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That led to a quick thaw in these markets, where a week earlier trade had almost ground to a halt.

The train shuddered to a halt, and a muffled voice outside announced that this was Liverpool.

The flashing light dimmed into the distance as the police car rolled to a halt, much to the amazement of its occupants.

It has no diplomatic relations and talks about the North's nuclear capabilities have ground to a halt.

The housing market in many -- though not all -- Chinese cities seems to have nearly ground to a halt.

She had closed the door and started up to the second floor when the elevator came to a halt.

"You'd better stop here, " he said, though she had already come to a halt at the first corner, "and take the next car. "

Suddenly, the cart Will was in jerked to a halt. Will looked up to see the face of Little John.

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 found myself walking to the car, which had come to a halt a few feet from the Stop & Shop building.

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.

But since the collapse of the bank that led the funding, construction has almost ground to a halt.

The rapid decline of the Y chromosome seems to have ground to a halt at least tens of millions of years ago.

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

Playing ball in the swamp is like a slow-motion movie coming to a halt every time a player sinks in a hole, she said.

The company had come to a halt, more sober men, as you may guess, than when they started.

We had barely broached the airport perimeter when he pulled to a halt, and a second man climbed into the front passenger seat.

They plunged off the road and slid to a halt at the bottom of an incline.

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

When it reaches point B, it comes to a halt, and I'm going to ask you now h We've done that in the past in a different way.

All it often takes for a business to come grinding to a halt is for one of those components to malfunction.

If the flow of fossil fuels to the United States were ever cut off, the economy would come to a halt.

The company's earnings rebounded in the first half of the year compared to the year earlier, when global trade virtually ground to a halt.

The German advance ground to a halt as the soldiers in the frontline infantry regiments reached the limit of their endurance.

In the case of a possible accident, the machine comes to a halt immediately upon the operator's direction.

Grief seems to bring time to a halt. Yet love never stands still. Love is always going on.

Today, Mumbai will come to a halt as it marks the anniversary with a day of prayer and commemoration for those who died.

Then there is the question of where Spain can turn for growth, now that its construction adventure has juddered to a halt.

CHENGDU: Transport ground to a halt as heavy fog enveloped parts of China Wednesday forcing airports and expressways to close to traffic.

As he paid this compliment to the merit of the absent charmer, MR. Brass came to a halt, looking doubtfully towards the light.

When housing prices began to fall, the bubble burst, and consumer demand and corporate investment ground to a halt.

Indeed, since the end of July, discussions about large private equity takeovers have virtually ground to a halt, say Wall Street bankers.

Only a few years ago the Spanish capital ground to a halt every August, as offices, shops and bars closed for the entire month.

But the competition for talent has by no means ground to a halt, and lower-level hiring is still taking place.

The famed Benguela railway across Angola ground to a halt because of the civil war and foreign invasion, meaning much of it was destroyed.

Meanwhile, Japan's longest period of continuous economic expansion since the war had stuttered to a halt (see article).

The credit crunch brought to a halt some of the country's biggest new casinos and large parts of the new Cotai strip are silent.

It has now brought the impetus for growth-boosting reforms, or indeed for any joined-up policymaking at all, to a halt.

So, finally, at the end, we can see the thing followed its sort of design path right up to 1965. And then all those paths came to a halt.

Around this time, the global economy entered free-fall as the sub-prime mortgage crisis exploded and credit markets ground to a halt.

vB I'll give it a speed vB and it comes to a halt here at point C.

Angry cars growl to a halt and sullenly crouch at her feet, snarling their annoyance, fretting to be away.

It is so far proving more resilient to the global financial crisis than Spain, where a decade-long boom has come to a halt.

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

These banks began holding on to their money, and lending dried up, and the gears of the American financial system began grinding to a halt.

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

In Europe consolidation came to a halt after three big mergers at the end of the last decade.

The tempo gradually slows down and speeds back up, and the end of the first track almost brings the disc to a halt.

Yes, they carry so much of the internet traffic that the internet would come to a halt.

Yes, when it got bad. He gave me some Valium tablets to slow me down but they slowed me to a halt. I didn't do anything but sleep.

Unfortunately, dissident elements turned off the water and the power, and the city ground almost to a halt.

And now through friction, of course, all this fun ultimately comes to a halt.

I would like to know at what time the object here comes to a halt to its highest point.

So Joab blew the trumpet, and all the men came to a halt; they no longer pursued Israel, nor did they fight anymore.

When you push a new smart grid or AMS system live to meet deadlines, what if the system provides inaccurate data or grinds 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.

