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The charity has failed to sell as many laptops as it had hoped. Its deals with some governments have stalled.

Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, said the eurozone "appears to have stalled" .

Consumer prices are lower now than they were a year ago, and wage increases have stalled in the face of high unemployment.

The matter was debated further over the next few years, with all talks of invasion stalled by the Warden Khans.

Mr Zapatero's next trick was to flag a package of proposals for labour reform, an issue on which he has stalled for almost two years.

Hugely popular on leaving office in 2006, any ambition he might have to win the presidency again in 2009 looks stalled, for now at least.

stalling a stepping motor will not hurt it . a stepping motor doesn ' t draw any increased current while being in a stalled position.

He was no player and was looking for a serious relationship; I felt too young to make promises, and stalled.

They've tried working out a peace agreement before, but those talks have been stalled for about a year and a half.

International mediators have been trying to re-start direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. But the efforts have stalled.

But attempts at reform have always been stalled by the fragile finances of the local governments that would have to provide these benefits.

A report showing record U. S. exports in April eased some concerns about a stalled economic recovery, which had been weighing on the market.

But later reports by Xinhua said the supposedly stalled train was under way when it was struck by the other train.

While there are signs the recovery has slowed, he said, the factory numbers show it hasn't stalled.

Another example of the differences in the implementation completeness is that the Python implementation seems to have stalled recently.

And the Security Council is calling for the resumption of the Six-Party talks which had been stalled since 2008.

The federal government, which has been rocked by a series of corruption scandals, is trying to kick-start India's stalled reforms process.

But it stems from the fact that this once-mighty engine of the FTSE-100 has stalled at home.

This special report will explore the reasons why progress in the rich world seems to have stalled and what can be done about it.

The stalled traffic stretched between Jining in Inner Mongolia and Huai'an in Hebei province, north-west of Beijing, said the Global Times.

Negotiations have stalled for over a year. The Arab League welcomed the news.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Obama would push for the U. S. Senate to advance a stalled bill to tackle global warming.

An earlier ten-month freeze ran out in late September, just weeks after the long-stalled talks had finally resumed.

and bonds strongly beat stocks, only to see stocks make a recovery that has also stalled in the last month.

US President Barack Obama has called on Israeli and Palestinian leaders to act with a sense of urgency in restarting stalled peace talks.

This week's special report explores the reasons why progress seems to have stalled and what can be done about it.

They will not teach you to sail a boat or get a stalled motor to run, but they will help you to live more fully.

The economy, which had been growing strongly, stalled.

Asset markets are unpredictable. When house prices in London stalled during 2004-05, many pundits thought the spell had been broken.

The driver of the stalled vehicle, however, had to be taken to a local hospital. Beckham was not cited or arrested.

Whensailing downwind, the sails no longer generate aerodynamic lift andairflow is stalled, with the wind push on the sails giving drag only.

U. S. -brokered peace talks stalled last month when Israel did not extend a freeze on most West Bank settlement activity.

In December, hiring nearly stalled, driving the unemployment rate to its highest level in more than two years.

And like America, Norway's PISA scores have been stalled in the middle ranges for the better part of a decade.

With their tank attack stalled at Arras, the British began to withdraw north towards Dunkirk .

When Esso realized that its name phonetically meant "stalled car, " it understood why it had had difficulties in the Japanese market.

But nothing happened. The multiplier effect of fractional reserve banking did not take off. Bank lending in fact stalled.

The column did not move, although, on the other side beyond the stalled vehicles I could see the troops moving.

The United States and South Korea have failed to meet a self-imposed deadline to alter their stalled free trade agreement.

Jobless claims had been on an improving trend and the reversal suggests that momentum in the labour market may have stalled.

Enterprise deposits, which had stalled due to deteriorating sales, rose by 2. 3 trillion yuan during the same period.

This summer has confirmed what many of us already feared: a global recovery which appeared to be taking hold 12 months ago has now stalled.

Formal bilateral talks, which had stalled for more than a decade, were resumed.

Talks stalled after North Korea forged ahead with its nuclear programme. The Kims would regard a revival as a victory.

Setting up further away from the capital would be cheaper, but a proposed high-tech city has stalled.

But once all the peripheral issues had been tidied up and the negotiators were left to share out raw power, the talks stalled yet again.

"I drank a glass of wine to slow things down, " she said. "But my labor wound up totally stalled. "

Nepal hopes the return of investors and donors will help kick start an economy stalled by years of political uncertainty.

The price of 10-year bonds collapsed, yields soared, liquidity was sucked out of the system and the recovery stalled.

