As China expands its own use of energy, including that from renewable sources, the nation intends to hold-back its exports of REEs for its own use, with potential impacts on the development of renewable energy such as from wind across the world.
After Senate leaders jockeyed for days over procedural issues tied to consideration of the bills, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, unexpectedly announced Wednesday morning that Republicans would agree to Democratic demands and hold back-to-back votes requiring neither side to garner a filibuster-proof 60-vote margin.
Sometimes it's women who hold themselves back - they don't own their own value, raise their hands for promotions or ask for more money.
The victory was fitting reward for a largely dominant home performance, but this was not without its flaws, which twice allowed the visitors to gain a foot-hold back into the game.
"My eldest now is at the age where he wants to do things and go to places -- and we have to hold him back, " said the recently-appointed ambassador for Chinese football.
Both are clamorous, fragmented democracies with entrenched interests and cultures--including larger rural populations--that hold back reform but also add civic ballast.
The fault means the rover's work has been put on temporary hold while the back-up computer is reconfigured so it can take full control.
If he agrees to help Frank (Greg Kinnear), it's only because he promises to hold the rest back -- and because Frank has an attractive widow, Gwen (Tea Leoni).
Imagine water pouring into a sink and a really tiny stopper trying to hold it all back--that's our treatment program--and there's nothing slowing the amount of water pouring into that sink.
Anyways, no complaints here -- Toshiba didn't hold back with its new A135 15.4-inch laptops, and you can nab your own with Windows Vista Home Premium of Windows Vista Ultimate on January 30th.
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If Start is seriously stuck, Russia too might feel the need to hold back from co-operating on other issues.
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Four fire crews have been there overnight trying to hold back the flames - which were at one point threatening to engulf properties.
Our self-doubt will hold us back from doing the types of things that will help us create credibility for ourselves such as voicing our opinion, speaking up in meetings, and taking on new roles and responsibilities to showcase our skills and talent.
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Whether that will hold you back from (re-)investing in AMD's new platform is up to you, but we know you're not the type to buy blind anyway.
That is probably a reference to fears of a liquidity crunch at the end of the year as financial institutions hold back to avoid millennium-bug accidents indeed, such fears may make the Fed delay raising rates until next year.
Welsh Government officials don't hold back about these failings - and part of the reason for publishing the figures today based on such (self-confessedly) shoddy data, one suspects, is to give the LHBs an almighty shove to get their house in order.
And b2c is not the only place where this talk-back technology can take hold.
There's nothing we can do - we can't hold back nature so we've just got to sit and wait.
Some traders also pointed to declining volume, typical ahead of year-end, as a near-term factor likely to hold prices back.
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They had also asked the authorities to hold back tickets for this section - to prevent exactly the behaviour which was seen on Saturday.
Even those banks that are in good shape may want to hold back amid uncertainty over capital-adequacy requirements and accounting rules for off-balance-sheet assets.
Although blatant gender discrimination is becoming more rare as the years go by, subtle and unwitting assumptions and actions by otherwise well-intentioned senior managers still hold women back.
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Findings like this will not hold back Britain's measurement-mad government.
Rangers had their lead cut to eight points in midweek after a draw with Motherwell, but the roles were reversed this weekend after Aberdeen fought back to hold Celtic 4-4.
Breen was not undaunted by his maiden appearance at the World Bowls Championship and took an early lead before Chisholm fought back to hold a single-shot advantage going into the final end.
And until companies are operating much closer to that long-term average, they will hold back on hiring.
In October Mr Mantega tripled a tax on foreign investment in fixed-income securities to try to hold back the flood.
Betty Witherspoon, a nurse and retired university professor, did not hold back about the circumstances surrounding the not-so-legal nuptials.
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Even optimistic commercial-property developers are stacking sandbags to hold back a financial deluge in the market for office towers, hotels, shopping malls and other commercial real estate.
The health visitor was horrified and didn't hold back in telling us what she thought - essentially that a child, particularly that young, shouldn't be outside in weather like that.
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