Hold Back

We do what we call a hold-back - we have names for everything - on her nap. ❋ By ROBIN FINN (2011)

As I've gotten older and learnt more about the personal history behind Mathematics, rather than just the discoveries, I've grown to understand how badly being ostracised from the Mathematical community can hold-back a mathematician's work and that the dearth of great female mathematicians isn't anything to do with the inability of women to do maths and everything to do with so few of them ever being given a chance. ❋ Flidgetjerome (2009)

The hold-back comes as AIG paid out, also on Monday, $46 million in retention payments to current and former employees of the financial products unit, known as AIGFP. ❋ Aparajita Saha-Bubna (2010)

The goal of the hold-back of $21 million is two-fold. ❋ Aparajita Saha-Bubna (2010)

The hold-back comes as AIG will also on Monday pay out $46 million to current and former employees of its financial products unit, the division responsible for the soured trades that precipitated the massive government rescue of the company in 2008, the person said. ❋ Aparajita Saha-Bubna (2010)

They'd be looking at a domestic 10 per cent hold-back, to cover US losses, standard procedure in banks throughout the nation, standard since the ❋ Unknown (2010)

I have never in my life not had a hold-back in a construction contract. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There ` s a lot of hold-back evidence here, Nancy. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Typically, contractors bolt before the punch list is complete, and only the hold-back keeps them focused at all on finishing the job to my satisfaction. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Three times all with my company I have had contractors go bankrupt or disappear before the job is complete, in at least two cases leaving so much work unfinished that even the hold-back was not enough to cover the loss. ❋ Unknown (2009)

How I wish to speak to you but hold-back the moment I see you ❋ Nomadicasian (2008)

They were reserve, as in hold-back, or even slack. ❋ Ed Hollett (2007)

The information hold-back may have arisen from lack of experience, or from the inability to register the enormity of the terrorists 'destructive plans, or it may have been a visceral desire to protect the airlines from liability. ❋ Unknown (2001)