However, contract talks with the Principality outfit stalled and the news alerted Arsenal to his possible availability.

The long-delayed proposed plant of POSCO in India's eastern state of Orissa has been stalled by protests and green probes.

Meanwhile, a comprehensive climate bill is hopelessly stalled in the Senate, and its prospects of approval in an election year are dim.

But a shortage of research labs capable of conducting accurate radioactivity tests stalled the process.

Chinese property price increases have all but stalled in month-on-month terms and many analysts think the market is at a tipping point.

It remains to be seen if a stable coalition will be able to pass key stalled legislation, including bills relating to the energy sector.

The negotiations for a new climate change agreement to be signed in Copenhagen in December are badly stalled.

The truck stalled after the couple drove into a fog-like cloud, says Danielle's father, Danny Smalley, who watched them drive away.

DESPITE some small signs of optimism about the United States economy, unemployment is still high, and the country seems stalled.

UK retail sales stalled last month in a sign the recession is still forcing consumers to rein in their spending.

For now, growth seems to have stalled.

With health-care legislation stalled, the administration decided to unveil the initiative in early February.

Long stalled by a squabble over about $25m of North Korean funds frozen in a bank in Macau, that deal is at last moving.

This week the Americans declared that the latest direct talks, stalled since September, would not resume.

Earlier in the day, the rebel units had been stalled at the headquarters of the well-armed Khamis Brigade, led by Col.

Under yellow, I got greedy and tried to save too much fuel. I stayed in seventh gear, and when I released the clutch I (stalled) it.

The transfer was verbally agreed between all parties but stalled at the last minute, apparently because Falcao demanded higher wages.

Bosworth began the mission in China and is to go on to South Korea to discuss prospects for restarting the stalled six-party negotiations.

If I stalled long enough, I could rationalize not going: "Hey, why go if you can't get away on time? "

American officials said that direct talks between Israelis and Palestinians, stalled since September, would not resume.

In the meantime thousands of projects have stalled as donors wait for new ministers to be appointed.

The B20 is most frustrated over the long-stalled, so-called Doha round of international trade liberalisation talks.

The boss of DaimlerChrysler was forced to admit on September 19th that his efforts to turn the American carmaker around had stalled.

Mr Yu also says stalled six-party talks on the north's nuclear disarmament might be suspended indefinitely.

The work is called "Faces in the Hood" , but it also reflects the Motor City, stalled.

The opposition fighters might still be stalled on the coastal highway, but momentum looks to be in their favour.

The construction of the plant was stalled by the protests and has since created a rift between the two governments.

Contract negotiations with Disney are stalled, so the hotel workers took their fight to the Main Street, and Disneyland itself.

With climate change legislation stalled in the U. S. Congress, the outlook for faster growth remains uncertain, the report noted.

A few hours later, the alarms blared again when flight controllers tried to restart the stalled coolant pump.

But it would be more useful for India if Mr Gandhi could get a long-stalled land-acquisition bill through parliament.

The White House says the meeting was about stalled judicial nominations, not arms control.

When Planet X is stalled near the Sun the charged tail is blow out and away from the N Pole of Planet X.

Also, when units are coming out of a production structure they are immediately stalled.

"Really, I think everything is stalled and I'm not precisely sure where it's going to go, " Mendel said.

Also, some investors are worried not about inflation but about deflation and its pernicious effects were the economy to remain stalled.

International talks involving the US, South Korea, Japan, Russia and China on an aid-for-nuclear disarmament deal are currently stalled.

Six-Party Talks to be resumed Stalled talks on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue will resume soon, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.

Congress looks unlikely to help: legislation to support embryonic-stem-cell research has stalled.

It is the bleak reality of a stalled car and spinning wheels impinging on the neat time schedule of our self-importance.

The beautiful lady and her parents were in a car that either stalled[13] or got caught on the railroad tracks and was hit by a train.

Six-nation talks on ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program have been stalled for nearly two years.

The ocean heated up as it does sometimes, and the hot spot formed and stalled right over the Phoenix Islands for six months.

I'm stalled of doing naught; and I do like--I could like to hear her!

They also said the G-20 should act to restart the World Trade Organization's stalled Doha round of trade talks.

Washington's paralysis in the face of a stalled recovery is bad news not just for Americans but for the world.

Eva : It was. Every time I let the clutch out, the engine stalled.

But reforms stalled and Ukraine slipped into a semi-authoritarian state.

Churches have been overthrown, horses stalled in the holy places, the bones of the saints dug up and scattered.

