"holding" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In typical patient Durst fashion, he chose to build retail stores as an income-producing holding action.
- As the retreat continued south towards Paris, there were a number of small but vigorous holding actions by various units of the British rearguard:
- As Queen of the Night, Ruth Welting turned her first act aria into a grim holding action against nervousness.
- Too few marines had come away from their desperate holding action on that planet.
- Ms. Russe, Gadget's lawyer, fought a valiant holding action but called us in for a warning.
- The best Rodgers hoped for by coming here was to fight a better holding action.
- Until now, the bad luck inflicted upon him by the Sword of Chance had been minimal, a mere holding action sufficient to prevent his escape.
- The Lord of the Just and Sudden Reach dismissed the idea of trying a useless holding action.
- And from that point on, it would become nothing more than an expensive holding action to save face.
- Senator John Breaux, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said he would be content with a successful holding action.
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