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The aim: to halt a nascent Sunni insurgency in its tracks by extracting information from detainees.

The Ospreys will aim to halt Leinster's bid for a European and domestic double in its tracks on Sunday when they contest the RaboDirect Pro12 final.

He said it would aim to halt what he called England's "disastrous" slide down international league tables from 24th to 28th in maths, 17th to 25th in reading and 14th to 16th in science between 2006 and 2009.

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.

This understanding is needed for performance based mechanisms that aim to halt global warming (REDD+).

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.

Aiming to halt widespread grade inflation afflicting Ivy League colleges, Princeton University officials are proposing to limit the number of A's that its professors award.

The program aims to halt the purchase of options on apartments at prime locations in new shopping malls and on remodeled units in apartment blocks.

Mr Gervais spoke up in support of Humane Society International's "Be Cruelty Free" campaign which aims to halt cosmetics animal testing around the world.

(The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which aimed to halt Chinese immigration and lasted until 1943, plays a pivotal role, both inhibiting and paradoxically enabling Joseph's career).

The long-awaited loan is part of a government project that aims to halt the discharge of untreated wastewater into the river by 2020.