Sentences with phrase «held off as»

I saw some pretty mums by me but held off as I thought it might be too early to get them.

While virtually every other manufacturer began pumping out phones with increasingly larger screens in the wake of the Galaxy Note's arrival in 2012, Apple held off as long as it could.

The weather was crisp and the rain held off as we took the big guns out on GingerMan's fine road course, and the precipitation then confined itself to a light mist for our day of driving on the tiny two - lanes that twist through Michigan's remote blueberry country.

Still, the rain held off as we got crumpets, a coffee at the original Starbucks, and then a better coffee elsewhere.

Ok I've held off as long as I can... It's the day after Labor Day and as promised I'm switching over to FALL!!!

I held off as long as I could, but I had to share all of the festive holiday decor that we have been enjoying in my house since Thanksgiving!

Any excuse to break out a coat or my rain boots and I am thrilled!I held off as long as I could on posting anything too «fall» as I didn't want to... Continue reading Trench Weather

The only positive on an awful night weather wise was that the rain held off as we walked from car to ground and back again.

Alright, I held off as long as I could.

You generally want to hold off as long as you can up until age 70 to let your benefits grow as much as possible.

I tried to hold off as long as possible but clearly that makes me crazy because then I can't make these!

Peterson caught him on the final lap and the Frenchman did everything he could to hold him off as the two went side by side through several corners, but Peterson eventually got ahead and won by half a second whilst Depailler secured his eighth second - place finish.

It's best if you can hold off as long as possible before your child becomes immersed in an online (and sedentary) world, but by second grade more and more kids are getting involved.

Sessions threatened in March to starve sanctuary cities by holding off as much as $ 4.1 billion in federal grants unless the cities relent.

You're lucky you don't need to to color it — hold off as long as you can.

I haven't jumped on the Lularoe band wagon yet, I know when I do I'll be obsessed so I was holding off as long as I could!

Students and parents who have paid close attention to this controversy over this redesigned SAT test are in a quandary because some test - prep and college guidance experts are advising students to hold off as the first time a test is used is bound to be problematic, and the test results will still become part of a student's SAT test profile.

But at last year's Los Angles Auto Show, Kiyoshi Fujiwara, Mazda's head of R&D, told AutoExpress that while he recognizes that hybrid technology could eventually find its way into rotary sports cars, he wants to hold off as long as possible.

I decided to hold off as well.

If you don't need to pull money from IRAs, 401 (k) and other tax - deferred accounts, hold off as long as you can or until you must take distributions at 70 1/2..

The decision to buy now or wait until November really depends on you as a gamer, if you can wait then I would recommend holding off as by all accounts the PS4 and Xbox One versions will be the real deal.

The controls were quite difficult to get a hold off as the Y button pushes you up in the air, while the A button only pushes you further up if you're already in the air, which seems unnecessary.

In the exhibition catalogue, Carolyn Lanchner, retired Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, writes: Jaffe's manipulation of the visual takes the basics, lines, forms, colors, and allows them every freedom her extraordinary imagination can devise, while vigilantly suppressing any errant tendencies towards tactile effects on a uniformly flat surface without material density -LSB-...] Explaining her procedures, she once described how she holds off as long as possible choosing among the «myriad solutions» that occur to her during the making of a painting.

Something which would be prevented by implementing any scaling solution at all (even if it isn't the most attractive or robust,) rather than holding off as a form of lip - service to competing interests in the Bitcoin ecosystem.

Not exact matches

In 2015, less than a year after retiring as CEO of convenience store giant Alimentation Couche - Tard, the executive chairman, along with his three co-founders, put forward a resolution to extend their time - limited voting control — the group holds 22 % of the company's equity — to ward off any future takeover attempts.

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.

Held back by police, they were waiting some distance away near the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing, when the second explosion went off just as people were entering the government office.

If the balance feels off, be sure to speak up — don't hold things back, because in addition to harming your professional relationship, it can affect aspects of your personal one as well.

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.

When we bought our first plane, air travel was considered very expensive, extremely frustrating and awfully dull; more recently, the banking sector has been held responsible for the financial crisis and global recession, so we used our reputation to instil some trust and, as Virgin Money's slogan says, «Make everyone better off.»

Automotive Holdings Group chairman Bronte Howson sold off $ 2.5 million in shares he received as an incentive after the car dealer network achieved a 94th percentile ranking in shareholder returns over

Swiss banks have been prohibited by law from revealing information about their clients since 1934, and as a result, Switzerland now holds the largest pool of off shore wealth in the world — US$ 2.7 trillion.

Lie on your back with your knees bent and lift your butt off the ground with your pelvis held as high as you can so the line from your knees to your shoulders is straight.

According to Rogers, China could reduce its $ 1.12 trillion of U.S. debt holdings by allowing the bonds to roll off as they mature.

But inflation remains distant from the BOJ's 2 percent target as companies hold off on raising prices and wages, citing uncertainty over the economic outlook.

No one thought that we could remotely pay off the portion of the debt that is not held by Social Security and Medicare as early as 2005 - 2006.

Because of this, financial advisors generally recommend that you hold off on claiming as long as you can.

Presidents are exempt from federal ethics rules, though most recent holders of the office have sold off their financial holdings and put them in trusts as if the rules did apply to them.

At the most recent expo, held in August, there were bona fide industry legends on convention floor, such as Jon Kosmoski, the ponytailed, self - described «solvent head» who helped kick off the custom car craze back in the 1960s.

Hence Guttentag's advice: Take out a HECM as soon as you're eligible, at age 62, and hold off using it for as long as you can.

In cases when they do - such as with the work disincentive effects of means - tested tax credits used for the purchase of health insurance - it's better to hold off on those attacks or make them more nuanced.

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 travel company United Continental Holdings (ual) came under fire last month when a passenger was dragged off one of its overbooked flights, a fiasco that dragged as much as $ 90 million off the value of Buffett's stake as United stock plummeted amid the ensuing outrage.

In July last year, when CIR was known as Asset Backed Holdings, it launched an off - market bid for the shares it did not already own in PRL at $ 3 cash a share.

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.

While we're at it, would you be better off as an entrepreneur if your city held a one - off event like a convention, that millions will pay attention to, or a smaller scale, perennial event that will draw a passionate crowd?

Sears Canada — a subsidiary of U.S. - based Sears Holdings Corp. (Nasdaq: SHLD)-- has been selling off some of its leases as it tries to manage its costs and respond to changing consumer shopping habits and increased competition.

A reserve currency is a foreign currency held by central banks and other major financial institutions as a means to pay off international debt obligations.

One way the company keeps up with demand is by stockpiling products in a plant in New Hampshire and holding off on screen - printing — the final phase of production — as long as possible to ensure maximum flexibility.

Apple «s launch of the iPhone 8 kicked off with less fanfare on Friday than new models in previous years in the United States, Asia, Australia and Britain, as fans held out for the premium iPhone X, due out in early November.