Sentences with phrase «to come to a standstill»

The Wa Central constituency on Saturday came to a standstill as the Member of Parliament of the area Rashid Pelpuo launched his campaign.
He explained that after the hurricanes, sports largely came to a standstill in Puerto Rico.
The brakes have been set up with extra travel on the pedal, allowing the driver to slow the car down extremely precisely, avoiding the dreaded head nod when coming to a standstill.
Road trip Cuba in a vintage American car and witness authentic culture lost to progress for generations when economic development in Cuba came to a standstill with the Cold War in the 1960's.
The Ashaiman Constituency in the Greater Accra Region virtually came to a standstill on Saturday, when the National Democratic Congress» parliamentary nominee, Ernest Norgbey, had his campaign launch.
The construction of new homes on the island virtually came to a standstill post - 2008, but the first two months of 2016 saw a 55 % annual rise in applications for new residential projects, the largest in the last 10 years according to the Balearics Statistics Office, IBESTAT.
The city comes to a standstill for six weeks in one of the major labour struggles in Canadian history.
How quickly the initiative would have come to a standstill if the community had been subjected to the authority of the Roman Catholic Church!
For those that have never been to Sweden on Christmas Eve, the whole country comes to a standstill at three in the afternoon.
Everything came to a standstill because I was in turmoil and didn't want to proceed with the backsplash and make another non-matching white mistake.
If traffic comes to a halt, the Stop & Go system applies the brake until the car comes to a standstill and accelerates to the desired speed as soon as the road is clear.
Good luck with your dryer, I know with a large family that everything comes to a standstill when mama can't get laundry done ✋ ~ Kim
The rise was led by growth in manufacturing and utilities, while mining activities temporarily came to a standstill due to the onset of hurricanes.
The proposed merger of HDFC Standard Life Insurance Co. Ltd (HDFC Life) and Max Life Insurance Co. Ltd, has come to a standstill post d...
The whole country came to a standstill as Ireland reached the quarter finals of its first ever World Cup.
While hardly any inflammation occurred in the subcutaneous fat of obese mice and cGMP signaling was largely intact, things were very different for the deeper - lying abdominal fat: through the significant weight increase, inflammation had spread and the fat - burning turbocharger cGMP largely came to a standstill.
Park District Executive Director Gerald Oakes on Tuesday told the Park Board that his staff and District 25 officials have been meeting the past two months to hash out an agreement, but talks recently came to a standstill.
If you don't follow orders, it reduces speed and safely comes to a standstill.
The lysine chain that is positively charged as a result blocks the protein factory and the manufacture of protein comes to a standstill.
While things may have slowed over 2016, growth's hardly come to a standstill: Cozen swiped 15 intellectual property lawyers from IP boutique Feldman Gale and continued to bulk out its New York, Miami, Minneapolis and Washington, DC offices with hires into a string of departments.
«I think that the market's really come to a standstill,» says Will Flaherty, SeatGeek's director of communications.
Trading floors came to a standstill in New York when Lewis and Katsuyama were confronted on CNBC, the financial news channel, by William O'Brien, president of Bats Global Markets, the second - largest stock exchange operator in the US.
Though work among the Indians came to a standstill, clergymen continued to work among the settlers.
Though he kept up with academic routine, in any real sense his career as teacher and scholar came to a standstill.
I think the weeks come to a standstill for a good 3 months during the Winter.
The only plus to the unseasonal snowfall, has been the extra family time we have enjoyed thanks to «snow days», since everything in London comes to a standstill at the first sighting of snowflakes.
At times, both riders came to a standstill, balancing on their wheels without a foot touching the track.
But first - team chances at Stamford Bridge rarely materialised and despite a move to Aston Villa a season later, his career has somewhat came to a standstill.
Boll said he fell after he stood up on the lowest of four rungs on the railing to see what had caused the crowd to come to a standstill after the game, in which the Bears defeated Tampa Bay, 17 - 10.
The entire town of Kumasi and it's environs came to a standstill as popular veteran high life musicians Kakyire Kwame Appiah, Kofi Nti, Mary Agyemang, Ernest Opoku jnr, Frank Mensah Pozo and many others put up a spectacular performance at the maiden Ghana herbal awards.
ATHOL — The town of Thurman's Local government functions came to a standstill Jan. 3 after a slim majority of the newly - aligned town board refused to pass routine municipal resolutions that allow government to operate, and questioned the basic authority of the supervisor to run a meeting and serve as the town's chief executive.
Activities in the various courts across the country have come to a standstill following a nationwide strike declared by the Judicial Service Staff Association (JUSSAG).
You can well understand why all government work has effectively come to a standstill as mind focus on the only show in town.
, again came to a standstill before Justice Peter Affen of the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Maitama, Abuja, on Tuesday.
Last week, the Senate came to standstill as the star of popular beer commercials came to the Capitol as a guest of Senate Republicans.
Plans by SUNY Polytechnic Institute to build a $ 2 billion computer chip factory outside of Utica have come to a standstill since an April groundbreaking took place.
Should that happen, changes at those schools — such as extending the school day, requiring training and making staff changes — could come to a standstill until the issue works its way through the courts.
Two years after the Fordham - area project came to a standstill, the mayor is expected to announce that the city's Economic Development Corporation will issue a request for proposals to groups interested in redeveloping the historic Armory building, which dates to 1917, aides revealed.
Due to this metabolic dysfunction, the breakdown also of other substances such as lipids and proteins gradually comes to a standstill.
Around 7,600 years ago, the emergence of agricultural settlements in Southeastern Europe and subsequent progress of civilization suddenly came to a standstill.
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