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  • Judge Chutkan last month put a hold on the case while the appeals play out.
    — Katherine Faulders, ABC News, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Did someone get cold feet and put a hold on the Amazon Fresh project?
    — Walter Loeb, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
  • The judge put a hold on the case in 2019 pending the outcome of the defamation trial in Montgomery.
    — Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The committee put a hold on the agreement for a second time.
    — Vanessa Swales, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The war put a hold on the vast majority of those studies.
    — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Oregon, along with Utah, are the first states to put a hold on their reopening process.
    — oregonlive, 12 June 2020
  • This put a hold on launching the product but the queries from customers did not subside.
    — Tommy Williams, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The Supreme Court put a hold on the ruling last year to allow the map to be used for the 2022 elections but did not rule on the merits of the case at that time.
    — Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 13 Aug. 2023
  • LaRose quickly appealed, and an appeals court put a hold on the ruling.
    — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Some cities in and near the Inland Empire have already put a hold on new warehouses.
    — Ryan Fonsecastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Any member has the power to put a hold on any nominee for any reason.
    — Allison Pecorin, ABC News, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Curry said officers put a hold on the package and went to the FedEx drop spot to collect it before the scammers did.
    — Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2020
  • Many volunteers put a hold on volunteering which was the right choice for them.
    — courant.com, 9 Apr. 2021
  • People can use the app to reserve a spot for someone who needs shelter for the night — an outreach worker can put a hold on a bed for an hour — or a meal.
    — Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Dec. 2021
  • If the three-judge panel refuses to put a hold on the enforcement of the subpoena, Trump's lawyers will be forced to ask the Supreme Court to prolong the legal fight.
    — Arkansas Online, 25 Sep. 2020
  • The novel coronavirus pandemic put a hold on the hiring process last spring.
    — Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 27 Oct. 2020
  • The city council at the time voted on a 4-3 margin to put a hold on implementing any new standalone sidewalks.
    — Ryan Nickerson, Houston Chronicle, 19 Sep. 2020
  • The companies asked for a court order because of concerns that the AMCC did not have the authority to put a hold on the proceedings.
    — Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 23 June 2023
  • But that put a hold on Commerz Real’s strategy to increase its U.S. holdings.
    — Peter Grant, WSJ, 8 Feb. 2022
  • But the pandemic has put a hold on most of those newsworthy developments.
    — New York Times, 7 Jan. 2021
  • In response to the increasing rate of new cases, Gov. Kate Brown put a hold on reopening procedures for seven days.
    — Cassidy Morrison, Washington Examiner, 18 June 2020
  • The attorney general could put a hold on the daily fines at the request of the local government while the monument is being restored.
    — Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 25 Apr. 2023
  • When the pandemic put a hold on in-store shopping, one of the leading complaints about online shopping was the inability to try things on before spending the money.
    — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Its bankruptcy filing had put a hold on litigation against it.
    — Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The former president's legal team appealed the matter to a higher court and asked Chutkan to put a hold on her order while it is further litigated.
    — Robert Legare, CBS News, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Just one senator can put a hold on legislation to keep it from advancing quickly.
    — Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Abbott has also put a hold on elective surgeries to make sure there is plenty of room for new cases in hospitals and medical centers.
    — Fox News, 26 June 2020
  • However, a federal appeals court put a hold on Carney’s ruling late last year, allowing the law to go into effect while the challenge plays out.
    — Peyton Sorosinski, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Biden unilaterally put a hold on any new tariffs on Chinese solar made in those four Southeast Asian nations.
    — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The action put a hold on hundreds of lawsuits to allow for the negotiation of a global settlement and required new abuse claims to be handled through the bankruptcy process rather than in state courts.
    — Kim Christensen, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2022

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