1.  The troops were engaged in a holding action until reinforcements could arrive.

2.  Artistically, it was definitely a holding action.

3.  But Keith Holzman, who replaced Ms. Sterne, staged a holding action, wisely keeping her involved as a producer.

4.  But the album is a holding action, not an advance.

5.  But the results look more like a holding action than a truly effective defense.

6.  Having ceded that ground, they fought a holding action on the ABM treaty in hopes of keeping Moscow at the arms control table.

7.  In essence, the administration is saying the military should reduce forces to what is required to win one war decisively and carry out a holding action elsewhere.

8.  It comes across essentially as a holding action while Lovett pursues other interests.

9.  Quick application of cardiopulmonary resuscitation can force blood out of an inactive heart into the body as a holding action.

10.  Such a holding action is well worth doing because a more permanent solution is in the works.