Sentence examples for absolute standstill from inspiring English sources

We're at an absolute standstill".

Next day, traffic at absolute standstill.

But Larry Flanagan, general secretary of the teaching union EIS, said: "We also have a large increase in the number of pupils in our schools which means that pupil-teacher ratios remain at an absolute standstill compared to last year". Elsewhere, the data showed 86.6% of Scotland's school buildings were in a good or satisfactory condition as of April this year, up from 81.7% in April 2012.

"Let's lay down some rules" we could say to the rest of the world, and then we could all start creating a few definitions and banning certain tactics (like, for instance, a cyber attack on hospital management software -- which could grind hospitals' capacity to deal with emergencies to an absolute standstill).

Time can seem to come to an absolute standstill when we're forced to wait much longer than we want, but it will actually help to remind yourself about what exactly it is you're waiting for or working towards.

With much buzzing, beeping and whirring, the Terminator franchise comes to an absolute creative standstill, or even goes clankingly into reverse, with this fantastically dull fourth episode.

"With much buzzing, beeping and whirring, the Terminator franchise comes to an absolute creative standstill, or even goes clankingly into reverse, with this fantastically dull fourth episode," writes our own Peter Bradshaw.

As first described by Blaivas et al. [48] and subsequently confirmed by other studies [49], the evidence of cardiac standstill at first ultrasound scanning is a absolute predictor of poor prognosis, regardless of the ECG rhythm.

It does that by using a set of lasers to bring them to a near standstill — within a millionth of a degree of absolute zero — and then control their properties using lasers.

An absolute warrior of a player who always works himself to a standstill every game.

At absolute zero (-273 degrees C or -460 degrees F), all atomic motion comes to a standstill since the cooling process has extracted all the particles' energy.