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62 examples of Withhold in a sentence

On those trials they were told just to withhold the response.
Now if you think about it, if I tossed a coin a hundred times, and I'm allowed to withhold from you the answers half the times, then I can convince you that I have a coin with two heads.
That should trace pretty perfectly to when, where and to whom you are likely to withhold your empathy.
Often, they underestimated the impact whistle-blowing had on their family, but what they continue to comment on is how hard it is to withhold the truth.
When one realizes that life, even in the middle of so many contradictions, is a gift, that love is the source and the meaning of life, how can they withhold their urge to do good to another fellow being?
If I doubt my older sister's ability to pay back the 10 percent interest I established on her last loan, I'm going to withhold her ability to get more money from me, until she pays it back.
There aren't many lines in the film so their body language, facial expressions, and overall presence needed to be powerful enough to withhold a scene.
The younger of the brothers, Will (Andrew Stevens, who also produces here as well as contributing heavily to the screenplay), a rather artless character, does in fact espy Nikki in flagrante delicto, but this apparently fortuitous event for Brian is nullified because Will has succumbed to the physical charms of the wayward wife and has decided to withhold the evidential tape from the musician and his attorney, played by able supporting player Paul Carr, causing a viewer to recognize that the lovestruck security guard can not be considered as an example of rectitude.
For example, failure of management reform would fuel demands by the US Congress to withhold America’s contributions to the UN budget – a policy that would greatly undermine America’s own interests, such as the planned expansion of the mission to stop genocide in Darfur.
The Truth about Medical ConsentLONDON – Is it acceptable for doctors to withhold information from their patients?
In a 1958 textbook on medical ethics and law, another eminent doctor stated that it is “often clinically wise and in the patient’s interest to withhold certain matters.”
The most crucial intermediate good the US can withhold is advanced semiconductor chips.
Beyond advanced microchips, the US government could order Boeing and United Technologies to withhold aircraft parts and jet engines on which China’s large commercial fleet depends, effectively grounding many Chinese jetliners.
But when the adviser believes his work will benefit those whom the leader effectively holds hostage, he has a duty not to withhold advice.
Its 2011 “Nakba Law” authorizes Israel’s finance minister to withhold funding from institutions that reject Israel’s character as a “Jewish state” or that commemorate the country’s Independence Day – which Palestinians call the Nakba (catastrophe) – as a day of mourning.
Such action from the WHC would also help to educate and empower civil society, while placing pressure on financial institutions to withhold the funding required for massive development projects.
Negotiators had the right to withhold consent, but only if they put forth alternate proposals aimed at finding common ground.
He could choose what to withhold from the public, and he could sell whatever people would buy, caveat emptor.
The second problem is that creditors may withhold new lending from governments that have the nerve to reject odious debts.
The ECB’s decision last week to withhold credit to the country’s banking system, and thereby to shutter the banks, was both inept and catastrophic.
For example, if KMET takes US aid, the organization will be obligated to withhold information from women about a critical health service, breaching the trust between a woman and her health care provider and violating a fundamental human right.
Equally important, China will withhold aid unless and until the EU meets certain conditions, including conferral of market-economy status.
Governments should not withhold the truth from their citizens.
Yet, this year, China decided to withhold such data from India, undermining the efficacy of India’s flood early-warning systems – during Asia’s summer monsoon season, no less.
China’s decision to withhold crucial data is not only cruel; it also breaches the country’s international obligations.
Even after the epidemic appeared in Hong Kong and then spread to Beijing, officials continued to withhold information.
Starting in 1964, in conjunction with Democratic President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s “New Society,” the government threatened to withhold federal funding for health, education, and other state and local programs from jurisdictions that resisted legislative and judicial desegregation orders.
This need not mean outright default; a plan to repay principal and interest with low-interest securities rather than cash – or to withhold income tax on interest earned from government bonds, crediting those taxes against the obligations of American taxpayers – would achieve the same result.
Second, Greece should continue to withhold service on its external debts to official creditors in advance of a consensual debt restructuring later this year.
Donors should withhold all non-humanitarian aid to Belgrade until it surrenders Milosevic for trial in The Hague.
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