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If we were to attempt a landing we don't have the firepower to hold off a tribe of determined savages with spears for a great length of time
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Then I sat back at the table, hoping the heavy rain would hold off for just a while longer
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There are more wielders on the outer edges of the camp with enough soldiers and Guardians to hold off another attack, at least for the short term
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It wasn’t that Jean was weak with the Power after her sword training; she just wasn’t strong enough with Air yet to hold off against Hayley’s strength
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The Russians, started to hold off the Germans and their Italian allies, and inflicting heavy losses
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We are coming about now and will hold off the coast awaiting your call,” he answered
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“Ok, I’ll hold off, but you can bet I’ll be skeptical of your thesis,” I said
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“I can hold off until four,
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She had even thought about feigning sickness in an effort to hold off the inevitable for another day
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“Hey I’m going to that meeting with JT’s teacher, can you hold off until I come back?” I asked on the doorway
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– that I had so far been able to hold off from crashing on top of me
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would hold off until she reached her apartment
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He wants us to hold off until we can all look together
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"We sent all available units to hold off the hangar platform but the Harbinger didn't dock with us in a conventional way
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That would hold off the wolves for a week or two
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weapons and ammunition to hold off a zombie army
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gave him one last potion to hold off the pain—to give him a final burst of
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“I wil hold off Apophis as long as I can,” Ra said
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She was telling him her place was getting too hot and they needed to hold off for a while until she got off the radar
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‘I hope they hold off till after school closes,’ Jarek said
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But still, something’s eating at you, telling you to hold off expanding the chain
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I hear that they’re very lose on the Mainland- the women hold office and their ruler is a Queen who’s never married
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Forecasted weather hold off in east Ohio
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Let’s hold off dealing with maintenance
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‘I was going to interview Dewi Pugh again but I got a call from Demery telling me to hold off till he gets back
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I am now in the room where the first body is, I have asked the stretcher bearers to hold off until I can give you details of how the body is lying
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“Will, she was strong enough to hold off the guards
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I decided to hold off a bit
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I can’t even hold off against a stupid robot!”
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Even if the weather is quite warm earlier in the month, you should hold off since a frost might still appear
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I decided to hold off with my 'kitty psychotherapist
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engage, he instructed them to hold off their attack on the remaining hijacked
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The Scharnhorst crew worked feverishly to repair the damage whilst the Luftwaffe and escorting vessels prepared to hold off the enemy who never came
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The former sheriff was also something they were embarrassed about, because through the 20 years of his retirement, he had become senile enough that he believed himself still to hold office
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be a useful tool to hold off those food cravings throughout the day
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Apples especially can help to hold off
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“Lazar, help your mother with resuscitation, while I try to hold off guards
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If he finished Ragnar off quickly enough, there might still be time to rescue the Amazon and the wizard, if only they could hold off the Sons of Ragnar in the meantime
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vendor can hold off on due diligence until more prospective buyers are in the
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Alvin had to hold off another local cowboy who knew the
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The local TV stations were calling for a winter storm to arrive that afternoon and she hoped it would hold off at least long enough for her husband’s burial to proceed as scheduled
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Godel was unable to hold off the attackers
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Assembly elections in four crucial states of north India were due in a few months and it would be best to hold off any announcement till the elections were over, was their argument
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Because the conscripts needed the horses more than the soldiers did, Ackerly decided to hold off the desertion until the night following their arrival
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I would hold off spending
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The juggernaut was an intimidating sight, and was five hundred feet of armoured wrath, with enough firepower to hold off a small combat fleet by itself
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If you are new to juicing, hold off
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And no matter how much Jemma protested that she and Damien should hold off on an intimate relationship, despite her attempts to have a conversation instead, Damien simply overcame her objections by kissing her, or touching her until she was shivering with desire
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To hold off having this done, will only make your injuries even worse than they already are
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It looked like it might rain today, but if he was lucky, it would hold off until evening
