Sentences with phrase «held back a bit»

«Be honest and say, «I'd like to enjoy my day here, so I'd really appreciate it if you could hold back a bit on the swearing and throwing clubs.

«While that was going on, the police services held back a bit.

Holding back a bit of the water would achieve the same goal too!

I have to hold back a bit, otherwise I'd put it in EVERYTHING!

Poblanos vary a lot in spiciness, so taste yours before you add it to the pan and hold back a bit if it's...

We're staying away from it entirely because we think the Tide will be holding back a bit and not interested in excessively running up the score.

It's good to play, but at 39, it holds me back a bit.»

I know I distracted my kids and I kind of wish I'd held back a bit and let Holiday Valley's awesome and patient instructors do their thing.

If the school holds firm and your child really isn't ready, you may need to consider holding him back a bit longer.

Some things are a lot better, like the neighborhood for example, but the mediocre MyGM mode and the heavy reliance on microtransactions hold it back a bit.

Rudd's Brian Fantana is on the same level as he was last time, and Koechner's Champ Kind is held back a bit by the script over-focusing on his latent attraction to Ron, but he still works fine.

Too bad the price and lack of online play hold it back a bit.

After taking a big styling risk with the aggressive NX, Lexus is holding back a bit for the redesigned 2016 Lexus RX debuting at the New York auto show.

Both Toyota's RAV4 and Honda's CR - V are excellent, but having tested them, we find it obvious that Toyota and Honda held back a bit to make space for the Lexus NX 200t and Acura RDX to be just a smidge better.

It's useful for holding back a bit of EV range for the end of a long highway segment, for example.

Like many publishers, though Dynamite is holding back a bit on digital comics in order to protect the direct market: All same - day releases are priced the same as print for 30 days, and trade paperbacks are released 30 days later in digital than in print.

From the sounds of it, he's holding back a bit to keep the game a surprise.

I suppose I felt I was being held back a bit.

He started holding back a bit more oats each day and was pleased to see the horse working just as hard.

Its great hardware and excellent camera performance make it feel worth the money, but the software holds it back a bit and leaves it feeling like a good phone launching at a time full of great phones like the LG G6, Galaxy S8, and even the Honor 8 Pro from Huawei's sister company Honor.

So, Kermit, hold back a bit, no matter how enamoured you might be feeling, allow yourself a decent space of time to really get over the last relationship and maybe reflect on what went wrong.

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«The one thing that's kind of holding the market back a bit is this impending growth fear and is the Fed making a mistake,» he said on «Closing Bell,» referring to the pace of the central bank's rate hikes.

Similarly, behind the designer clothes and red - hot romances, there is a dark side of Hollywood that revolves around equal parts threats and supplication, hand - holding and back - biting.

«Lots of folks get cold feet when it comes to taking that needed three - day weekend,» Baer writes before offering common excuses we give ourselves for not taking the time we need to maintain our mental balance — such as fears it will hold back our careers or misguided notions that those with a bit of scheduling flexibility (aka freelancers and entrepreneurs) don't need to take time to themselves in the same way regular employees do.

If you have an idea that you know is a bit kooky, but you think others might see it for the magic it is, don't let fear of what other people say hold you back.

Or are you holding back a little bit and forcing them to prove that before you buy the product for it?

Examples of such projects providing marginal benefits are: improving financial reporting systems through better information technology, minor tweaks to supply chain logistics, cutting back on marketing or increasing low - cost advertising (like social media), «rationalization» of head count, holding average wages as low as possible, squeezing suppliers a little bit, not repatriating earnings to stave off taxation, refinancing rather than retiring debts, and the share buyback that is insensitive to a company's current stock price.

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When Federal Reserve officials first started last year to mention wireless network data plans as a possible explanation for a fifth year of «transitory» factors holding back consumer price inflation, it seemed a bit transparent.

If being a very young business is holding you back from certain loan options or lower interest rates, the only thing you can do is wait it out and reapply when you've been around a bit longer.

On the other hand, private industry has laid off a good chunk of their workforce while squeezing every last bit of productivity out of those who remain, held back raises while telling their employees they're lucky to have a job, stopped making 401k matching contributions even after their profits have soared to record highs and they've banked a ton of cash that they're NOT spending to hire or rehire laid - off employees.

«I've kind of held back a little bit because they are so young, and I do not want to depress them,» he said from his home in north - central Pennsylvania.

Make an excuse, say it was held up for some reason and push the date back a bit, that way he can keep the scam / game going!

And sometimes love means biting your tongue and holding back, even when you don't understand or agree or approve.

I do so at least in word and deed, but I hold back a little bit of my heart, which might as well be all of it, because she can tell.

@Godpot... (God — pot... I'll have to try that... seems Dad has been holding back...) and that Moses character... I'll wager there was more than just a bush burnin» up there... (wouldn't know... me and that bird were trying to figure out the physics of stuffing «God» into a human womb right about that time... I'm thinking all these characters, not just me, were a bit «touched» as my child «Reality» likes to say...: 0)

I might need to hold on my enthusiasm for this butternut squash soup until my son gets a bit back in to soups.

Honestly I had to hold my self back a bit.

But I actually held back because they could have been called a million other things... like lovely gooey bites... or gluten free breakfast squares... or deliciously sweet snack bars... you get the idea, right?

You know at the end of Thanksgiving, when your fridge is full of last little bits of things and your pantry is packed with tiny McCormick spice containers that you hold onto, knowing in your heart of hearts that the last bit of pumpkin purée will go fuzzy in the refrigerator door and the pumpkin pie spice will turn rancid by the time you search for it in the back corners of the cabinet next fall?

One thing I have learned is to hold back on the liquid in a recipe until I have seen how it handles, and add a bit at a time until the texture is right.

The boss said, «We conceded three last week so I changed a bit because Mustafi came back and Holding had lost a little bit of confidence.»

Winning awards isn't my motivation to keep taking part in these events — but it is something extra that I will always hold in the back of my mind when volunteering in order to give me that little bit of determination to keep going.

Arsenal fans may have been feeling a bit nervous recently about Arsene Wenger's ability to hold on to our Spain international star Santi Cazorla, with many Arsenal transfer rumours suggesting that the little magician could be tempted to head back to Spain and La Liga with strong interest from big clubs like Barcelona and Atletico Madrid.

It ALMOST makes me jump back onto the hype train that I'd been riding the first two years of his career, but I definitely do feel a little snake - bitten about that still so I am holding off before declaring him the Seahawks» savior.

The story is that they offered 12m a few weeks ago but Arsenal was holding out for 15m only to then crawl back and take 7m when no one bit at the asking price.

Now Arsene has sold Gabriel who for all mhis mistakes is better than Monreal, Kola, Chambers and Holding at CB.But as usual it always comes back to bite us doesn't it.I don't want Monreal or Kola at CB.Leave them at their original position to challenge for it.Also I feel we don't need 3 back against some teams.We neef to vary our formation with the players available.

He will redeem a bit but let this be known: there is no fan, die hard fan, Wenger faithfull which will holding him back at the Emirates.

we switched off a bit and allowed newcastle, back into the game with a goal that gave them confidence to come at us, but we dug deep and held on!

A year later and he was a bit more of a regular feature, but there seemed to be something between the forward and Wenger that was holding the player back.