Sentence examples for been effective at halting from inspiring English sources
The US believes the airstrikes conducted against Isis targets across Iraq have been effective at halting the jihadist group's advance toward Irbil, sending the siege of Mount Sinjar, where thousands of ethnic Yazidis were threatened by militants and, more recently, working in concert with Sunni tribal groups protecting the Haditha dam.
Daily oral triple therapy is effective at halting HIV disease progression, but can have toxic effects and is costly.
Pentagon officials — in views affirmed by academic national security analysts — say that while Iran might be able to close the Strait of Hormuz with mines, the effort would not be effective at halting traffic for more than a few days, given American and allied abilities.
Laboratory experiments on sections of dog ventricle indicate that the method would also be effective at halting ventricular fibrillation, and Luther and Fenton are now planning to test this in live dogs.
War would strengthen the regime internally, cause economic chaos, open up Americans to violent attack, and most importantly, not be effective at halting the nuclear program beyond one to three years.
Inhibition of either of CYB5R3 or MYLK could be effective at halting tumor progression because the inhibition of one of these genes should modulate the expression of the other.
The Morbers had not been effective in halting the arrival of the plague (9 ).
But if such bans are to be effective at reducing harms, the conveyor belt pushing users from newly banned highs onto traditional illegal drugs, or newer, potentially more dangerous legal highs, must be brought to a halt.
On May 4, the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Richard E. Besser, said "closing schools is not effective" at halting the spread.
Federal health officials said on Monday that closing schools might not be effective in halting the spread of the virus.
