Sentence:  The announcement that the city would sue for recovery on the performance bond was made by City Solicitor David Berger at a press conference following a meeting in the morning with Wagner and other officials of the city and the PTC as well as representatives of an engineering firm that was <WSD>pulled</WSD> off the El project before its completion in 1959 . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  cause to withdraw