withhold

How To Use withhold In A Sentence

• And while Annie inflicts humiliation and degradation and withholds pain relief and food Paul is forced to write a new chapter every day simply to stay alive.
• The board has decided to withhold part of their grant money from certain students.
• An economic sanction means you withhold something that is your sovereign right.
• INA amendments in 1965 established a family reunification system, which enabled braceros to sponsor (or withhold or withdraw sponsorship of) immediate family members.
• [443] We could use the term partial defeater 'for defeaters that don't require withholding B but do require holding it less firmly. Warranted Christian Belief
• A village postwoman has been branded a ‘nasty busy body’ for deliberately withholding mail from a resident who was an ‘outsider’.
• That meant withholding some of the farmers' irrigation water and sending it downriver - at least until the drought broke.
• Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves. Robert Frost 
• When contracting or sub-contracting is applied in the construction and installation business, the main contractor shall withhold and pay Business Tax on behalf of the sub-contractors.
• The government is planning to withhold benefit payments from single mothers who refuse to name the father of their child.