In typical patient Durst fashion, he chose to build retail stores as an income-producing holding action.

As the retreat continued south towards Paris, there were a number of small but vigorous holding actions by various units of the British rearguard:

As Queen of the Night, Ruth Welting turned her first act aria into a grim holding action against nervousness.

Too few marines had come away from their desperate holding action on that planet.

Ms. Russe, Gadget's lawyer, fought a valiant holding action but called us in for a warning.

The best Rodgers hoped for by coming here was to fight a better holding action.

Until now, the bad luck inflicted upon him by the Sword of Chance had been minimal, a mere holding action sufficient to prevent his escape.

The Lord of the Just and Sudden Reach dismissed the idea of trying a useless holding action.

And from that point on, it would become nothing more than an expensive holding action to save face.

Senator John Breaux, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, said he would be content with a successful holding action.