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  • Is there any product besides Google that we could withold from the dictators of China that would have more impact?

    It’s just business « Scripting News Annex 2006

  • Not having read much history about the time, I withold judgment on any of the characters.

    The Importance of Not Being Too Earnest - Follow Up at SF Novelists 2009

  • The votes represented a rejection of a recommendation from a shareholder-advisory firm Glass Lewis & Co. that investors withold support for Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs and six other directors.

    Disney Holders Reelect Board Ethan Smith 2011

  • I would encourage you all to withold judgement based on one quiz and read his essay based on this whole prescriptivist/descriptivist war which lays out his rationale for teaching students some of these rules that people disagree with.

    Led astray by the no-split-infinitives fetish « Motivated Grammar 2009

  • That Cameron and Hague are planning to withold their views on the minor matter of the UK's independence until April 2010 was vouchsafed to us by Mark Francois to the Sunday Telegraph only last week:

    Do Something Popular, Mr. Cameron! 2009

  • Another fellow Utah taxpayer ... the only surprize I had was that yet again my employer did not withold enough state tax ... so will have to tweak that a bit ..

    Greetings from Vacationland 2010

  • * And the classy pushback of the day: With Wisconsin Republicans threatening to withold the paychecks of missing Democrats, one of those Dems tells Andy Kroll he's not worried: "The longer they hold my check, the more they look like dicks."

    Happy Hour Roundup 2011

  • I mentioned my feelings on the matter because I was aksed a question, and I saw no reason to withold an answer.

    Tick Tock that Biological Clock - Feministing 2009

  • What we need to do is get them all in the same place at once … someone in the commons fees office could withold all expenses payments, as the blood sucking scum … sorry honourable members …. form an orderly queue to ask where the hell their cash cow … i mean expenses are, we could take them all out in one go.

    McNulty Escapes With ‘A Talking To’ Shock! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • That Cameron and Hague are planning to withold their views on the minor matter of the UK's independence until April 2010 was vouchsafed to us by Mark Francois to the Sunday Telegraph only last week:

    Archive 2009-09-13 2009

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