holdover

How To Use holdover In A Sentence

• The President fired his old energy czar, John Love, a holdover from the pre-embargo days, and replaced him with Deputy Treasury Secretary William Simon. The Prize
• Rue, of course, is a holdover from Lebanon's time as a French protectorate.
• A valuation may on occasions be necessary because of the interaction of holdover relief and other capital gains tax reliefs.
• President-elect Barack Obama will be keeping another holdover from the Bush administration on his national security team — Lt.Gen. Douglas E. Lute, who will keep his job coordinating Iraq and Afghanistan policy out of the National Security Council, according to transition officials. War Czar for Bush to Keep His Job - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
• Is equal representation by jurisdiction in the US senate a holdover from the holy roman empire, just like the US electoral college? Matthew Yglesias » Ungovernable America
• The bdc reticle is nice but a .270 properly sighted in will not require holdover at any reasonable range. What scope should I use for a .270? I want one that has good zoom for long shots but also under 200 bucks.
• He and Julie are the only board holdovers from the early days of the Belmont project, and both of them raised objections to the Belmont contract early on.
• But in reality, Daylight Savings Time is an archaic holdover from a time when people relied on candles all the time.
• Should we, then, see Julian simply as a holdover from the premodern sacred cosmos?
• In humans, some nerves remain unmyelinated, and those holdovers from early evolutionary time can't be anesthetised. Stem cells, Part 1, Introduction and Ethics