Sentence examples for aim of halting from inspiring English sources

Israel began the offensive on 8 July with the stated aim of halting cross-border rocket salvoes by Hamas and other militant groups.

The 22-day war, which Israel launched with the aim of halting Palestinian rocket fire, killed at least 1,300 Palestinians, many of them civilians, destroyed about 5,000 homes and ruined much of Gaza's already rickety infrastructure.

The small circle of American officials who were briefed about Khan in 2001 had to decide whether it would be wiser to continue to monitor his activities, in the hope of learning more about his customers, or to move against his network, with the aim of halting his operations.

A spokesman for his Respect Party - which is fielding candidates in 12 of the city's 30 wards - said it was "in contact with the developers, owners and others with the aim of halting the proposal".

Israel launched its Gaza offensive on July 8 with the declared aim of halting cross-border rocket salvoes by Islamist Hamas, the dominant militant group in the enclave.

Our results are particularly relevant for their possible impact on the future development of CSC-targeted therapies, with the final aim of halting the relevant pathways involved in their survival.

They will be caught in a tough new water quality regime that will aim to halt one of Britain's least visible but most serious environmental problems - the overloading of watercourses with fertilising chemicals washed off farmland.

Worker union AFL-CIO is lobbying to block high-skilled immigrants from competing with Americans, taxi unions want to stop Uber from offering car rides, and faculty unions aim to halt the spread of cheap online college courses.

T2 could be potentially used to develop a reliable continuous scale with higher sensitivity for tracking lesser degrees of progression or regression of IDD, in particular for the assessment of disc regenerative strategies that aim to halt or reverse IDD.

Interventions aimed at increasing TL for the purpose of halting or reversing the ageing process or preventing disease, are thus not supported by current evidence.

Now playing "the football of my life for the club of my dreams", he aims to halt Villa's run of six successive wins over their neighbours tomorrow – and give Gérard Houllier a torrid introduction to the Second City derby.