Example sentences for: withholding

How can you use “withholding” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Inside, the Times reports that a former American ambassador to Britain has, in a new book excerpted in the Sunday Telegraph , charged that the U.S. ambassador to Ireland, Jean Kennedy Smith, is such an "ardent IRA apologist" that the British began withholding sensitive security information from the Clinton White House.

  • Prudie is in agreement that withholding direct quotes by public people often protects the evil-sayer from others as well as from themselves.

  • About the Aug. 8 "Readme": You can justify withholding the British intelligence officer's article in a dozen different ways, but the fact remains that because of the financial liability to your parent company you decided not to publish a story that your training and experience as journalists indicated was important and ought to be told.

  • They are even alleging that the plane was equipped with a flight data recorder but that the Americans are withholding it.

  • Other stories getting lots of front and front-section space include: the federal anti-trust suit brought against Intel for allegedly withholding technical data from such companies as Digital and Compaq as punishment for not licensing their technology to the chip maker; the decision of the European Union--and soon, it's reported, of the U.S. too--to ban new investments in Serbia and to freeze its foreign assets as a sanction against Serbia for its latest military actions against Albanians in Kosovo; and the agreement by Honda and Ford to pay $24.


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