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put on hold

verb as in table

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Proposed new federal rules that would include mandatory federal immigration status checks, limiting the duration of the license and limiting eligibility to certain immigration visas, were temporarily put on hold by a federal appeals court this week.

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He now has competition from Joe Hawkins, now with Scarlets after a spell at Exeter led to his international career being put on hold.

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That offers the possibility that any hiring that had been put on hold this year will soon resume.

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Most were put on hold amid the resulting global financial panic.

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Letby was redeployed to non-clinical duties but had been due to return to the unit when the move was put on hold as hospital chiefs contacted police in May 2017 to ask them to investigate a higher than expected number of deaths.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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