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The dispute has led to the blockade of a bridge between the two countries, and a halt to construction work on the mills.

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

It's easy to let negative responses put a halt to our inviting, bringing, and sharing with lost people.

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

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. "

This reversal has been a setback on your journey but think of it as a diversion rather than a halt.

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.

Once the carried interest exception has been dealt with, it would be wiser to call a halt, even if the Blackstone tax structure survives.

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.

The incident comes less than a year after a similar outage brought a halt to communications between Europe, Africa and Asia.

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

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.

It was allowed to appreciate by 20% over the next three years before a halt was called during the banking panic of 2008.

Mr. McCormick also said he hopes Beijing doesn't bring a halt to the liberalization of its financial system in response to recent events.

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.

The randy pair had to call a halt as they posed for the August edition of W magazine and rushed off to their trailer.

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.

The Scotch half-breed called a halt and took him out of the team, making the next dog, Sol- leks , fast to the sled.

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.

Local authorities in Beijing, the capital, have ordered a halt to such projects, pending reviews and 'rectification' of any problems.

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.

The IAEA admonished Tehran and insisted on snap inspections and a halt to its uranium enrichment program.

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.

When conditions are so critical that there will be no time to avoid the evil that the speech threatens, it is time to call a halt.

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?

Despite the Pakistan Army and government's loud denunciations of the covert program, they have not tried to put a halt to them.

The venture experienced cost blow-outs and there were occasions when the NSW Government was tempted to call a halt.

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

So long as the central bank retains the right to call a halt, that need be no serious danger.

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.

The company called a halt on this project after considering the expenses.

It defied a series of Security Council resolutions calling for a halt, and rebuffed diplomatic overtures from Europe and the United States.

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 State Council meeting chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao has put a halt to new nuclear construction and approval.

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.

Lack of money also explains why Republicans in South Carolina are considering a halt to imprisoning non-violent drug offenders.

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.

Only recently Ryan Giggs called a halt to his Wales international career to concentrate on club football with Manchester United.

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 strength and honor of the new DCMS created by the honorable Kanrei soon put a halt to the Prince's grand schemes.

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.

After the accident, the Russian Air Force has ordered a halt to the type of mission, until the cause of the accident found.

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

The British Proclamation of 1763 ordered a halt to the westward movement at the Appalachians, but the decree was widely disregarded.

I guess the only thing to do now is call a halt to this negotiation and part, friend.

Alarmed by the emerging financial panic and an abrupt collapse in exports, Beijing called a halt to the appreciation last July.

The financial sector is expected to be even weaker, with annual growth for banks nearly at a halt.

The result was a steep drop in discretionary consumer spending and a halt to lending.

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.

NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer issued a statement calling for a halt to hostilities and immediate direct talks.

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.

After only six days, Zimbardo put a halt to the experiment (several of the "guards" expressed disappointment at this).

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

It's about time we called a halt to all this senseless arguing.

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.

Many times, I had to call a halt to most of the content creation in order to get most of the coders back on optimizations.

When the children's play got too noisy, their mother called a halt.

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

Chinese exports have benefited partly from a halt to the appreciation of the renminbi against the dollar this year.

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

Solis got back on his feet but his legs buckled and the referee rightfully called a halt to the action.

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.

Then those clinical trials ran into trouble when French and German regulators called for a halt to the studies.

The Russian winter brought the German offensive to a halt.

Even environmentalists are calling for a halt to government subsidies and mandates on biofuels.

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

The resolution forbade trade in missile technology with North Korea and called for a halt to missile testing.

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.

Others disagree. America's spooks stand by their 2007 assessment that Iran had such a programme, but called a halt in 2003.

You've been working all day, why don't you call a halt?

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.

The catastrophe forced a halt to commercial fishing in the area and a moratorium on drilling.

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.

Mr. Boehner, and other party leaders, have a new reason to call a halt to the politics of paranoia and intolerance.

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.

The police have already pulled in a halt dozen people whom they suspect.

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.

In September China put a halt to such transfers, though those agreed on before then are still going ahead.

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.

Bexar County District Attorney Susan Reed on Tuesday ordered a halt to all major criminal trials until after next week.

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 .

You can call a halt to a silly set of proceedings any time you wish.

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.

In 1969, the Nixon administration announced a halt to residential use of the pesticide DDT as part of a total phaseout.

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.

However, the insecurity has brought a halt to the registration and health check of new arrivals.

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.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has approved a halt to all deliveries of Russian natural gas to Ukraine.

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

Officials said that, in contrast to the sudden acceleration problem, the Prius brake problem won't require a halt in production.

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.

It's time the nations of the world call a halt to the manufacture of nuclear weapons.

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.

By the evening, when he called a halt, he had landed 75 salmon, releasing all but his first fish.

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

After a couple of minutes the instructor calls a halt. "You can't do it in buzzwords, " he says.

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.

In 1968, President Johnson ordered a halt to all U-S bombing of North Vietnam, saying he hoped for fruitful peace negotiations.

The train jerked to a halt.

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

The director called a halt to the filming for a lunch Break .

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.

Let' s call a halt ( to the meeting ) and continue tomorrow.

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.