Though the C.I.A. is required by law to inform Congress if one of its agents is suspected of criminal activity, the agency long withheld information that a Guatemalan military officer on the C.I.A. payroll might be linked to the DeVine killing.

All of them - the first 109 couples to register as "domestic partners" in the City of New York - left with something long withheld, an official acknowledgement of their untraditional lives.

Hoarding of Goods Stops Encouraged by the newly stable currency, people have stopped hoarding goods, and items long withheld from the market are now appearing again.

White House videotapes long withheld from Congress, and never even sought by Reno Justice, showed Huang in action with Bill Clinton.

A potentially explosive internal investigative audit of the Barnes's finances in the 1990's, long withheld by the foundation, was turned over late Friday to a judge, who may decide to make it public.

They have long withheld aid and trade to punish Hanoi, crowing about the blessings of freedom, but shun responsibility for the result.

Approval long withheld can sometimes be expressed; sins forgiven, and mantles passed.

Her partiality for this gentleman was not of recent origin; and he had been long withheld only by inferiority of situation from addressing her.

Windowing isn't a new idea; publishers have long withheld paperbacks to encourage hardcover sales, and in the movie business DVDs often appear a year after theatrical releases.