As Henry Kissinger warned, if a cold war were to develop between the countries, it "would arrest progress for a generation on both sides of the Pacific".
If we had established a no-fly zone two weeks ago, we could have arrested the progress of the anti-rebellion forces.
The overall population has spread as far as the southern Wolds, about 50 miles to the east, but these badlands have arrested their progress to just a few miles to the north-west.
In any case, once launched from his dressing room under the grandstand, he could not have arrested his progress to the ring, because he had about forty policemen pushing behind him, and three more clearing a path in front of him.
A key event in the cellular response to DNA damage is the activation of DNA damage checkpoints that arrest progress in the cell cycle to ensure that DSBs can be repaired.
The size, volume and configuration of these artificial lesions differ greatly from the typical characteristics of natural early onset, arrested or progressing lesions.
Nigeria was declared free of Ebola last week, showing that African countries are capable of arresting the progress of the outbreak.
Not showing the picture to the press until the eleventh hour will also have given it a helpful head-start, arresting the progress of any lukewarm reviews.
The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 inspired him to draft the Virginia Resolutions of that year, denouncing those statutes as violations of the First Amendment of the Constitution and affirming the right and duty of the states "to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil".
Motivated by sheer scientific curiosity, and impelled by a stubborn, go-it-alone work ethic, Stonehill thinks he has isolated an enzyme that has the potential to arrest the progress of Pompe's disease, which usually kills its victims at the age of 8 or 9. Crowley impulsively promises to finance Stonehill's experiments and hurriedly sets up a foundation for that purpose.
