech Needs Open Borders

  • The most common form is bonded servitude, or holding people to work off debts with stratospheric interest rates.

    FORBES: Hitting Slavery Where It Hurts

  • That will require the injection of some 6 trillion won as the government groups the banks (and other sick lenders) in a financial holding company to work their way out of bad debts.

    ECONOMIST: South Korea dumps the past, at last

  • The picture showed her walking to work, holding a cup and her car keys.

    BBC: Kate Middleton had complained of harassment

  • I'm with sticking to traditions and your religion but you can work while holding on to your traditions.

    BBC: Business

  • At work, holding eye contact for more than 10 seconds can seem aggressive, empty or inauthentic, Mr. Decker says.

    WSJ: The Decline of Eye Contact

  • You bounce down the block, late for work, holding a coffee, glancing at the headlines on your paper and dodging the other pedestrians who are walking at a maddeningly measured pace.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Work up to holding the contraction for 10 seconds at a time.

    CNN: Cystocele

  • Contributing factors could be anything from the time in the day that the activity was scheduled, over scheduling every single moment of the day (especially on a retreat), holding the event outside of work hours, or just picking activities for the team that may not be what the group really wants to do.

    FORBES: 3 Bad Team-Building Exercises For Businesses

  • Earlier this year, details released under the Freedom of Information Act revealed "snagging" issues holding up the move included incomplete work to the building's roof and water damage to other areas.

    BBC: Cowes Enterprise College move set for September

  • PML-N officials said he was holding talks with some independent MPs to work out cabinet positions.

    BBC: Pakistan vote: Nawaz Sharif in talks on new government

  • They tend to work extremely hard, often holding more than one job.

    FORBES: Newt Is Right on Immigration

  • Indeed, his life's work suggests that a flexible holding company--one encompassing sometimes competing, sometimes cooperating fiefdoms--is the best business model for a fragmented but global market.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Holding out for a better rent will probably work out but probably is not the same as certainly.

    FORBES: Commercial Real Estate Forecast Update: 2013-2014

  • And though Bubble Wrap is translucent and does an okay job holding heat, that plan didn't work, either.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • They find that one-fifth of American employees own shares in the companies they work for, with an average holding worth several thousand dollars.

    ECONOMIST: Economics focus

  • The father and his sons are accused of making large amounts of money by holding vulnerable men in captivity and making them work for nothing.

    BBC: Connors family trial: Angler 'helped pursued captive'

  • But he rejected Mr Miliband's call for a public inquiry, saying MPs were already listening to their communities - and the home affairs committee was holding an inquiry which should "do this work first".

    BBC: Riots: Miliband blames 'me first' culture

  • They did not have an extensive discussion but they did agree that it was important to continue the process that's been established through the P5-plus-1, again, to work closely as it relates to holding Iran accountable for its failure to live up to its obligations.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Had anyone seen the child during these two- and three-hour sessions, bringing his soles together and in to train the pectineus, bobbing slightly and then holding a deep cross-legged lean to work the great tight sheet of thoracolumbar fascia that connected his pelvis to his dorsal costae, he would have appeared to that person either prayerful or catatonic, or both.

    NEWYORKER: Backbone

  • Tommy Connors Senior and three of his sons deny holding the men in servitude and forcing them to work.

    BBC: Beds, Herts & Bucks

  • Armed groups have profited from mining these metals, holding some workers at gunpoint and forcing them to work for little or no pay, according to the group Free the Slaves.

    CNN: John D. Sutter,

  • The trust is also holding a Living Churchyards spring festival day to showcase the work of the project on 23 March at Llanasa.

    BBC: Living Churchyards: ?50,000 Flintshire project starts

  • Rothlin: We try to work with businesspeople and the younger generation by holding seminars and training programs in leadership and in personal development.

    FORBES: On The Front Line In China: Challenging Business Ethics

  • House and Senate appropriators have been meeting behind the scenes to work through some of the many sticking points holding up spending bills.

    CNN: Senate passes bill to keep government running

  • The ranking Democrat on the oversight committee called Wednesday for Boehner to try to work out a solution with Holder instead of holding a vote on Thursday.

    CNN: Boehner: Contempt vote on Holder will proceed

  • Just this week, two Ukrainian brothers were each sentenced for sneaking men and women into the US illegally, holding them against their will, and forcing them to work as janitors.

    BBC: Fighting human trafficking on US soil

  • Thirty five percent said they are holding yard sales, using pawn shops and taking on extra work.

    FORBES: What Would You Do to Avoid Paying Bills?

  • Metta and Haass were both confident that simple, non-humanoid robots would be possible to work alongside humans doing simple tasks, such as holding heavy objects in factories.

    WSJ: Why Our Service Robots Needn't Look Like Humans

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