Word: withhold
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...Conflict between a Bush administration and a Likud Party-led government over settlements certainly has a familiar ring - the same issue provoked a public fallout between the first Bush administration and the government of Yitzhak Shamir, in which Washington threatened to withhold financial aid if Israel went ahead with settlement construction. This time around, both sides will be inclined to fight shy of a public confrontation, but there will inevitably be some tough diplomatic bargaining behind closed doors...
...seemed appropriate to withhold them from consideration," one committee member deadpanned...
...will withhold judgement on the merits of the living wage campaign. I’ll even withhold judgement on President Neil L. Rudenstine’s general policy of permitting protestors to occupy his offices and then not punishing them...
...focus on discrepancies in some of the tax returns that are actually filed. The IRS has completely abandoned any efforts to bring to task those individuals and companies who do not file any tax returns at all. In fact, some businesses have publicly declared their intention not to withhold taxes from their employees’ paychecks, in flagrant violation...
George W. Bush has never claimed any tree-hugging tendencies. But now, after several weeks of ill-received backpedaling on the environment by his administration, even green groups that vowed to withhold judgment on the new president are throwing aside restraint and going on the attack...