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The thin white edges of the held-up picture framed the sky around the buildings like a shield.

The Legacy Kirsten Tranter 2010

While his driver sorted out and disposed of the furniture van and the held-up cars, the sergeant, returning to the police car, got in touch with headquarters in Brackenfield.

Poem About Never Growing Up Ryan McDermott 2010

The future of Ivorian cocoa is a central theme in the country's ongoing presidential campaign, but real change has been held-up by this long-delayed vote, now scheduled for the end of October.

Ivory Coast Cocoa Harvest Strong Despite Disease 2010

Too bad Sen. Al Franken is being held-up by Senate Leadership before he gets to join the health care debate.

Mike Smith: No Joke -- Franken is a Senator 2009

Frequent emphasis by advocates of Abu-Jamal's execution, including Fox hosts, that courts have repeatedly held-up Abu-Jamal's conviction ignore an improbability embedded in that accurate statement about this case.

OpEdNews - Diary: Glenn Beck's Mumia Obsession: Fox Finds a New Black Boogeyman 2009

Fast forward to September 2009 and the Obama Administration's nominee to head the Office of Research and Development (which is where the IRIS program is located) is being held-up by Senator David Vitter (R-LA) who wants the assessment to be sent to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for additional review.

Jennifer Sass: IARC confirms link between formaldehyde and leukemia 2009

What is held-up for ridicule isn't the right-wing noise machine, but Obama.

Election Central Morning Roundup 2009

Where those that would dare to commit horrendous crimes aren't rewarded with increased elevations of power but instead held-up as living examples of what not to be.

Worldwide, Stock Prices Plummet, Assets Crumble in Days. 2008

He's doing this when he ambles back to the back of the plane and leans over the reporters, in his shirtsleeves, speaking affably into their held-up mics and recorders, at the end of the victorious tour.

Political Cycles 2008

I was held-up at a covered bridge in Ascutney and they took all of my maple syrup.

Firedoglake » GOP Corruption: It’s the New Blow Job 2006