Gold's decline was not halted by the Bank of Japan's move; it even accelerated.
The brute force used by the government did not halt dissent.
The bill would also impose other restrictions on abortion that could shut down many of the state's clinics if not halted by courts.
The report's foreword says "the public is rapidly running out of patience," but in fact this trend has been in place for decades, was not halted by the recession and has not fired up a mass protest movement.
That growth in traffic has been damped but not halted by hard economic times, and in the current global recession, business concerns have generally prevailed over worries about climate change.
Iran has been enriching uranium in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions for six years, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has threatened military strikes if these activities are not halted by next spring or early summer.
It was started by the then justice secretary, Chris Grayling, who stripped out millions of pounds, and was certainly not halted by his immediate successor, Michael Gove, whose ideas were well-intentioned but lacking operational credibility.
When the restrictions take effect citywide, all of the major sports and entertainment arenas, along with street carts, movie theaters and restaurants that receive a letter-grade from the health department, will have to adjust to Mr. Bloomberg's plan, assuming it is not halted by a legal challenge.
"The invasiveness of this particular research was really horrendous," said Alan Brandt, a Harvard medical historian who has written about the Tuskegee experiment, in which hundreds of poor black men with syphilis were left untreated to observe the natural course of the disease, a study that began in 1932 and was not halted by the United States Public Health Service until 1972.
16 However, the chronological longevity of sch9Δ is not halted by deletion of MSN2 and/or MSN4 genes.
