Sentence examples for absolute halt from inspiring English sources

"You've seen an extreme faction of the Republican Party that has shown again and again and again that they're willing to hijack the entire party and the country and the economy and bring progress to an absolute halt if they don't get 100 percent of what they want," Mr. Obama said.

They have also been very slow to get archived content on the site – even though it would have been a great way to fight the writer's strike that resulted in an absolute halt to any new stuff.

"If the whole of London grinds to an absolute halt, nobody can move anywhere, I don't think that is going to happen by the way, but if it were to, of course we would look at the plans, you'd have to be foolish not to".

Washington grinds to an absolute halt as a result, for the next two years......Economy down, healthcare reform succeeds.

The temperature at which all molecular motion comes to a halt is known as absolute zero.

"I stopped the train and I could hear the other train slowly grinding to a halt - then there was absolute silence for a moment.

Beyond individuals' particular experiences, for whole communities, ice is typically seen as a sign of impending doom; a harbinger of a world coming brought to a temporary halt or even to an absolute end.

the true story is of a king who takes his fawning courtiers to the beach to show them he has not absolute control- commands the sea to halt and watches as wet feet of the courtiers pushes home the point.

Ariel Levy: Voting encourages at least some individual connection to government, informs representative politics about the will of the people, keeps the system from grinding to a halt and steers politics away from absolute corruption.

But the prosecutor and judge must press for absolute certainty that there is genuine reason for halting the process of justice in a case that has been afflicted with so many unjustified delays.

While it remains far from clear where, exactly, the Trump administration will take us, the era of slow but real progress away from absolute criminalization of drugs has likely come to a halt.