| The man had approached the clerk, held up a knife, and told him that this was a holdup. |
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| The project contact was very satisfied with the LLMP program, despite the occasionally bureaucratic holdup. |
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| Parliament could be told where the legislation is in the process, why it has not been proclaimed, or what the holdup is. |
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| Excessive humidity indicates either a liner leak or water holdup in the canister from operations carried out before sealing. |
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| In the meantime, he should just accept that the holdup has nothing to do with his politics. |
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| As they fled the scene of their holdup, the terrified taxi driver took them to Place de la Nation in the eastern part of Paris. |
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| Then there will be no holdup on May 10, plain and simple. |
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| After their adoptive mother is gunned down during a grocery store holdup, the estranged brothers reunite to seek revenge and take matters into their own hands. |
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| Marv, still resentful about the takeover, wants to engineer a holdup of his own bar on drop night. |
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| The book chronicles the history of bank heists and describes various holdup techniques. |
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| That is, at best, a technicality. As for Mr Graves, the holdup in his case rests on another technicality: the state comptroller's office, which controls the money, noted that Mr Graves had not actually been declared innocent. |
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| Reed was killed not long after his sensational holdup of the Austin San Antonio stage in 1874, and Belle Shirley was named an accessory, although not a participant, in the indictment for that crime. |
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| My question for the minister is, what is the holdup? |
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| This eliminates freezing problems caused by condensate holdup. |
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| In such a case we shall be entitled to postpone performance for the duration of the circumstances occasioning the holdup, with the addition of an appropriate period of preparation. |
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| Mr Holdup said the existing football pitch on the site would remain but part of the playing fields would be built on. |
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