The Jeep slides to a halt on the icy road as the driver speaks in rapid Russian, pointing excitedly at a row of half-finished houses.

Away from the square, large parts of the Greek economy were brought to a halt by strikes.

Moments before that could happen, Dr. Delgado pressed a button on a small radio transmitter in his hand and the bull braked to a halt.

When the object comes back and comes to a halt here, it's very easy for me to start the timing.

Let's now make sure that this crazy object has come to a halt.

If the cash outflows exceed the inflows, the business RUNS OUT OF CASH and grinds to a halt.

Traffic ground to a halt at it came to the accident site.

A bed of gravel on the outside of corners designed with the aim of bringing cars that fall off the circuit to a halt.

A ferociously efficient manufacturing and exporting economy is grinding to a halt, as demand across the world melts away.

The jeep screeched to a halt, and he didn't need to be told this was their next stop. He opened the jeep door.

The museum was dark, cold, and old, and this heightened the sense of suspension, of time and death brought to a halt inside its walls.

The plane skidded to a halt in a field at the end of a runway.

Already the wave of nationalisations that began shortly after the last presidential election has come to a halt.

However Joe remained at Upton Park where his much awaited career began gently before being brought to a halt altogether by a broken leg.

The plane skid ded to a halt in a field at the end of a runway.

If all the drivers behaved the same way, then traffic would not come to a halt.

Living mindful in what way does one bring consciousness to a halt? We've come questioning to the Blessed One. Let us hear your words.

While this inefficiency may well be a drag on China's growth, is it such a burden that growth must come crashing to a halt this year?

AS soon as Benn Gunn saw the colours he came to a halt stopped me by the arm, and sat down.

Builders have been through a bruising 2008, as housing activity practically ground to a halt.

The march choked the roads in and around India Gate and brought traffic in Lutyen's Delhi to a halt putting commuters to inconvenience.

The train screeched to a halt and Getter jumped off. Getter reached Marki.

Only one thing can bring their wanderings to a halt, none of them can give birth at sea.

The party was brought to a halt by an explosion.

they slowly marched down the city's central artery before coming to a halt at Morocco's Parliament building.

When the. . . when the wheel comes to a halt, when it's no longer rotating, you better believe it, then the thing will go clunk.

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

Recently, though, freedom's progress may have come to a halt, or even gone into reverse.

The path came to a halt at a certain spot, over which the topmost branches of ancient beech trees interwoven a transparent canopy of leaves.

Tokyo got off relatively lightly, though most public transport ground to a halt, forcing commuters to walk often huge distances home.

Road traffic between Hunan and Guangdong provinces has also ground to a halt. Jiangxi Province has halted all provincial bus service.

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

Between the strike and counter strike, transportation and business ground to a halt.

With the modification, large numbers of pedestrians were induced to come to a halt, crowd together and peer upward.

The fraternity brothers skidded to a halt as the statue thoughtfully rested its glowing eyes upon them.

He drew Honor to a halt at the edge of the moat, a deep trench lined with stone, its green waters choked by scum.

In the US, the boom in trading commissions that powered earnings? in? the? past? year? also? appears to have ground to a halt.

The train comes to a halt half an hour later. He gets off and walks another 20 minutes before reaching his work area.

"Kids" and "pandas" swing toward the center, coming to a halt in a double line.

THE BEATEN-UP RED car crunched up the driveway and came to a halt outside an English manor house.

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

When these hard limits are reached, the entire queue manager and all connected applications come to a halt.

If nuclear power is really as vital to the Japanese economy as has been made out, how come the country has not ground to a halt?

When Lehman Brothers collapsed, emerging economies ground to a halt, forcing government to step in with stimulus.

The UAW most recently went on strike against American Axel for 80-days, essentially bringing several General Motors plants to a halt.

The Russian winter brought the German offensive to a halt.

Lower levels of buying activity over the Summer holiday period are likely to bring price rises to a halt.

At the end of the summer Wall Street worried that growth was grinding to a halt.

A passenger train is creeping along, slowly. Finally it creaks to a halt. A passenger sees a conductor walking by outside.

But soon, credit markets around the world slowed to a halt on fears about the health of banks.

Schools, hospitals, courts and other state services have been brought to a halt by striking civil servants.

After we have walked along at a rapid pace for about half an hour, Frate suddenly comes 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.

More than 200 taxi drivers have brought central London to a halt in a protest at the Olympic Games lanes.

Small really want to ask the Secretary, this is the first of several calls her husband, but then to have a mouth to a halt.

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

Because of his bad temper, he beats up a fellow actor and forces the production to a halt.

