Sentence examples for brief stoppage from inspiring English sources

That goal prompted flares to be lit in the away end, with some finding their way onto one corner of the pitch and causing a brief stoppage in play as they were put out.

Toyota, Japan's largest automaker, reported that its car assembly plants had resumed production after a brief stoppage — though four factories operated by Toyota subsidiaries remained closed while workers were evacuated to safer areas.

Does that point to a brief stoppage rather than a protracted one?

Previously, the assessment was done quickly, on the field, during a brief stoppage in play.

There was a brief stoppage for rain but no pause for regrets.

Fans littered the ice with hats and caused a brief stoppage.

Last spring, a dispute over delayed paychecks in one Alcoa plant here set off a brief work stoppage.

Scoring dipped after the four-day strike in 1970 (to 19.3 points per team per game from 20.9), though that was more likely the result of the N.F.L.-A.F.L. merger than the brief work stoppage.

Today's brief work stoppage was the latest problem at the Nassau County Correctional Center, which was forced to change its policies to end a federal lawsuit brought after correction officers beat an inmate to death in 1999.

Before 1998, there had been two lockouts in the previous three years: a labor dispute that lasted more than two months in 1995 and a brief work stoppage in 1996 that ended within three hours.

Clifford Krauss (NYT) NICARAGUA: UNION LEADERS REGAIN JOBS A court has ordered the Taiwanese owners of a Managua clothing factory to reinstate with back pay nine union leaders who were fired last year after brief work stoppages to protest low wages and workplace abuses.