Sentence examples for can't halt from inspiring English sources

Yet you can't halt progress.

That makes a resistance movement more powerful, because opponents can't halt the resistance just by arresting or killing a few people.

The problems have not been merely legal – there have been, for example, laws against wife-beating since the 19th century, which were rarely enforced until the late 1970s, and still can't halt the epidemic of domestic violence now.

A12 U.N. Can't Halt Haiti Violence Nearly 20 months after the United Nations arrived to stabilize Haiti, the hemisphere's poorest country, and avert a civil war, there is still no cease-fire in Port-Au-Prince.

If we are indeed living in one of the "states of consent," how is it that we, as citizens (not consumers), can't halt these practices or bring an end to a war in Iraq that even those earlier enamored of it no longer support?

He definitely can't halt his fund-raising.

We can't stop the march of technology but we need to halt the iPod pedestrian, cycle and driver zombies.

For his part, the president has shown no signs of budging in his argument that he can't simply halt all deportations.

According to "Glum Democrats Can't See Halting Bush on Courts" (front page, Jan . 15, senators who oppose Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s Supreme Court nomination are suddenly resigned to 20 years of him.

But, unlike a team of costumed super-villains, they can't be halted with a punch in the snoot, or a zap from a ray gun.

Her unconditional love for "pure" blondes transcends reason, walks a narrow tightrope between Mother Teresa and Hitler and can't be halted by any evidence presented to her.