The word
"holdout" refers to a person who resists or refuses to agree or comply with something, often a group decision or agreement.
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There was very little explanation in the press release of how this petition is supposed to bring about the welcome of self - published authors into one of the
last holdouts in publishing, but at the very least the campaign stands to raise some much - needed awareness and lend credibility to the cause of authors worldwide.
«It will make it harder for a whole lot
of holdouts who have wanted to put a stick in it.»
They were able to retain most of the original voices from the films as well, with a few exceptions with
holdouts for more money or scheduling problems.
Toyota's next - generation Avalon flagship sedan features more aggressive bodywork, an updated platform to improve driving dynamics and the company's first implementation of Apple CarPlay after years of remaining one of the
few holdouts on smartphone integration.
Update: AT&T had been the lone
holdout on the unlimited data plan front, only offering such a plan if you subscribed to its DirecTV or U-Verse subsidiaries for your TV service.
From the chart you can see that Jason is still the
lone holdout in giving any votes for Selma as he believes that everyone is vastly overrating the film's strength.
On Wednesday, July 30th, S&P cut the credit rating on Argentina's foreign currency bonds to «selective default» after they failed to reach a deal
with holdout bondholders from their last default in 2001.
Simon & Schuster, the last
remaining holdout among the Big Six publishers when it comes to library ebook lending, announced today it was launching a program with New York City libraries.
The publisher was the last major
holdout from signing a deal and they now join Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Dynamite, BOOM!
Police officers and National Guardsmen cleared the camp of people Thursday, searching tents and huts and arresting dozens of
holdouts who had defied the government order to leave.
As holdouts from an earlier, paper - driven era, Ladd and Payne are by no means unusual.
Life insurance has proven to be a wise purchase for many, but there are
still holdouts who decide it's not for them.
Some GOP senators are the final
holdouts against a bill that would extend the statute of limitations and open up a one - year window for past victims to file civil lawsuits.
Two companies that guaranteed payments on Detroit bonds and were the last
major holdout creditors in the case, Syncora Guarantee Inc [SYCRFS.UL] and Financial Guaranty Insurance Co [FGIC.UL], received options to develop parcels of land.
Nixon was the
only holdout on making this meeting happen, which left everyone else scrambling to turn him around.
This may pave the way for the world's largest English - language publisher — and the final remaining
holdout among the six major publishing houses — to join Apple's iBookstore.
Kalanick noted that this will significantly expand by Q1 of next year, although there have been some notable
holdouts like Houston and Miami because of ongoing fights between Uber and incumbent local taxi organizations.
The department has indicated it will accept and review NCLB waiver applications on a rolling basis throughout this school year, giving Texas and the
other holdout states plenty of time to develop and submit waiver plans if they so choose.
We can't get rid of Science, you'll hear the
final holdouts yelling as the National Guard uses bolt cutters to free them from whatever they've chained themselves to, because only Science has the Scientific Method!
Anyway, the
double holdout didn't cost the ball club quite as much as the figures would seem to indicate.
GOSHEN — Orange County Legislator Michael Amo (I - 1) may be the lone
holdout when lawmakers vote to fund the county's Valley View nursing home for a full year in 2014.
Original article (11/08/17): Citing concerns surrounding new features like
Holdout mode, an endless high score challenge, Tripwire says the game will be delayed by a week so the developers can give everything an extra check.
They didn't want Drew Brees to play anymore, and now he has to because of the long
holdout by Philip Rivers.
Everywhere in the West, Christianity has declined, even in the United States, once a
notable holdout against the trend.
While there are a few remaining
holdouts at my center, frenulotomy for breastfeeding difficulty has now been established as an extremely safe and appropriate procedure to perform in the first few days of life.
The
sole holdout of this new agreement was HarperCollins who filed paperwork and said they are not engaging in anti-competitive behaviour.
Killing Floor: Incursion for PlayStation VR will come with a timed exclusive
Holdout Mode map, «The Crucible», which finds players defending locations against increasingly deadly hordes of enemies in a frenetic, arcade - like action experience.
They take a new method («lasso») that is untried and untested in this context and compare it to noise models on
holdout periods that are shorter than have been used before, using a metric that hasn't been used before.
Cotton is perhaps the leading
conservative holdout on the prisons bill, for which Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R - Texas) is leading the push in the upper chamber.
I understand that this all raises a number of nuanced policy issues, but I must say I'm struck by the fact that Canada, almost alone of OECD countries (other
holdouts include Chile, Denmark and S. Korea), has not yet done away wit legalization.
Given the nature of this game,
Holdout didn't hold as much love for me as the campaign just because the action, though frenetic, gets kind of redundant.
ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo plans to turn up the heat on the last
Democratic holdout aligned with the state Senate Republicans, sources say.
New Maps and Mode — the Descent, an all - new map featuring the new
Holdout sub-mode in Survival that descends players to a new random location each wave, and Nuked, a community - made map that is now featured in the official lineup
Microsoft's new operating system, Windows 7, is finally available for purchase and — amen — actually good enough to make
even holdouts still clinging desperately to Windows XP want to upgrade after all these years.
The only
holdout now is Apple Music and we know that Apple is not going to add that functionality anytime soon!
Except for a buy - and - hold approach, improve your discipline where you can, provided that those improvements would also have enhanced performance in prior market cycles - particularly in «
holdout data» that was unused during the improvement process.
The president tweeted that unspecified changes to the Republican tax bill are coming, as he looks to win
over holdout GOP senators in an effort to pass the package by the end of the year.
The fabulous college career at Wichita State, the $ 1.3 million rookie signing bonus after a
long holdout, the where'd - it - go sinkerball that had left scouts gaping — none of that seemed relevant anymore.
However late Friday Martin Schulz, the head of the European Parliament, appeared to announce on Twitter that he would meet on Saturday morning with Freeland and Paul Magnette, the president of
holdout Belgian region Wallonia, to try to revive the talks.
However, Eyford, Harper's new representative for West Coast energy infrastructure, insisted on Tuesday his role will not be to cajole
holdouts into supporting contentious projects.
Apple (aapl) had been the most notable long -
time holdout when it comes to adding the Vulu app among companies marketing streaming devices and platforms.
U.S. wants Argentina to find debt solution with
holdout investors in wake of court decisions, Reuters
If e-books equalized the publishing frontier for self - published professionals, it's safe to say that audiobooks are the last
great holdout for traditional houses.