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  • As a non-US resident I can sell on Smashwords, I just have to email a copy of the with-holding tax form and have 40% with-held.

    Publish your ebook on Smashwords...and $1 ebook | The Creative Penn 2009

  • And so even as the parents in the kingdom with-held their love and trust from the mother, so did they teach their children to do the same to her child.

    The World Above Cameron Dokey 2010

  • And so even as the parents in the kingdom with-held their love and trust from the mother, so did they teach their children to do the same to her child.

    The World Above Cameron Dokey 2010

  • Their passports are taken away, and their wages are with-held.

    Johann Hari: The Dark Side Of Dubai 2009

  • Misery, my sweet young friend, has long been busy with us all; much have we owed to the clash of different interests, much to that rapacity which to enjoy any thing, demands every thing, and much to that general perverseness which labours to place happiness in what is with-held.

    Cecilia 2008

  • Often these people -- bicycle couriers, aerobics instructors, taxi drivers -- have been treated as independent contractors by companies that probably should have treated them as employees and paid FICA, workers 'compensation and unemployment-insurance premiums, with-held taxes and issued W-2s.

    Mail Call And Corrections: How To Get Relief For 2008

  • Oddly enough, I de-linked the [opinion with-held ... this is his sandbox after all] Jarvis shortly thereafter … but Andrea remains near the top of my daily must-read list for her occasionally brilliant (and always entertaining), er, insightful comments; second only to Ace, natch.

    Consider the source « BuzzMachine 2005

  • "Candidates, prior to conceding, should obtain detailed vote count data that is normally with-held from the public and have it independently analyzed."

    'Daily Voting News' For June 20, 2006 2006

  • ‘She said, that the poor lady was with great difficulty with-held from answering your letter to her; which had (as was your aunt’s expression) almost broken the heart of every one: that she had reason to think that she was neither consenting to your two uncles writing, nor approving of what they wrote.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • I was with-held by notions of false honour, as she justly reproached me, because of thy own voluntary communications to me of thy purposes: and then, as she was brought into such a cursed house, and was so watched by thyself, as well as by thy infernal agents, I thought (knowing my man!) that I should only accelerate the intended mischiefs. —

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

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