| So if all the studios but one want to give the union a better offer, that one holdout can add weeks or months to an impasse. |
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| The most notorious and outspoken holdout, however, has been the United States. |
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| The only holdout could be the mechanics union, which has put up the most resistance to more givebacks, Masters said. |
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| And if it hadn't been for just one holdout on Lyle's jury, Lyle would have been convicted of second-degree murder. |
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| Under those facts, would your unwillingness to accept my offer evidence that you are just being a strategic holdout? |
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| He has no hope of getting anything out of this holdout, so he basically is saying that he'd rather not play football than play for the Chargers. |
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| After ending a 50-day holdout, Smith is getting a lot of repetitions, running extra after practice and studying the playbook at night. |
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| Martin also defused any bad feelings that could have resulted from Yashin's holdout last season. |
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| Simon's holdout was bitter, but the change has been good for him, except for the injuries he suffered through. |
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| Designated the team's franchise player, he could be a training camp holdout for the second straight year. |
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| Some characteristics that affect printability are smoothness, absorbency, opacity and ink holdout. |
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| But politics notwithstanding, Hollywood, in particular, is often portrayed as the last great liberal holdout in California. |
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| So here we are, in the middle of what could be a very long holdout. |
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| A small holdout, a twelve-hectare woods located two kilometers from the town of Huntingdon, is still resisting the invaders. |
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| These nearby plots would not be subject to the holdout problem as they are not essential to the project. |
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| I recall being one of the first to move on to another city and over the course of a few years eventually everyone, including the holdout 7th year PhDs, left. |
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| But once the coordination and holdout problems are overcome, much work has to be done to prevent massive abuses from working their way into the system. |
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| Slowly, the holdout group came to understand that they were risking an enormous amount for a small return. |
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| But I think Steve Austin has to team up with a Japanese holdout to stop a nuclear bomb from going off or something. |
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| It had been a last holdout state in old dixie that still elected some Democrats to its top offices. |
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| The problem is that in theory, in any given situation when someone refuses to sell we can't tell whether it is because of strategic holdout or subjective value. |
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| Elsewhere, even long-term holdout Instagram is rumoured to be on its way to Windows Phone, possibly as soon as the end of this month. |
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| If all but a single country denies terrorists a safe haven on their soil, the one holdout undercuts the efforts of the others. |
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| After first-round draft pick Sylvester Morris ended a 20-day holdout by signing a seven-year deal, the team didn't want to waste any time getting him on the field. |
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| Holdout: A holdout is a creditor who refuses to participate in a debt re-scheduling agreement negotiated with all or a majority of fellow creditors to a sovereign debtor. |
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| If Facebook chooses to remain a holdout, it will not be as the head of a countercoalition but as a cranky recluse. |
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| Germany's Landlust, which extols the virtues of living at a relaxed pace and in close contact with nature, is another print-only holdout, with a circulation of 1m after seven years. |
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| Set to ominous background music, the spot shows parts of a July 3rd meeting of the Organisation of American States, called to discuss Argentina's legal battle with its holdout bondholders. |
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| The following day hundreds of troops closed in on the holdout, the Kachin soldiers firing at them, in short bursts to conserve their limited ammunition, as they tried to storm the hilltop. |
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| The Conservative government is the only holdout. |
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| But the great holdout against metrication is of course the United States. |
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| The IAEA's additional protocol, which allows for more aggressive, short-notice inspections should be made universal, through concerted efforts to persuade key holdout states to join. |
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| Cuba, long a holdout, in 1995 became the last country to sign. |
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| Apolline believes that Jackie Vautour, the last holdout among the expropriated residents of Kouchibouguac Park, is the only one who can help her understand the darkness and light within her. |
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| Lynx Opaque's high 96 brightness and outstanding opacity deliver exceptional ink holdout, vivid color reproduction and crisp detail time after time. |
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| Excellent holdout for sharp gloss of the enamel topcoat. |
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| The best balance of water holdout and breathability. |
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| One holdout juror led to an 11-1 vote of guilt on three securities fraud counts against each defendant. |
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| The lone holdout was American Council on Education President David Ward, who said he could not support the recommendations. |
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| But, absent holdout problems, private sector transactions should be able to achieve the most economically efficient uses of the land as well or better than the state. |
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| The Hall of Famer Al Simmons of the Philadelphia Athletics made a similar splash in 1930, homering in his first at-bat on opening day after ending a springlong holdout. |
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| He says he might be a holdout at the start of the next season if the team doesn't agree to pay him more. |
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| The very last holdout was Salmeniko, in the Morea's northwest. |
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| He is expected to end his three-week holdout and join the team tomorrow. |
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