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And hold off on the bust of the old woman if you find her
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Hold off awakening the president until we"ve
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Fortunately I had managed to reach Tony Lawrence before he spoke with Sir Kenneth Bell and we agreed they would hold off on doing anything further for the time being
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wasn't any need to hold off on the marriage
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They instructed her to hold off on certain medications until they could get in touch with her doctor and would have called the doctor if our consultant hadn’t already
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Alvin had to hold off another local cowboy who knew the rules of the place and was always ready to enforce them on new-comers
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is the family that owns all the biggest store chain on Earth but they want to hold off opening up on Mars until Utopia is ready”
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So the day wore on, and it blew up colder and I knew the rain wouldn’t hold off for much longer, and when it started to pour down a moment later, everyone scattered for their homes, huts and villages, the Clan going up into the hall, where yet another celebration would start in honour of the game champions…
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The rain had decided to hold off as the people gathered outside the church but it was coming, there was no doubt about that
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I didn’t ask and waited a minute before I said, “I also need you to hold off for a couple days before you go public with this
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No way Rese and I can hold off all of them
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“Hold off on that
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He couldn't hold off any longer,
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When she could hold off no longer, when the waves of her orgasm rose from between her legs, she had a few moments of happiness all her own, all other thoughts driven from her mind
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I prepare myself to grab a hold of Tara's shoulders, and start shaking her, but I hold off
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Serena couldn't hold off Gary, or even come out and start her car before he got here
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Deprived thee of! Hold off the earth awhile,
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Which let thy wiseness fear: hold off thy hand
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But ere they touch thee warn them, and, as best thou canst, say to them: Hold off! ye weaklings; hold your hands!
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I decided to hold off on telling Peter about my talk with William
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“Listen, the fire won’t hold off like that for long
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With a little luck, it would hold off until evening, but if it didn’t, his screw-galleys could be in serious trouble
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It’s possible the heretics might think they could hold off Thirsk’s fleet if they have sufficiently powerful batteries of their own on the island, but I wish to Langhorne they’d try it! There’s no water on Shyan, Zhaspahr
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“They’re supposed to release her name to the press now that she’s legally of age, but I got him to hold off
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“Hold off, D,” Trey said, and leaned against his axe
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or to hold off the full might
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Some now hastened up behind the Rohirrim, others held westward to hold off the forces of Gondor and prevent their joining with Rohan
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If the market trades down to that price, you may buy a little, but if it is weak you might hold off a bit to see if it will fall even lower
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Naive rules would suggest that this is lower risk-adjusted return, but hold off on making any decisions for a moment
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Stocks therefore seem to have a tendency to fall away in the summer, so a good technique is to hold off buying stocks you fancy, which are falling, until they have reached a bottom
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One route is for the company to try for a voluntary arrangement under which its creditors hold off knocking bits off the corporate structure to sell as a way of recovering their money and allow it to try trading out of its problems
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When this condition continues it is well to hold off until the character of the market changes
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It is far from certain that the typical investor should regularly hold off buying until low market levels appear, because this may involve a long wait, very likely the loss of income, and the possible missing of investment opportunities
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Claire said, “Hurry up, okay? I can’t hold off the damned Bridge Authority much longer
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It took everything I had to hold off confessing
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The commander kept his hand in the air to hold off the next punch
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No way to hold off when she orgasmed like that
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So even the most enthusiastic nationalists had to check whether their country was really ready for self-government or whether it mightn’t be better to hold off for a few years and get a bit more experience under the colonial regime before placing a bomb under the governor general
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But then, through plain dumb cowardice, I guess, maybe you hold off from too much, wait, play it safe
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However, I would advise you to hold off from shorting indices until you are confident in your trading
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At a certain moment, the pangs of grief for América Vicuña made him twist with pain, and he could not hold off the truth any longer: he locked himself in the bathroom and cried, slowly, until his last tear was shed
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The same thing must happen with all those who from inertia hold offices which have long ago become useless, when the first man who is not interested (as the proverb has it, "One hand washes the other"), in concealing the uselessness of these institutions, will point out their uselessness and will naïvely call out, "But, good people, they have long ago ceased to be good for anything
