Hackett held him off by less than two seconds, winning in 14:43.40.

He was holding his own exhaustion off by sheer effort of will.

If the invasion comes they'll probably expect us to hold it off all by ourselves.

He sees them as his best opportunity to hold off another invasion by China.

And there were so many of the aliens, he couldn't hold them off all by himself.

But they had to hold off a threat by the Twins in the ninth.

He held off a frown by the skin of his teeth.

In 893 the city held off another siege by the Danes.

Here the waves came in quietly, their force held off by the cape, and a boat might land.

The rest are holding off because of objections by Greece.