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Halted

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Past of halt

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Despite the impressive finishing, the game lacked finesse for long spells and McCormack almost capitalised on slack Wigan defending for a second time after latching on to a cross-field pass from Michael Turner, only for the striker to be halted by a desperate last-ditch slide from Emmerson Boyce.

On the day Juan Muñoz died in August 2001, the elevators were halted in mid-air in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, where they formed part of Double Bind, the Spanish artist's Unilever commission, the second in the series.

The process of downgrading the citizenship of those in Israel has only been halted because elections have been called.

The company also retains a Brazilian biofuels business but has halted all work on carbon capture and storage.

After weeks of contradictory statements, finance minister Yanis Varoufakis announced last week the sale of state assets, halted when the leftist-led Syriza government was elected in January, but would resume on different terms.

Every scene on Tuesday night was freighted with centuries-old grudges and rivalries that last erupted into armed conflict in the 1998-9 war between Serbia and ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, which left 10,000 people dead and was halted only by a Nato bombing campaign.

These were not empty words: in 2013, he led his party through the lobbies against a new bombing campaign in Syria, a move which eventually halted the interventionist plans, not only of London, but of Washington and Paris too.

She brusquely informed him that, now the family had been discovered, the funeral would be halted.

Was she upset when she heard it had been halted?

McCoy says failing to reach the landmark of 300 winners in his final season, after a flying start was halted by injury in October, "broke my heart".

Mitchell's was a brave, impressive display – and he was up on two of the judges' scorecards – but the swollen eye was causing him huge problems and when he fell to his knees in the 10th after taking a pounding from Linares in the corner, the referee, Victor Loughlin, halted the fight.

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