Sentence examples for at a complete standstill from inspiring English sources

"Talks are at a complete standstill," an Israeli military official said a few hours before the shooting and fires began.

War in this area is at a complete standstill, and the sole thought of the Japanese is to save as many of their troops as they possibly can.

"You're lucky if your project is not at a complete standstill; if you have a bank that's still funding; and if you have equity partners that are still putting money into projects," he said.

A big hit on Broadway originally and a fast flop in revival a decade later, "The Wiz" in the current incarnation seems to be forever aerobically on the move and yet always at a complete standstill.

Se-ok took me aside and told me that she had found a secret way to reach her mother in North Korea by phone -- an unheard-of feat -- and that her mother had told her that there was a little more food now in her hometown but that the economy was at a complete standstill.

Gridlock in Congress has kept legislative action of almost any kind at a complete standstill, while the nation's aging infrastructure continues to disintegrate.

If I had obeyed the 25 mph limit in our neighborhood, coming to a complete standstill at every stop sign?

To retaliate, the Spanish government stepped up their border checks and brought traffic at the crossover point between Spain and Gibraltar to a complete standstill.

"We've come to a complete standstill".

"Business came to a complete standstill.

I think I was drooling — a complete standstill.