Sentence examples for Halting its progress from inspiring English sources

In any event, they have a serious intent: to exploit what they believe to be Iran's enhanced position in the world and to use it to their advantage back home.In Mr Ahmadinejad's view, Iran's refusal to buckle under increasing international sanctions aimed at halting its progress towards becoming a nuclear power qualifies it as a world player on a level with the old enemy, the United States.

However, since it was impossible to restore dilated blood vessels to their normal diameter, treatment of incomplete amaurosis aimed at halting its progress and keeping the other eye healthy.

The project is scientifically incredibly interesting, however, and it's unlikely to halt its progress now, ethical concerns notwithstanding.

As Marshall McLuhan eloquently put it, "resenting a new technology will not halt its progress".

The assimilation policy received full official sanction in 1939, but World War II halted its progress.

The prime minister is believed to have agreed with Paterson and intervened to halt its progress.

Your Sept. 10 editorial "Read the Report" notes the threats raised by Iran's nuclear program and the need for nations to enforce sanctions to halt its progress.

At the same time, without some effort to halt its progress, Al Qaeda's strength in Syria would likely continue to "grow unchecked," said David Shedd, the deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, at gathering at the Aspen Security Forum last weekend.

The point where Fowles as narrator suddenly intrudes into the story, halts its progress towards a staid Victorian ending and throws open other possible outcomes is one of the most dazzling intrusions of literary modernism into a popular novel.

I don't know about researchers, but I know from my own experience about my mother suffering dementia and being on lots of anticholinergic drugs (including oxibutinine, an incontinnece drug), for many many years, that discontinuing the drugs can ameliorate dementia symptoms and in some extent halt its progress.

Designed to be lightweight – its carbon-fiber build and lithium batteries weigh little more than two tons, about as much as a car – the plane is threatened by strong winds and bad weather like the driving rains that halted its progress for weeks in Japan.