hold back

And this could hold back climate change for a time.

The closest large predators were held back by about 800 kilometers of ocean, so getting murdered was basically a non-issue.

A sense of weakness, real or imagined, holds them back from attempts to persecute others.

And so obviously he's holding stuff back from us.

And there's a lot of reasons that hold us back in those moments, right?

Now, maybe they're going to hold back a little bit.

We curl into a ball and can’t hold back a tear, which rolls onto and is absorbed by the grey-green sofa.