We're holding back traffic.

Yet something is holding Latin America back.

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.

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.

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!

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 .

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 .

Holding Charities Accountable

Holding countries accountable

Due to these factors, the Secretariat believes that holding meetings of the Executive Committee back to back with meetings of the Parties presents budgetary and logistical difficulties which make coordination of a host Government agreement and the effective operation of such combined meetings very difficult.

Are you holding her?

A lack of skilled professionals is considered a major factor holding back Brazil s economic development, a predicament that the government hopes to overcome by attracting suitably qualified immigrants to the country.

The consensus dating back to the first special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament, which seemed to be developing in the post cold war period, is not holding well.

The main force holding Russia back is, to put it bluntly, ignorance. Indeed, for some Russians, any economic movement towards Asia is tantamount to a departure from a European path of development.

The main force holding Russia back is, to put it bluntly, ignorance. Indeed, for some Russians, any economic movement towards Asia is tantamount to a departure from a European path of development.

(a) Holding public office and

The teacher was holding me.

Young boy holding Shafik poster.

Brian is holding Kate's hands.

The holding of the auction

i When holding oral hearings.

For example, Vince Cable, the United Kingdom s business secretary, recently accused Bank of England regulators whom he called capital Taliban of holding back the country s economic recovery by imposing excessive burdens on banks.

For central banks, holding reserves in the same currency as other central banks means holding the most liquid asset.