The wake survey cannot be used to measure the drag of stalled airfoil or of airfoils with flaps down.

It is bleak reality of a stalled car and spinning wheels impinge on the neat time schedule of our self-importance.

Economic reform is stalled in many instances by political infighting and corruption at all levels of government.

Yet after an era that saw substantial gains for these values around the world, democratic development has stalled in recent years.

But a number of those projects are stalled by legal and licensing delays.

As the engine stalled on the highway, I had to call 110 for emergency.

But since then, the talks have stalled over the failure of Pyongyang to verify the shutdown of the Yongbyon nuclear plant.

My colleagues and I were obsessed with the detail of the stalled draft peace treaty .

Nixon's proposal for a department of energy and natural resources stalled in Congress.

When he sued his American manager, whose finagling effectively stalled his career, the case made headlines.

With authoritarianism, economic reforms have stalled but without them high growth rates will not be maintained.

The military campaign against the colonel may appear to have stalled, but time is running out for him.

Some stalled units at its Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant might be put back into service.

But these have been stalled for nearly a decade and expressions of pious ambition to restart them are a summit routine.

The project stalled without a solution, probably due to the JXTA project introduction.

All of these were, like residential mortgages, fed into Wall Street's stalled securitisation machine.

Mr. Lawless said several potential buyers have emerged, but that the project is stalled until the owners come to an agreement.

Despite overheating in a number of emerging countries, the IMF concludes that rebalancing has stalled.

About halfway through, the drive had warmed up, the copy progress bar had stalled and the clicking was back.

North Korea has said it will not return to stalled international talks on its nuclear disarmament until sanctions against it are lifted.

Their advance was unopposed until they reached the far side of the forest, when heavy American small-arms fire stalled the attack.

The gains stalled in the last week of the year with indexes finishing essentially flat.

And then did you stall? MS: Not initially. Initially I tried to get reverse but it was hesitating to move and then finally I stalled.

While political reconciliation efforts have stalled, Pakistan and India have been improving economic ties.

From what my sources tell me, the talks seem stalled or at the very least to have sunk to a very low level.

Although the bill passed in the House in the last Congressional session, it stalled in the Senate and now has to be reintroduced.

Initiatives to modernise state schools and courts have stalled in the face of entrenched religious conservatives.

The recession's depth is bound to increase pressure to revive the stalled Doha Round of trade talks.

Many companies have stalled and even went on the verge of bankruptcy against the backdrop of the global economic downturn.

Negotiations over annual iron ore contact prices have stalled between China and its suppliers in Australia and Brazil.

A stalled train was rear-ended by another train, knocking three carriages off of a bridge and demolishing two.

Since then plans have stalled and worries about the US economy have sent the Hang Seng back near to its levels in August.

The rescue efforts had been stalled due to the high concentration of toxic gas .

China pushed for an emergency resumption of the stalled talks after the shelling of Yeonpyeong island.

China's output, which stalled but never fell, was growing by an annualised rate of some 17% in the second quarter.

A path is open for a return to stalled nuclear talks with North Korea, officials from the US, Japan and South Korea have said.

Talks stalled after North Korea forged ahead with its nuclear programme.

But the vision for a Europe whole and free has stalled at the border of the former Soviet Union.

The Palestinians, frustrated by stalled peace talks with Israel, launched a bid for statehood via the United Nations in September.

Global trade has doubled and bilateral pacts have sprung up since the stalled Doha round began.

All over the region, reforms stalled even before the economic crisis.

Under Vladimir Putin, the archives stayed sealed, judicial rehabilitation of the victims stalled and the excuses and deceits crept back.

The Client Automation Server (CAS) provides a mechanism to configure a timeout on calls that could result in a stalled system.

He also wants to jump-start long-stalled negotiations on a verifiable treaty to end the production of fissile material for military uses.

She obeyed it, and narrowly avoided crashing into a stalled car in the lane she had left.

The annual summit of 21 Pacific Rim leaders ended last night with a formal pledge to revive stalled world trade talks and thwart terrorism.

For the time being, the proposed redevelopment has been stalled by the global financial crisis, bad press, and local protests.

The stalled Middle East peace process is continuing to raise tensions between Israel and the United States.

During the retreat south, the ambulance was held up several times by wagons, guns, and trucks which extended in stalled lines for miles.

They came out in force in recent months, for example, to oppose a now-stalled government proposal to give foreigners voting rights.

The flight condition of an aircraft in a nose-down, spiraling, stalled descent.

eg. The car in front of me stalled and i missed the green.