Irregular migration to the Canary Islands, which was taking in tens of thousands of Africans a few years ago, had almost ground to a halt.

As Jack speeds to the gate , guards shoot at the van , causing it to careen to a halt .

The Oil Crisis of 1973 brought the many years of rapid economic growth to a halt.

Finally, it all came to a halt, with only Leehom's laboured breathing punctuating the silence.

Over the past 18 months, building projects around the country have ground to a halt.

Positrons moving slowly enough are brought to a halt and turned around on the ramp, keeping them inside the trap.

Thus it came about that the forward motion of progressivism came to a halt in the early uncertain months of 1939.

The woman who did all the presentation processing in my first job at Goldman almost brought my career to a halt.

Exports of soy meal have come to a halt over the past few months on low availability, according to Aggarwal.

So government programmes might come to a halt, while tax uncertainties would harm investment.

Once he got a cement truck to stop. He sat in front of it and barked until it came to a halt.

But he immediately warned that flagging consumer demand could bring the economy to a halt again.

Several high-profile foreign takeovers of Chinese companies have recently ground to a halt.

The courier's package comes to a halt in the middle of the road with cars driving by.

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

Even then, some looked for silver linings in the mushroom clouds from Hiroshima and Nagasaki that brought the second world war to a halt.

While these institutions may not bring China's modernisation to a halt, what an immeasurable drag they put on China's renewal!

Non-oil exports have ground to a halt: petroleum now accounts for 92% of its dollar intake.

P16INK4A is part of the control mechanism that brings cell division to a halt when this limit is reached.

Bringing it all to a halt, assuming it actually got moving in the first place, are the brakes from an Audi A8.

But the opening ground to a halt following the return last October of 34 PKK fighters to Turkey from Iraq. More were meant to follow.

The furloughs will also bring to a halt certification of new products by aerospace companies, according to Reuters.

Further evidence, if needed, that the petroholic era screeching to a halt.

Since our production of radios come to a halt, we have switched to the production of mobile phones.

After we have walked along at a rapid pace for about half an hour. Mike suddenly came to a halt.

Six hours later, our plane taxied to a halt in front of the soaring glass and steel of Shanghai's Pudong International Airport.

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

Instead, my routine came to a halt as I dealt with my medical emergency.

It is Mercury's retrograde move in your career sector today, less than 2 weeks after arriving that brings things to a halt.

The mighty US economy, whose appetite for Chinese exports has been an important driver of China's ultra-fast growth, has ground to a halt.

The onions too, once sprouted have ground to a halt, encrusted in frost, perched on the frozen soil.

Amidst uncertainty over broader policy, fresh exploration has ground to a halt.

He also wrote about a trip to K2 - via an unusual route, he says - but came to a halt when the air got too thin for smokers.

The train suddenly ground to a halt.

If the annual budget is not passed, public services could come to a halt.

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

It sputtered to a halt one morning in November, but we left it sitting there, hoping it would somehow come back to life.

China's worst snowstorm in half a century brought transport in Shanghai to a halt in late January.

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

Legalization of heroin has been rejected on the grounds that progress and civilization would come to a halt.

Yes, the economy ground to a halt in the first three months of the year, growing by a mere 0. 6% at an annual rate.

Trains can be decelerated and brought to a halt before the shaking occurs.

Five minutes after that, they skidded to a halt in the yard so that Fred could run in for his broomstick.

Rapid growth in digital music downloads has ground to a halt in the US, suggesting the MP3 market is reaching saturation point.

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

He stuttered to a halt. Hermione's hand was waving in the air again.

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

And when the reggae singer, the racing driver and the footballer died before their time, their homelands came to a halt in salute.

Sure enough, she saw him a couple more times, but eventually, the relationship fizzled out and grinded to a halt.

Especially if the pessimists are correct and China's economy grinds to a halt.

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

Will China's economic boom be brought to a halt by environmental catastrophe?

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

Even as growth in emerging markets has come to a halt, the rich economies look set to shrink.

The first thing you notice when you watch an ant trail is the way that never comes to a halt, no matter how busy the traffic.

The closed period permits only administration work at team bases, with absolutely all activities brought to a halt on the development side.

It's raining apples! Traffic grinds to a halt as "mini tornado" dumps a hail of fruit.

The start-stop system works by shutting down the engine when the car comes to a halt.

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

Rural roads are largely unpaved; in cities traffic often snarls to a halt.

Finally the white van rolled to a halt, not fifteen yards from the Ford Explorer.

"Communication on critical issues came to a halt and the separation was palpable. "

Even after the patrol car drew to a halt, its roof light stayed on, engine left running.

