Sentences with phrase «comes to a screeching halt in»

Things came to a screeching halt in the 1919 Stanley Cup Final between the Seattle Metropolitans and the Montreal Canadiens when the flu decimated Habs» roster and eventually claimed the life of one of its players.

Meanwhile, Crystal Palace are looking to bounce back to winning ways after their four - match winning streak came to a screeching halt in a 3 - 1 loss to Southampton on Wednesday.

The latter have flown through the Assembly only to come to a screeching halt in the Republican - controlled Senate.

Mercedes - Benz R - class sales came to a screeching halt in July.

But that all came to a screeching halt in 79 A.D. when Mt. Vesuvius erupted.

It came to a screeching halt in 2007.

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DURING the sustained economic boom that came to a screeching halt one year ago, business leaders were unanimous in advocating a long - term approach to dealing with the big strategic issues.

Job creation in the U.S. has come to a screeching halt.

But our fundraising efforts came to a screeching halt when news broke that Mt Gox, the largest bitcoin exchange, had been the victim of a major heist where about 25 % of all bitcoin in circulation had been stolen.

Government intervention in the financial system via the Troubled Asset Relief Program made me sick to my stomach, but without it, there is a real possibility that our economy would have come to a screeching halt as trust in the financial system was strained to the point of breaking.

But that run has come to a screeching halt with recently released financial accounts revealing the winemaker posted a full - year loss of $ 30 million - its first in two decades as its debt ballooned to more than $ 130 million.

Spoiler alert — There is no warning when the train comes to a screeching halt, the broken and twisted track appears in front of you.

But kids in the apartment complex have been saying that the clown has been trying to get them to go into the woods, and that's the point where the idea of the clown costume as funny prank comes to a screeching halt.

«That would save millions of dollars in energy and that's all come to a screeching halt, and no one at the V.A. really wants to answer for that,» said Collins.

Three weeks after the deadliest mass shooting in modern history, efforts to ban the gadgets known as bump stocks — which the Las Vegas killer might have used to turn rifles into machines guns — have come to a screeching halt.

«Without a resolution the federal scientific enterprise will come to a screeching halt, potentially adding millions of dollars in costs and months of delay to taxpayer - funded projects.»

If I eat any carbs (besides what is in the meat), my weight loss comes to a screeching halt!

Her dining room and mantel pictures will cause your IG scrolling to come to a screeching halt as you feast your eyes on the many beautiful fall elements in these spaces.

No matter how well a SD / SB relationship could appear to be going, it could suddenly, without warning, come to a screeching halt for any type or number of factors, such as his conditions or needs changing, discovery, impulse, or (God - forbid) fatality, especially in the instance of having a significantly older Sugar Daddy this isn't unheard of.

However, the viewer isn't in the clear yet, as the movie comes to a screeching halt with the introduction of Noland played without any boundaries by Laurence Fishburne.

Unfortunately, after these ideas, the originality in The Sickhouse comes to a screeching halt, and the rest of the movie is a redundant, familiar, and decidedly cheap affair.

This character's not used enough in the first half of the film and then all of a sudden the plot shifts to use him more later on but it just doesn't work and isn't funny causing the pacing to come to a screeching halt.

(In other words, when one has only one working shoulder and arm, and it is not your dominant arm and hand, things come to a screeching halt.)

In the blink of an eye, all the rapidly moving parts of her jam - packed life come to a screeching halt.

When economic uncertainty sets in, however, the reverse is true — spending comes to a screeching halt and consumers begin repaying debt diligently.

It's important to do this right after getting married since shortly thereafter life kicks in and plans can come to a screeching halt.

This can result in a condition called gastrointestinal stasis, where their digestion comes to a screeching halt.

I love the Koala picture stand picture thingy... I have a place in my heart for those and will make Shaun come to a screeching halt if I see them.

When the premium gravy train comes to the screeching halt next year expect to find less and less availability in the back.

After two versions, wildly successful DLC, and obscenely popular Amiibo, Nintendo executives are probably rolling around nude in piles of money on a nightly basis and there's no way in Hell they're going to make that gravy train come to a screeching halt.

I wonder that about the whole show, caught up in hipster and fine art credentials, while coming to a screeching halt five years before its ending.

For some people who live and work in this part of the world, life has come to a screeching halt amid the worst drought in recent memory.

The net effect is that wind power development in Illinois has come to a screeching halt.

In the not - so - distant future, this is all going to come to a screeching halt one way or another — either we seize hold of this out - of - control locomotive, or we ride this train right off the cliff to collapse.

Every moment you are on the road feels as if it will come to a screeching halt thanks to another car, a wall, a building, or any of the many obstacles found in the world.

When hundreds of S&Ls failed in the early 1990s, the market came to a screeching halt.

Unfortunately for the big life insurer, as well as everyone else in the commercial mortgage - backed securities market, an international credit crisis spilled over into the U.S. bond markets and CMBS deals came to a screeching halt.

But this has come screeching to a halt as the dollar has strengthened in recent months and the recession has gone global, putting a crimp in international travel.