The American Congress passed three long-stalled free-trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama.

Then VW tried to take over Porsche, but that deal also stalled until Porsche's boss and finance chief resigned last month.

Society of holy water because the river is an ever push forward the stalled torrent was able to keep clean.

It is a part of the strategy they are implementing as an alternative to stalled peace negotiations with Israel.

His career seemed stalled until Burt Lancaster, another actor who survived a difficult childhood in New York City, took him under his wing.

The car stalled out on me four times. I was pretty mad.

With tax revenue down and privatisation plans stalled, the fiscal deficit has soared.

But for others, the middle years may be times of disillusionment and regret about stalled careers and stale marriages.

And a developing country may become stalled at the brain drain stage.

Elsewhere in the western Balkans, applications from Macedonia and Montenegro are pending, and Croatia's membership talks have stalled.

U. S. Special Envoy for the Middle East George Mitchell has begun meetings with officials in Israel to revive stalled peace efforts .

GM also fears that in bankruptcy court, the auto maker's restructuring could be stalled by disgruntled creditors.

Beijing and Washington yesterday called for the revival of the stalled Doha Round of global trade talks.

But since then progress has been stalled by the growing power of conservative religious groups.

The ambitious economic goals of the 2000 Lisbon agenda have since been significantly scaled back as reforms needed to meet them stalled.

But talks stalled after Pyongyang wrangled with Washington over the implementation of the deal and how to verify its past atomic activities.

Clinton also expressed impatience with the stalled effort to revive peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.

Nintendo recently admitted that sales of its Wii console, long the market leader, had stalled.

And financial aid for the beleaguered auto industry is being stalled by a political standoff .

Government reforms are behind target, and negotiations with private creditors over voluntary debt relief are stalled.

True, banks are being pushed to recapitalise, but with such lack of finesse that assets flood the market and lending has stalled.

The federal government began building it in 1990, but it stalled for lack of money and only restarted in 2006.

In recent weeks, the rally in emerging markets has stalled on concerns that investor enthusiasm may have gotten ahead of reality.

When the maximum is reached, the log is temporarily stalled on the principal as the mirror server catches up.

Instead, US financials fit a pattern of stalled momentum across the many financial markets (outside the stock markets of China and India).

Liberalization of the price of goods has been stalled by constant state intervention in the areas of food, health care, and energy.

The accident occurred when one high-speed train rear-ended another that had stalled on the tracks near Wenzhou in Zhejiang Province.

The reporter asked: "if one day, you drive a plane flew over the Pacific Ocean, suddenly stalled, what would you do? "

Mr Mobius is also optimistic on India, another big emerging market where growth looks set to slow significantly due to stalled reforms.

During the famous blackout ten years ago , a woman sat in a stalled subway train for eight hours with a cake in her lap .

Cheney expressed support for the biodiesel tax incentive while discussing the importance of the Energy Bill, which has stalled in Congress.

But network expansion stalled this year after New Delhi ordered that all telecoms equipment purchases would need security clearance.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called Tuesday's summit to try and inject political momentum into stalled climate talks.

After a couple minutes of bidding, the high bid stalled at HK$190 million, prompting many to applaud, thinking it had sold at that price.

Yet the global fate of fisheries does not entirely hang on a stalled trade agreement.

The challenge now is for the presidency and the commission to give fresh political impetus to the EU's stalled reform drive.

Mr. Duan, the taxi driver, recalls a jam last February that left him and his passengers stalled for nearly three hours.

The province may have to abolish some "stalled" industrial complexes .

Six days after last Saturday's deadly earthquake in Pakistan, relief efforts remain stalled in some of the hardest-hit areas.

Although the fighting in eastern Libya has stalled, the rebels in the western mountains have moved effectively, taking town after town.

Yet the advance of democracy and human rights has stalled in many parts of the world.

in the project stalled, raising the frequency and restaurants to maintain service quality, and strive for customer approval.

The event occurred, he believes, when a series of phenomena called atmospheric rivers stalled over California.

Failure to reactivate either stalled or collapsed replication forks is a source of genomic instability in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes.

And as unemployment and budget pressures have risen, foreign recruiting has stalled in schools across the country.

They were stalled in a traffic jam for an hour.

The two governments have resumed a stalled dialogue to define military roles, missions and capabilities.

The campaign to reduce teenagers' smoking has stalled, new data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show.

However, done right, musical theatre is (gasp! ) a profitable art form, and for all China's stalled projects, there are encouraging signs.

