give pause

Key findings in these focus groups about what drives voters should give pause to strategists and ad-makers in both parties.

That ought to give pause to the Amalgamated Sorehead Society.

But it was only the rude and savage in an unfamiliar literature that could give pause in the age of Pope.

It would67 have been quite sufficient to give pause to any approaching wagon or machine.

In quickly conceived strategy he began to give pause in his attack, nay, he retreated a step or two.

Something sufficiently interesting, at any rate, to give pause even to a critic in a hurry.