Overnight, work on the new station came to a halt, delaying the entire tunnel rail link.

Even Germany, Europe's largest economy, has seen its growth slow to a halt.

Sofia and Alex came to a halt and both tried to regain their breath.

The train jerked to a halt.

The drummer threw down his instrument and brought Charlie to a halt.

There is a widespread shortage of cash so commercial activities have virtually ground to a halt.

The result is kit that can take down enemy missiles and aircraft, stop tanks in their tracks and bring speedboats to a halt.

There is plenty of ice on Mars, but the chemical reactions for life come to a halt when water freezes.

Strikes have led to a halt in production.

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

The movement of our land masses comes to a halt.

Air traffic over much of Europe came to a halt for six days because of the huge cloud of ash from a volcano in Iceland.

Secretary Paulson says this market has basically come to a halt.

But the ironic wink comes to a halt with the whiskey, which is serious: vibrant with the evanescent slap of corn.

and the semicolon is a stop sign that tells us to ease gradually to a halt, before gradually starting up again.

By the 1980s, innovation in nuclear power essentially ground to a halt.

The horses staggered and the carriage shuddered and jerked to a halt.

GREEN Audi with tinted windows cuts in front of the Uzbek driver and screeches to a halt.

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

In the meantime and even more ominously, economic policy making has all but ground to a halt.

Broken links also bring search engine crawlers to a halt.

Every escalator you step on immediately grinds to a halt.

A rainy spell, however, brought the executions to a halt.

The wheels of history were rolling on, but we came to a halt and fell behind others.

One is the mysterious slowing down of Japan. Just comes to a halt.

Economists worry that price reductions can have a cascading effect that grinds the economy to a halt.

Consumer spending in these countries has decelerated, but not ground to a halt.

University departments will grind to a halt.

Production was brought to a halt by a strike.

Seven years ago, public pressure brought plans to dam China's Nu River to a halt.

Still, when the economy grinds to a halt, people clench their teeth.

The country came to a halt for two minutes at noon as sirens blared to remember the dead.

New-building approvals ground to a halt, and new construction fell by 40%.

But for various reasons the process gradually ground to a halt.

They come to a halt in front of a gate, beside which is a sign that reads 'Someplace Else'.

The strike brought industry grinding to a halt.

In 1998, the Asian Financial Crisis brought the region's economy grinding to a halt.

Diplomats may now be cagier about what they put in cables, but their work hasnot ground to a halt.

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

The driver could see nothing: her windscreen wiper scraped to a halt.

The car came to a halt just in time to avoid hitting the motorcycle in front of it.

He tried to bring that debate to a halt.

The strike brought economy grinding to a halt.

I will let it swing one oscillation, and when it comes to a halt here, I will start the timer.

Credit froze, and most projects ground to a halt.

Investment in deep-sea mineral extraction came to a halt.

Finally a note when it came to a halt, the old class stand in front of holding a pile of papers.

No moon means we can't work out the exact density of the planet, so the whole thing grinds to a halt.

But in the meantime, the industry has ground to a halt.

Industry has virtually ground to a halt.

She also believes that scientific progress came to a halt after Gerbert's death in 1003.

When the aeroplane finally came to a halt, it seemed so orderly inside.

The country's economic life is slowly grinding to a halt.

Digital plates could display ads whenever a car comes to a halt at a stop sign or a red light.

The car screeched to a halt with grinding brakes .

The train came to a halt just in time to prevent an accident.

So the case that America is grinding to a halt because of high taxation is not based on facts but is simply a theoretical assertion.

A 30% fall in prices could bring investment grinding to a halt, hit local government finances and have a marked impact on household wealth.

Whenever something is moving, it will come to a halt.

The two cars slowed and, once again, came to a halt.

Suddenly, the lights all go out, the view screen goes blank, and all the usual noise of fans, motors, and so on whines to a halt.

The peace "process" has ground to a halt.

As a result, venture capital deals grounded to a halt until these regulations were repealed by Notice 75 issued by SAFE in October 2005.

It gets smaller and smaller because of the gravitational acceleration, 0 comes to a halt and becomes zero.

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

River trade came to a halt as vessels ran aground.

The following year, house-price inflation came to a halt.

The car slowed and came to a halt opposite a young lady.

The project was brought to a halt because of its poor quality.

During the 1970s and 1980s the labour markets for men and women became less segregated, but that trend came to a halt in the mid-1990s.

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

Add the threat of terrorism (and heightened security checks to prevent it), and the poorly oiled machine grinds almost to a halt.

Everything grinds to a halt.

The project was going ahead smoothly when suddenly orders came from above to bring the whole thing to a halt.