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The White House backs the idea; it wants Democrats to keep that 60-seat majority, of course, in the Senate to hold-off a filibuster over health care later this fall.

CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2009 2009

Add to that a long hold-off on major Clinton endorsements even through some major rough patches for Obama, as well as rumblings that it will "all be over very soon," and one is invited to imagine a superdelegate power play in the works.

Larry Womack: Is Wednesday D-Day For Superdelegates? 2008

The takeover took place more than a year after five United States senators had tried to hold-off a government investigation by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board into Lincoln's risky loan practices regarding home loans.

Mark Nickolas: 20 Years Later: Another McCain At Center Of A Bank Collapse and Government Take-Over? 2008

They decided to hold-off on the marriage project until he came back.

Caroline, Polling, and the American Democracy 2007

And how much has he spent trying to hide and hold-off his impending baldness?

Think Progress » Matt Lauer on Michael J. Fox: 2006

So we're trying to get a handle on -- as you said, in all likelihood that 15 minute hold-off is an opportunity to check security just a little bit further -- Wolf.

CNN Transcript May 11, 2005 2005

FLEISCHER: What the prime minister indicated to the president was that they would be out of Jenin and Nablus within a week, and Jenin even earlier than that, that they are working very hard to resolve the hold-off on the Church of Nativity.

CNN Transcript Apr 16, 2002 2002

Meanwhile, the Keg and Bear pub in Milpark, Johannesburg, is shifting 40 percent more beer than usual, according to happy manager Michael Erasmus and the Pretoria city council has asked residents to hold-off on watering their gardens to allow the city's reservoir's to fill up again.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

I saw I must be extremely hold-off in my relations; and yet not too much so neither; for if I had no right to appear at all in the character of a suitor, I must yet appear continually, and if possible agreeably, in that of host.

David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped. 1893

He said he'd seen so many women that throwed theirselves at him and interfered with his movements that the hold-off sort was just what he was looking for.

Dixie Hart 1888