Sentences with phrase «halt for»

Yard sales came to a halt for the Christmas holidays.

Many people forget that the real estate markets just came to a halt for several weeks while, as Americans, we were trying to sort out what had happened and what it meant to all of us.

The Bitcoin futures climbed up the price ladder by 10 % within just two hours after its ET launch at 6 p.m. thereby triggering a trading halt for two minutes.

Transactions will likely grind to a halt for a short time, as the fork plays out, but the general movement of the blockchain will continue promptly.

Samsung Electronics is reportedly putting the operations of its OLED production plant in South Korea to a halt for up to six months, as sales of the Apple iPhone X are stagnating and demands for OLED screens from China's phone makers are diminishing, recent reports indicate.

For the small, unpaid, price of $ 500, the defendant was been able to grind my client's lawsuit to a halt for a year.

In Nevada, for example, an unexplained and precipitous elimination of net metering in December 2015 brought the residential solar industry to a screeching halt for nearly a year.

They're interested in «grinding you to a halt for the next two years... The win is not worth the cost, even if you did win down the road.»

Federal Coalition politicians have hinted darkly that this «indivisibility» hides AGL's true intent to boost the wholesale electricity price for Bayswater (and all other generators) by reducing supply when Liddell's generators grind to a halt for the last time.

After it has already blitzed 13 cities worldwide, it finds itself skidding to a halt for a few weeks in Australia.

Our project ground to a halt for a variety of reasons and this one seems to be going the same way, while everybody says that this is a worthwhile project nobody wants to finance it.

When Hofmann took the helm of SITE in 2010, she brought the museum's biennial to a screeching halt for a shocking number of New York minutes.

The game runs smoothly at times, but frame - rate drops occur just a little too frequently, and there were a few times, particularly when facing off against larger enemies, when the game literally chugged to a halt for a couple of painful seconds.

Using manual save in the first two games or hitting a checkpoint in Sam 3 or Double D causes the game to come to a grinding halt for a few seconds as well.

If you're more an adventure freak seeking lesser sought after destinations that aren't populated by the boisterous tourist population, this may be a good halt for a day trip.

Sailing came to a halt for a couple of years.

Less than ten days after he closed on his new property Hurricane Gilbert, one of the most powerful hurricanes ever recorded, struck and tourism ground to a halt for the next two years.

Trading came to a halt for that day.

Amazon is holding on tight and riding this short wave they have till the 3rd - 4th quarter 2009, when the eReader ride comes to a screeching halt for Amazon.

No need to slow to a halt for risk of flipping over.

I'd even add that it's worth it just for the scene where everything screeches to a halt for a couple of minutes while Joe delivers an impassioned, vein - popping progressive screed about how all you rich white guys better watch out, because the United States is a confidence game cooked for the ruling class and one day poor, downtrodden minorities and women will rise up and take what's theirs.

In 2006, the morning showing of Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu's «Babel» ground to a halt for several minutes due to a reel mix - up — a problem that would almost certainly never arise now, when nearly everything at Cannes is shot and projected digitally.

It has snap and vigor in the silent sequences, and grinds to a halt for dialogue.

Things begin well enough with the single «Rolling in the Deep», with its thumping piano quadruplets and gospelly backing vocals, and continues reasonably with the galumphing Tom Waits - style arrangement of «Rumour Has It»; until, two - thirds of the way through the song, it grinds to a halt for a slower, torchy middle eight.

Everything grinds to a halt for the speechifying — not that the pacing was terribly zippy to begin with — in a way that's so stilted and self - conscious, it suggests that the material might have been better suited for the stage.

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.

It's the moment when a date can come to a crashing halt for the politically inclined in Washington.

Basic lab operations came to a screeching halt for a host of projects attempting to make headway against blood cancer, pediatric cancers and HIV during the shutdown, with potential ripple effects as the government opens back up for business.

New Delhi, already thick with pollution, can grind to a halt for days.

That tawdry soap opera brought serious government to a halt for weeks and turned Albany into a laughingstock.

John Samson and Malcolm Smith they couldn't get the conference organized and Monseratte — he went to the other side,» she said, referring to the 2009 turmoil when Democratic Senators Hiram Monseratte and Pedro Espada flipped handing power to the Republicans and bringing state government to a grinding halt for five weeks.

The move was poised take some 12 hours or more and grind Senate business to a halt for the day.

A jammed subway car door and signal problems brought the morning commute to a grinding halt for thousands of straphangers Thursday morning.

However, he used that power to help bring Albany to a halt for five weeks, prompting people in the South Bronx to wonder what his real agenda was, CBS 2's Pablo Guzman reported.

He knew he was crossing his colleagues, which is OK if he wanted to achieve something, but all he did was cause Labour policy and communications to grind to a halt for several months, allowing the Tories to get their message across without contention.

Two days after Gov. Andrew Cuomo vetoed a bill to halt for two years the state's plan to cull mute swans, the measure's sponsor, Sen. Tony Avella, suggested the birds are the victims of a hazy political conspiracy.

I've seen potty training halt for months over a child slipping off the seat and their bottom hitting the water.

Shenanigans ensued minutes later, as a clash of shins between Salah and Rebrov in the Spartak box saw the match completely halt for eight minutes, culminating in the home side substituting their goalkeeper.

However, the deal was eventually put on halt for the season with Jose Mourinho impressed by the central defensive partnership of Marcus Rojo and Phil Jones, who had taken the club on a long unbeaten league run.

Bubs shares had been in a trading halt for two days and re-commended trading on Friday, with investors backing the strategy.

In our hurry to advance are we not squandering our reserves to such an extent that our progress may be brought to a halt for lack of supplies?

Now the road comes to a halt for a time.

Before that, production at domestic assembly plants ground to a halt for a week in February after an explosion at one of the automaker's steel suppliers led to a shortage of parts.

Online streaming service provider Quickflix has requested a trading halt for at least a month so it can undertake a restructuring program aimed at reducing costs, raising funds and attracting new customers.

Last Thursday that revenue roll came to a grinding halt for them when Pinterest put the brakes on all affiliate links once and for all.

The company's operations were halted for a week while the furnaces were cleaned and restored to proper functioning.

Its stock was halted for news pending before the report.

The stock was initially up 15 percent to $ 42.86 before being halted for volatility.

The trading was halted for pending news.

China's stock market took a 30 % tumble and is constantly getting halted for being limit down 7 %.