• Automakers don't want a roadside hoodlum to be able to bring traffic to a halt with the push of a button.

    FORBES: Car Talk

  • Automakers don't want a roadside hoodlum to be able to bring traffic to a halt with a push of a button.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Leicester had to infringe to bring it to a halt and Courrent made no mistake to put the visitors back into the lead.

    BBC: Leicester 14-9 Toulouse

  • And we continue to discuss with the Russians as well as others the steps that need to be taken to bring a halt to this appalling violence against Syrian civilians and to usher in a period where the future is brighter for Syria, where the possibility of a democratic political transition exists, which is what the Syrian people deserve.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Mr Noboa has tried to appease this group with extra spending for rural schools and health-care projects, but the farmers remain opposed to dollarisation and they can be expected to try to bring the country to a halt when fuel prices rise.

    ECONOMIST: Ecuador

  • "It is not a weakness to accept that a mistake has been made and we urge the government to bring a halt to this misconceived policy now, " he said.

    BBC: Huge and angry response to childcare plans, says charity

  • The divisiveness that threatens to bring Washington to a halt on at least a monthly basis is destroying our system.

    FORBES: The Age of Disruption

  • So how best to bring about a halt to the fighting?

    BBC: International support for attack on Gaza in the balance

  • "What is most important in these talks now is to bring a halt to the political emotions, " Mr Yushchenko said in the aftermath of the collapse of the deal that was supposed to get the taps turned back on.

    BBC: Strategy behind Europe's gas game

  • Democrats have threatened to bring Senate business to a halt through procedural moves if Frist takes that step.

    CNN: Showdown looms on Senate filibuster

  • He was also an excellent equestrian, known to bring his horse to a halt so as to jot down a thought, employing his saddle as a makeshift desk.

    NPR: Roth Rewrites History with a 'Plot Against America'

  • The Europeans had hoped that Iran might be persuaded to bring a permanent halt to all uranium and plutonium work if it received the right inducements, including trade and other, less proliferation-prone nuclear technologies.

    ECONOMIST: No appetite for carrots, no fear of sticks | The

  • The British, though treading carefully, are clearly looking for a way to bring the ratification process to a halt, most likely at the EU summit on June 16th and 17th.

    ECONOMIST: Dead, but not yet buried | The

  • They had to keep a taxi under control while cruising across concrete flooded with water, and bring a taxi to a screeching halt after reaching speeds above 100 kilometers an hour, or about 60 miles per hour.

    WSJ: In South Africa, a Drive to Rein in Cabbies

  • Polls show that many of the races to depose GOP State Senators, an effort designed to return control of the Senate to the Democrats and bring the Scott Walker agenda to a halt, are well within the margin of error and far too close to call.

    FORBES: Wisconsin Recall Races No Slam Dunk

  • By the time New Year's Eve rolls around, companies will have spent billions to correct a technically trivial problem that too few people took seriously - until it threatened to bring our lives and corporations to a grinding halt.

    CNN: Y2K isn't the only drain on corporate resources

  • If the IT staff makes an inappropriate administrative change, it could expose mission-critical workloads to the world at large, or bring the system to a screeching halt and trigger serious downtime.

    FORBES: How Checklists Can Improve Cloud Security

  • It could also bring to a halt the appreciation of the euro against the dollar that is hurting the export-reliant euro area.

    ECONOMIST: The Bank of England yanks down its growth forecast

  • The broad make-up of the group has created a political environment where any one of many members of the coalition could bring it to a halt if the policy discussion irked them.

    FORBES: What Does The New Italian Government Mean For Energy?

  • His tactical streetsmarts could add to the government's woes, but Labour peers didn't need him in post to bring consideration of the Parliamentary Voting and Constituencies Bill almost to a halt in January, and the government is clearly worried at the prospect of a repeat performance.

    BBC: Parliamentary warfare breaks out in Lords over NHS bill

  • At which point the Lords face the classic dilemma which confronted their predecessors a century ago, between "hedgers" who will seek to minimise the damage (as they see it) and "ditchers" who will fight to the last, and probably bring the government's legislative programme to a halt, in the process.

    BBC: Lords reform looks set to snarl up the Commons

  • The question is: will they continue to do so, or will their squabbling bring Britain's rail revival to a screeching halt?

    ECONOMIST: Railways

  • But Matthew Broderick, as her husband, a Caspar Milquetoast with a flap of hair falling over his forehead, never seems to get into the movie at all, and, somewhere in the middle, the rusty gothic-horror mechanics underneath the comedy bring everything to a grinding halt.

    NEWYORKER: The Stepford Wives

  • Within limits, the second-generation GL will bring itself to a complete halt if the car detects that the following distance to the car ahead is shrinking too fast, and if the driver fails to step on the brakes in response to flashing lights and an audible alarm.

    FORBES: Cars That Can Drive Themselves Are Still A Ways Off; Cars That Can Stop Themselves Are Already On Sale

  • Several sources said Clinton was adamant that there be no discussion of a so-called exit strategy yet, because he believes such talk would bring serious negotiations to a halt.

    CNN: Clinton and Arafat

  • And while the timing of such cuts remains a critical question lest we bring our economic recovery to a screeching halt by cutting too deeply and too quickly getting things on the right track will no doubt involve changes to our entitlement programs just as we will need to alter our defense spending habits.

    FORBES: Has John McCain's Dark Quest For Relevancy Turned Him Into A Comic Book Villain?

  • If you did it wrong, one program or server could still become become a bottleneck and bring the whole site grinding to a halt.

    FORBES: Why Firebase Matters

  • Last year we used DNA sequencing to help bring an outbreak of MRSA at Addenbrooke's hospital in Cambridge to a halt.

    BBC: The man who gives away ?600m a year

  • Over the past few months, a motley collection of pressure groups all claiming huge support and shrieking hysterically that democracy is in peril from the domination of big media companies has combined with shameful opportunism from many congressmen to bring a much-needed modernisation of the rules governing media ownership to a shuddering halt (see article).

    ECONOMIST: Broadcasting regulation

  • We see the young man bring the CLA to a screeching halt in front of a red carpet.

    FORBES: Connect

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