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The reactions grind to a halt over the next few days, as the falling Jenga towers run out of other towers they can actually hit.

I was determined not to let the publics business grind to a halt and was gratified that the White House staff and cabinet felt the same way.

If all the migrants were to leave, Beijing would grind to a halt.

Without government action, he said, there was a risk that financial sector could grind to a halt.

The free flow of new ideas slows down and newer, better ways of doing things grind to a halt.

At the beginning of the recent global financial crisis, many feared that the Chinese growth engine would grind to a halt.

Every thirty seconds, the server experiences a huge storm of disk-writing activity, causing the system to nearly grind to a halt.

"Sometimes we feel the whole place is about to grind to a halt, " sighs a prominent businessman.

He cites capacitors and connectors, without which much of the modern world would grind to a halt.

Rather, the whole business world will face the storm of the century and commerce could literally grind to a halt.

Having failed to overcome the 60-vote hurdle to end a Senate filibuster, Mr Obama watched his $450bn jobs bill grind to a halt last week.

if we queried everything that struck us as less than perfectly straight, working life would grind to a halt.

Cities grind to a halt Power lines collapse and water supplies freeze. Cars won't start. Roads are cut off by ice.

It will be a hard slog. But on the current evidence don't expect America's recovery to grind to a halt.

University departments will grind to a halt. High-tech companies will be starved of personnel.

Blues boss Mourinho felt the hit-man fully deserved a new deal and now expects the transfer rumours to grind to a halt .

Martial law will not solve this problem, as society will grind to a halt.

But without them, industries worth trillions of dollars would grind to a halt.

Production could grind to a halt unless sales of fridges, cars and clothing pick up.

But if something similar happened today, the world's high-tech infrastructure could grind to a halt.

all of our research, including yours, would grind to a halt.

If something goes wrong, business will quickly grind to a halt.

"If we fail to act, the gears of our economy will grind to a halt, " said John McCain.

University departments will grind to a halt.

However, many companies would grind to a halt without refinancing. The reason they don't is that most have genuine income.

If trade doesn't improve soon, the industry will grind to a halt .

If we don't do something soon, the whole theatre industry could grind to a halt.

None of this is to say that job creation will grind to a halt or that the U. S. and euro zone will lose their competitive edge;