Restrain impudent journalist, as Spooner might have said

Usage examples of holdback.

With Clingman and Gibbs and Holdback peaks near at hand and apparently of equal height, Mitchell seemed only a part and not separate from the mighty congregation of giants.

For a couple of heartbeats there was no movement until the catapult fired, breaking the holdback fitting and blasting Wilson and Ghostrider 404 into the air.

Once the Phantom had come to a stop, several men ran beneath it and hooked up the heavy steel cable, called the bridle, which would throw the Phantom into the air, and the holdback, which prevented the catapult from launching the jet prematurely.

And are they equally hard up that they might join out on a holdback basis?

Since Kostchei the Deathless had arranged this windfall, and because he was still on salary holdback, Florian advanced him the money to buy a badger coat for himself, as well.

He kept his F-14 moving into the area known as the box, where the jet stopped in the catapult holdback with a familiar clunk.

Once it was hooked up, Batman knew, another crewman would check the holdback bar that would keep the Tomcat from breaking free until the moment of the launch, and the jet-blast deflector would rise into position behind the plane.

He could feel the fighter straining against the holdback bolt, like a wild animal eager to return to its own native element.