Sentence examples for been stopped in a from inspiring English sources

"I've been stopped in a bathroom and asked to tie someone's tie, because I tie mine a little differently".

But they found that the car had been stopped in a location and in a way that "minimised to the greatest extent possible recourse to lethal force".

Although water pressure to the homes and businesses was gradually returning to normal, the utility continued to advise people to boil water before drinking it, because water that has been stopped in a pipe may be contaminated by sediment.

It is axiomatic that had these boys been stopped in a residential area, with all the appearance of children of respected members of the community, the approach would have been entirely different, and the officers would certainly have found a more sophisticated and decorous way of expressing disbelief than what seemed to my child to be crude bullying.

That is, it has been shown that the use of the momentum in the age estimation task can avoid the search procedure from being stopped in a local minimum and improves the convergence of the back propagation algorithm in general.

It was an innocent enough attempt to reach out to the academic community with new research tools, but it was obviously not appropriately vetted, and if it had been, it would have been stopped in an instant.

Between 100 and 150 mushroom-pickers were stopped in a single weekend.

He retired in 1981 after being stopped in a round by Gerry Cooney.

The first driver was stopped in a routine traffic check and failed a Breathalyzer test.

Dear Virginia, My 14-year-old daughter was stopped in a shopping centre and asked to enter a competition.

It has been reported that six jet-skis were stopped in a 72-hour period at the end of last week.