A country wide strike called by opposition parties on September 20 brought many cities and towns to a halt.

By the same token, the treaty should not be called a fissile material cut off treaty (FMCT), implying a halt only in future production.

UNIFIL has called upon the Israeli authorities to halt such actions, as firing across the withdrawal line has the potential for escalation.

Sami's hopes came to a screeching halt.

Halt the system now?

This unsustainable process came to a crashing halt in 2008.

Its work ground to a halt, however, in early 2004.

Whatever the reason, the marriage negotiations came to a complete halt.

In early February, Egypt called on the international community to monitor extremist websites that incite violence and terrorism, and to halt broadcasting channels linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.

As a result, industrial, mining, and infrastructure projects have ground to a halt.

Indeed, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has declared that he wants to see more scientific development in China s approach to its problems, and even called for a temporary halt of the Salween (Nu) River dam.

And halt them , to be questioned

And halt them , to be questioned

Sami's car came to a screeching halt in front of Layla's house.

One danger of the recent setbacks is a halt to EU enlargement.

With energy revenues screeching to a halt, Putin s regime will lose popularity.

An invasion of Iraq would bring that process to a grinding halt.

And yet it has been allowed to slow almost to a halt.

It was French President Nicolas Sarkozy who, in the run up to the last EU summit, called a halt to Merkel s attempt to introduce an automatic response to member states that violate the stability criteria.

Sustained strikes by these groups would bring the country s economy to a halt.

It is also unlikely that growth will stop unless nature itself calls a halt.

But macroeconomic reform came to a screeching halt after Koizumi stepped down in 2006.

Policy making, I am sure, would suddenly halt.

But we can halt and reverse that trend.

The second challenge is to halt climate change.

A general strike, affecting everything except electricity and the press, brings the country to a halt.

The election may have ground to a halt, but the party, it seems, goes on.

One or several tipping points would most likely bring the process to a screeching halt.

The only question is whether political tensions could bring the music screeching to a halt.

Their condition for negotiating with Iran is a prior halt of its nuclear enrichment activities.

As bureaucratic decision making became more risk averse, many large projects ground to a halt.

And halt them so that they may be questioned .

And halt them so that they may be questioned .

(b) To halt without delay the use of landmines

Spending on automobiles ground to a halt, until government stimulus programs in many countries revived it.

(a) Macro level. Policies and laws strengthened to reverse and halt the spread of HIV AIDS

An immediate halt must be called to the violence in general and sexual violence in particular to paraphrase Jan Egeland, United Nations Under Secretary General, humanity is today being shaken by more than one tsunami.

It is indeed an evil halt and an evil abode

It is indeed an evil halt and an evil abode

But the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008 brought global economic growth to a screeching halt.

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Indeed, a strange sense of relief is now creeping into Americans consciousness as the consumer economy grinds to a halt.

That such an approach would have to include a total halt to Israeli settlement activities goes without saying.

In fact, without patent protections, the firm and its allies claim, medical research would shudder to a halt.

In Ukraine, on the other hand, public outrage, buttressed by international pressure, brought the government to a halt.