Sentences with phrase «more abrupt halt»

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Occasionally we'd apply the brakes in traffic and find they weren't slowing the vehicle down enough, only to come to an abrupt halt shortly thereafter when dialing in just a bit more pressure.

I think that efforts to halt diseases such as avian flu are counterproductive, as they only lead to yet more excessive human population and merely delay the day of abrupt environmental collapse that will terminate more human life than saved by such efforts.

The process came to a rather abrupt halt after I'd entered all of my information; a second attempt was no more successful.