The phrase "and thus stopped" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that an action was concluded as a result of a previous statement or event.
Example: "The rain continued to pour, and thus stopped all outdoor activities for the day."
Alternatives: "and therefore ceased" or "and so ended".
The investment giant Fidelity Investments converted from a C-corporation to an L.L.C. in 2007, and thus stopped paying corporate-level income tax.
She came here and I believe this house, far from being the place where bad things happened, is instead the place where the evil perpetrated by these women was exposed and thus stopped.
Jim Woolsey, a former head of the CIA and a borderline neoconservative, notes that developing biofuels is in the national interest, since it is high time America weaned itself off Saudi oil and thus stopped funding fanatical Wahhabism.Unfortunately for Mr Bush's political fortunes, a biofuels revolution will not happen in time to ease America's current pain at the pump.
In the short run, that would probably result either in a huge number of disqualifications (if athletes thought the authorities were bluffing) or a sudden drop off in performance (if they did not, and thus stopped taking the tablets).How fans and sponsors would react to either of these is unpredictable.
Goadsby and Edvinsson [14] showed that both sumatriptan and oxygen could normalize elevated calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) levels in jugular vein blood during acute CH attacks, and, thus, stopped the activation of the trigeminovascular system.
Evelyn Richmond said that her son did not want the public to know about his disease, and thus stopped taking AZT six weeks before the Daytona 500 to ensure a clean test result.
Little specific information is available about when infected people stop shedding the virus, and thus stop spreading the illness.
The White House would put "shorteners" on any legislative restrictions, Cheney said, and thus stop Congress from getting in its way.
The alternative, as Dr Granich observes, is to treat the infected individual and thus stop him being infectious.
Classically, these often periodic structures are analysed using a unit cell modelling approach to predict wave propagation and thus stop band behaviour, discarding damping.
These days Mr Rudd, who is now foreign minister, is hoping to persuade Australia's neighbours to act against the traffickers and thus stop the flow.