Researchers discovered the object in the panoramic recordings shot by the stalled Spirit Mars rover.

And the great American job machine has stalled: one in ten is unemployed and more than a million may have given up looking for work.

The six-party talks with North Korea, chaired by China and including America, South Korea, Japan and Russia, have been stalled since 2008.

Northeastern parts of Tokyo and Japan Airlines stalled.

But Mr Singh wants something in return: African backing for another round of long-stalled efforts to reform the UN Security Council.

Italy and Spain have seen sharp rises in unit labour costs and their labour-productivity growth has stalled or gone into reverse.

Pascal Lamy, director-general of the World Trade Organisation, will review the stalled Doha round with trade ministers.

Revised data showing euro zone growth stalled in the last quarter of 2009 also weighed on the euro zone single currency.

US system now looks impossible for years to come, while Australia has stalled, and China and India are not playing ball.

America's economy isn't a stalled car, nor is it an invalid who will soon return to health if he gets a bit more rest.

Also Ukraine's wheat exports were stalled after authorities in Kiev insisted that grain traders apply for export licences.

Mr Obama sent three long-stalled free-trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea to Congress for ratification.

Six-party talks supposedly aimed at persuading Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons programme have stalled.

In the face of similar protests, past efforts to reform the benefits program have stalled.

Politicians stalled For now, politicians are waiting for the election commission to certify the vote.

The talks between Tsvangirai, Mugabe and smaller MDC faction leader Arthur Mutambara stalled on Tuesday night.

A proposal to raise the federal taxes that hedge-fund and private-equity managers pay on their carried interest has stalled in the Senate.

In response, the US and other Western nations stalled. They gave a long, convoluted reason, but the result was the same.

Of all the victims of stalled climate legislation, no one may be more frustrated than American Indians.

True, the proportion of children in poverty has come down, though progress has stalled and it is still higher than in France or Germany.

Without clear regulations, a plan has stalled for a $4 billion coal-to-liquid project in North Dakota.

The market impact? On Monday, stocks, led by banks, had their best day since May. Yesterday, after the results, bank stocks stalled again.

Jump-starting their stalled innovation machines will not be easy.

"The recovery has stalled a bit , " Foley said .

Job growth stalled in the U. S. economy in August, leaving the unemployment rate at a relatively high 9. 1 percent.

And he must press to revive stalled global trade negotiations.

The fact that negotiations have got under way, even if they have recently stalled, marks progress.

Unfortunately, sighs Edith Harxhi, Albania's deputy foreign minister, this means that the EU integration process has also stalled.

Stalled traffic has stretched for days between Jining in Inner Mongolia, and Huai'an in Hebei province, north west of Beijing.

Prime ministers have changed many times; policies have stalled; and political cynicism abounds.

Yet that could be stalled indefinitely if equipment suppliers decide they are unwilling to abide by New Delhi's sweeping rules.

And while crude prices stalled in January, a growing of evidence suggests that call may not be far off.

The group renewed its calls to avoid protectionism and to finish the Doha round of global trade talks, which has stalled for years.

With the economy stalled and the political horizon still blurred, many Egyptians now suspect the army of dragging its boots.

When the software development of our new product stalled, I coordinated the team which managed to get the schedule back on track.

The current government intends to rebuild the original palace, but lack of funding has stalled their plans.

Many projects are stalled by difficulties in acquiring land, especially in areas where Maoist rebels are active.

The upward momentum in box shipments has stalled, suggesting a flat trend in corrugated box shipments through year end.

The UN-led search for a global accord to replace the Kyoto protocol has stalled.

Mr. Carter's trip comes amid efforts on several fronts to reinvigorate stalled six-nation nuclear negotiations.

Would you mind giving me a push? My car has stalled .

And on the shoals of this tricky question, our conversation stalled.

But he failed to revive a stalled free-trade agreement with South Korea.

Just because your weight loss has stalled, don't revert back to your old bad habits.

An ever increasing number of stocks already have stalled out and formed potentially bearish chart patterns.

The recent swoon in financial markets and the stalled recovery in the US and Europe reflect these fundamental shortcomings.

Global trade stalled during the worst of the recession but has rebounded steadily during the past year.

Filched cables have reportedly caused train delays and stalled repairs to telecoms networks.

A bill that has stalled in the Senate proposes a higher rate if private-equity managers sell their partnership interest.

He knows the navy contracts are stalled. Where's he gonna get the money?

That kind of flipping stopped several years ago as home sales stalled amid a surge in foreclosures and curtailed lending.