The phrase "arresting the spread" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to controlling or stopping the increase of something, such as a disease or information.
Example: "The health officials are focused on arresting the spread of the virus through vaccination campaigns."
Alternatives: "halting the spread" or "curbing the spread."
He was anxious to arrest the spread of means-tested top-up help for pensioners, which discourages private retirement saving.
Its immediate purpose was to arrest the spread of slavery and, as he put it, to unseat the "privileged class" — Southern slaveholders, who still dominated the government.
"This is a large-scale exercise," said Lily Yam, the secretary for the environment and food, "but we feel that early and determined action is necessary to arrest the spread of the influenza".
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Compared with projected spending on pensioners in 2010, on the other hand, the additional cost would be just 0.1% of GDP: £1.5 billion in today's money or 0.5p on the basic rate of income tax.Lord Turner insists that restoring the earnings link, despite its cost, is vital in order to arrest the spread of means-testing which discourages saving.
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"Success can help us arrest the spread of extremism around the globe by showing clearly that an Islamic movement can address its grievances and pursue its interests through a legitimate mode of democratic political engagement while still remaining within the country's territorial and constitutional framework, and without losing their culture and identity," she said.
One of the measures to arrest the spread of CMBV is to develop methods to screen and certify citrus propagules as CMBV-free.
Nevertheless, after a median treatment of 10 months, 18 patients improved substantially on the drug, and it arrested the spread of cancer in 11 others.
