on hold
Example Sentences
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Decisions taking too long, celebrations being put on hold while deliberations take place, confusion as goals are given - or ruled out - for marginal reasons, denying referees the ability to use their own common sense.
From BBC
The remaining exploitation permits are held by companies with projects on hold or seeking to divest.
From Barron's
A very tight 5-4 BOE vote to keep rates on hold earlier this month, with four policymakers favoring reducing rates, combined with weak fourth-quarter U.K. gross domestic product data have left many analysts concluding that interest rates could be cut again as soon as next month.
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand is expected to keep interest rates on hold at a policy meeting on Wednesday.
Inflation figures are unlikely to alter expectations that the Bank of Canada is likely to keep interest rates on hold for the rest of this year, particularly given recent evidence of a relatively robust economy.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
