Sentence examples for at a halt from inspiring English sources

The delivery of foodstuffs within Afghanistan is now nearly at a halt.

The construction industry is at a halt because state-owned firms have virtually stopped producing cement and steel bars.

But with the Syrian track of the Middle East peace efforts at a halt, attention turned to the Palestinian track.

Negotiations are currently at a halt over which economic reforms Greece must make in order to secure additional bailout funds and avoid default.

Large-scale hostilities are at a halt but there are almost nightly clashes between Israeli patrols and organized Arab saboteurs, together with sporadic skirmishes involving tanks and planes, costing hundreds of lives.

Cut to an extended 12-string-guitar solo by Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore, "Street" is basically a 72-minute exercise in people watching, the kind one might do while sitting on a stoop, except here the watcher is in motion and the watched nearly at a halt.

Democracy and economic change are pulling it forward, but at a halting pace.

Then came an enormous pause — framed by one of those total silences that you hear only in German concert halls — and the solo cello sang out at a halting tempo, as if from another world.

Those projections are based on the belief that the recovery will plow forward even as some areas of the economy, including the jobs and housing markets, improve at a halting pace.

Then came an enormous pause framed by one of those total silences that you hear only in German concert halls and the solo cello sang out at a halting tempo, as if from another world.

We are not good at calling a halt to our technological expertise, even when it is in our interests to do so.