We're holding back traffic.

Yet something is holding Latin America back.

She's holding back tons of steel with the sheer force of her little personality, in that crone ish voice, saying things like, Back it up, buddy! No, it's reserved!

Ataturk viewed Islam as a major factor holding back Turkey s progress.

In terms of overall cost, holding these meetings back to back in a United Nations venue, particularly in Montreal, often results in cost savings compared to holding the meetings independently.

This is denting confidence and holding back spending, investment, and job creation.

There is no use holding onto illusions.

There is no other force holding it together.

Bassel isn t coming back and every day the hope that he will ever come back fades away... Holding on to hope is something beautiful and powerful.

But Arabs and Muslims must stop deluding themselves that the Israel Palestine dispute is what is holding them back.

The digital divide isn t much of a divide anymore it s the literacy divide that is holding many people back.

Right now, I can only imagine my future self stoically holding back any real emotions and giving lip service.

There is no going back.

Policy, instead, should be targeted at withdrawing excessive stimulus to consumption and loosening the constraints that are holding back investment.

Three months later in April 1961, back in Ketchum, one morning in the kitchen Mary found Hemingway holding a shotgun .

There was no motorcade back there.

Looking back, I have no regrets.

There also seems to be a need for a floating dock or some other such arrangement, which can be operationalized quickly, because the belief that there is no guaranteed border outlet seems to be holding back foreign investors.

Indeed, businesses cite uncertainty about the strength of demand, not uncertainty about regulation or taxation, as the main factor holding back job creation.

At pkarticleshub.com, Pakistani columnist and blogger Nazia Nazar talks about what she feels is holding back both sides from reaching a workable solution

My grandmother from Smyrna told me that she was holding her brother's hand for 3 nights back in 1922, till it got bruised.

Surveys are conducted in order to identify and, if possible, resolve problems in certain areas that are holding back women's development in Guinea.

Holding Arab land and prisoners indefinitely will no longer be an asset but a terrible burden.

But we realistic optimists are no longer holding our breath we may be disappointed, once again.

And this individual himself, this one that I'm holding up here, actually had a bad back. He'd probably had an injury as a child.

Indeed, the region s population explosion and rapid urbanization, along with the accelerating pace of tourism development, already means water scarcity is holding back growth.

Doubting the multi year sustainability of current economic policy, they are holding back on long term investments and, instead, opting for higher self insurance.

This is needed to address the infrastructure bottlenecks that are holding back investment by companies in other sectors and slowing the development of agriculture.

Again, what is holding the UN back is not the UN itself, but its leading members, who cannot agree on what change is needed.

Man Watch out! Watch out! No, no, no, no. You're going to have to get on the back legs.

With each of these countries holding more than 200 billion in foreign exchange holdings and China holding more than 3 trillion these are no longer funds intended to bridge trade balance shortfalls.

The paradox is that this has been good for holding the line on protectionism. After all, actions are also necessary to roll back open trade.

Just the unbroken line of people, holding hands and passing silently in the white darkness, the line looping back and forth outside the forbidding gates.

No. I'm sorry, I've got to go back early.

There will be no going back here as well.

He s scrawny, no more than 170 cm tall, holding a black stick almost as long as his leg.

Weak external demand is partly responsible for the falloff in growth, but internal factors namely, slowing investment and stagnating consumption are also holding back economic expansion.

After all, large enterprises are sitting on a few trillion dollars in cash, so money is not what is holding them back from investing and hiring.

Neither did the Liberians, although there was a huge amount of relief in their laughter as they clapped us on the back, and went back up to their room and left us alone in the street, holding hands.

Holding onto territory as a bargaining chip makes less sense if there is no one with whom to bargain.

There is no way back... We have come to die.

The purpose of this programme is to remove the constraints holding back development of the private sector, with a view to creating enterprises and income generating jobs.

But Kuwait shows that there will invariably come a moment when holding onto feudal ways is no longer an option.

But if the problem is weak investment, then a reduction in such incentives will lead to excessively high real interest rates when the factors holding back investment dissipate.

When it is said to them Come , Allah 's Messenger will seek forgiveness for you , they ( contemptuously ) shake their heads and you see them holding back in pride .