Sentences with phrase «held off»

Glanbia could have held off for at least another month in deciding to reduce farmgate milk prices.

I've held off on this one only to allow my family to buy it for me for Christmas!

I had held off on ordering from Amazon, etc because you were going to be here in our fair city.

I've held off on sharing some of my more «everyday» type meals (and recipes), in part because there is often not much to them, and because sometimes they are a bit... er, random.

I held off though...... might have had something to do with the Christmas party we attended the night before....

Alright, I held off as long as I could.

During the 1997 North Hollywood Bank Shootout in California, a time when Assault Weapons were (and still are) illegal in California, two bank robbers armed with illegal assault weapons and illegal 100 round magazines held off 200 policemen armed with only shotguns and handguns for 20 minutes, injuring 17 people before they were taken down.

Many other news stations likely held off until it was more or less confirmed.

A very expensive attempt to restore it in the 1980s has not held off the ravages of the years.

@Steve Martin: I've held off for a very long time, but as you constantly put your stuff out there for others to endure, I'm finally compelled to respond.

Stephen Curry came off the bench to score 28 points in a triumphant return from a knee injury and nearly six weeks off, and the Golden State Warriors held off Anthony Davis and the pesky New Orleans Pelicans for a 121 - 116 to go ahead 2 - 0 in the series.

«These properties are going to be listed for sale at some point, but they're being held off the market, in many cases, for a lengthy period of time,» says Blomquist.

Last year, Mr. Trump held off imposing tough trade measures against China because, he said, Mr. Xi was cooperating in his campaign to pressure the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong - un, over his nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

The Bank of Canada held off on a further rate cut this week, opting instead to wait and see the size and structure of fiscal stimulus in the upcoming federal budget.

I held off on the blog post.

The central bank says it held off this time in part because it expects the recent strength of the Canadian dollar to slow the rise in the pace of inflation.

Yellen and her colleagues held off raising rates this fall in part because of the shaky Chinese economy and uncertainties in international markets.

The shareholders of Citigroup who are still nursing stock losses of 85 percent from the bank's pre-crash days aren't going to be too comforted by reading about Rubin's musings about existentialism in coffee shops around Harvard when he should have been cramming for finance courses that might have led to his questioning the more than $ 1 trillion bucks that Citigroup held off its balance sheet in the leadup to its crash.

We were quickly compensated for its market value and were in a position to buy another car, but we held off due to a looming sabbatical that would take -LSB-...]

Now, governor Mark Carney has sounded hawkish before and then held off.

Heading into the summer vacation with ads dubbing Scheer as Too Conservative, or whatever, would hurt perceptions of the Liberals as much as of their target, so the Liberals held off.

Instead, employees have been more rankled by compensation issues (the start - up, valued at $ 69 billion, has held off an IPO), the performance review process, and a feeling that Uber doesn't fully appreciate them.

The Fed appeared to be nearing another hike in June, but held off because of a weak U.S. jobs report and worries about the possible impact on financial markets of the then - pending British vote on whether to leave the European Union.

Others have speculated that broader tax changes will be held off until a later date, but the warning from Mr. Rosenberg, who is well - connected on Bay Street, is not a light one.

It's important to note that Trump's lawyers have repeatedly told him not to mention Mueller by name, and Trump held off for almost a year after Mueller started his investigation in early 2017.

[106][107] Corzine vowed to get that plan through the state legislature by March, but held off for nearly a month before releasing the details.

The Federal Reserve Board again held off raising its benchmark federal funds rate on Thursday, citing less than desirable economic circumstances.

But he held off on signing up right away, saying DfB didn't have the granular controls and security measures typically required of enterprise software.

I held off on buying a meat injector for the longest time based on this.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman had held off litigation against what he claimed were illegal gambling operations and the fantasy companies had suspended their «games of skill» while the proposed legislation was in train.

FBI agents on the case expected that Petraeus would be asked to resign immediately rather than risk the possibility that he could be blackmailed to give intelligence secrets to foreign intelligence agencies or criminals... [T] he FBI, Justice Department, and the White House held off on asking for Petraeus» resignation until after the election... FBI agents on the case were aware that such a decision had been made to hold off on forcing him out until after the election and were outraged.

In the first of three planned games in the eastern water town of Wuzhen, the AlphaGo program held off China's world number one Ke Jie in front of Chinese officials and Google parent Alphabet's chief executive Eric Schmidt.

Years later, the kids who had held off were found to be more successful professionally.

Reed held off challenges from some of golf's biggest names to record a 2 - under score (70) on Sunday, finishing the tournament 15 - under in total — one stroke ahead of Robbie Fowler and two ahead of Jordan Spieth.

So Walker has thus far held off on signing the budget into law and has called the legislature back for a second special session, beginning July 11.

Founder and chief inventor Sir James Dyson had been tinkering with the design and considered coming to market a few years ago, but he held off until he felt he had more than just a me - too product.

Frustrated, NetForce held off on a decision.

Despite customers asking McDonald's to offer breakfast past its 10:30 AM cutoff for years, it held off for so long because it's a costly transformation ranging from $ 500 to $ 5,000 per restaurant.

I held off on testing an Apple Watch until 2017 because I didn't think I needed or wanted it.

Brokers say the declines were simply the result of uncertainty around the Republican tax plan, as buyers held off until the details of the new law became clear.

I held off on my second five minute break since I was close to 1,000.

Nathan Adrian held off France and Australa, winning the race with a final time of 3:09.92.

At the same time, Xi may be mindful that Trump has held off on trade actions against China that he loudly threatened during the 2016 presidential campaign to give Beijing more time to make progress on North Korea.

When word got out, many held off on updating their device software, opting instead to hope and pray that Google would release its own map, which the company did in December.

Some doctors have held off on switching patients to these drugs until there are more widely available bleeding reversal agents on the market — which may happen as soon as this year, Reuters notes.

The Japan sale date was held off until next year because Japanese game developers have required more time to develop games for the PlayStation 4, he told reporters at headquarters.

It's increasingly common practice for supermarkets to offer prepared meals, but Walmart held off until it could find the right approach, Lehr said.

The trade group that represents the commodity blamed the fall on a 15 percent dip in investment in gold bars to 254.9 tons, as investors in the U.S., China and Germany held off from buying the yellow metal.

We held off actually doing this investment until now.»

Legal experts and counterintelligence veterans largely agreed that they could see no reasonable justification for why Grassley and Graham would hold off for eight months before acting on what they described as an «unusual,» «odd,» and «disturbing» email.